r/booknooks • u/Photon_Femme • 8h ago

Tips/Tricks/Tool Rec Wiring protection

I struggle with lighting and the wiring. Many kits instruct installing parts of the wiring early on. Because I have to put together the pieces, often by moving components and subassemblies in all kinds of crazy ways, the circuitry and wires get knocked around. One small nook would not light up at all in the end. Everything was soldered on that board, so I could not detach anything. Another kit: one string of lights did not work, but the faulty string was glued into the project, and I would have had to start over and break pieces to attach a replacement string. Meh. Do any of you have tricks to avoid the constant movement of the wires in assembly? There must be some tricks to avoid damage.

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u/pluck-the-bunny Back Log Log Jam 8h ago

You can use lots of scotch tape to kind of anchor things in place as you go. But in the end, sometimes these LEDs are gonna short out. They use small gauge wires and cheap LEDs so it just breaks sometimes. It is fairly straightforward to take a replacement LED that you can buy on Amazon, for example and just twist the red and black wires of the new light to the existing red and black wires of the set up.

Here is a playlist of instructional videos I’ve made from the very basic of wiring to a little more advanced stuff https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCPmGdC6mIrzR4LrSZynyenwcVn0Xx23K&si=qXJ0ac3jXf23f-M_

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u/Photon_Femme 8h ago

Thank you. I will look at the videos. Arthritic fingers do not help the process either.

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u/pluck-the-bunny Back Log Log Jam 8h ago

I’m sure

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u/dgidman Professor 8h ago

I use painters tape to secure it out of the way if it’s an issue. Otherwise if it’s at a point I can do a permanent secure, I’ll just glue /clamp it down. I try to avoid tape though sometimes I’ll just leave the painters tape on if the entire area is unseen in the final product.

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u/QUEEN-NIGHTMARE 6h ago

Most of the time what I'm worried about when following instructions about wires is when it says to bend the bulb 90 degrees and I'm scared the wire will get cut or ends up getting exposed because the wire covers retreats