Making A Rechargeable Lamp From Scraps.

Welcome to Hive Learners Creative Sunday Initiative with George Dee.

Today is quite different from my regular entry for Creative Sunday, it used to be about food but today, I decided to make something else. I shared a post last week and @momogrow was interested in how I made my lamp from scraps so instead of cooking, I decided to share the procedure.

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I will try to explain the process in the simplest way I can. My journey with making things like this started from childhood, I made lamps with batteries and bulbs just to light the room. I usually use wood for the battery case and just connect the bulb with wires but a lot have changed between then and now. Not just technology improved, but I have also stepped up with the packaging of the lamp.

Instead of the old way, I now use plastic and other containers for the case. It makes it looks beautiful and portable as well.

Material Used.

Majority of the materials used were collected from damaged rechargeable torch light, I collect them from people who wants to trash them. It's an old habit and sometimes they want me to fix them or they just give them to me on request.

1. Switch

2. Glue

3. Rechargeable battery

4. Scissors

5. Butter container.

6. Charging port

7. Wire

8. Bulb

Carton

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Procedure

I started by inserting the bulb into the plastic cover.

The two rods at the bottom of the bulb have to pass through plastic so I punched the cover with scissors and put the rods in the hole.

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The rods are now showing at the back of the cover. These rods will be responsible for powering the bulb when it is connected later to the battery

I connected wires to the rods, the wires will serve as a passage for electricity to flow through from the battery into the bulb

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I cut the cover again to make space for the switch, the purpose of it is to make and break the flow of current. With it, we can turn on and off the lamp.

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I changed the panel wires

I glued the switch to the plastic cover

The switch is on a panel and it has two wires attached, one of the wires takes current in from the battery while the other sends it out to the bulb.

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I moved on to the charging port, I had to cut out a small place in the plastic for the port to be accessible. The charging port also have the negative and positive wire

I cut out some cartons and arranged them inside the plastic so that the charging port can sit on them

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I fixed the charging port inside the plastic and applied glue to prevent it from moving back and forth when inserting and removing the charger.

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I moved on to connecting the charging port, battery and switch

The battery and bulb has a positive and negative side so you must be sure before proceeding at this stage. Some batteries have signs indicating positive and negative while some don't.

The bulb and battery I used don't have signs so I checked it by connecting the bulb directly first. When the bulb turned on, I was able to know the P and N.

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I connected the input wire from the switch to the positive wire on the charging port panel and will mark it as A in the image below

I connected the output from the switch to the positive rod of the bulb and will mark it as B

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I connected the negative rod to the negative wire on the charging port panel and both were connected to the negative side of the battery

I connected point marked A earlier to the positive side of the battery and placed it in the plastic

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To prevent the batteries from moving, I cut some cartons and arranged them to the free space in the plastic.

I cut another carton to cover everything in the plastic and the carton will also serve as a rest for the switch.

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In the end, we have this.👇

To know if every I have been doing is correct, I turn on the switch and voila...

_{The charging port has a bulb that signifies the presence of current The green light in the plastic}

I know you are asking yourself thay why do I need to do all this when I can just buy a torch light?

It is easy to buy a light but I choose to make one for myself because it helps me to save money and I also enjoy doing this. Instead of throwing away every item, I can just make things out of them.

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I hope you enjoyed reading and you can ask me questions regarding the process if you don't understand them.

Thanks.

All image in the post belong to me