All items tagged with Energy and light (9)

| Here comes a dazzling DYI project allowing you to touch an electric arc (30 kV hey presto) with your bare fingers. No harm from that. Though...

| Supposing you’d want to bring some light into a boat or campervan during the evening you could connect a couple of 12-V incandescent lamps t...

| Before electric lighting became common in the early 20th century, candles and oil lamps were commonly used for illumination. Even a modern c...

| If the Stairway to Heaven was fitted with lights I guess they would look something like this… Each step is softly illuminated in sequence by...

| Even the best silicon panels collect only about 20% of available solar radiation and they require additional devices to convert the energy t...

| High brightness LEDs and special optics allow street lamps to be spaced up to 50 meters apart -- much wider than is possible with other solu...

| The backlights used in some LCD panels are not exactly economical: typical current draws of 20 mA to 100 mA are common. Normally the current...

| As opposed to the good old light bulb, a CFL needs an amount of electronics to start and light properly. Here we show a suitable circuit. Th...

| The popularity of halogen light is still increasing, and rightly so because of some distinct advantages: the colour temperature is agreeab...