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How To Build A Mega 84cm, 480 LEDs Ring Light For $35

Aug 15, 2015 by Udi Tirosh 17 Comments

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Here is a smart ring light fitted for the LED era. I mean we shared a huge kick a$$ ring light build before, but this one is powered by LEDs rather than CFLs and it is just as huge and just as awesome.

This huge contraption was invented by Gvido Mūrnieks who also made a DIY Light Blaster and who I now consider a master woodman/tinkerer/maker kind of guy.

The build starts with a huge piece of plywood which you can get (along with some aluminum angles) from the scraps section of your local DIY store or carpentry.

The wood is then cut into a circle and reinforced with aluminum frame, then the LEDs go in (using plywood and aluminum helps keeping the ring light under 1 kilo)

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I guess the hard (or at least tedious) part of making this light, was soldering 80 6-LED strips with lead wires and then soldering each strip to the plus and minus contacts that went around the wooden frame.

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A quick calculation shows that 480 LEDs are about 1.5 300-LED strips (around $8 a reel), so the cost is really low for that kind of huge light. The other part is the power supply – a 12V 20A 240W LED power supply (at around $20), which brings the total cost of the thing to $35 sans the scraps.

And the light, it is gorgeous:

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You can read more about the light on Gvido’s 2 parts blog (1, 2), but be warned his site is a trove of time-sucking projects.

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.net

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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