March 28, 2010

Another Project: LED Lights

The dollar store is a wonderful place where you can pick up plenty of useful items for a dollar. I picked up about $10 worth of Sunbeam Magnetic Automatic LED lights for use in closet doors and drawers. The setup has two parts: a single LED covered by a diffuser and a magnetic strip. The light comes on when the magnetic strip is pulled away from the LED light and turned off when the magnetic strip is flush with it. The strip and the light have sticky double-sided tape for mounting. I thought it would be an excellent idea to mount these in every drawer and cabinet in the RV so that we're not wasting the energy of our house battery.

The way the doors are in the RV do not allow for the magnetic strips to mount flush enough to the lights when the cabinet doors and draws are closed. We wither need to stack the magnetic strip with double-sided tape or modify all of the magnetic strips to include stronger magnets.

This project will have to wait until we know the main functions of the RV work.

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