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Clock - night light - a wonderful thing for those who like to wake up at night. Usually people wake up in the middle of the night and frantically look for their mobile phone to check the time. Our craft kills two birds with one stone: it is both a clock illumination and a night light. There is enough light to confidently see in the room. The brightness and color of the glow can be easily adjusted as you wish.

Here's what the clock looks like day and night:


This is where we will make our watch. To do this, we need the mechanism itself, from a Chinese watch or from any other, the most important thing is that the hands also work.

A rectangular piece of plywood, I took an old picture frame. And drilled holes in it for LEDs and the mechanism itself is in the center.



I glued white paper to the front side. I cut out the red stripes from red self-adhesive paper. note that LEDs turned towards the center.


Next - electronic cases. Look at the diagram. The capacitor is 0.22 uF and the voltage is not lower than 400 volts. A resistor with a power of at least 1-2 W, diodes for a voltage of 400 volts. LEDs small, super bright, color at your discretion.

Be especially careful when working with electricity!!!!

 

We connect, turn on, check.


The same can be done with ordinary wall clocks.


For food LEDs You can also use a step-down transformer, or even a pulse converter such as a cell phone charger.

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Comments (7)
  1. Bond
    #1 Bond Guests 9 July 2011 21:11
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    Beautiful...
  2. vov@n
    #2 vov@n Guests December 4, 2011 20:06
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    beautiful and practical...
    I powered everything through a rectifier with a 5V output and paralleled everything
    only the wires coming from the clock don't look right cry
  3. audiorussia
    #3 audiorussia Guests 10 November 2012 21:41
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    interesting material, keep it up!
  4. V.A.L.E.K.
    #4 V.A.L.E.K. Guests 12 December 2012 13:17
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    cool it became very interesting to sleep and be in the room
  5. kaduhka
    #5 kaduhka Guests 23 January 2015 22:57
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    The simplest solution is to insert AA batteries into the watch, they will last for a long time. And also add a switching circuit depending on the lighting level, then the watch will glow only at night.
  6. Vyacheslav
    #6 Vyacheslav Guests 25 April 2016 01:50
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    Tell me is it possible to do this so that Light-emitting diode did it light up at the moment when the hour hand approaches it?
  7. kruso
    #7 kruso Guests December 17, 2016 05:58
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    Vyacheslav,
    Yes it's possible

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