Deluxe LED Menorah Kit
LED Menorah Soldering Kit
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Deluxe LED Menorah Kit: $14
With your choice of 3 mm or 10 mm diffused yellow LEDs.
Upgraded Version: $17
Same, but with your choice of blue or white LEDs.
Our Deluxe LED Menorah kit is an updated take on the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one "real" candle plus the lighter candle, or shamash), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night. (That's (2+9)*(8/2)=44 candles all together, for those of you keeping score.)
Ours works pretty much the same way, but uses less wax. When you turn it on, it displays the correct configuration of LED "candles" for a given night of Hanukkah. Each time that you press the button (or switch it off and back on), it displays one more light than it did the previous time that you turned it on (unless it showed all nine last time, in which case it goes back to two). The LEDs are lit up in the traditional sequence, with a gentle fade.
The Deluxe LED Menorah kit is based on the same "ix" circuit board as our popular Larson Scanner kit. This menorah kit is very easy to build, and includes a pre-programmed microcontroller, battery holder, nine ultrabright LEDs, an alignment guide for the LEDs, and a laser-cut acrylic stand. Once you've built it, you'll have an elegant little LED menorah, ready for the season.
A few different configurations are available. The normal version comes with with your choice of two different styles of ultrabright yellow LEDs with diffused lenses: 3 mm (tiny), or 10 mm (huge). It requires two AA cells. An upgraded version that comes with blue or white LEDs is also available, and runs on three AA cells.
Any of these versions can be built with the shamash in the center or on the side (your choice) and the LEDs can be mounted flush to the circuit board or up to 1 cm above it.
The Deluxe LED Menorah kit is a soldering kit [?]. Basic electronic soldering skill is required, and you provide standard soldering tools: a soldering iron + solder and small ("flush") wire clippers. No additional knowledge of electronics is presumed or required -- and no programming is required either.
Easy "through-hole" construction ("No surface-mount nothin' nowhere!").
Clear, full-color printed instructions are provided with the kit.
If you would like a preview, you can download a copy of the assembly guide here (5.2 MB PDF file).
This is an open-source project, designed to be hackable. Design files and source code for this project can be found at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Guaranteed to be more kosher than a bacon cheeseburger.
Lead Free
These kits kits are RoHS compliant (lead free). If you're building one of our kits, you'll find that everything works well with either regular or lead-free solder-- whichever you care to use.
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