TheLEDLight.com - Technical Data

Everything made with LEDs. Find everything from loose leds and led drivers to finished LED fixtures, LED Light Bulbs, LED Landscape Lighting, RGB Color Changing LED Lights, etc.

Links to technical data, text and schematics for the beginner and the experienced LED user. These links will help you determine what to purchase, how to work with the LED products, where are some of the resources, and to provide as much in depth technical knowledge as we can to those who require more than a passing knowledge of LEDs

TheLEDLight.com - Technical Data

This 17 watt driver provides a constant 700mA output for operating 6, 8, 10 or 12 1-watt Luxeons connected in series-parallel with two parallel legs. It also operates any 6-up or 12-up Luxeon line or ring. Further, it operates 1,2 or 3 5-watt Luxeons connected in series.

StarOptics Xitanium LED Driver LED120A0700C24F

Xitanium LED Drivers

LEDtronics - LED bulbs and LED lamps

Suppliers of innovative LED lamps, clusters and arrays. LED bulbs, Panel mount LED lamps, high intensity sunlight visible discrete LED's, PCB mount LED indicators, SMT LED's, full spectrum RGB LED's or UV and Infrared LED's.

LEDtronics - LED bulbs and LED lamps

LED Tube Light, Double Power - UL-Listed, 6" to 6FT Long, Clear & Frosted

Energy-Efficient, Incandescent or Fluorescent Replacement. Ideal for use with Alternate and Renewable Energy resources like Solar Power & Wind Power.

Radio Electronics Projects - Hans Summers G0UPL

"I am not a professional electronics engineer, nor do I have an electronics degree. I make no claims for technical accuracy, good design, or necessarily even originality for the contents of these pages.

Rather, I am a simple enthusiast attempting to convey my love and enjoyment of radio, electronics, laptops and computing and perhaps to inspire YOU to build something too."

Radio Electronics Projects - Hans Summers G0UPL

This ultra-low power QRSS beacon was designed to be as efficient as possible, and produce a milliwatt or few from low voltage, low current supply. My intention was to investigate the use of natural power sources to operate the beacon.

Steve G0XAR visited the G0UPL shack and took some photos of proceedings. Combined with a sneakily obtained photo of G0UPL sleeping somewhere in Texas en-route to Ozarkcon 2007, G0XAR produced this very nice QSL card suggestion!

Low power QRSS beacon - Hans Summers G0UPL

BEAM Robotics - Simple Nature Inspired Bots

BEAM is an acronym standing for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics. While BEAM robots are often simple (consisting of a solar cell , motor, 2 transistors , and capacitor ), robots as complicated as 8-jointed, 4-legged walking spiders have been built using the principles of BEAM.

Solarbotics.net - BEAM Reference Library

The BEAMAnt is a phototactic bot which has potentially complex behavior depending on the light level. It has two photodiodes for light sensing, and two antennae which switch the motors into reverse when they touch something.

Mechanisms and principles

The basic BEAM principles focus on a stimulus-response based ability within a machine. The underlying mechanism was invented by Mark W. Tilden where the circuit (or a Nv net of Nv neurons) is used to simulate biological neuron behaviours. Some similar research was previously done by Ed Rietman in 'Experiments In Artificial Neural Networks'. Tilden's circuit is often compared to a shift register, but with several important features making it a useful circuit in a mobile robot.

BEAM robotics - Wikipedia

Solarbotics offers robot kits, solar-powered robots, books, electronic components, motors, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics. Solarbotics Ltd.

TomboT - and the home of Liverpool Universities BEAM robotics

Myself and some friends demonstrated to the University how simple robots can be built which provide an excellent learning platform, and as a result the University have changed the way they utilise their Year 1 lab sessions to include our robots. - Tom Elner

One more nice site BEAM Robots and also BEAM Online.

FLAKElabs - Learning Electronics with Fun

Hobby Experiments, Arduino, Code for uC. Robotics. Current ideas on Electronics for Young Minds

FLAKElabs - Learning Electronics with Fun

Interface - @FLAKElabs

Renewable Energy -Solar Electronics

Wide range of up to date information about alternative energy generation. Our main focus is on wind power and solar power for the home, but you will also find details on topics as varied as electronics and biodiesel recipes.

Renewable Energy -Solar Electronics


Make a simple solar charger for 4 AA rechargeable batteries. In this article you will find out how to make a very simple solar battery charger for 4 AA rechargeable batteries using a small 6 Volt solar panel. A labelled photograph of the completed charger is provided at the end of the article.

Basic 4 AA Solar Battery Charger Plans

My Notes-

Here are very useful ideas on solar energy and frugal lighting techniques. Solar Energy goes with Frugal Designs and things like UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply and High Efficiency Circuits. Green and Small Carbon Footprint all finally means how Energy Efficient is our Lifestyle and Preserving the Planet the way we found it, without leaving any scars.

LED Lamp – Simple Bed-Lamp Circuit

LED Night lamp, Clock Lamp to see time at night. It is a Green Lamp just 50mA, but its Blue in Color.

From Schoodles

This can be a first LED Lighting project anybody can do. Just twist wire, use insulation tape. Get a Nice Mains adapter that will provide 6V DC. 5V also will do. A prior Knowledge of Ohm's law is essential.

LED Flashlight made out of a China Lamp

LED Flashlight made out of a China Lamp that was busted on a High voltage surge during a Thunderstorm.

From Schoodles

I got many LED lamps, mainly from china. The Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creative and Adventurous. There is a problem though, the quality, reliability and safety factors are not so good. These are so for even branded china products. That is offset by a affordable price.

Then China is going thru the learning curve like Korea and Tawian. Now Taiwan makes world class products.

From Hobby Hound - DIY Electronics