[Swansea Hackspace] Solar night light

[Richard Morgan]

That sounds like a great project - can't wait to see the results.


On Friday, October 17, 2014, djdavies83 <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I've always found that stranded works the best for stripping to
> terminate, solid tends to snap where it was stripped.
>
>  Are you in tomorrow?
>
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ceri Clatworthy
> Date:17/10/2014 15:01 (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Solar night light
>
>   If you only want a short piece of 6/8 core then dead CAT 5 cable is
> best..
>
>  either stranded, or solid ?
>
>  Ceri
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, djdavies83 <djdavies83 at hotmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','djdavies83 at hotmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>  Hi guys, I'll be in from about 10:15 tomorrow to about 15:00 (apart from
> nipping out to get sprog between 13:30 to 14:00
>
>  My wife and I have been talking about getting Lily some kind of night
> light as she is now a little affraid of the dark, 6 years on sleeping in
> the dark and now she gets affraid.
>
>  Anyway, I don't want a mains powered lampnear her bed, I know 12v is an
> option but where's the fun in just biying something.
>
>  Battery powered would be good but I don't want to keep changing or
> charging batteries...
>
>  Last night we decided I would get one or two  solar garden lights from
> the poundshop, one white for light and maybe a colourfull dragonfly type
> and run a wire and split the pannel and light so it could charge up
> automatically in the day rather than having to take it down and put it in
> the window.
>
>  I thought I best as the hive mind, what would be best...
>
>  Extend the pannel away from the main body and circuitry?
>
>  Or
>
>  Keep pannel and circuitry close and extend the LED?
>
>  Ps could we add some 8 core alarm cable to the inventory for us to
> purchase by the meter?
>
>  http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=251657903694&alt=web
>
>  The above 100m works out at 15p per meter to buy in, I sure most would
> be happy to pay 30-50p per meter for when the 30cm 5 core scraps I bring in
> are not good enough.
>
>
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Kind regards,

Richard
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