{"id":15879,"date":"2026-10-11T23:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15879"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:43:30","slug":"thought-i-was-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15879","title":{"rendered":"Thought I was Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Been working on my outdoor WLED lights project and I got the electronics figured out.  It actually lights up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2.png 468w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-191x300.png 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the wiring I did, with a GLEDOPTO Elite 4 Channel ESP32.  It is honestly overkill and I may get another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Wiring-WLED-20261011_183105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Wiring-WLED-20261011_183105.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Wiring-WLED-20261011_183105.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Wiring-WLED-20261011_183105-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Wiring-WLED-20261011_183105-767x513.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am getting a different power supply.  But all this will be indoors and an extension will go outside to the lights.  It will be ip67 compliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I need to figure out how to attach the lights to the outside.  I thought I was 90% there but apparently, I am like 10% there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made huge use of my ferule cimper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ferule-Crimper-20261011_184621-rotated-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ferule-Crimper-20261011_184621-rotated-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ferule-Crimper-20261011_184621-rotated-1.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ferule-Crimper-20261011_184621-200x300-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ferule-Crimper-20261011_184621-343x513-1.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a side note Seahawks lost a close one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weight: 308.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been working on my outdoor WLED lights project and I got the electronics figured out. It actually lights up. Here is the wiring I did, with a GLEDOPTO Elite 4 Channel ESP32. It is honestly overkill and I may get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}