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€1.50 LED downlighter hack

  • 25-05-2016 7:00pm
    #1
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭


    So, in the Euro shop today looking for a USB lead, saw these 30 LED MR16 downlighers for €1.50, they're for low voltage household lights, 12V.

    20160525_170156.jpg

    "Wow €1.50" is right!

    Idea.


    Smashy smashy
    20160525_170810.jpg

    Board free of the casing
    20160525_170703.jpg

    hacked out innards of boot light
    20160525_171219.jpg

    Some hot glue later
    Boom!
    20160525_183826.jpg

    The pins of the old housing fit exactly into the plug on the loom.


Comments

  • #2
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I picked up a retrofit one for my Fiat a while back directly from them. Much better and I can actually see inside the car at night!

    71806070_01.jpg


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    not nearly hokey enough for me ^


  • #4
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Nah, but might give others ideas on how to do the main interior light. I've been meaning to sort my boot light. Would get more light out of a match. Any final pic of the inside of yours?


  • #5
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I only did it just there so I'll see what its like in the dark.


  • #6
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Had a look there. Unreal light! Crappy phone camera isn't really picking it up so you'll have to take my word for it :)


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  • #7
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    I like a nice dim festoon. More romantic.


  • #8
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭job seeker


    That's pretty cool.. Fair play Colm.


  • #9
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    Interslice wrote: »
    I like a nice dim festoon. More romantic.

    we're still backing candles down here


  • #10
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,658 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Dord wrote: »
    I picked up a retrofit one for my Fiat a while back directly from them. Much better and I can actually see inside the car at night!

    71806070_01.jpg

    Where did you get that from? I took apart one of the front LED spotlights you can get in Halfords and pretty much wound the cables onto the bulb points! That one looks a lot nicer! (and less duct-tapey!)


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