I wrote yesterday about hacking a 220V AC walkway light to use 4 of our 7W LEDs. After testing it, it was painfully bright. We intend to put individual dimmer circuits on each light pole, but why waste money on unneeded LEDs just to dim them? So we switched it out to a single LED…
The wire I forgot
I wrote previously about the complicated wiring I ran between the two houses, the main utility box, the walkway lights, and the pumps. It contained wires for LAN, telephone, 220V mains electricity, 24V DC, and more. As we closed up, I worried that something would come up that I forgot. Well, I forgot one. We…
DC solar powered walkway lights
We weren’t so happy with our options for outdoor DC walkway lights so we decided to try buying normal AC walkway lights and hacking it. We decided to buy this model from HomePro for hacking: (The photo here is at HomePro and shows it with an AC 220V compact flourescent bulb inside for display.) It…
Electricity wiring between the houses
I wrote recently about the biggest digging project we’ve had on the land that we used our home build excavator for. Since the trenching was completed, the next few steps turned out to be much more complicated than I had planned for. Not difficult. Just complicated. It starts with the story of the AC 220V…
Electrical wiring with VAF cable and 3D printed clips
The reason we have been using PVC conduit for most of our electrical wiring is that Praew always found the aluminum clips that one uses for mounting VAF wires to the wall ugly and cheap looking. We went through all the effort of building a simple and rustic looking wooden house… so we are trying…
LED light final install in bathroom
Today, we finished up the wiring of the LED lights in the bathroom and had our first test of an actual install of our new DC lighting system. When we tested previously, it was just temporarily put in place as a proof of concept. But the concept was proven and we wired it up and…
Wiring up the LED lights
We are using small gauge VAF cable to wire up our DC LED lights now. VAF cable normally has a white PVC insulation on the outside for protection, so I decided to try make it blend in with the wooden walls better like we did with the PVC conduit piping. In addition, Praew really doesn’t…
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