How do you wire a in parallel?

[MAreefer]

Setting up moon lights,

I bought 2 (tri led lights) from autolumination.com

Ive been following instructions from this thread-
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=432050

Sounds easy enough,
- Get a 12V AC/DC Power supply (check)
- Solder wires together in parallel (I can solder but dont know how to in parallel)
- Heat shrink around wires (easy enough)
- Heat shrink around both wires (easy enough)

I've done some very basic soldering for a school project and still have the soldering iron ect. but I dont know how to solder in parallel. I know what parallel means and why its used I just dont know how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[GARFVolunteer]

To solder in parallel means to have the wires parallel to each other when you solder them together.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[MAreefer]

Thanks, so wiring them in a series means I would wire one moonlight to the next moon light and then that moonlight to the 12V supply, right?

And for parallel wiring I just solder both of the wires to the one 12V Supply.

 

[GARFVolunteer]

I would not connect them in series unless you want them to be dim. In series there will only be 6 volts for each diode.

You will want to wire the leds in parallel. So each led will be wired to the power supply.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[MAreefer]

Yeah thats what I plan on doing if I wire them in a series and one goes out the 2 other LED's would aswell

 

[kgolem]

Check out this thread...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=794338&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

There are some good descriptions of series and parrallel circuits there.