Low power low voltage lighting

[spurkis]

Following on from my last post...

I've been having a hell of a time over the past few weeks trying to figure out how to build a low-voltage, low-power lighting system.

My constraints have been:

1. It's gotta consume as little power as possible
2. It has to be easy to use
3. It has to look good

That still leaves a lot of scope, so I decided to build under-

Comments

[hypoxiaddict]

Very cool! I can't believe how much work and thought you've put into this.

Can you get some kind of funky shade/light covering from somewhere like Ikea - to help dissipate the light?

shades

[spurkis]

Yeah, that's what I'm mulling over in the back of me mind. Joe Russack had some luck with candle holders, but as these will be hanging upside down I'm not so sure that'll work. I was thinking a quarter of PVC pipe spray-painted with silver might do the trick... bounce it off the pipe & the wall to diffuse it. But then it may block too much light. We'll see.

Re: shades

[hypoxiaddict]

What about something like this or like this? The first one is like an upside down candle holder...

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you post some pictures of the finished product. I'm very curious to see what it looks like!

P.S. Did you see that I started a new blog?

Re: shades

[spurkis]

Thanks - will put pics will be up once we decide.

Got your new blog on my RSS reader already ;-)