While flying my ZMR 450 the other day i lost orientation due to it being quiet high up. I know a lot of people fit their quads with LEDs to help with orientation but i decided im not spending any more on the 450 so i made a quick and easy DIY job. 

I happened to have some led strips still left over from a DIY project i was doing late last year so i decided to cut to strips from it. 






I then proceeded to remove the rubbery part at the end that is covering the connectors. This will allow you to solder on your wires.



I then proceeded to solder my live positive  wire to the 12v pad and my negative wire to the colour that i wanted the LED's to be in this case Red.





Now before soldering this to the quad i wanted to check that it was working so i took 2 9v batteries and put them together and touched the wires on to the opposite ends.



Now that i know that it is working i made another on that is identical to this and soldered them onto my PDB. To make it easier i soldered them to the same pad as my from 2 esc's.



I then just quickly taped the leds to the arms of my quad and plugged in the battery to give it a quick test. 

So for those rgb led, if you want a particular colour you just connect the negative to that pin? Love you little led project well done!

(22-Mar-2016, 04:01 PM)Oscar Wrote: So for those rgb led, if you want a particular colour you just connect the negative to that pin? Love you little led project well done!

Yeah its as simple as that :

I just decided RED because the front two arms are red 

Thanks

Is there any way how could i put some of these on Syma X8C ?

(23-Mar-2016, 03:46 AM)haxa Wrote: Is there any way how could i put some of these on Syma X8C ?

Sure you would just follow the same steps as above however when i soldered the wires on to the PDB you would need to find a positive and negative connection.

From what i can see on the internet you could connect the wires to here.

Red Being Positive & Black Being Negative.
However this would depend on what voltage battery you are using and also what voltage the leds take. The ones im using take 12v so wouldn't work or would be dim in the syma.

I really love the led strips. 

I've used the same procedure but just using a 3014 white leds strip. They really make you blind if you looking at them while using a 4S battery.

I glued two little strips to a plastic piece, cutted from the plastic cap of my hair wax . It seems a perfect material, it bends but don't break at all. 
The power is taken from the led pins on the ZMR 250 PDB, those pins are directly connected to the battery, so be careful if your led strip does not allow a 4S power source.

Here the result:

(10-May-2016, 02:59 PM)raid Wrote: I really love the led strips. 

I've used the same procedure but just using a 3014 white leds strip. They really make you blind if you looking at them while using a 4S battery.

I glued two little strips to a plastic piece, cutted from the plastic cap of my hair wax . It seems a perfect material, it bends but don't break at all. 
The power is taken from the led pins on the ZMR 250 PDB, those pins are directly connected to the battery, so be careful if your led strip does not allow a 4S power source.

Here the result:

Wow that really bright i might have to try it with some white LED's for my smaller quads. That looks great

I use these leds for all my quads. Ive found that using green for the right arms and red for the left arms really helps with orientation if flying LOS. The 5050 are the best and most durable. I buy the nonwaterproof strips, trust me they aren't prone to water damage. The clear covering can be peeled off if you buy the waterproof version, the covering adds a lot of weight. Ive run these leds straight to my 4s lipos, Ive even powered them with 6s 25.2V without damage!

You can also solder on 3-pin dipswitch on rgb pads to choose color "on the fly".