For the outdoor living the modern steampunker takes his modified IKEA-Lantern.
See how it goes.
See how it goes.
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Take such a ring from a lamp holder an cut it down as you see. Put away the small candle holderm from the bottom of the lantern. Then put disk of wood or "Vulkanfiber" (a special sort of paper used normally as a welding protection shield) on the bottom. Place the brass ring avbove. Take an old CFL-bulb as you see in the picture. Cut the electronic part away and take only the glass tube and the plastic bulb.
The electronic I used is the same like in my other projects, -a high voltage tranformer from a disposal camera- (see the modification at my first project:"high-voltage-ignited plasma-bulb"). Put this electronic and the batteries in the top of lamp. On the top of the lamp there are several holes looking like stars. There you can place copper disks and screws for decoration and also the switch can be installed there.
The electronic I used is the same like in my other projects, -a high voltage tranformer from a disposal camera- (see the modification at my first project:"high-voltage-ignited plasma-bulb"). Put this electronic and the batteries in the top of lamp. On the top of the lamp there are several holes looking like stars. There you can place copper disks and screws for decoration and also the switch can be installed there.
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I am confused, you take a lantern(?) apart you disassemble a dead lamp you show the globe installed in a round lantern(?), then you put a HV flash source into a square box that appears no where in the other pictures.
what does this do ? You appear to have a mangled new lightbulb (new type)in a new base. Is there a point to this?
If this appears mean spirited I assure you it isn't I am honestly confused as to why you have done this and what is its purpose. I get the "steampunk" concept, and have friends who are into this, but, the things need a purpose.
do you put a candle in it?
Maybe I can explain my idea once agin so that you aren´t longer confused.
The idea ist to light up the lantern with an cfl in its bulb from an so called"dead" lamp and its light is generated by a HV flash from an used disposal camera. I put the photo of the electronic inside the head of the lantern from another project (http://www.instructables.com/id/Steampunk-outdor-lamp-special-edition/)
which follows the same constructive idea. Sorry that you might have misunderstood this step. The design of the lantern itself is in the steampunk way using different applications in copper and brass, so it looks like an freaky idea of an oldtime mad scientist.
But you are right this project might be a little bit confused. So I promise in my next instructables I will be more structured
as you can see from the post I made after it, I goty the idea. I understand the steampunk "look and feel". I even have a steam punk movie (japanamation).
I did not get that you were stripping down the lamps and pulling an HV (High Voltage) source from a disposable camera with a flash.
Once I understood the concept and I think it was a hoot,(entertaining).
Thank you for a very cool concept and to those who originated the concept of a stripped down CF lamp reuse.
What size lamp (in watts) was the CF, that is important.
thanks you
you have earned an icey cold Dinkle Acker Dark for this project!
My favorite, no longer imported here :-(
ciao
Your design is very nice, and sensible if H.Steam is to be believed and you can run a lam for 5 hours on 2 AAA bats!
I will need to make a few and get boy scouts making them. maybe not steam punk, just fnctional for storms and camping, and fer fun! I just threw out 6 of these camera parts a few months ago as i made something didn't like it and saw no need to keep them :-( As digital caemra's take over the world these units are harder and harder to find.
I used a flourecent lamp (only the glass tube) with 11 watt and nearly 15 years old, but it really depends on the producer. It really doesn´t matter how many watts the former cfl used. You can also take a tube from a 4 watt lamp. The best way is to test some old ones and look which tube will does its job best. To my opinion it is very important that you cover the glass tube with something for a shock protection, because of the Quicksilver(Hg) in it.
I got my cameras from an big photo developer lab, this might be a chance for you too to get some for free.
My lamp is running for about 8-12 hrs. with two AA bats
As far as the source goes about 3 months ago I was cleaning out some boxes and (gulp) tossed out 4-6 of the units all gutted and ready to make mini bug blasters......ggrrrr...... they are not so easy to get anymore they used to be very easy to pick up for free. Now with digital camera's it is very hard to find them.....I will try this week to find a few. Having ten or so is good for emergencies, like the last big hurricaine here.
thanks for the come back, I am curious where you get the shock from (touching the glass? Stray wire? Case?
It does matter with small children. Will scare them real good and then they drop it.
Using a nicad battery came to mind even b4 I saw Horatius Steam's version. and by adding a separate charger input, if you know a bad one is coming you can charge it at any time, then unplug set to photovoltaic charge and leave in windows to trickle charge. Then when needed used judiciously and with an on/off switch, allows you to at least have an idea where things are in the dark. Other versions I have seen of this will give very high brillance but for 1.5-2 hours or so.
last off I love books on tape (cd-dvd). When my kids were younger I would light 10-15 candles all over a room and have snacks ready, then we would sit around and listen to Harry Potter and The Lord Of The Rings , the Hobbit , Percy Jackson as the candles flickered. These will have no flicker but they will work very nicely.