Hi there
I'm building a 12 LED strip dimmer/driver at the moment, and I've hit a bit of a problem. My circuit works fine, but I'm going to need to scale it up to power 5 5m strips. Each strip should theoretically draw 1.5 amps, plus about 700mA for the driver itself.
I don't have the facility to make my own circuit boards, but I have a lot of stripboard here. I can't seem to find any info about how much current stripboard can handle, so I'm a bit concerned about building the circuit up.
The circuit works by taking the PWM output of an Arduino and driving a STP16NF06L MOSFET as a high side switch using optocouplers to pull it high and low. It's a design I saw on YouTube that I've adapted to my needs. I've attached a schematic of how it is all hooked up (some of the parts have changed but it still works the same way).
What would be the best way to build this up using stripboard without the whole thing melting?