I was puttering around, and happened upon this by accident:
Exit light conversion kit
Its a 120VAC Exit sign conversion kit. 48000 milliCandella brightness. Your average LED puts out <1000mC, ultra bright around 2000mC, and those Lazer LED kits are rated for around 3000 mC.
120VAC? Go to Home depot. Show them your conversion strip and get the right light socket with some tips on how to wire this up with your standard 120VAC electric cord. Then goto Radioshack and look for a relay that handles at least 120VAC, but is 5VDC controlled. Also, get a toggle switch. Wire the AC elec cable to the relay, and then the relay to the light sockets. Connect the toggle to a molex, run that to the 5VDC relay control, and back to ground.
At night, you should be able to lightup your case so bright, it will light up the rest of the room. All for $5 light sockets, $1 toggle switch, $4 relay, $8.50 for the conversion kit, and a spare computer power cord.
If I actually had a project that I could show this, I would.
EDIT: FOund Radiohack relay Here. $8. Works on 12VDC. DPDT.
Exit light conversion kit
Its a 120VAC Exit sign conversion kit. 48000 milliCandella brightness. Your average LED puts out <1000mC, ultra bright around 2000mC, and those Lazer LED kits are rated for around 3000 mC.
120VAC? Go to Home depot. Show them your conversion strip and get the right light socket with some tips on how to wire this up with your standard 120VAC electric cord. Then goto Radioshack and look for a relay that handles at least 120VAC, but is 5VDC controlled. Also, get a toggle switch. Wire the AC elec cable to the relay, and then the relay to the light sockets. Connect the toggle to a molex, run that to the 5VDC relay control, and back to ground.
At night, you should be able to lightup your case so bright, it will light up the rest of the room. All for $5 light sockets, $1 toggle switch, $4 relay, $8.50 for the conversion kit, and a spare computer power cord.
If I actually had a project that I could show this, I would.
EDIT: FOund Radiohack relay Here. $8. Works on 12VDC. DPDT.
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