04-10-2010, 11:49 AM
pretty soso pics (my cellphone camera doesnt work so good up close)
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these are streelights I am currently making
the photo's are pretty lousy I know
but the keyboard is to give a scale
197 is an led I fitted to a copper tube (cut the copper tube so the led fitted, the tube will be the - and the + is soldered to the led and a very fine wire run down inside the tubing to be the + wire)
196 shows the overall size
(sorry about the blurryness- my cellphone camera just doesnt like working down this small...)
the streetlight `hood' is one size larger tube- with a fine ( <1mm) cut to fit the led inside
fitted to a smaller sized tube
after the bend (just slightly to the left of the righthand side of the f1 key (does that make any sense??))
to be as close to prototypical as possible you may see the step up in size
this is one of the leds I am using ( there are differnt colours and even different `hoods' that look very much like old fashioned fluro's and those yellow merc vapour lights as well)
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these are streelights I am currently making
the photo's are pretty lousy I know
but the keyboard is to give a scale
197 is an led I fitted to a copper tube (cut the copper tube so the led fitted, the tube will be the - and the + is soldered to the led and a very fine wire run down inside the tubing to be the + wire)
196 shows the overall size
(sorry about the blurryness- my cellphone camera just doesnt like working down this small...)
the streetlight `hood' is one size larger tube- with a fine ( <1mm) cut to fit the led inside
fitted to a smaller sized tube
after the bend (just slightly to the left of the righthand side of the f1 key (does that make any sense??))
to be as close to prototypical as possible you may see the step up in size
this is one of the leds I am using ( there are differnt colours and even different `hoods' that look very much like old fashioned fluro's and those yellow merc vapour lights as well)
poopsie chicken tush