LED lamp with own hands

Fixtures with LEDs are widely used in everyday life. They can be installed in aquariums , installed over certain areas in the kitchen, in the office, used as the main or decorative lighting in any room. To make a lamp from an LED tape with your own hands is quite easy. For this, you do not need to have an electrician's specification, you will have enough skill to handle ordinary tools and a soldering iron. LEDs are quite cheap and the lamp will bypass very inexpensively.

Manufacture of LED lamp by own hands

Typically, to make a powerful LED lamp with your own hands, you use a finished chain tape or straps with diodes. They need to be bought in a store with electrical supplies. As a body, old unnecessary lamps of the appropriate shape are often used. Diodes need to be embedded in any frame that fits the design. The driver has a marking that indicates the number of bulbs it supports.

For the manufacture of the lamp you will need:

  1. From the old lamp is removed all unnecessary, there are LED bars.
  2. The slats and the driver are fastened to the body with metal rivets using a hand-held machine.
  3. Connect the LEDs and the driver together with a soldering iron, the end of the chain goes to the cord with the switch.
  4. The glass is mounted on the lamp, it is ready for operation. The case needs to be fixed to the ceiling.

This LED lamp, made by own hands, can be used even as a street lamp, as it is quite powerful. Aluminum housing will serve as a radiator for cooling the structure. If necessary, additional lamps can be installed in the plafonds to get a brighter illumination. After a while after switching on, you need to touch your hand to the back of the lamp's plane. If the metal is not too hot, then the radiator is selected correctly.

Models of more powerful lamps are also possible. In this case, the construction will have to add an appropriate radiator for better cooling.

LED lights have excellent performance and are very economical.