Orion
February 3, 2013, 11:18pm
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Scaru, you may want to approach our young handyman Diyau from down under who made a DIY Wooden LED Torch Build and looking forward to a heatsink challenge cos he has a lathe:
After a lot of friends, family and people in general had showed a lot of interest in my DIY torch PROTOTYPE that I built throughout the year, I figured I might as well make a thread about it. Maybe I’ll inspire some of you guys to come up with something creative or unique! It’s basically a homemade torch that uses a 10mm 1W LED and runs off 3x AAA batteries housed inside a wooden body.
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Some details & technical specs of the torch
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|LED Type|10mm 1W White LED drive…
OR Bob-Ninja another modder just up north from you who is looking to add a heat sink component in his :
I read a heated discussion recently about LED vs CFL bulbs
I commented myself about the fact that circuit fails long before the actual LED.
Also I got a lot of great help recently here for my next build.
So I decided to share my experiment.
I used a LED bulb for about 2 yrs in a street light. Daylight sensor failed so it was always on. That is about 730 x 24 = about 18K hours. Since the claimed life is 50K to 100K hours and LEDs were still working fine I felt it would be a waste to throw the…