Help finding a 120v led

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I am making a lamp from wood and resin and want to put a light inside to shine through the resin. I can’t seem to find a 200 ish lumen led with a rocker switch I can mount on the outside of the lamp so they can turn it off and on. Does anyone know where I should look for something like this? I would prefer somewhere in the states as I don’t have a month to wait for it. TIA, Tim

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Wellp, you can gut a LED version of a “40W” appliance bulb for the innards, and use one of those inline switches to splice into the power cord.

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Thanks Lightbringer,I didn’t know you could take them apart and they would still work.

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Thanks Robin,I found a lamp socket with 2 circuits and that will solve the switch part but you brought up something I didn’t think about, heat. It is an inclosed space and it will double as a hidden stash place. That’s why I didn’t want to go with a bulb but it looks like it will be the easiest. I see on Amazon they have a .5 amp 50 lumen. I will get one of them and see how much heat it produces. Thanks for the info and heads-up about the heat.

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Yeh, just gotta be verrrrrrrry careful.

Some might have discrete chips on a framework, others a COB-on-a-slab, you can hunt around and look through the “bulb” to see which kind it has.

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Thanks

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200 lumen should be the equvalent of a 25-watt candelabra bulb (looks like something that goes in a chandelier) You should be able to find them pretty much anywhere if you dont like those…

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[quote=timo5150]
Thanks Lightbringer,I didn’t know you could take them apart and they would still work.[/quotte]

they will but they can be hazardous

for instance it may be that all metal exposed after disassembling, is live with 120VAC

you will also have to be sure it does not get too hot

heat sink fins will still have to be exposed

and it will not be waterproof unless you make it be