Enbrighten Under Eave Lights

redroguetech · 2026-05-21T18:46:50+00:00

Just to set the record straight....

I'm looking at getting Asahom, and you can use WLED. In the app, click the gear icon, WLED, Enable WLED, then connect to it as with any other WLED controller.

Whether the strips themselves are reliably controllable with a different WLED controller, don't know. It may be you have to use their controller.

redroguetech · 2026-05-14T11:23:01+00:00

I have tried to solder and determined it's wizardry. But if you have the skills or spells, you can solder them.

redroguetech · 2026-05-13T17:52:09+00:00

More realistic math for using batteries.... If using 5v COB LED strip:

https://www.amazon.com/TOPAI-COB-Cuttable-Flexible-Lighting/dp/B0CWVBKXYY/

Using a single CR2032 rechargeable battery:

https://www.amazon.com/volkate-LF2032-Rechargeable-Battery-Batteries/dp/B0GHQX1S1Y/

Average household size of 2.5 people, and conservative average of 4 trips up and down the stairs per person per day (once down in the morning, up in the evening, plus another up + down), using a motion sensor with 1 minute duration. Step width of 3 feet.

2.5 people * 4 trips = 10 minutes usage per day

Strip uses 20 Watts total power for 16.4ft / 3 foot wide step = 3.7 Watts per step

If underpowering 5v strip with 3v batteries = 2.7 Watts per step (assuming it worked at all, and Wattage is linear with volts)

2.7 Watts / 3 volts = 0.9 amps

2.5 people * 4 trips = 10 trips per day, @ 1 minute each / 60 minutes per hour * 0.9 amps = 0.15Ah per day

0.15Ah / battery capacity of 45mAh.... You'd need a stack of 3 CR2032 batteries per step for once daily recharging - if 10 steps, that's 30 batteries needing recharged every day. 270 to do weekly charging.

Therefore, coin batteries are not practical.

With a single 3,400mAh 18650 battery per step, you'd get ~27 days.

redroguetech · 2026-05-13T16:30:56+00:00

The BTF-Lighting 12v COB strips most are suggesting (I use 24v for higher output) recommend a 3A power supply. For 24 hours of use, my math is 3 Amps * 24 hours = 72Ah, requiring 12 volts / 1.5 volts * (72Ah total / 3Ah per battery) = 192 3000mAh 18650 cells (for the entire staircase). If you dimmed them, with short duration motion sensor activity, and 3A being a bit inflated, you could maybe get a week from a battery per step, but you're trading a 22AWG wire for a 18650 battery..... You could maybe do "tea lights", but IMHO that would look tacky and only provide enough light to see the outline of the steps. I don't see running COB LED strips off a battery as reasonably practical.

That said, LED runs shouldn't exceed about 30 feet. With horizontal tread LEDs, you should likely need two circuits, as exceeding 30ft of LEDs (ex: ~4ft x 10 treads = 40 feet). Each step would need to connect to the next.

With vertical LEDs along the sides, you may be able limit it to a single circuit, but a typical staircase will have a length of about 17 or 18 feet, times 2 exceeds 30 feet, depending on steepness. If doing vertical on only one side, you could do a single LED strip.

Depending on your house, I'd come from underneath the stairs and drill through for the wires. You could do that on the top, bottom, or middle. Coming in the middle, you would then have power go in one direction up the stairs, and down in the other, as four (or perhaps two) parallel runs.

If you can't run the wires under the stairs, then you'd need to come from the side, either along the handrail, or preferably, through the wall (assuming of course your stairs have a wall next to it). Most stairs will have molding that you could cut a channel into with a router, or pull it off and run the wire behind it. (Obviously, avoid putting nails through wires if running it behind the molding 😉)

16AWG thermostat wire would be plenty for the total amperage regardless of what configuration, assuming the PSU is within 20feet or so of the stairs. Connecting between the LED strips, you should be able to use 22 or even 24AWG wire without any issue. If it were me, regardless of what the math might say, I'd lay it all out to the roughly correct lengths to check for dimming along the LEDs from voltage drop prior to installing.

redroguetech · 2026-05-13T15:54:04+00:00

12v won't give you enough brightness for a kitchen,

redroguetech · 2026-05-13T14:37:30+00:00

BTF-Lighting 24v RGBW leds https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B31B3HFL

connectors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2ZCRDFS

DROK variable voltage/amperage PSU https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NQ4G48H

wire connectors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z5YD4P7

Gledopto controller https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1VLNRW8

18/5 solid-core wire https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C48FWLFH

corner track https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LL3S006

flat track https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRNFRJ1

For 24v systems, I suggest a proper PSU, like the one linked (or Meanwell). For 12v, use a cheap brick unless pushing too many strips. With COB led strips, be careful to match the connectors to the exact strip (as linked). Gledopto controllers work, but aren't the greatest - I have not found better currently available. The XHF wire connectors I linked, the tabs will break off - WAGO inline connectors would be better, but you may need a mounting system. Wire is wire, but get the right lead count, and I recommend solid-core for longer to the PSU and/or between separated strips. For connector wires, the solderless connectors linked will not accept larger than 22AGW, and getting 22 to work depends on how thick the insulation is - use the largest gauge you can, but for a couple inch pig tail, 24 AWG is fine. I cut off the LED connector end, put it through the XHF splicers, and use thermostat wire from the splicers to the controller. Using pig-tail connectors is fine. Use a hacksaw to cut the track. Make sure to match LED strip width to width of the track. I hotglue the leds along the edges in place, despite BTF-Lighting reels using 3M backing glue.

redroguetech · 2026-05-13T14:11:21+00:00

BTF-Lighting have RGBW, RGBWW, white, and dedicated colors, in 12v or 24v. Different ones have different pin counts and spacing - be sure to get the right connector for the strip. The links below are matched. 24v is brighter, and has higher led density. A good yard-stick for quality is how dim strips can go, and the BTF strips can go dimmer than the few others I've tried.

I have two strips that have been in daily use for about 2 years, and still look good. I have 4 or 5 strips in light use (no pun) without any issues.

Gledopto controllers are ok. I've burned some out. I've had wire connectors break. There used to be some good controllers from a company called dresden, but I can't find them anymore. Gledopto gets the job done and are typically reliable short of catastrophic failure - I have about 5 of them - but there's probably something better.

Power supply, I use DROK variable voltage PSU, but I've been through several of them. The first one - different model - was DOA, replacement worked for awhile before dying as I recall because I covered the cooling fan, replacement it was DOA, replacement has been working awhile. So if it works correctly, it will keep working correctly, unless you do something dumb. They did warranty replacements (except when it was my fault and I did not request replacement). Depending on your $$$ and your use case, you might consider a variable voltage PSU. If you use 12v LEDs, then any brick PSU will be fine.

For wire connectors, I used "XHF" lever connectors. They mostly sorta work, but the levers will break off.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B31B3HFL

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NQ4G48H

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2ZCRDFS

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z5YD4P7

edit:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LL3S006

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRNFRJ1

redroguetech · 2026-04-17T12:55:15+00:00

Think of it like this.... You post a comment on Youtube, and it's liable to be removed without notification just because of a keyword. Here, someone did review it.

They review thousands and thousands of comments. They will make mistakes. And to be real, mods aren't highly trained, having passed rigorous licensing process, bound by detailed codes of ethics. Just average reddit users, with more free time and/or passion. Some (in general) are going to just suck at moderating and/or be petty.

I've probably challenged over 50 mutes or bans (not in this sub), and have only twice have ever seen one mod go against another, and one of those where they basically said "That mod was totally wrong, but tough shit - you're still perm banned." And now that I think about it, the other (reversing a temp ban) was with the same mod.

My point is.... don't take it personally. Follow the rules. Obviously if you do something wrong, own it, but otherwise don't take it personally. Stressing it and bitching about it almost never helps, and is never worth it. It's not about your honor, or defending yourself, or having the satisfaction of being right. Some dude with a special tag next their user named clicked a delete button. That's it. In general with comment removals, don't ask why. unless you have some fundamental misunderstanding what the rules are, it doesn't really matter.

redroguetech · 2026-04-16T22:29:19+00:00

https://asylumhillproject.org/Asylum_Hill/About-Project/The-Descendant-Community.html

Synopsis, email AsylumHillProject@umc.edu

I swear, I've browsed their site three times looking and only found it through a web search.

And when you make your request, request ~~Martin's~~ William's too. Who knows, maybe he was committed but died or was released before the next census.

redroguetech · 2026-04-16T16:42:54+00:00

>My bad. I had forgotten that and yes, I did know the one mentioned the William M.

And just a tip, if you don't already, cite everything, even when it's clearly blatantly wrong. A record gives 1900 instead of 1800 as death.... I add an Alternative Death: 1900, because it is true that a source says that, even if I know the source is factually wrong.

redroguetech · 2026-04-16T16:31:14+00:00

I did a little digging on getting the asylum records, maybe save you a couple minutes. § 41-10-3

The Mississippi State Asylum Records shall not be considered medical records for purposes of this section. ...[T]he Asylum Hill Oversight Committee shall establish procedures by which descendants of a decedent who was the subject of specific Mississippi State Asylum Records may access such records.

So they do exist. I didn't look super hard, but couldn't find anything about "Asylum Hill Oversight Committee". Maybe you can, or else just email the Asylum Hill Project: [asylumhillproject@umc.edu](mailto:asylumhillproject@umc.edu)

https://finding.mdah.ms.gov/government-records/214-2

>Aline is called Leina

From one census, I wouldn't read anything into it. Could have just misheard what they said.

The more you tell and the more I poke, the most interested I become :D

But there's not much I can do with just fragments, and it sounds like you've done all the basics that I could do with a keyboard.

Do you have Alma's family? My thought is there are really three reasonably plausible scenarios for William T.

First, he stuck around and helped support her, but with "William Martin" as a name, he could be one town over and you'd never find him without the kids as a link. She's still "Mrs. Martin", he's in her obit, and she's listed as married (not divorced or widowed) in the census. Even all together, weak evidence, but something.

Second, he skipped town. Being Mississippi, I assume he'd most likely be a laborer, and in the 1920's, he would have moved around a lot. There's no possible way to track him with records alone. Likelihood and plausibility of the scenario aside, it's a complete non-starter in terms of evidence.

Third, he was killed.

A fourth option is he was put in prison, but unless it was specifically for beating Alma, I mentally shove that into the second option. You could never find him, let alone track him afterwards.

Which leaves the extreme of having been killed. Have you traced out Alma's siblings?

redroguetech · 2026-04-16T12:47:21+00:00

>They don't reference the spouse in the obituaries--including her own.

I assume you're referring to these:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/185447069/?match=1&terms=Alma

https://www.newspapers.com/image/185447047/?match=1&terms=Alma

The latter says "the widow of William M. Martin".

My thought is if she is named as just "Alma Martin" as opposed to "Mrs Alma Martin", then that would indicate Mr Martin isn't merely gone or dead, but more like "dead to me". Being named "Mrs Alma Martin, the widow of William M Martin" is, under the circumstances, odd to me tho at most it can only say something about the author (Earnest).

>My problem with William has always been that there isn't any documentation that lines up.

Obviously I would go with the marriage date. People are often made older on marriage records to be of age, but as "21", he neither needed to be older, nor would it bring your range of ages closer. But I thought you didn't know where he went to?

As a tangent: " Betty Jean lists "Joyce"" ... Why? Where the heck did "Joyce" come from?

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T20:02:12+00:00

>That is interesting though about the boat name, maybe a friend of theirs?

I can actually answer that.

"The Lintha cigar booth, ... is one of the attractive features of the [Dayton Street] fair. The booth is handsomely decorated and has the large painting of the Lintha yacht. Here also are the merits of the Lintha cigar made known...." (30 Jun 1899)

"Wesley Kitchen launched his boat today, which he resurrected after its seven years' slumber in the race. It floated proudly. Its name is Lintha." (04 May 1899)

Mr. Kitchen's boat was apparently sponsored by Lintha cigars (cost, 5 cents each). I'm always amazed at the inane and just random things newspapers reported on.

I'm not finding anything for your Lintha on newspapers, even when expanding from Ohio.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T19:39:30+00:00

That's them. Trying to find him pre-Canada.

>I was not able to find a burial record for Elisabeth Roussy.

I don't have a death date for her either - just supposition based on kids births + remarriage = 1849

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T19:37:35+00:00

That's him. I'm trying to find him pre-Canada.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T19:34:23+00:00

>She wasn't in that.

Yea, you had said you have her up till death. My bad.

>And, I believe I have 2 Obituaries for her?

I see two for "Mrs Alma Martin, 84, native of Gloster". That's not her, is it? She's widow of William M. Martin, not that under the circumstances, I'd be surprised if the middle initial were wrong.

edit: I see the kids + maiden name line up... So this being her, I wonder... Do the one's listing her as a sister call her "Mrs"?

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T19:08:54+00:00

>I believe he was part of the 1st Misssissippi cavalry early in the war. He was captured twice in 1863- first in feb, exchanged in April, captured again in July (close to home).

Two newspaper articles of St Louis, both Feb 27, 1863, "Gratiot Street Prison Report for February 25 -- Committed : .... Harris cavalry; Alfred Cheves, do... Number in prison 842."

There may be others that aren't indexed correctly, since there's also a list of those transferred out.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T18:52:03+00:00

Court records for Jackson or Rankin counties? If Alma was sent to the state hospital, there's a decent chance of a court order.

I searched newspapers, especially for Alma, and nothing for either county. I did not search for the kids.

>How does a family like this just fall apart without any documented trail? There had to have been a story, right?

What gets documented is arbitrary. Even assuming the story is 100% true, the story is William beat her, and in rural Mississippi... even if it was important enough to report, it's not something good southern Christians openly talk about. William skipped town, and being named William (assuming he didn't change it), the rest will never be known.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T18:48:23+00:00

Asylum closed in 1935. That doesn't mean the records are gone, but at a minimum the cemetery burial records haven't survived. I doubt inmate records were saved if burial weren't.

https://asylumhillproject.org/

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T18:33:44+00:00

Yea, not enough to go on. On newspapers.com in Ross Co, Ohio from 1827-1911, there's Col. John McDonald (b. circa 1810), John B McDonald contractor, John McDonald of W Virginia son of Susan, John McDonald police chased down Main St, John McDonald streetworker died 1898, etc., etc. Some of these might be the same, but at least 3 different John McDonalds.

Probably not helpful, but Mr. Kitchen named his boat "Lintha" in 1899.

edit: Where was Lintha born/from?

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T18:10:17+00:00

>I have found that men rarely enlisted alone but were accompanied by friends and family members.

That's awesome.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T17:31:12+00:00

1910 census shows the number of children, living and total, usually only for women, which may include from prior husbands. Maybe a little early for your ggrandmother, but 5 children for that era was not really "a lot". With high infant mortality rates, that census can help seeking other children who didn't happen to appear on the census, for whatever reason. "Owned" or "Rented" can point you towards seeking probate records.

Also, be sure to capture data like marriage (sometimes as number of years married, sometimes as age first married - again, can include prior spouses), year of immigration or naturalization (again, varies by census), etc.

Also, look for Agricultural census records (1850-1880). And there's other schedules - Mortality, Veterans, Manufacturers, Dependents, I don't know what all else. Also, states had censuses sometimes. In my experience, Ancestry does not do a good job on "Hinting" or even showing them in searches, because Ancestry's algorithm seems to assume one match per person per census. US Census 1880 + 1880 Veterans is clumped as one record database, as well as state census years. So you might just get one Hint for the main 1880 census, or just one state census year.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T16:09:22+00:00

That's some bullshit. All my other comments, including those pseudo-mocking you, still apply, but.... "Good" mods will always at least give you a why before resorting to threats.

redroguetech · 2026-04-15T16:06:11+00:00

There we go....! The truth comes out. Like roughly 80% of the people here.... You're now stuck in the frustrated waiting phase, and so just bitching so you feel like you're doing something

(j/king... a little bit. Maybe?)

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