I am building an ESP32 wled project which has to be battery powered. The led strip is a SK6812 5m 30led/m which totals 150 RGBW leds. I used a 4x18650 power bank to power it up which worked for a while but soon I burnt it as too many amperes passed through it! What options do I have to power up thi…

One must know the difference between series wiring and parallel wiring. The reality is that the 18650 battery would be a very good battery to use if wired in parallel. You could put two or 50 together in parallel and all you get is longer span of the battery. If you put two in series, you’re going…

Once you get over 5.5V (and that’s already high) you’re well past the safe operating range of addressable LEDs so even a 6V lead acid/Gel battery will destroy stuff. You probably want higher voltages (multiple 18650’s, 18V tool batteries, etc) in conjunction with a 24V->5V buck converter. The conv…

Thank you very much for your suggestions! In my case I wanted a small portable and easy to transfer set up for a music installation for a 2-3 hours performance per day. Hence I ended up choosing the power bank set up: Due to the fact that people nowadays want to have rapid/fast/extra turbo chargin…

Powering up wled with 18650 batteries

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