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Lighting solutions for camper equipment
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: patrickl on February 02, 2008, 07:23:18 pm ---That's going to take a lot of work if you want to light a camper with that :P
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It's a start. I've been doing this for...oh, about two minutes. I need to get my feet wet.
I put the joule thief into my PC after mounting it to a PC board. I now have a blue HD indicator. Neat.
Of course, it would have been easier to get a 2V blue LED - if they make them. But I learned a lot from this.
NiN^_^NiN:
Well a cheaper and easier way is to get one of them 12v 12w car solar chargers for $20 and a $10 car battery jumper (the case that has a internal battery to allow u to jumpstart ur car also has a cigg lighter socket)
It would take 4 hours in direct sunlight to fully power up the battery and would run led lighting all night
I have done this as home and the battery last for 1hr running a ps2 playing GTA VC using a 12v to 240v inverter so this is a cheap and inexpensive way to do lighting and u can also run other things from the portable car battery.
This is the portable battery im talking about
I've got the smallest one that does 300amp jumpstart so that might be an option as the solar car charger panels are usually cheaper as they aren't expected to be used outside of the car enviroment
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Peale on February 02, 2008, 09:10:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on February 02, 2008, 07:23:18 pm ---That's going to take a lot of work if you want to light a camper with that :P
--- End quote ---
It's a start. I've been doing this for...oh, about two minutes. I need to get my feet wet.
I put the joule thief into my PC after mounting it to a PC board. I now have a blue HD indicator. Neat.
Of course, it would have been easier to get a 2V blue LED - if they make them. But I learned a lot from this.
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Lol, yeah. I was thinking about lighting the ceiling or floor of my (coming) game room with colored leds. So I'm watching your thread hoping to pick up some pointers :P
DrewKaree:
Peale, this won't necessarily help you with your lighting issue, but it'll give you a buttload of reading and fun dreaming about what you can do:
http://www.mikenchell.com/forums/index.php?sid=1cde6de0fb46608113628681fba7e011
IIRC, somebody there has/had a solar setup where they pull the panel out of the trailer when they set up camp, and they could darn near run everything AND charge the battery for some nightime reading or television watching.
I got a trailer last year that I was planning on using - an old pop-up. The pictures looked stellar, but when I went to pick it up, it turned out that the pictures were about eleventy brazillion years old, and it was now a beat-up steaming pile of crap. The wife wants to attempt to strip it down to the frame and build a teardrop, and I've got a friend who actively wants to help me do it in HIS garage as "practice" (and an IOU from me to help HIM) in case he thinks he can do this as well, in which case we do the same for him.
My interest is in 4-season camping, so I'm more concerned with stuff that solar won't handle, such as the heating unit, but those folks at that link above are WAAAAAY helpful and would enjoy some of your stories about your attempts.
For a look at just how cool some of these can be, hunt around for Rob's 6x9 with a tub in it!
SirPeale:
Thanks, Drew. I'll check it out in a bit.
I went to Wal-Mart earlier, and found a battery powered florescent light. I'm curious how it works, so I'm going to pull it apart later and see how it pulls up the current enough to light a florescent bulb.
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