{"id":3581,"date":"2012-06-27T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T04:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2012-08-16T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:00:25","slug":"2012-06-27-photos-of-led-lights-ive-built-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"2012-06-27 Photos of LED Lights I&#8217;ve Built (Cont&#8217;d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3577\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3577\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3577\" title=\"DSC_0110S3\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0110S3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0110S3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0110S3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0110S3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC_0110S3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cont&#8217;d from<a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3201\"><strong> previous blog<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>During the early days of my LED lights, I did some conversions of regular flashlights.\u00a0 The one in the picture is a Craftsman that used four AA cells and a regular incandescent flashlight bulb.\u00a0 I took the bulb out, broke the glass and removed it, and put three white LEDs, each with its own 33 ohm resistor in the lamp base.\u00a0 I made a dummy battery for the fourth AA cell.\u00a0 It worked reasonably well, but was somewhat bulkier than the Altoids tins \u2013 it wouldn\u2019t fit in my pocket.\u00a0 The much smaller CMG Infinity light beside it was expensive, but served for several years as my keychain light.\u00a0 It was underpowered, with a single, not very bright LED. CMG held a U.S. patent on the circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cont&#8217;d from previous blog) During the early days of my LED lights, I did some conversions of regular flashlights.\u00a0 The one in the picture is a Craftsman that used four AA cells and a regular incandescent flashlight bulb.\u00a0 I took the bulb out, broke the glass and removed it, and put three white LEDs, each<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=3581\"> <\/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":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlight","category-joule-thief-smps-dc-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","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=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}