Recycle old light fixtures to create artistic LED lighting

Find old lighting fixtures at thrift stores, garage sales, etc. Clean them up and then incorporate LED light strings to create futuristic looking lighting.

Step 1 Purchase LED light string

Purchase LED light string. Typically they cost from $9 to $13 US Dollars. These can be purchased around the holidays, Christmas and Halloween especially. Some places you can probably find them year round. Watch for sales after the holidays to get a better deal.

Comments

[incorrigible packrat]

Sweet! Looks like the mind control device from the penal colony (he he he he... penal) on that old Star Trek episode. (Seen again, as a similar device, in that crappy 3rd season episode set in the nutbar colony with that shape-shifting former Starfleet captain and all that chess move code B.S.) P.S. Anyone else think that Dr. Simon van Gelder looks like Charles M. Wolf from Bugs Bunny (the wolf that could not remember he was after a rabbit).

[Masher1]

I am going to do over a florescent fixture with a bunch of Super White Led's . I will just keep soldering them into it untill one or three things goes down. A:I run out of space to add more,B:I get it as bright as 2-4 foot booth lite florescent bulbs. C:The wife forbids my going to the LED store. She already cut me off of the LED Christmas lights last year. But i can see all night very well thanks to 8 blue strings an 3 white ones strung at the edges of my shops walls. I can see well and the whole set of strings is consuming around 0.46A AC 110V Just one of the incandescent type night lites i had before was rated a 7W 110V and i was always bashing my legs or squinting to see something. They seemed to have some very bright blue ones last year and i love the light they give off. I would buy as many as i could every time i saw them if i could. :)

[bitchmobile]

I love this project!! I took it one step further or sideways and wired some strings of battery operated LEDs to some old cordless phone transformers. I have some light bulb to outlet converters so that I can take the whole deal and put it on my ceiling fixture using the adjusting screws. The only problem was that I added too many strings of the tiny rice LEDs and burned out one of the transformers. They are easy enough to find at thrift stores or yard sales. Thanks

[rocketbat]

nice! i see you are another one of us that wants to put blue LEDs into everything :D

[gadget_brain]

Any color will do. But yes the most common ultra brights are that whitish purple color. I have some that are very purple and will cause florescence to occur. I believe I got them around halloween they have a slight black light effect. I do have a passion for LEDs :D

[killerjackalope]

yup I had these in a mousepad witha usb hub on it for whatever reason now I have a blacklight beer can hub (blacklight kind nightclubs) I know this as when I look at it close up all I see is purple haze (now idea why but my whole eye fluoresces under blacklight so I can't see

[Dannos]

Nice project. I love anything to do with reuse. Especially when it involves LED's