{"id":3142,"date":"2012-06-15T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:38:22","slug":"2012-06-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3142","title":{"rendered":"2012-06-15 8 LED Altoids Tin Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3657\" title=\"LED8Altoids2649s\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LED8Altoids2649s-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LED8Altoids2649s-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LED8Altoids2649s.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I managed to squeeze 8 LEDs into holes on the end of the Altoids tin.\u00a0 The brightness is truly awesome.\u00a0 With that much battery current, I could have reduced the 33 ohm resistors a bit.\u00a0 But why push it and waste more battery current?\u00a0 It&#8217;s already really bright.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I put the second switch in there: to cut the brightness in half and save the batteries.\u00a0 Actually, I probably could have arranged the switches so that &#8220;low beam&#8221; was just three LEDs, and then high beam would add the remaining five LEDs.\u00a0 Or maybe even two and six.\u00a0 Or I could&#8217;ve switched resistors in and out to vary the brightness.\u00a0 But as it is, it works very well, and is easy to build.\u00a0 The hardest part is drilling the holes and filing them to align them and get the hole for the switch square.\u00a0 But that can be fixed by using a round switch.\u00a0 I cut off the switch&#8217;s bat handle slightly to keep it from snagging on things and turning on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to squeeze 8 LEDs into holes on the end of the Altoids tin.\u00a0 The brightness is truly awesome.\u00a0 With that much battery current, I could have reduced the 33 ohm resistors a bit.\u00a0 But why push it and waste more battery current?\u00a0 It&#8217;s already really bright.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I put the second switch<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3142\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlight","category-led"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}