tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266541952011-12-29T15:13:31.226+01:00In this blog I describe the progress in building my own divelamp, a lamp with a seperate battery (canister-lampa in swedish)jonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11458914274479047040noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654195.post-1159644711991207592006-09-30T21:31:00.000+02:002006-10-01T00:20:51.483+02:00

When I was looking for leakage of the canister I probably needed to seal at a bit more from the inside to make sure it was not leaking, on this image you can see where I added some more silicon inside the canister.Here are the new contacts and teh blue arrow shows where I added silicon in the contact before I put it together, just to make sure it wasnt gonna let any water in through the

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Now it was time for the modification of the lamphead to take care of the problem with leakage and trouble with putting it together (it was so tight that the air needed to get out couldnt come out...).Next picture shows the 3rd hole I drilled in the back of the lamp where the screw will be (the small hole at the top).Inside of the back of the lamp where I have fixated a screwnut with

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As part of the search for a "perfect" homemade lamp I am also trying out a new lamphead from Jula company for a cost of 99 SEK. I did some modification of this lamphead to but that was more practical than anything else... ;)This picture shows you the small add-ons for this lamphead:2. Added this metal band to make it possible to use my homemade goodman-grip in plastic (nr 1 in the picture)3. To

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I had a look at my statistics for this blog and I especially like to look into where people are coming from....As you can see most people come from Sweden (>1000) but number 3 is different for me... Belgium, 11 visitors, not many but more than Norwegians... ;)Just a thought....It would be interesting to find out how you found your way here.... I guess many of you got here from www.dykarna.nu or

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Becouse of the bad contacts in the canister I am looking for a good and cheap solution on that connection...This is how it looked like before it broke:At the moment this could be the solution:I will try the second(2) and last one from left and seal it all both in and arround the contacts....You can find these contacts here:http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/dyndok.pl?dok=10114.htmhttp://www.elfa.se/

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So here are the photos from my first dive with my new lamp on the wreck "Falken"...This picture shows you how I easaly can clip on my lamp-head to the d-ring on my webbings... The next picture show how I tempory added my battery-canister to my 10/300 dive-tank, when I get my new 2x7/232 tanks this canister will be connected on a similar way, hopefully it's gonna be with the old tank-belt for the

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So today I calculated the cost for building this lamp... People have asked me several times and I have told them it would probably be about 1100 SEK.... not to bad... BUT with all the costs it added up to (look at this image)Yes thats right... 1759 SEK!!! Yes thats alot... But I could have used less expensive parts, probably if I bought them from other places... I didn´t spend to much time

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So just a quick note on my first dive with my divelamp... I will get back to you with some photos from getting into to the water and how I was mounting the lamp onto my other gear.For me this was a success, this lamp!!! Me and Jörgen went to the wreck Falken (http://www.dykarna.nu/diveSpots/show.asp?dyk=20) at Kungsholmen/Fredhäll in Stockholm. For me it was the first dive for the season plus a

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Thanks for commenting my blogg... One person pointed out in the battery part ([ Homemade Divelamp ]: Batteries) that the capacity of the battery found in the the pdf about the battery is changed depending on the amount of Amperes used.As I understand this graph shows how many hours/minutes the battery will last depending on the Ampere load on it... I am not very good at this electricity thing

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So.. time for the last assembling of the lamp after letting everything dry for a few days....First thing to do is to connect the battery inside the canister to the cable and then put the lid on to the canister... First and second picture.... You can aslo see tha lamp-head in these pictures... Here I have made my own good-man-grip out of half a ice-scraper, red one (yes thats right... I got it

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First thing to do is cut of one end of the 50mm double "muff" to make it possible to fit the glass in to it (left pic)... after that i took the ring from the pipe in the right hand picture... (you see it below the pipe)... Then it was to glue the glass to the lamp house and after 2 hours or so I put silicon in between the housing and the glass too to make it even better and totally (hopefully ;)

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So now when I am sort of done with canister I could continue with connecting the cable and switch to the mal housing. The parts I needed for this was:Bottom to the 50 mm pipeThe switchThe rubber top to the switchThe cable connectorAnd the cableFirst thing I needed to do was to calculate where to drill the holes for the connector and the switch. The switch quite big so i had to grind it down to

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The first thing I started on was the battery pack/canister because I had all the parts for it.The first thing I did was to cut off the lid and its thread to be able to have a lid to take off.. so it will be easy to charge the batteries...Next 2 pics shows how the thread are mounted in the top oc hte canister.Same but with the lid in place.Here you can see how the batteries will be mounted inside

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I forgot to mention what type of batteries I was choosing between....There where 3 different ones:Completly sealed Lead-batteries- Ok prices, but 2-3 times more expensive compared to Lead with valvesLead-batteries with valves (ventilerade in Swedish)- Are cheaper- Some info say that they can not be charged or used upside-downNiHM, Nickel Metal Hydride- Very expensive- Smaller and neater to use if

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1 Lamp-head1.1 Glass1.2 The housing1.3 35 W Osram IRC bulb1.4 Bulb-connector1.5 The back of the housing + Seal 1.6 Cable-connector + Nut + Seal 1.7 Power-switch2 Eletricity2.1 Cable3 Battery-canister3.1 Lidd3.2 Top of the canister3.3 Battery part of the canister3.4 Bottom of the canister3.5 The batteries3.6 Cable-connectors3.7 Battery connectors4 Other4.1 Glue4.2 Silicon

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Here is a small preview of the pre-assemble of the lamp-head....1. The different parts so far (glass and cable connector is stillmissing) 2. Next phase 3. All together sp you can get an idea how it probably will looks like when finished...

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This was the hardest part for me and there where a few questions needed to be answered before I decided what batteries to get: How wide is the canister?- The pipe I was going to use has a radius of ~100 mm (inside, 110 outside) so the area and the battery needed to fit within that radius.How many Watt is the bulb on? -> What bulb to get?- I choose to use halogen bulbs because they are cheap to

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There where several different kind of material and way to make the parts but i found that this guy made an simple lamp with material that I probably could find and buy without the need of manufacture anything from steel or aluminium... Especially when it comes to the body for the lamp-house and the canister where the batteries will fit.http://web.telia.com/~u42121096/index.htm http://

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So after surfing arround and googling like an maniac i found a few good places on the net( alot of them are from sweden for the simple reason that I am from sweden ;):How to build your divelamp-links:http://www.baggbodykarna.org/article.cgi?sid=80(a good place to get info about the material and parts that you can use)http://hem.passagen.se/bjlan/dyklampa/http://web.telia.com/~u42121096/index.htm

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The first thing I needed to do was to get information about "how to build" my own divelamp... Question I asked my self was:Can I do it by my self?Do I need any special skill like "lathe operator" or any special material?Is it going to be OK price? Even if I do everything myself?What type of material can I build the lamp in?How strong bulb?How many "amps" for the battery-pack?If X Ampere Hours in

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On this blog i will try to write the progress in building my own divelamp and maybe some intreseting links and info in the subject...I dont want to pay to much at the moment for an dive-lamp so I decided a week ago to see if it was possible to build my own one with really simple and easy to get parts.I will try to show you the progress while building it, from research to (hopefully) finished

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