Hey there!!! I also have the same lights as you only they give off 5amps. but I was curious if 8 AA batteries would handle that strip light with a sound sensitive ir remote control with it? The 8AA's would power it just fine, the sound sensitivity might actually help them last longer if its flashin...

usurpedus wrote:sounds like a cool project.. can you post where you got your lights from? or something similar..

Got them off ebay from a seller in California, got to me in 2 days

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321373936535?ss ... 1497.l2649

It's a complete myth. Maybe a dollar store would sell off brand D cells with less capacity. Or maybe if you get a rechargeable battery that's a possibility. But if you go get a decent set of alkaline D cells, you're getting 15 amp-hours no problem. I've used them for LED power packs and portable sp...

I didn't know that about the D batteries not really being any more powerful than AAs. Out of curiosity I think I'll do a few performance tests myself! That's just what I came across, so I don't know how accurate it is, although everything on the internet is true, so.. If you do some testing, please...

Tested the lights last night with the 8 x rechargeable AA's and here are the results: I set them to full brightness to flash through 7 colors. Stayed bright and on that mode for 2 hours 20 minutes then only went Red, Green, and Blue for another 6 minutes, I guess the blue uses more power. After that...

After researching more, I think those numbers I listed for the D's are probably not accurate for this usage. I read this on a forum "Stay away from energizer, duracell, etc in this case, as they are just selling a AA battery in a D package, a 2500 mAh D cell. Yuck." And I actually tested a Duracell ...

I've had those lights on my bike for a couple years just using a 12v sealed battery, like the kind they sell for emergency lighting. this year I found these and they are made exactly for that, plug and play. reviews say about 2 hours of light for 5M of lights. http://www.amazon.com/Portable-4500mAh...

Yea real world testing is always the way to go. I'm going to try powering it off 8 x rechargeable AA's and see how long things last, I'll see what their total amps are before connecting. Seem's like my easiest testing right now since I have them lying around.

So I got around to hooking up a multimeter to the strip to see what kind of amps the entire strip was pulling. Turns out at the brightest setting on whit I was getting 1.7 amps, far from the 6 amps that was listed so I'm not sure what that rating was for. On the dimmest single color of red blue or g...

I don't currently have a way to recharge, waiting to figure out what I'll be using before figuring out how I'm going to charge it.

Didn't get it from here, but they have the consumption listed. https://www.torchstar.biz/detail.php?id=27

The controller says it outputs 2A to each color, so If I only ever have it on Red, Green, or Blue it will only consume 2 amps at full brightness.

It would be pulling 6 amps at full brightness with all the channels active making it white. I won't be having it on white at full brightness but thought those specs should be mentioned. And the 5050 LED's are super bright and do eat up quite a bit of power.

I know this topic has been talked about in the past but I wasn't able to get a clear idea of what I should be getting. I wrapped my bike with a 5m RGB 5050 300xLED strip. Rating says 12v 6amp draw on full. I have the 44 key remote and plan on using it to flash through the colors on a dimmer setting....

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