Once, several burnt LED spotlights fell into my hands. Maybe for someone this is surprising, but from my own experience I know that half of ten Chinese LED floodlights burn out in the first year of operation.
So sometimes I do their repair, replacing burnt LEDs. So it was with these spotlights, in which one or two LEDs burned out. However, having put his hands with a soldering iron, it was possible to restore all the burned out spotlights.
So they would have served further, faithfully, but after another accident at a local electrical substation, two spotlights burned out completely. Not only did the LEDs burn out, but the converters through which the LEDs were powered out also knocked out.
Throwing such good floodlights with radiators was a pity, and I decided to make them fog lights for my old Niva.
This is not the first time I have been making foglights from LED floodlights, they have been working on a different machine for a long time, homemade here already told.
But in this case, it’s rather not even the headlights and not quite fog, but just two powerful additional lights, which come in handy at night when fishing or near the tent in nature. This machine is used by me only in the village, I don’t poke around on the track. But to travel through the mountains, forests and fields, go fishing, or with guests to nature, especially on our roads - a nice thing. For this purpose traffic rules permits their use.
I bought on the occasion at a local electronic store two LED modules for 9V with a power of 5W.
I didn’t particularly choose, I took inexpensive and approximately suitable in size. And the fact that at 9 V is not a problem, we will put a stabilizer.
Having thrown out all the previous insides from the spotlights, I installed a KIA7809 type stabilizer on the radiator, and with the help of spring plates, not forgetting the thermal grease, I mounted an LED module on the same radiator.
Wires are powerful, moisture resistant. We install the reflector in place and collect the rest of the searchlight, together with the mount.
We fasten the projectors to the arches of the trunk with a slight slope (it is never removed from this machine) and fix the wires with nylon ties.
Passing the wire through the gutter, we wind it through the driver's door seal into the torpedo and then connect it through the switch with an indication to the cigarette lighter circuit, to its fuse.
I actually don’t have a cigarette lighter in my car, I can’t stand the smoke, I don’t smoke and don’t give it to others.
But now it’s convenient when you need to highlight something somewhere while fishing or by the fire in the forest, turn on these lights and everything is light ten meters ahead. There is no concern for the battery, these headlights consume about 1.5A, enough for the whole night and still remains.
