# Voltage

If you aren't ready to run your own Bitcoin or Lightning node at home or need a more reliable node to run accept payments, creating a non-custodial Lightning node on Voltage is a good option.

**Step 1:** [Sign up](https://voltage.cloud/nodes/) for a Voltage Lightning account and create a lightning node.

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**1)** [Install](https://getalby.com/) the Alby Browser Extension in your browser and add your new Voltage node

**2)** Click "Connect" to "Other Wallets"

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**3)** Select LND

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**4)** Enter the credentials provided by Voltage

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Click on "Continue". **Congrats** you successfully connected your own to the Alby Extension 🚀

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**Step 4:** If you don't have a lightning channel yet, you can follow [**this setup wizard**](https://getalby.github.io/lnd-onboarding/) to fund your node and open your first channel to send and receive bitcoin payments on the lightning network.

**Or** select "Request Channel" in your Voltage.cloud dashboard. This action will open a channel to your node. Afterwards you can deposit up to 500,000 sats to your node.

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**Congrats** you are almost ready to spend from your own node with the Alby Extension 🚀

If you need help, visit [support.getalby.com](http://support.getalby.com) anytime!


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