LED bike-light/lamp
This project will show how to make a LED-bike-lamp out of an ordinary bike-lamp .
The lamp mainly
consist of a battery (NiCd), a boost converter (MAX857
) and bunch of discrete components.
The Leds will be conected to the five pads on the right.
The batteries is size AA, with a capacity of 2200mAh, wich
would end up to (2 x 1.2V x2 .2Ah=
)5,28Wh.
The output
voltage of the MAX857 is 4.1V, total current drawn from the MAX857 is about
5 x(4,1V / 22ohm)=93mA.
This would give a total power
consuption of 0,093A x 4.1V=0,381W, the power dissiapation of
the MAX857 is
about 0,47W.
All this will end up to 5,28Wh /
(0,381W + 0,47W)=6,20h of bright LED-light.
The trip to my work takes about 15min, this
will end up to 30min/day, wich would give me
about 13days of LED
light! (This is really needed here in Sweden during the autum, winter
and early spring.)
During the summer the sun barely goes down.....
Schematics (Eagle):
Complete Eagle (4.16r2)
files are found here.
Unrar the files into the directory
\EAGLE-4.16r2\projects (in my case :
C:\Program\EAGLE-4.16r2\projects)
Below some pictures of the final bike lamp.
Close-up
of the PCB. Here you can see the "late design" connections on the
PCB.
These connections are the red ones in the circuit diagram
above.
Close-up of the PCB.
The
PCB is to be mounted under the LED-reflector.
Lamp electrically assembled.
Lamp fully assembled.