Make Your Underwater Aquarium Light With Hot Glue!
by Ayush Sharma in Circuits > LEDs
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Make Your Underwater Aquarium Light With Hot Glue!
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Today We will be Making An Underwater Led Light With Hot Glue!!
Who Ever Thought we could use Hot Glue to Make a underwater Light?
It uses 6-3Watt Leds ,1 (100Ohm)Resistor [Not Necessary] , Only Half Hot Glue Stick !
I am Participating in Budget Contest too as It uses Minimal Parts to make a Thing which is useable in many types like BathTube ,Showers , Fountains ,Aquariums,Outdoor Garden Light and many more.
Get the Parts & Tools
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Parts:-
(1) 6--3Watt Led's
(2) Half/Full(doesn't Matters much) Hot Glue Stick
(3)100 Ohm Resistor
(4) A smooth & clean Surface [ i used back side of f2 pcb ]
(5) Wire (of your desired Length)
Tools:- (1) Soldering Iron
(2) Solderwire
(3) General Purpose PCB
(4) Hot Glue Gun
(5) Mini Screw Driver
(6) Small Scissors
Soldering First Led
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First Take the General Purpose Pcb and Solder 1 Led End on it.
By doing this Leds will not move while making Shape
Think of the Shape You Want
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Think the shape you want. In my case i am making a Circle Type with 3-3 parallel Led's
[Note:- I am using a 12v Power supply , Therefore I am giving like 4 v to each of led which will trigger there max Brightness.]
Soldering the Desired Shape
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Solder the Desired Shape, the only reason to make a Circle is to make the next hot glueing work easier.
Plucking the Light
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Now we will Take our Screwdriver and pluck the light .
[By this i doesn't mean that breaking the joints]
By plucking the light i mean that the cooper traces on which light is solder , that should be detached from pcb. Therefore it could be easily done by bending light up with screwdriver.
Adding the Resistor Parallel
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This Resistor doesn't Actually Do anything as it is installed in parallel and is just for supporting melted glue [In Step 8].
Attaching the Wire
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It is Obvious That we will use an insulated Wire . For this. [Be Very Sure that there are no cracks in insulation]
Insulating the Full Light
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In this Step the only work left has to be done by the hot glue gun.
1) Start by placing a huge dot in middle of any smooth surface [ Wait a little bit and dot should start making a circle]
2) make sure that the hot glue circle made is atleast 2mm thick and exactly of the light size.
3) Now, Put the Light on cooled Circle ( which would become the base of light)
4) Again , put a large sum of Hot Glue on Top of it and make sure all electrical path ways are covered.
5) immediately put it into a freezer and let it cool down.
Again Plucking the Light
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Again pluck the light by our mighty :p Screwdriver from one end.
No problem if it is not a perfect circle as we will cut the edges to make it a perfect circle.
Make It a Perfect Circle
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Now take your Scissors and cut the edges to make it a perfect circle.
Test It!
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Now take an 12v Led Strip Adapter and hook it with the light! And dip it in the water
And Here we Go ! We have made our own underwater light ! Only for 2-3 dollars!
If you liked this instructable then please Vote For me in Budget Contest!