Dollar Store Hack: Combining Solar Lights
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video I'm taking apart some inexpensive solar garden lights from the dollar store and combining them to create a more powerful power source.
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I just found this in my feed, probably because i sub to a ton of tinkering channels lol. Anyway, I am obsessed with repurposing electronics like this so am glad to find another tinker dude. I appreciate the amount of time and effort to make these videos and notice its a few years old so my input may be completely obsolete but...
I think most viewers do not like the music bed in videos like this. We want to focus on the words and actions.
Secondly and more importantly we viewers need to see the circuit board when the maker is soldering or altering it at all. I understand that its a pain to make up a schematic (but we appreciate it when someone does!) but if there is at the very least a close up shot that we can pause on to make notes it is helpful.
I am experienced with electrical engineering so understood what you did but most of us are average folks who are using these to learn the ropes because they too want to tinker and need to actually see the work, at least after its soldered.
Once again, thank you for the video and it was very enjoyable!
Can't see how you bridged the motherboards😢 I need to see it up close
Here's an idea how about you take a bunch of those little solar lights to charge the batteries individual but hook all the batteries going out together to make one big gigantic solar light with a big panel that has lots of capacity
If you use a hair dryer heat gun with gentle heat the panel comes out with a simple push
+Dan Moore That’s a good suggestion!
any idea how to do this setup:
in my back yard i have around 20 small solar light ( like the 1$ ones u used ), they don't power up the same and always discharge quickly.
to fix this issue, i would like to get a bigger solar panel, with 1 big battery and connect all the 20 independent lights to the same 1 battery ( but have the solar panel give it an auto on and auto off ) so this way all the lights are all on and at the same intensity for the whole night.
This is helpful.... but you should make another video with close ups of exactly how you are wiring these with the circuit boards. I neeed to know exactly how to juice up my solar fairy houses using dollar tree lights. I want to be able to run atleast 30 small fairy lights together at once , but I want them bright and I want to minimize how many circut boards and batteries I have to hide in my houses. Please help a girl out. I need help
I have four old school strings of tiny lights that can change their patter of how the light blinks or colors and so on. I was hoping to find a video or help of how to toss the battery pack on them and hook them up to a solar garden light.
Same...
Solar table lamp . A little more work. I take two heads and fix them to a home made stand and apply two d cells in series. Then have a small solar pannel to charge the batteries.so letting it out . During the day gives 3 night of light.
Sounds like a great project! Good work!
What could you do with say... 25 of these?
Mother kept buying these for the yard but my blind brother kept stomping them and the plastic legs broke.
So now we got a lot of damaged ones but the solar panels (and bulbs) are intact.
could they all be wired onto one big panel and fill a bigger battery up?
Can you post a circuit diagram. I know it is simple but it helps. What i understood is that you connected all individual solar panels and circuit in series. Is it correct?
Sorry I don’t have a circuit diagram to share. But you are correct, they are connected in series. Just one series circuit through all the battery leads is sufficient, if you want it to work only in the darkness when all the switches are turned on.
I really like your information however the music is distracting and unnecessary and rather annoying. I hope you keep making videos and would be pleased to watch without music.
Thanks for watching and for the great feedback. I have stopped using music in my videos, you are right, it did not add any real value.
What gage of wire you use,thanks
I watched all that and then saw nothing running ...ugh.
Coletta Hughes Thanks for watching! Sorry to disappoint:) I hope you’ll check out a few more, they usually have a more satisfying conclusion.
What is the name of the tools your using and where can I get them ?
I thought of doing something like this, using three solar light panels together to make a 3 Volt cell phone charger. Could you make that work? Thanks! This looks so interesting, I subbed.
Thanks for watching. In order to charge a cell phone you need at least 5V, as most use USB to charge. Any less than that and no charging will take place. If you go over 5V, you will likely need a voltage regulator to prevent damage to the phone. And in the case of iPhones, they also need a few resistors connected properly so the phone will accept charge from it. While this all would work to charge a phone, there’s probably a commercially made solar USB charger that is more cost and time effective.
You need way more solar panels for current
How do I make this kind of tiny circular battery work. My dollarrama solar lights not working please help and post a video for fixing solar lights of this design
Thanks for watching and inquiring. Unfortunately, I am very busy with a lot of other projects at the moment and cannot give this particular one any time. I hope you’ll be able to figure out what you need, or are able to replace the lights that aren’t working with new ones.
What's that green board called?
It’s an Olfa self healing mat.
Please focus your camera closer to the subject for us newbies
M. Sandra Dhee thank you for watching and for the feedback. I have been trying to get a little closer on my newer videos:)
What gauge wire did you use?
+swooosh83 I used 20 gauge wire. Thanks for checking out the video!
I've found a detailed and accurate project on the Avasva .
wish i could of seen the wiring better :( great video though thanks for trying )
Thanks for watching and for the feedback. There is a lot of learning that goes into making videos. I keep trying to learn and grow!
I made one of these wired in series with two small solar panels from Christmas lights my mom threw away it's summed up to 5 volts in full light then put it on my roof it charge some 1.2v batteries with a charging circuit Now it inexplicably only makes volt one 🤦♂️🤷♂️ 😥
Could just be a panel failure. The little solar panels from dollar store or holiday lights aren’t great quality, and it’s possible one or both just stopped working. Especially if they got wet in the rain. Test each panel individually, see if that makes sense. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Re: Removing the solar panel from the cap. I just watch someone's clip & he removed the solar panel by holding it slose to a hot lamp lightbulb. The hot bulb softened the glue holding it on & he just gave it a slite push & out it came. No cutting of plastic.
That could definitely work, or a hair dryer or heat gun. I just chose the brute force method:) Thanks for the comment!
Oh I found you
Dude you’re so far away from the camera and so sped up, I can’t follow what you’re doing
Thanks for the feedback! That’s an older video, I think the newer ones are better.