Make Your Own Light Bulb

By the mother earth news staff november december 1983.

Make your own light bulb.

The stick welder provides enough juice to heat the tungsten to nearly 5 000â f the ice bucket acts as the bulb. You could of course simply leave your outdoor lights on when you re not home but that costs money a 150 watt outdoor flood light running for 8 hours would cost you around 52 a year 3. A motion activated light can act as a burglar deterrent on its own but it can also support outdoor cameras and even shed light on your security sign. Once your filament is burned out don t touch it right away it will be very hot you might also be interested in our make a pinhole camera and make a vacuum cleaner projects.

Then take a piece of copper wire and hook one end onto the positive end of the battery chain and the other end onto a piece of graphite pencil lead. Make your own light bulb. Start with a piñata you can make your own using papier mâché and tissue paper or simply buy one ready. Screw in the light bulb add the shade and turn on your light.

The light will last for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes depending on your filament. By theodore gray 27 february 2006. Determine how long you want your electric string lights to be and how many bulbs you want to wire. Your homemade light bulb is working.

Some may consider it cheating but if you want to use tungsten to make your bulb just take the filament out of a store bought light bulb. For example if you want your string lights to be 6 feet long and you want to wire 12 bulbs then you need to wire a bulb every six inches. Hundreds of mix and match components will let you create your perfect light fixture. If you want to try it old school edison burned strips of bamboo to make his carbon filaments.

Minimum order 10 00. Design your own custom light fixtures chandeliers wall sconces and lamps. Use a tape measure to find the distance then divide the measurement by the number of bulbs you want to use. To make a light bulb start by connecting 5 6 volt batteries end to end using electrical tape.