LED CD Light using 8x 10mm or 5mm warm white leds

Going green is a big thing for me...along with recycling.
With this project you will be recycling unwanted CDs and lowering your power consumption.
I run these off my solar set up and have now been off the power grid for 4 months.

I have a lot of different LED projects and will slowly be sharing them... keep an eye out.

Ultimately these lights are intended to be run off a solar power setup, wind or hydro power at 12v DC... but you can easily make these lights run on 24v DC if you wire all the LED's in series and use a different resistor, if that is what you are running.

Lets get started.

Step 1 1, What you will need.

1x CD for template... the clear cd that comes with burning CDs is great for the template
1x Unwanted CD... In this case "Glamour Puss, when the cat's been spayed"... (hah)
8x LED's (10mm warm white here) 5mm will work fine.
2x Resistors...(use the resistor calculator on the net)
1x 3.5mm drill bit & drill.
1x Suitable length of 2 core wire... speaker cable is fine.
1x Suitable lenth if solid wire, im using green garden wire from the local hardwhere store.
1x Connector strip
1x Roll of insulation tape
1x Marker pen.
1x Pliers.
1x Terminal screwdriver.
 

Comments

[tankhEnthused]

Hi, I'm interested in having a go at this project. I'd like it to be a stand alone light and to run off of solar power. I imagine that I'd need a small solar device to attach to a circuit of led bulbs the same size as the one in your tutorial - what spec would the solar panel be? What do I look for on Ebay for example? Watts and Volts etc (I am a total novice so apologies if I've not explained myself well here)

Thank you