Inside a rechargeable 8-filament camping/fishing light

A rather stylish little light with eight LED filaments and a spotlight beam. It looks good when lit, although it does drive the LEDs quite hard (600mA at full power).

The manufacturing process must be very time consuming, as the LED filaments are linked together with a loop of wire at one end, and manually soldered to it.

The vicinity of the filament connections to the chrome plating is a bit squirmy, and the internal lithium cell has connections directly soldered to it's ends and they are shoved down inside the tube in the vicinity of soldered connections. When I reassembled this I put insulating pads on both ends of the cell.

The lithium cell is a 14500 sized cell (14mm diameter by 50mm long) and although it's marked as being 500mAh, a test showed a capacity of 317mAh. Maybe a candidate for a salvaged vape cell?

If you wish, you could change the two 1.5 ohm resistors for higher value ones (3.3 ohm?) to tame the current through the LEDs and get a much longer run time.

If you like the style of the light then here's a link to the item on AliExpress (not a sponsor).
This is an affiliate link, but that will not affect the price you pay.
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c31X2Ob7
If shopping around, be aware that there are versions with just four of the eight filaments fitted.



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