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LED Street Lights

How to build LED street lights?

Needed tools and materials

Wire strippers, wire cutters, tweezers, soldering iron, lighter, LED, resistor, soldering tin, soldering flux, shrinking tube, tape

Light bulb removal

Take the lid off the lamp, pull the bulb out and cut it off.

Soldering

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Solder the enameled copper wire to the LED.

Assembly

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Now reassemble the lamp, solder the resistor and insulate the soldering joint with the shrinking tube.

Light test

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This is what the light test with the new LED looks like.

This article is based on the article streetlight from model building wiki.

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