General > General Technical Chat
A Burning CANDLE in Epoxy Resin
DrG:
--- Quote from: JackJones on June 24, 2020, 05:01:57 am ---There are LEDs with a controller built in that make them flicker like a candle. Flicker or candle LEDs is what they are called. A bit hard to get in SMD packages, they only seem to be widely available in 3 mm and 5 mm though hole variants.
--- End quote ---
true dat
Here is mine....I think they were 2/US1$ and included a CR2032. The 'flicker' is not that candle-like, but they do flicker. Nothing in them but an LED, on-off switch and the battery.
If you look carefully, you can see the IC inside the LED
Here is a head on shot
These are as good as I could get with my lens.
DrG:
--- Quote from: jonovid on June 24, 2020, 05:48:08 am ---I would like to see some magic smoke captured in resin.
just the thing for Dave's lab, ... an idea for mail-bag.
or how about have a cheap fake iphone charger pcb explosion
with the flash and flames captured in resin, :popcorn:
--- End quote ---
DrG:
Here is another resin project. Very impressive but a FAIL (watch to the end). I really did like the way he used the fiber optics with LED shells.
BTW: lest anyone think I am being critical of the effort, I am aware that if I attempted the project the video would finish with me in the ER.
james_s:
Those flickering LEDs used in the little tealight candles never really impressed me much, they don't look candle-like at all. An actual candle doesn't really flicker much, it will waver a bit and may flicker in a breeze but the LEDs look quite exaggerated. I think a small microcontroller could do much better, especially with this candle that has two LEDs wired independently.
DrG:
--- Quote from: james_s on June 24, 2020, 07:36:20 pm ---Those flickering LEDs used in the little tealight candles never really impressed me much, they don't look candle-like at all. An actual candle doesn't really flicker much, it will waver a bit and may flicker in a breeze but the LEDs look quite exaggerated. I think a small microcontroller could do much better, especially with this candle that has two LEDs wired independently.
--- End quote ---
No, they don't impress me at all either (as you could probably tell from my original statement).
I like this guy's empirical approach https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/reverse-engineering-a-real-candle/
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version