DIY: Illuminated House Number Powered By Solar Panels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2016
- In this video I made illuminated house number powered by solar panels. Used solar garden lights and 8mm acrylic plate.
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I just watched another DIY video and would like to add a very important bit I just realized. You don´t use background music - THANK YOU SOO MUCH!
I think a bit of background music is nice is DIY videos.
When talking. No need music.
It's nice without background music. I can't stand TH-cam videos with background music. If I want to be listening to music I wouldn't be watching a how to video.
That solar panel looks like it would be strong enough to run the whole house for years to come!
Really liking your builds. They are all super simple and effective.
One possible way to improve this project quite a bit would be to add any kind of reflective material to all of the edges (or just the bottom and top edges). You could also use mirrors with the right size. This keeps more light inside the acrylic and improves the lighting of the numbers.
You could also swap out the AAA battery for a much higher capacity AA 1.2 V rechargeable cell for longer on-time.
Very nice video, I would like to hear from you what you think about my ideas and maybe see an upgrade video if you want! Keep up the good work. :)
Manuauto
Thought the same thing
Thanks for the tips!
I would put multi batterys in a sled in parell to add capasity especialy with all them cells
You take 6 put and put 1 back in, but still use 6 leds more batteries brighter it will be
You could enhance the light output of the LEDs with this addition:
Place polished metal around the 3 (three) sides to reflect the light inward.
This is how you make yourself look rich
I like it
Great video again, you have a perfect balance of talking about, and showing what you do. Some people talks to much or to less and some are trying too hard to make jokes but you keep it going at perfect pace and with positive attitude and are easy to understand. Also the sped up videoclips are just right. I'm rambling about your performance because I work partly with IT education and I am nerdly interested in presentation as much as the projects,
Good on you mate!
I enjoyed your video. It was very helpful. Thank you!
simple but great effect!! Great project!
I think you meant to say simple
Very good workmanship!
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Very good - thanks for the video.
I like and added this as my favorite .
great video and project!
Very well done!
Excellent video, excellent project
Wow! Love it!
Make it brighter by adding extra batteries but this is an amazing idea
too cool Mr.
Thank You
super, cool idea and very nice job 👍
Looks awesome
wonderful work clever idea thanks 4 U
Wow, really professional 👍🏻
Good work mate, very good work.
I am going to make one
Nice project
Thank you for sharing....
Just great!
very good .Not much time or money . Thanks for the information.
that is so nice 👍🏼
Great idea
Awesome DIY... Subbed :)
cool!!!! nice job
Very nice job, especially with the LED wiring, but you might need a stronger power supply.
nice job it looks good! 😉except it will need more than one battery
Very nice! If you embed the LEDs in clear epoxy, I believe it will help to transmit more light into the sign.
very good video
Really clever😁
Very good
If u drill the number more deep it will more bright
How does the acrylic stand up to typical weather (rain, sun, wind)? Does anyone know? I'd love to do this with our street number but I've never worked with acrylic sheets and I want to be sure it will survive longer than a year. :)
Could you remove the strip of light around the edges, by applying mirror tape to reflect the light escaping from the sign back into the sign. Real Nice Effect.
nice video
I'm making this. Going to use frost spray instead of etching and see how that works. It seems like less hassle for what I assume will be similar enough result.
just a question, what gauge of wire are you using and type of soldering wirer , please let me know thank you
Great job but in a heavy rain, I do not know maybe you will have problems with the panels
heeeyyy thats my house number.... I've never seen you around here :D
If you add some reflective ducktape at the bottom of the acrylic glas you can nearly double the brightness and there is no light at the ground under the number.
the reflective part isn't on the sticky side though
Bring more solar panel based projects
can you please tell me which software do you use to make your videos?
Vary good
Shouts out to everyone who has a lazer cutter/engraver just laying around. I really want to do it but the engraving is long i have a plunge router but i dont think it will come out as nice.
Imagine the efficiency if he put mirrors instead of letting the light leak at the bottom
Great video. But I dont have YX8018.
Could also use a chemical etching to do the numbers on glass
Day mode?
Bottom add mirror, Then make more light on sign. And need laser cut deper sign, wel be better visible.
One problem, if your house have white wall, the number is hard to see during daylight and can really become troublesome for delivery guy.
Also use clear fingernail polish inside the drilled hole to help get more light "into" the plexiglass (to cut down on diffusion before you want it)
Hello,
Nice video, but please tell me if I want to put a SMD LED (for stronger light) instead of the simple LED you have used, what changes should I make to the circuit. I mean will the QX5252 chip work with one (or several in paralel) 5730 SMD led powered by a 3.7v 4000mAh 18650 Li-Ion battery? (with more solar cells to recharge)
I am waiting for your answer.
Thanks
Let me know if you have got answer. interesting for me also
Instead of using six solar garden lights you could use a string of solar fairy lights.
This is great! What if we use a Joule Thief here ?
For driving these little LEDs, I think it would be more of an overkill to use any kind of voltage amplification.
a way to improve is to use higher brighness led and uss different solar panel
Standard YX8018 and 220 uH inductor gives about 18mA of current no matter what (that will be also 18mA for all 6 diodes). Just do 2 (39mA) or 3 (60mA) of inductors (220 uH) in parallel and you will get more light, but the time of working will decrease 2 or 3 times then. You can also use 0,5 or 1W solar panel - 5,5V for one eneloop AAA and it will work fine (more current with lower voltage - about 80mA in full sun). I tested it. Thoose lights are working with 60mA of current for 10 hours (eneloop is 800mAh), so it will be ok for 13 hours.
Thanks a lot for your comment. This is actually what I was searching for.
Can YX8018 handle 5.5V solar panel?
@@Electrologia I am using YX8018 with 5,5V solar panel 60 mA, 750 mAh battery (1,2V) for about 5 years. Still working. I am thinking that maybe YX8018 is not able to take 5,5V in - ok can work day or 2 if battery contact fail, but battery resistance decrease the voltage during charge from 5,5V solar to Ni-MH battery current voltage (during charge changing) + diode decrese voltage (so about 1,8V during almost full charge). I noticed YX8018 is able to break - solar panel input pin failure resulting no light up LED. It took place in 2V solar panels and 5,5V solar panels. I am using QX5252F because of a lot lower number of failures, good work with 5,5 V solar panels ( up to 1W or 220 mA), but also with high current output - from 1 mA to 250 mA (average). More eficcient is using 2,4-2,7V solar panels because in same area you can get higher current. Also MPP is closer to working point. But 5,5V solar panels can do great work during cloudy days too.
@@mati211p Thank you very much for explanation.
May I ask for the second solution for my problem? I have some LEDs in series connection. and I do not know which Amp should be okay for them.
If 1 LED needs 20mA then how should I calculate for 2 or more LEDs?
@@Electrologia Depending on connection. In series connection current is same for all LEDs and flow trough all LEDS, only voltage increases. In solar lights (1,2V or 3,6-3,7V applications) LEDs are in parallel connection, so double/tripple current but same voltage. In parallel connection you increasing current, in series - not because it will result damaging LEDs. If you connect in parallel connection two or more LEDs with different characteristic, you can also get damage of LEDs. Solar ICs like YX8018 will not work if you connect 2 LEDs in series as output.
@@mati211p thank you for your help. everything is clear now :) Gonna try to make a small project. have a nice weekend.
You should have put some aluminium foil or reflective tape on the sides for more brightness.
Count dracula makes house sign
You should have waterproofed the one with the battery and circuitry with something like nail varnish.
hi what is the printer name n model... tq
if paint thebottom with mirror paint the light reflects better
Andddd, nobody said though, LEDs are NOT devices to be connected in parallel. They MUST be current controlled, hence they need to be connected in series setup. If you connect several leds in parallel, the one with lower forward voltage will get most of the current, that leads to overheat that leads to lower drop voltage that leads to more current... towards destruction, led by led...
LEDs may be controlled by a constant voltage source or a constant current source. As for series connected, you must know that if you lose one, you lose them all.
Viskas paprasta ir aišku, o lazerinis CNC- iš vis gėris! :) Klausimas: kokios galios pats lazeriukas?
I did something similar with Avasva solutions.
Paint the bottom of that plate and thats will give you much more visibility to your number....;-)
Would this set up work powering 5m of LED strip?
darren shelly you'd need a lot more solar panels
andrew kb hi any idea how many cant find any info anywhere?
chingon
With plans from Avasva you can make it really easy.
the number need more bright, how if more deep on scratch it
Can u make one solar number plate for me?
the plexi glass and strip led band is more simple and better...
My solar light isn’t a aaa battery. It is some special 2.1vdc odd ball rechargeable battery in socket.
nice job but lumière un peut faible
Linkėjimai ;)
kestasn Are you from Latvia or Lithuania?
I am from Lithuania
kestasn I knew that I've seen this coat of arms before... I'm from Estonia / Germany and speak both languages and visit Estonia quite often since I live in Germany.
Cheers, Baltic Brother :)
kestasn We might be few, but we will hold together and if necessary fight together to defend our freedom! :D
4:24 i shut that DIY vid....
Ofc everyone has this laser thingi....
Atze Fatze same here 😂😂
You can do this with simple rotary tool or sand paper and cardboard form. Use your head and utilize tools you have to achieve same result. If people would have laser engravers, then they would bitch how they dont have file to do the numbers... yes humans are fucking idiots i know..
Just use a u profile and put a led stip in is more simple and works better
LED strip would have required more voltage; I think he wanted the whole thing to run from 1.2 V.
1.2v per LED, and there are 6 of them so he really was using 7.2v. In reality white LED's need about 3 volts to achieve optimal brightness. a 5v led strip would have been more effective in this situation, along with a standalone solar panel and 4 rechargeable AA batteries.
Zac, If you actually watched the video, the panels and the LEDs were both connected in parallel. This increases the current (source/draw) without changing the voltage. The YX8018 chip in the controller is a voltage boost chip so that it produces roughly 3V from the battery 1.25V.
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Can i borriw someone's lazer engraving machine
I know led don't use that much power but 5-6 LEDs only one battery! how is that???
HennessyLane1 there are different ways of connceting them so they draw different voltages and they only use a tiny amount of current
alexander troyak thanks I'll look into it a little more
You should have used more batteries if you added that many solar panels...
all 4 sides edge should be illuminated
DIY Illuminate House Numbers Solar LED
looks cool, but who needs to read your house number at night?
my part-time job is to deliver pizza and i work at night a lot and its a pain in the ass to find the house number at night... this would be great if everybody had it
Hardly anyone, just firefighters and ambulance drivers.
Ricardo Pinho You get it. The average house is hard, if not impossible to see the house number at night. It is either obscured or not lit up well enough to see from the road easily.
Barca - PSG confirmed.
I made it with Avasva solutions.
Light is too dim. Not enough LEDs.
Umm wtf? 6 cells, 6 leds, one board and one battery? Its not the energy production, but the energy storage that sucks in those lamps.. i replaced 600mAh battery with proper quality 800mAh and that alone did big difference on the burn time. In this build you can charge roughly hundred time over that one batterys capacity, even in bad day. Put 6 batteries on one cell and you would charge that fully in good day, as it wont use all energy until sun comes up..
Hellsong89 i put two 600 in parallel to get a 1200mah source
why not use a 18650 or 3 AAA
How should he have used three batteries? Series or parallel connections?
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Really enjoy it. Let's check Avasva plans also
You have one solar roof panel, few hundred more and, get out the way Elon musk
Акцент русский... )))
another way to improve this project quite a bit would be to cover the solar panels with tape and spray with plasti dip to waterproof it.
Sam no need bc this cant get dameged