LED lamps with own hands

Theoretically, creating LED lamps with their own hands is not difficult, only a power supply with the appropriate output voltage and LEDs are needed. In practice, everything is somewhat more complicated.

It's quite easy to make LED lamps with your own hands for spotlighting the workplace or for desktop lighting. Independently to collect LED street lighting lamps, that is, in general, this is a more serious task. Street lighting should create a luminous flux of at least 1000 lumens, which will correspond to the equivalent of lighting a 100-watt incandescent lamp. At the same time, for a table lamp, there are enough 200 lumens of the luminous flux level.

To create an outdoor lamp, it is worth choosing LEDs of later designs that are easy to install, although not as effective as modern ones. Installation of LEDs should be done according to a pre-drawn scheme, which geometrically can be similar to a star or a square. This will solve the issue of thermal cooling of LEDs, evenly placing them on the board. Do not increase the supply current to increase their luminous flux. It is necessary to adhere to the operating mode, which is specified in the reference data for each particular type of such lamps.

LEDs such as MX-6 and XP-E are designed for direct current in the range of 300-350 mA, and therefore, the connection scheme must be calculated based on these indicators. By designing LED lamps with your own hands, you need to adhere to the established voltage and current indicators to get outdoor LED lamps with high reliability and safety. To increase the area of thermal scattering of the LED street lamp, an additional heat sink is installed on the assembled LED module module, which makes it possible to use several such modules operating in an economical mode in one housing of the illuminator.

Now, as for the power source. For an ordinary LED desk light , an adapter can be used, in which the output is regulated by a diode, and the output current is set by a resistor. For a more serious lighting fixture, such a power supply is not suitable, since during operation the diode heats up and changes its characteristics, which can lead to the failure of the entire fixture.

LED lamps with their own hands are good enough to calculate the power consumption and use as many LEDs as there is an appropriate adapter with stabilization of the output current. For example, for a module of 3 LEDs, a 5 watt adapter, such as LC3536-08, is sufficient.

For spotlighting the desktop in the LED light source, lenses can be built in, which will focus the light flux at a predetermined point, for example, such as LL01CR-DF60L-M2.

As you can see, LEDs can be used to "sculpt" light structures and successfully use them for lighting in the house and on the street.