The flower lamp

An easy and fast project.
In a special shop for light bulbs I found a beautiful glow lamp. Inside is a flower and if you provide mains it lights up in red with green leaves. For this bulb I needed a stand with a connector to the wall outlet and a switch. And YES Steam Punk stile was a must. :-)

I build two different types dark wood and light wood with brass applications.

Step 1: The switch and cabling

I found a black switch with a 4mm leaver. I attached a brass ball nut to the leaver.
Than I started the cabling of the mains line.

The mains lines is connected to the lower pair of contacts of the switch (blue and brown)
The cables to the bulb socket are connected to upper pair of contacts.
I soldered the cables to the contacts.
For more safety I insulated the wires by a shrink hose.
Please don´t forget to connect the EARTH (yellow / green) wire to the bulb socket!

Comments

[fretted]

Where did you get that wonderful bulb ?
I would love to make 1 or 2 of these for my outside tables

Beautiful !

[Horatius.Steam]

This bulb is not longer constructed. It is the last of its kind. It coulb be found on ebay in the Netherlands if you are lucky.

[fretted]

Guess what i found

http://stores.ebay.com/I-CAN-SEE-CLEARLY-SUN-READING-GLASS/CLOSEOUT-BARGAINS-/_i.html?_fsub=130249519

Close outs too better et some while there here i am !

Regards

[Horatius.Steam]

Great! I will try ebay in Germany

[jblackwell3]

Would a good way to do this be to use the plug from another lamp? So, rather than wiring it direct into the mains, you just use a plug socket. You could make it portable then. Unless you have and I missed it :s (which is entirely possible haha)

[Horatius.Steam]

It is, it is

[uhclem]

Nice instructable and bulb. I have found these bulbs used as-is tend to darken themselves quickly by sputtering the electrodes onto the inside of the glass. This can be reduced with a current-limiting resistor.Try 100K 1/4 watt in series with the bulb. It will not be as bright but it will last a lot longer.

[Horatius.Steam]

Oh, thank you very much for this advise!

H. Steam