Home made DIY LED baby light

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Hey.. just an update on the LED light panel I have been messing with.. Im about half way through, and so far the super bright LED's are putting about the same as a baby kino... at about 5800K-6000k temp.. As you can see I am making it to be powered off a standard DVX battery. 24LED's

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yeah... youd need a whole **** load of them.. But it is nice that they burn cool and use very little juice. I guess if you built a head with a few hundred LED's in it you could probally emulate a 4x4 kino.
 
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Where did you get your parts Zoom? (the LED's)
 
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I got them from a sweet place called www.projectx.com ... cheap, super fast shipping, and the LED's are 8000mcd's... I dont know much about LED's but I have read that that is the sweet spot for the color temp I was looking for.
 
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Hey Zoom, could you explain how did you do that. How did you put together battery with LED.

I'm really interest on this topic, could be really usefull to use it on camera.

thank's
nicola
 
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yeah that is what i was going for.. an on camera daylight light... and it seems to work very well, and its nice that it runs off the DVX battery as well.
 
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Zoom, put that in a housing and sell it on your site here!

How does it compare to a 20w video light? It's gotta draw much less power...

... are you going to make any sort of battery sled thing so that the sled fits onto the camera, and the battery fits into the sled, and there's a power tap off the sled onto your LED housing? That would rule, then you could use just one battery to power both the light and the camera.

Also, have you considered making a long battery cable, so the user could mount the light off-axis (get some sort of extension arm for the light shoe so the light could sit a foot or two off to the side of the camera) so you could get nice 3/4 lighting instead of the deer-in-the-headlights look? Something like that LED light, especially with the off-board battery, should be so lightweight that it makes that idea practical.

Great job!
 
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exactly.. i'd buy one. I'm looking for a new on-cam light.. but don't like the idea of having to wear a battery belt all the time... how does it do in lower-light settings.... like outdoors at night?
 
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alright.. look at this little baby I put it in a really rough housing with a hotshoe mount.  to get an idea on output.. these photos where taken with a camera flash, and you can clearly see the light.
As you can see, you just slide in a dvx battery and there you go.. I have a feeling this light would last at least for a few hours.

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sweet!!!! does the hotshoe feel any stress with the battery and everything on it?
 
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no its really light.. the whole light unit ways about half as much as a battery.
 
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Man you've got some great stuff there... sounds marketable to me! That, or maybe the plans for people to make their own. I'd be on board for sure
 
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not really interested in making them.. more into letting you guys make your own.. its super simple, you just gotta buy LED's thats about it.... the options are pretty endless.
 
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I'm all for that. Let us know when you get the plans/tips out.
 
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Let me understand zoom, did you weld in chain (+ with all the + and - with all the -) the led and then wire it to dvx battery?

Is that correct?

nicola
 
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yeah I guess I shoulda took some picks when I made it lol.... but there is no schematics, no resistors or diods, You just need to wire a group of leds together, with 2 LED's in each chain ( normal LED voltage is 3.6volts, wiring 2 together makes a 7.2v LED).. you can put as many of these dual LED's in parallel together, and just hook it right up to the battery. I used a cheap charger I got from my battery source that cost $7... cut the back off of it and used it as the battery holder.

Used a project box and PC board from good old radioshack to hold the LED's and glue gunned it to the battery holder, on the bottom I drilled a hole and threaded in a 1/4" binding post --> hotshoe adapter that I had kicking around.
 
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I wonder how a ring light made this way would look/work on a dvx... hmmmm
 
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Nicola.. I took 2 LED's.. so you have 2 positive and 2 negative leads. I soldered 1 negative and 1 positve lead from each led together to basically create 1 LED wth 2 heads.. so I had 1 positive and one negative lead off each LED. this makes it able to draw 7.2 Volts directly without a resistor.

I took 12 of these dual LED's ( which is actually 24 LED's) and soldered all the positives and all the negative's together to one positive and one negative lead that went right to the battery.
 
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ring light is where I got the Idea.. and it would work very well, in fact there are a few companies selling them already. the output from these little LED's is pretty amazing. I just need to make some sort of reflector and maybe little barn doors, to control some light. The nice thing is that there are no hotsposts like on a normal video light.
 
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incredible stuff. Tried it out in low light yet?
 
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