This is a spontaneous modification I did to a GU10 lamp to see how the removal of the lenses to expose the bare LEDs would affect the way it lit my DIY LED glitter lamps.
The lenses and front plate are normally used to clamp the LED panel against the heatsink in these lights, so I used a silicone sealant to bond them to the heatsink instead.
The result is good. Instead of a pattern of lenses being reflected by the glitter, it creates a mass of very sharp points of light instead.
I also made two variants by retrofitting one lamp with two blue and one green LED, and another lamp with two yellow and one red LED. This gives a mixture of colours being reflected by the glitter.
The lenses and front plate are normally used to clamp the LED panel against the heatsink in these lights, so I used a silicone sealant to bond them to the heatsink instead.
The result is good. Instead of a pattern of lenses being reflected by the glitter, it creates a mass of very sharp points of light instead.
I also made two variants by retrofitting one lamp with two blue and one green LED, and another lamp with two yellow and one red LED. This gives a mixture of colours being reflected by the glitter.
There are actually some power supplies being sold on ebay for lighting that do seem to make an effort to comply with safety standards. I did a review of some of them. They are typically 12W 1A or 18W 1.5A and in inline white plastic cases.
Wow you are really on a roll this week, 20 videos in 4 days! Great stuff! I went out to poundland and brought some of the GU10 LED lights, Do you know what DC voltage the AC-DC power supply puts out?
the accelerator is just H2O . 😛
learned that just a few weeks ago.
Did you buy everything you own at Pound-Land? 😀
that glue stuff also known as mitre mate qnb sell it about £9.99 i think
Going even more pointy, 1W laser diodes are not that expensive on ebay, and some of them might even be compatible voltage-wise. LPC826 on ebay for example. This is a red LED that projects a narrow fan of laser light, that would be quite compatible with a glitter lamp.
Or blue from about 10 quid for 1W. As long as the user can't stare into the laser emission spot, they should be quite safe. (provided of course the beam does properly internally refract) Without a lens, it spreads rapidly to non-hazerdous levels.
Very neat!
The shimmering on the wall reminds me of the effects they used on Star Trek TNG for a lot of the "shimmery thingies", from the transporter beam to shields being bombarded with stuff, very different to the alka-seltzer in a stirred-up fish tank like in TOS for their transporter beam effect… 😛