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It was really boring day

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As you can see it was boring like...

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So I decided to build nice monolith

I will use 50-100 leds total ^_^
Power supply is gel battery 12-13V / 1.3 Ah
It is big 97x58x33 [mm] and heavy (around 0,6 kg) and it will be mounted inside monolith

Opto supply 5mm leds test.

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Serial connection of 3 leds and resistor, 3 circuits connected parallel. Led voltage is 3,3-3,4 V . Current 30mA and brightness is 40-60k mcd, but angle of light is only 15 deg. Leds are making nice dot pattern on surface ^_^

TEST Lights ON

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TEST Lights OFF

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Super Flux led test

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Brightness of led is "only" 20-30k mcd. Voltage 9,3-9,5 V , current 20mA and angle 120 deg

Of course I had to use resistor too.

TEST Light ON

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TEST Light ON with green plastic

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TEST Lights OFF with green plastic

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TEST Light OFF

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How much light you can have from single LED - Super flux on floor

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There is not bad Monolith tutorial made by mortimer from cytadela on youtube. If anyone need more details, or step by step let me know.

Power os 69 leds. Switch and jack for battery charger tommorow.

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Bottom of monobrick

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That looks cool!
Really good work so far, keep it up!

Awesome i've always liked electronically lit up models, they add that little bit extra to a model/unit/army ^^

Good life bed and sun

The monolith looks really good, will you dim the lights?

wow thats nice, but a bit bright, it made my eyes hurt on this side of the monitor. Reminds me of the Luxor in Las Vegas.

will you paint the monolith too?

good question

anyway, all these blinking and lighting stuff is not my cup of tea, but I think I'm in minority here.

Monolith will be painted.

Here is a sample of gauss projectors

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