Poundland has introduced some rather attractive crackled glass solar lights. So here's a look at one and how to modify it with a more appropriate warm white LED.
One moment please…
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
7 years later, most of them are cheaper and shitter.
It kind of looks like they lightly glue some plastic kitchen foil stuff (Saran wrap for the yanks here) on the painted glass, then smash it, and in a controlled way stretch the foil. The spacing and matching-ness of the pieces is too even to be manual piece by piece placement.
would you feel better to know the sweatshop workers could quite easily have been hapless lags currently serving at Her Majesty's free homing for criminals?
Economy of scale. Small, cool white LEDs are more versatile and manufactured in higher quantities thus are cheaper, that's why most products have white LEDs and why cheaper flashlights have multiple small LEDs instead of one more powerful LED.
Is their anyway to improve the solar cell as mine only work for a short time each night, thinking that the batteries are not getting a good enough charge
"Lead based solder of course! Because lead based solder is the best solder!" I had to share that! 😀 I can't stand anything else!
Better having a job shoving broken glass to ornaments than having to do actually nasty things (often to others) in order to make a living. It's a job they choose to do over the alternatives, after all.
Could you put AAA battery in them? 1.5v?
Your garden must look spectacular at night. We're waiting for a video tour 😉
Oh man Sub earned due to you using the term "Sweat Shopy" correctly in a video!
Dollar Tree is the Pound Land equivalent here in the states and I buy ALL the solar lights at my local store when I go up there for the purpose of re-purposing them. So far I have built several 12v battery trickle chargers and a couple of solar mobile device chargers from the solar cells, cheap picture frames, some hot glue, solder and some regulating circuits..
The LEDs from these are useful for joule thief type projects, Really useful here in the southern USA when we have shit weather and the power goes out.
Really liked those LED's, do you have supplier info or part number?
bigclivedotcom That's a really nice effect with the warm white LEDs. To be honest though I have steered away from solar garden lights because the ones I've seen look incredibly dim (when lit at night).
I bet your garden looks like a landing pad for UFOs. 8)
just wondering, would the solar cell be strong enough to handle a bigger battery so it can just run all night without dimming?