Archive for the ‘Lighting’ Category

I wanted to find a motion led light that would provide more then enough light for moving around the house after dark but was not able to find one that did not cost and arm and a leg. So, I decided to build my own using off the shelf parts.

Nigel Chivers decided to get himself a solar powered radio. In looking at the local retail outlet he was put off by both the price of the cheap units as well as the fact that they had the wind up crank. He did not feel like winding a handle all day long just to listen to the radio. He did however need something that would work out in the middle of nowhere, and work all day long.

Here is what he came up with. An old radio that he made solar powered by using parts from a junk garden lamp. Cheap, and best of all no cranking at all! Yea.

You can checkout his build via the link below.

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Here’s a simple problem: “How do you make an LED turn on when it gets dark?” You might call it the “nightlight problem,” but the same sort of question comes up in a lot of familiar situations– emergency lights, street lights, silly computer keyboard backlights, and the list goes on.

Follow these easy DIY plans and build your own solar powered battery generator.

I sure loves me some sun jars!  They incorporate several of my favorite things to mess around with:  LEDs, Solar panels, hot glue, man it’s all there and they look great to boot!

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to build your own!

Here is an interesting but almost useless mod. A wall plug that was modded into a self running led light.

A Northern California inventor has created an attractive tabletop heater that adds meaningful heat into home or office powered by a single candle.

You have most likely heard of a potato battery, a lemon battery, an earth battery. Well here we present a plant battery powered LED light.

I am always on the look out for small energy efficient inverters that will allow for me to have alot of light using little energy since most of my energy comes from my solar panels and wind turbines. Here is a very tiny, tiny DC to Ac inverter that can be used to power all types of lights.

I recently decided that I was going to use one of the old bases that was used for a CFL, to now make a some of my small leds work with 12 volts.

I wanted to know what all the fuss was about when it came to these jumbo sized leds so I bought a package of them and started to play.

Okay this is my review of the 1 Watt LEDS that are now available as an alernative to CFL and other lighting.

Okay so I decided to mod the Solar Desktop clock by getting rid of the battery all together and using only a super cap.

When I first read about a little device (circuit) called a Joule Thief I tied to build one and failed badly. Well, it turns out that it was not me after all. It was the fact that nobody was able to explain it the right way so I could understand how to build one. So, for this I am going to try to go over how to build one as well as why many people fail at trying to build one.

The motion sensor led light is a cheap light I got from ebay for around $5.00 I found that it took only 2 AAA batteries although the battery holder can hold up to 4 AAA’s.