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- Breaking through the 2 hour barrier – Maximising efficiency to achieve the longest flight time of an electric multirotor (quadcopter)
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Category Archives: Workshop LED light
Workshop LED light – DIY Walk-through
Here is a quick walk through on how to make a variable brightness LED work light. Required Parts 1 x Portable Halogen Work light, New or second hand: $15 3x Cree XP-G R5 Mounted to a 20mm MCPCB Star (or similar) $31 1 x … Continue reading
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Tagged ax2002, Cree, halogen worklight, LED, LED workight, worklight, workshop led light, XP-G
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Battery Powered Work Light V2
I finally got around to revising the tipple XP-G worklight by converting it to be battery powered. Only a few changers were made to the original. Most notable is that a bracket has been added that extends downwards from the back of the light and … Continue reading
Posted in Workshop LED light
Tagged Cree, electronics, Led lighting., NiMh, power led driver, wide beam, work light, XP-G
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Super Simple LED Voltage Meter
Recently I took delivery of the parts needed to make the Sub$20 Bike light and a few other goodies. However being right in the middle of my exams I haven’t had as much time to play around as I would like. That said I … Continue reading
Posted in Self indulgent, Workshop LED light
Tagged LED, LED display, volt meter, voltage meter, zener, zener diode
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XP-G Worklight
Yesterday I found the time to finish off the triple LED (XP-G) work light. It went together fairly quickly with about an hours fiddling. The most difficult part was achieve a good thermal path for the LED’s to the housing. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cree, hallogen work light, home LED lighting, led light project, LED project, MCPCB. work light, power led, XP-G
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1,000 Lumen Work Light.
After cleaning up around the house a few days ago I dug out an old halogen work light. It does still work, but for the 250W it consumes the light output is woeful at best. My recent interest in power LED’s has made me … Continue reading
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Tagged Cree, LED, LED light, LED work light, power led, work light, XP-G, XPG
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