Constellation Light puts LED twist on chandelier
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aguiluz @ May 14th 2008 9:23PM
Awesomeness. :D
FreeRange @ May 14th 2008 9:26PM
That actually is really kind of beautiful.
Billy Fiul @ May 14th 2008 10:17PM
Say the opposite of what you really think much?
Isaac @ May 14th 2008 11:28PM
Woah, don't be so opinionated there buddy.
Jeff @ May 15th 2008 12:25AM
I would agree if the color weren't so awful.
i seriously hope it a case of a really crappy white balance, and that they don't actually glow that sick greenyellow.
Stem $ell @ May 14th 2008 9:34PM
Now we know the who-and-the-why behind all those middle eastern undersea fiberoptic cable sabotaging and theft incidents back in February...
gad get @ May 14th 2008 9:55PM
Huh?
Aguiluz @ May 14th 2008 10:46PM
@gad get:
Fiber optic cables are stolen.
Fiber optic lamps suddenly appear.
Connect the two and two?
zip22 @ May 14th 2008 11:05PM
except these lamps don't use fiber opics. there are just LEDs on the ends.
gad get @ May 14th 2008 9:57PM
It could easily be made far more attractive with a little tweaking, but nice concept for sure!
amishx64 @ May 14th 2008 10:33PM
I think it looks ugly, quite frankly. I do like the save-energy led idea though.
[ W ] @ May 14th 2008 11:19PM
Good idea, bad implementation...?
I totally agree with "gad get"
It could be a whole lot more attractive..
Rob @ May 14th 2008 11:22PM
Meh, it doesn't look bad. Not nearly as ugly as a compact fluorescent, anyway.
Adeptus @ May 15th 2008 12:37AM
Agreed... those horrible spiral "bulbs" or mini sticks... they take a while to come up to full brightness, can't run off a dimmer, *contain mercury*, and do not necessarily last anywhere near as long as claimed: we started buying them last year. They supposedly last 5+ years. We have had 2 die already.
Bring on the LEDs, guys!
ryback @ May 15th 2008 5:42AM
Adeptus: I bought two energy saving bulbs with 10 year warranty. I have scanned the receipt and made a backup I have put in my safe incase the orginal thermal paper gets ruined. I would just love to se the face on the clerk when I go to get my money back in 9 years time. It will be the Best_ 20 bucks ever!
wale @ May 15th 2008 1:56AM
....energy conservation gone wrong.
Odewale T. Odesanmi @ May 15th 2008 1:58AM
and gone wrong x 2
TIMMAH! @ May 15th 2008 3:08AM
So how do you power one of these things? Do you wire a bunch in serial and use a higher voltage or do you parallel everything at 3.7V with a large current?
ck @ May 15th 2008 3:31AM
Maybe a little from column A and a little from column B.
Sky @ May 17th 2008 9:32PM
Oh, damn. This is my idea upside down. I made something
similar for my g/f about 6 years ago. It was a small uplight though, and
had about 21 lights in red,green,blue, which faded into different colours.
(@TIMMAH fyi they ran in parallel for each colour set but each LED
needs a resister in series, and then the sets are controlled via a
microcontroller, but I also used 3 MOSFETS to switch the high
current) I used thin 3mm aluminium tubes. I agree, its not exactly
beautiful design, but it looked okay, kind-of industrial look.
I am quite sad, it is not unique any more :(
raider @ May 20th 2008 11:05PM
Aw, great, although very appealing, it's just one more thing to have stolen as the price of copper goes through the roof. They've already knocked off my hot water pipes twice !