Self-contained Lamp

In everyday life, we are surrounded, in large numbers, by previously used and worn objects. You can get rid of them, or you can try to use them in the design of useful products, giving them a second life.

In my project, I will collect an emergency lighting lamp, in which garbage will turn into a solar battery and an energy battery, and the hit of the outgoing season of the garbage king, will ignite a burned 220-volt electric lamp. I will use the emergency lighting lamp when power is cut off and when leaving overnight in the forest and on the pond.

In the project applied:

Chinese landscape flashlights on solar batteries 20 pieces, - (LEDs do not shine.)

Batteries removed during Ni-Cd reworking on Li-Ion from electric drill

220 volt non-operating LED lamp

A little plastic

Cracked rejected crystal detail from the column (given during the restoration of the crystal temple).

I started with a solar array. My friend ten years ago was very concerned about the design of the homestead. He had chic plants, all kinds of ceramic pribambas, including solar-powered garden lights. In the evenings, they cozily highlighted the path and walls, but either they were made in China, or the batteries were so, the miracle gradually went out and was forgotten. After a while, all these lamps migrated to me and I dismantled them.

To realize the idea, I needed solar batteries. Even with an incandescent lamp, they gave out 2V. With more than twenty pieces available, i decided to collect them in a battery. Gluing the elements to a piece of glass, soldered them to voltage, with strong solar lighting 18 V and so that then all this did not bounce off the glass, poured with building silicone.

Solar energy has successfully turned into electricity that needs to be preserved. For this, Ni-Cd batteries were taken out of the box with junk. Ini appeared after the conversion of the electric drill battery on Li-Ion.

Before starting the assembly, I decided to check whether the planned project will work. How the solar battery will be able to charge batteries, an assembly of twelve volts and how much the LED bulb will shine in time. To check, I did not even solder batteries, with the help of magnets I assembled a serial chain, connecting the battery and left it on the windowsill, for one and a half solar day.

We test, connect the load twelve volts, less than 0.1A and turn on the stopwatch. The voltage has subsided, the LEDs continue to shine, although not so bright. A little more and will go out. The experiment lasted less than fifteen minutes.

Before connecting the load, I fix the voltages. It's 12.75, it's not a full charge, but something. The sun has set behind the high-rise building and the solar panel is now in the shade. Even under such conditions voltage is generated within 15.6 V, respectively amps are small.

We test, connect the load twelve volts, less than 0.1A and turn on the stopwatch. The voltage has subsided, the LEDs continue to shine, although not so bright. The experiment lasted less than fifteen minutes.

Having made sure that everything was working, I took up the shell of the project, the box from the DVD was perfect in size. According to the size of the panel, i drew and cut plastic. I made a fourth to the existing sides and attached the panel. Reinforced in a circle with an end edge strip of PVC, built up walls made of the same plastic to accommodate batteries inside them. I put mirror plastic into the cover frame, it will also be a reflector. This is a soft material and is easily cut with a knife. I also decided to place a voltmeter in the cover, it will be possible to see in what readiness the batteries are. I did not install the charge-discharge controller. The power of the panel is small, it is not even for charging, but for recharging. He can't hurt the batteries.

Soldered the batteries, connected the voltmeter and the solar panel, the assembly is finished. It remains to attach the lamp. A visor was cut out of mirror plastic and a cartridge was attached to it. Here, at the top, I placed a connector to connect a more powerful panel.

First, I wanted to assemble a voltage converter from 12 volts to 220 volts from old boards. But it's cooler to use what you already wanted to throw away.

I take a non-working Chinese LED lamp, which I will not look for in it, it is not interesting, and the task is for me to light it from the 12V. carefully unscrew the base so as not to crush the glass bulb of the lamp, removing the burnt circuit, cutting off the wires. I check the performance of LEDs, 11V for LEDs is quite enough. Making sure that the LEDs workers collect the lamp. I connect the wires, isolate, screw the basement and certainly mark the lamp. It is not suitable for a network in 220V.

The project is almost finished. All the rubbish is in working condition, it remains to apply the last smear to my painting. And it'll be a glass flask. I had it when I was renovating the temple. I was changing defective parts of the glass mosaic.

The whole world seeks to recycle what is thrown into landfills. In our ability to reduce this garbage, you just need to show relish.