HOW TO MAKE A HUGE LED

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Have you ever held a huge LED, the size of a human fist? Of course not, because there are none. I will show how to make such an original little thing with my own hands. This LED LED will look exactly like its small brother, except that it will have many times more brightness.

Will need

Plastic bottle.
The board is textolite, foil.
Thick wire.
A piece of LED strip.
5-10 ohm resistor.
Epoxy resin with hardener.

Making a large LED

So, we will understand for a start what the LED consists of. The first is the two conclusions that go into the body of the LED. Two pads are seen below, one smaller is the anode, and the other larger is the cathode. At the cathode is a site with a reflector and a semiconductor crystal. Above all this there is a lens, which is a monolith with the body of the LED.

To begin with, we will make an imitation of a large semiconductor crystal with a reflector. We take the LED strip and solder the chip elements from it. If there is no hairdryer, heat it with a soldering iron.

From a piece of foil PCB we cut such a board.

We tear it and solder a chip of LEDs on it.

We also solder the contact and the quenching resistor.

Check by feeding. The crystal is ready.

For greater visual similarity, we cut out the cathode and anode from the PCB.

Elements are located at the bottom of the case.

We take a thick wire and make contacts from it. Solder them to the pads.

Then we smear the light module with hot glue and glue perpendicularly to the largest area - the cathode.

Solder the output to the board.

Next, we need to prepare an epoxy casting mold. For this purpose, we will use a plastic bottle.

Cut it in the middle and put the top on the bottom.

In the area of the lid there is an empty area into which the epoxy will be poured. In order not to waste excess material, we fill the voids of the neck with foil.