I am unsure if there is such an tradition in other country’s but here in Germany we usually have a lantern parade for St. martins day. Children handcraft all kinds of lanterns, the lantern is carried with a stick and in the lantern there is either a candle or a bulb/led.
This is the kind of stick people can buy here for a few dollar:
And after seeing the standard stick I am sure we all have in common that this is a nogo in 2016.
I thought about using a carbon shaft glued in the head of a tube light, then I would have battery, switch and driver in place. Wiring through the carbon tube to a light engine and a hook to fasten the lantern…
The #1 question is how to make the light engine?
Last year I improvised this led-bulb for an old lantern stick which had space for a 18650.(sorry for the ugly photo)
It were three hicri nichia 119 and a couple of 7135. And a diffuser made of a plastic cap from something in the bathroom…
I have thought about a flashlight head with such a silicone diffuser, are there convoy/BLF a6/ astrolux heads available? or do I have to butcher two flashlights?
is driver software?
I have in mind: no memory, always start in high and a continuous turbo timer which regulates to maybe 50% in a couple of minutes. I wasn’t here for a longer time so a hint where to find the best firmware for a nanjg and maybe some additional things I might have overseen would be nice. I am unsure depending on battery and cable resistance it might be a bit to bright/hot so maybe I have to hardcode a damper with the PWM duty cycle maxing out at 50%,but a show off mode would of course be cool.
Seriously, I would try something completely different. You can get in many budget stores cheap AA powered decoration lights in RGB colours that blink and flash. You can get one of those for like 5 or 10 Euro. If you put one of those in a relatively whitish lantern you would get these cool colourful effects. I’d say it’s cooler than just to have more power… Kids like flashy colourful stuff… No?
I was thinking the same thing. Hie thyself to Amazon and look up “rgb blinky led”. Each one can run off a coin-cell, blinks all combinations of r/g/b fast then slow then back again, cycling through the color-combinations. A Li cell and 100Ω resistor will keep it blinking for days…
You can get like a pack of 50 for 10bux, something obscenely cheap like that.
You can also get RGB led’s like that in keychain lights. I think I got my ten pack from gearbest. I see no use for it other than grabbing attention, but it was only a few dollars.
