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I am making a led lamp...and I have about 92 LEDS on it. The lamp is sort of like a tree it has lots of LEDS basically branching out from a base. I have them all wired up now (I had to use thin wire 30awg) and just testing them using a single panasonic 3100mah 18650 they all light up, but after a few seconds the wires themselves (In random places) start to smoke. But they LEDS still run. The LEDs run 3.0-4.5 volts @ 20ma. I am assuming the wires can't handle the current? I hope to power this using a 4v AC/DC adapter I have that's rated for 2000ma. I don't want to keep powering up because I don't want to cause more damage. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could fix this? Could adding a resistor or something stop it from smoking? Thanks any sort of help is appreciated!
EDIT: Turned out one of the LEDS shorted out...I replaced it and the lamp runs on the AC/DC adapter fine as well.
EDIT: Turned out one of the LEDS shorted out...I replaced it and the lamp runs on the AC/DC adapter fine as well.
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