DIY LED spotlight

You can make an excellent LED spotlight with your own hands, spending only 257 rubles on the filling! Even if you are not familiar with electronics and in life you have not soldered a single printed circuit board with radio components!

This spotlight can be successfully used for landscape illumination of a summer cottage, for accented illumination of a house, for illumination of an object at a distance of 20 - 30 m when using outdoor surveillance cameras ... And much more for what!

But, most importantly, your spotlight will consume only 6 watts of electric power with a stable light output when powered in the voltage range 85 - 256 Volts!

Let's get down to business. We really liked the Kreonix STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW LED lamp, developed by Russian engineers and manufactured by Kreonix.

We tested it and were very pleased with the high brightness of the LED, the temperature regime and the operation of the driver (current stabilizer) at various supply voltages. After that, they recommended this lamp for sale to our partners.

The lamp turned out universal. In addition to using the new Kreonix STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW LED lamp in turned ceiling lights, in illuminating decorative niches and in accented interior lighting, in our opinion, the lamp is suitable for outdoor use, with appropriate protection from external influences .

From this lamp we will make an LED spotlight with our own hands.

Unlike ready-made LED spotlights, the Kreonix STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW lamp does not shine 180 degrees, scattering precious light from side to side and into the sky, but with a beam with an opening angle of 30 degrees. This is what a spotlight needs! After all, with the same LED power, you can illuminate objects located several times further!

As the case, we used the case from the old spotlight under halogen bulb 150 watts But you can buy a new one. It is very cheap. The halogen spotlight had to be disassembled and removed an unnecessary ceramic cartridge.

In the center of the case, with silicone sealant, we glued a new cartridge under the GU10 cap. We used glue so as not to bother with the manufacture of mechanical fastening of the cartridge. After all, we did not have any special machines and tools at hand.

In the center of the foil reflector that stood in the spotlight, we cut a hole with nail scissors into which the base of the Kreonix LED lamp STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW should pass.

We started assembling the LED spotlight without waiting for the silicone sealant to set. This was done not only because of our haste, but also to control the direction of the light flux from the lamp. In addition, the Kreonix STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW LED lamp with a cartridge fits exactly in the housing and, when the glass is closed, presses it lightly.

This is the best way to fix the lamp with the cartridge for the duration of the polymerization of adhesive-sealant!

We brought the wires from the cartridge into the mounting box on the spotlight body. But the place where the glass adjoins to the removable frame had to be additionally sealed with silicone (transparent) sealant. Just in case, we sealed other leaks and gaps.

After assembly, we turned on the lamp and were happy - we did it! We made a LED spotlight with very remarkable characteristics! By the way, there is enough space in the case for two LED lamps, if you install them side by side. But we don’t need such brightness now.

Immediately after assembly, if the weather is not rainy, we mounted our new LED spotlight on a pole, connected it to the photo relay line and looked forward to nightfall to compare the homemade light with the factory-installed 10-watt FL-10 LED spotlights ...

... We were not disappointed! The narrow beam of the Kreonix STD-JCDR-6W-GU10-COB / WW lamp pierced the darkness about 5 times farther than the larger FL-10, highlighting what we needed!

And further. You can check the quality of the case sealing after rain: there should be no condensation on the inside of the glass.

Yuri Shurchkov

Comments

[#1]

So everything seems to be all right, the cartridge fastener on the sealant (inside the searchlight) is doubtful, with a temperature difference it will most likely fall off.

[#2 Passerby]

Thank you for the article!!!

[#3 Boris]

The article should have been called a DIY lamp reflector! it’s ingenious of course to take a finished lamp ... the fence will go on lighting of course))!

[#4]

The author, thanks, of course, for the article and the site. But in the heading of such articles, it’s time to write "Advertising". To assemble such a lamp is not a lot of mind: a ready-made lamp, a ready-made lamp. Only now a simple halogen spotlight is dishonorablely expensive. And I don’t feel like kononiks working for some kind of lamp. Saving electricity bills is good. But to buy a lamp is also money. Yes, and it is not eternal, and the heat from heating does not disappear anywhere (indoor lamp). And burn out, again buy a similar one.

[#5]

I understand that many have a head on their shoulders and are versed in electronics and soldering. But why bother so if the issue price is less than a thousand rubles. Yes, even if I had to highlight an area of ​​300 sq.m., I would still buy a finished product, rather than doing it myself. And if then the wiring closes, you’ll burn the whole house.