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Customising a cheap disco light with complete new circuitry.

bigclivedotcom 22:05

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Inspired by a friend's image of sunlight streaming through a simple stained glass window in an Indian church, I decided to get a cheap LED moonlight from eBay and modify it to achieve a similar effect. A static pattern of coloured patches of light projected down onto a floor (or wall).
The design involved stripping out all the original circuitry in the disco light and replacing it with a single panel that combines the new LED array and the full power supply. It literally just needs two mains connections attached. I used a full 8x8 grid of LEDs to test the focussed area.
Future thoughts might be an actual window shape and maybe a version with diffused self colour changing LEDs. The diffused LEDs will be a fraction of the intensity of the focussed LEDs, but will still be visible in a dark room as an array of soft colour changing circles. Focussed colour changing LEDs may not work due to the non-central positioning of the three chips. Flashing type LEDs can't be used in a series array like this.
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