Hi,
After being sick of getting burnt off the halogen light, I made up a light a few weeks back and thought someone might be interested.
I made a couple of bases out of steel and just welded them together from the inside to give a neat look on the outside. They are basically copied off the commercial available ones. It has the cotter pin design to stop it swinging freely just like them as well
The arms are just aluminium square tube I had laying around (an old aerial), and the end fittings where just scrap I made up and welded together to suit, with a hole down the centre for the wires.
All the joints are friction with a nylock nut and a spring washers used to help out with pressure, and I put a switch in the base to turn it on and off.
The light my son gave to me and it's a LED multi voltage DC work light, I think I remember him saying it was 900 lumimum's. The voltage can range from around 9v to 90v and only needs around 0.5 of a amp to run it. The best thing over the halogen is this one only gets just warm, not hot.
Dave
After being sick of getting burnt off the halogen light, I made up a light a few weeks back and thought someone might be interested.
I made a couple of bases out of steel and just welded them together from the inside to give a neat look on the outside. They are basically copied off the commercial available ones. It has the cotter pin design to stop it swinging freely just like them as well
The arms are just aluminium square tube I had laying around (an old aerial), and the end fittings where just scrap I made up and welded together to suit, with a hole down the centre for the wires.
All the joints are friction with a nylock nut and a spring washers used to help out with pressure, and I put a switch in the base to turn it on and off.
The light my son gave to me and it's a LED multi voltage DC work light, I think I remember him saying it was 900 lumimum's. The voltage can range from around 9v to 90v and only needs around 0.5 of a amp to run it. The best thing over the halogen is this one only gets just warm, not hot.
Dave