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Step 2Prepare the candles
Ok, lets do it:
1) Depending from the led power and the candle wax type you have to reduce the candles height to obtain a reasonable and uniform luminosity.
Remove the top caps and extract the candles from the red cases, remove the wicks too.
(in the candles I purchase the wicks are separated from the candle wax body and easily removable, if you have wicks melted inside the wax you can try to pull them out or leave them there).
Insert a led on the wick's hole at the candle base and power it (with a 5V source, higher voltages will fry the led, try to arrange the power supply section on the fly for this test or use a 4,5V battery, longer lead is POSITIVE : DON'T REVERSE) to see how high the light would go so you'll realize how long the candles can be.
I found led can be pushed inside the candle to its entire lenght (leads included) and light diffused back to the candle bottom too.
You have to enlarge the hole or drill it from scratch depending from the wick type.
I cutted the candles from their original 13 cm to respectively 8,5 - 7,5 - 6,5 cm.
Three different height candles are putted together in a triangular way to obtain an armonic composition.
Candles stays together with the help of some metal (copper, steel) wire pieces plugged on their bodies at the middle (and the candle bodies hide them) and under the bottom, shaping in a "U" fashion and heating them with an iron.
Cut some copper insulated wire pieces to connect the led in parallel (positive with positive, negative with negative), extract the led from the candles to solder wires and insulated them with hot shrink tubing (3mm diameter). REMEMBER to INSERT TUBING BEFORE solder.
With another couple of wire connect leds to the power supply section
1) Depending from the led power and the candle wax type you have to reduce the candles height to obtain a reasonable and uniform luminosity.
Remove the top caps and extract the candles from the red cases, remove the wicks too.
(in the candles I purchase the wicks are separated from the candle wax body and easily removable, if you have wicks melted inside the wax you can try to pull them out or leave them there).
Insert a led on the wick's hole at the candle base and power it (with a 5V source, higher voltages will fry the led, try to arrange the power supply section on the fly for this test or use a 4,5V battery, longer lead is POSITIVE : DON'T REVERSE) to see how high the light would go so you'll realize how long the candles can be.
I found led can be pushed inside the candle to its entire lenght (leads included) and light diffused back to the candle bottom too.
You have to enlarge the hole or drill it from scratch depending from the wick type.
I cutted the candles from their original 13 cm to respectively 8,5 - 7,5 - 6,5 cm.
Three different height candles are putted together in a triangular way to obtain an armonic composition.
Candles stays together with the help of some metal (copper, steel) wire pieces plugged on their bodies at the middle (and the candle bodies hide them) and under the bottom, shaping in a "U" fashion and heating them with an iron.
Cut some copper insulated wire pieces to connect the led in parallel (positive with positive, negative with negative), extract the led from the candles to solder wires and insulated them with hot shrink tubing (3mm diameter). REMEMBER to INSERT TUBING BEFORE solder.
With another couple of wire connect leds to the power supply section
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Nov 14, 2010. 9:59 AMjadedjas
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I LOVE Selenite! It's just beautiful when you mix it with any kind of light!
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Feb 12, 2009. 3:49 PMburndin
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Instead of using candles I used a stone called Selentie. It came out very well.
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Feb 12, 2009. 3:50 PMburndin
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Selenite*
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