justDIY Project Log

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Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.

Archive for September, 2005

LED Garden Light

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Here’s a cheap incandescent garden / landscape light I retrofitted with 4 RGB leds. It works OK, but the retrofit module is difficult to assemble without a proper pc-board and there are problems with diffusing the light properly.
I’ll revisit this project sooner or later
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Super Flux LEDs

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

This breadboard is the first time I had dealt with high / super flux leds… otherwise refered to piranha or ufo package leds.
These came from www.lsdiodes.com and have a viewing angle of 45 deg… it makes them super tremendously bright looking indicators, and probably would work great for tail lights and such.
The piranha led has [...]

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Pitiful LED Array

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

I built this to test some “color washing” ideas I had, but it didn’t turn out like a hoped. In my mad rush to get it done (or maybe it was the post 1am state of mind), I wired it up backward… I was shootin for common anode, that is each led shares [...]

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