Homemade Light Control Board

Using some bulb dimmer connectors, socket to edison converters and some 3 way socket expanders and a pencil box (with a little modification with my dremel) and a pig tail extension cord I made a poorman's light contol board. Roughly 60 dollars total to build, not bad when you consider what can be done with it. I hope to be able to use it in projects of both my own and my friends'.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• homemade
• light
• control
• dimmer
• board
• edison
• bulb
• socket
• lamp
• resistance
• stage
• lighting
• red
• blue
• white
• stonecutters
• rustedgears
• san
• antonio
• texas

[trsdos]

Haw haw haw. I made this video to show someone who lives in another city what I made; It's made with junk parts from wal*mart because that is what I can afford and what I understand. I open it several times and show what the insides look like. All it is made up of are some dimmer switches, edison to 110v adaptor plugs, two 1-to-3 110v adapters, and a short 110v pigtail. oh and it is in a pencil box. just open your eyes, pay attention, and read the description. thanks.

[MoonGarten]

First, nice little controller, second thanks for wasting three minutes of my time showing off. .I clicked on this (as im sure the other 3, 766 people did ) hoping to see HOW you wired this, HOW you made it. . but no it was yet another waste of bandwidth. Don t worry I can figure out to make one myself that is more functional and I wont be using junk parts from Wal Mart.  Sorry if this is harsh. . but I fail to understand why you didnt tell us how you did it, that would have been far more useful

[trsdos]

@MoonGarten

Haw haw haw. I made this video to show someone who lives in another city what I made; It's made with junk parts from wal*mart because that is what I can afford and what I understand. I open it several times and show what the insides look like. All it is made up of are some dimmer switches, edison to 110v adaptor plugs, two 1-to-3 110v adapters, and a short 110v pigtail. oh and it is in a pencil box. just open your eyes, pay attention, and read the description. thanks.

[trsdos]

@MoonGarten

its just a bunch of stuff plugged in together and taped together. no soldering or knowledge of electrical engineering was happening. just me playing legos with component parts and adapters.

[gladys88cravitz]

it's so easy to criticize from the safety of your anonymity. what you should do with this video, is realize the possibility that you too can make a light controller. do it your way, be creative, this is the way this guy did it, he did it on the cheap, here's what it does. the internet is a forum, sometimes the hard work is taken care of for you, it might be a sad commentary on the laziness of our society, who knows or cares, i thought this was a cool idea, and it's captured my imagination.

[DaveyGTV]

mind posting a parts list?

[AnnorexicFatty]

Nice... That is quite interesting.