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Introduction
After making my pyramid mood light with 12 high power leds, i decided to make a bigger and better version, with the newfound knowledge of possible caveats. After all, the pyramid mood lamp was more of a proof of concept with its shortcomings. I wanted the new mood lamp to be more powerful, so it could also be used in daylight conditions. I did this by using a z-power 3 watt RGB power led. This one led is far more powerful than the 12 ones combined i used before. The colors also mix better because of the wider opening angle and because the rgb chips lay very close together. But you better see it for yourself (please note: all photo's are clickable for a bigger version):
Of course a video says more than pictures, so here you can see the lamp in action with a demonstration of all the different operation modes.
They come in two sizes: 31 and 45 cm high. I went with the biggest version. Funny thing is Ikea already offers this lamp in different colours. But since it's the glass that is coloured they can only light up in one color, instead of all the colors of the rainbow my lamp can show.
General Layout
Here you see the z-power led mounted on a heatsink i took from an old video card. I drilled two holes and two screws hold the star shaped led in place. To conduct the heat better i used some left over cooling paste that came with my cpu. A smaller heatsink would suffice as well, but i had this heatsink gathering dust in my closet, so...
To avoid a shortcircuit i first dipped the screw heads in some silicon paste and left it to dry. If you take a closer look at the power led, you can see the 3 individual chips for the 3 colors. This led is so bright it's almost impossible to look directly into it. Then i started building the circuit after calculating the values of the resistors. I changed the calculated values a bit by maxing each color out and looking at the color of white it produced, as i'm not a big fan of cold, blueish white. I like a warm tone better. This was how my test setup looked like:
I cut off one corner to get a better fit in the area under the lamp. This is the schematic of the circuit.
All i needed to do now was pasting the board to the lamp with silicone caulk and soldering the 4 wires from the led to the circuit board.
Conclusion
I am really satisfied with this lamp. This was what i was aiming for when i first got the idea of building my own mood lamp. I think this version definitely deserves the title 'mood lamp' because it can light up a whole room with its colors. On the left you can see the lamp still shines strong with other lights on and on the right you can see the effect when all other lights are out. In the back on the wall you can see the pyramid lamp i made earlier. I made this lamp in 2007 and during the following years tens of people from all around the world emailed me to say they had succesfully built one too. This is the last project i did with PIC's. I moved on to the arduino platform which is faster and easier to realise something with.
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