Category Archives: Night Lights

Samoyed night light – part 10

Posted on 27/04/2019 by AlanM52

The Samoyed night is completed. This morning screwed the stand onto the frame.

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Silhouette night lights – some ideas.

Posted on 26/04/2019 by AlanM52

Why not use a store bought frame ? Rather than making my own base board for these projects why not buy some picture frames! A4 wooden ones cost around $10 bucks.

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Samoyed night light – part 9

Posted on 26/04/2019 by AlanM52

Hot glued the LED’s and stained the stand. A dab of glue on the four standoff’s will fix the doggie to the base board.

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Samoyed night light – part 8

Posted on 26/04/2019 by AlanM52

Made a base and provision to wall hang. Found a bit of plywood the right so cleaned it up on disc & belt sander. Here I measured and marked so the frame is centered on the stand and used some … Continue reading →

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Samoyed night light – part 7 mock-up video

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

The controller is set to Dusk mode, only works at night (semi-dark to dark) and turns ON when the front mounted PIR (sensor) is triggered by movement. There is also a Day mode where you manually turn ON/OFF – anytime.

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Samoyed night light – part 7

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Swapped over from LED strip to LED string, mock-up tape down of the LEDS and a live test – all good. Cut a suitable DC plug lead off a AC adaptor and wired to a string of LED’s left over … Continue reading →

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Silhouette night lights – some thoughts

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Thinking about wiring a DC plug onto a ‘normal’ string of white LED’s and plug that into the controller, then do another light test. Laying out and positioning LED strip in a wandering pattern is painful and messy.

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Samoyed night light – part 6

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Mounting the controller and doing a mock-up light test. This worked out well, I’ll use a small pivoting strip of MDF to secure the controller.

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Samoyed night light – part 5

Posted on 24/04/2019 by AlanM52

Mounting the controller behind the base board. Measure the width.

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Samoyed night light – part 3

Posted on 23/04/2019 by AlanM52

For this session sprayed the doggie black and did more work on the internal frame. Spray doggie and leave to dry.

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