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This instructable will guide you through making an accent light, i use mine for photography.
Welcome!
This is my first Instructable, so I hope its clear and concise enough for you all, I hope it helps you all too.
Requirements: What I wanted to achieve was colour accents in some of my pictures, either in the background or just a stream of light entering the picture, I have an old 4 channel light chaser laying about, and an old 4 way dimmer switch, so I thought Id try and solve my problems using this. If you dont already have a chaser you can pick them up very cheaply on eBay, you could always pick one up from a boot-fair, wouldnt be that expensive, and doesnt matter if it doesnt work either, as long as it has the bulb holders.
First of all, you will need to make sure you have:
4 Channel Light Chaser;
Plasterboard back box;
4 way dimmer switch;
Bulbs, if you dont already have them.
Tools:
An angle grinder will save your arms, and time, (I used one of these) however a saw would be fine,
Wire cutters,
An electrical screwdriver,
And whatever screw driver you need to dismantle the chaser (mine was a No.2 Phillips)
Welcome!
This is my first Instructable, so I hope its clear and concise enough for you all, I hope it helps you all too.
Requirements: What I wanted to achieve was colour accents in some of my pictures, either in the background or just a stream of light entering the picture, I have an old 4 channel light chaser laying about, and an old 4 way dimmer switch, so I thought Id try and solve my problems using this. If you dont already have a chaser you can pick them up very cheaply on eBay, you could always pick one up from a boot-fair, wouldnt be that expensive, and doesnt matter if it doesnt work either, as long as it has the bulb holders.
First of all, you will need to make sure you have:
4 Channel Light Chaser;
Plasterboard back box;
4 way dimmer switch;
Bulbs, if you dont already have them.
Tools:
An angle grinder will save your arms, and time, (I used one of these) however a saw would be fine,
Wire cutters,
An electrical screwdriver,
And whatever screw driver you need to dismantle the chaser (mine was a No.2 Phillips)
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First of all you need to strip down the box, remove all of the insides, including the circuit boards, and cables, remove all the bulbs and then remove the bulb holders inside.
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Nevertheless, great tutorial
As far as i know you cant purchase LEDs bulbs this size, i will look into it, i gues the battery would have to be a sealed LA battery so there is enouh power, this would also mean that you could use the standard dimmer switches, yo would need small POTS, i suppose the fixing of the low voltage POTS would be easier to work with and safer. i dont have the money to try it at the moment, but will look into it at some point.