I searched for original post but it’s been so long ago it appears to have been lost. A number of years ago I started making my own illuminated Renault losange sign. I made the centre part from scratch with some perplex, tape and leftover paint. Then welded up a steel frame and mounted it with some led lights off eBay.
At that point I put it in a box under the bench as the fabrication of the electrics and a sensor to run off 240V were beyond my electrical capabilities and whilst I didn’t forget about it, it became too hard so semi forgot about it.
Fast forward a few years, and ALDI had cheap sensor lights on sale the other week and I bought some for the side of the house. My brain started ticking, and I thought it might be possible to transfer the innards into the aforementioned sign. I’ll need to wait til it’s dark to see how it comes up. It won’t illuminate the whole sign the way the previous version would have due to the way the lights are mounted but space didn’t permit but hopefully it won’t look too bad. As I used a step light, there will be a feint light on when dark, then the brighter led when the sensor detects movement.
At that point I put it in a box under the bench as the fabrication of the electrics and a sensor to run off 240V were beyond my electrical capabilities and whilst I didn’t forget about it, it became too hard so semi forgot about it.
Fast forward a few years, and ALDI had cheap sensor lights on sale the other week and I bought some for the side of the house. My brain started ticking, and I thought it might be possible to transfer the innards into the aforementioned sign. I’ll need to wait til it’s dark to see how it comes up. It won’t illuminate the whole sign the way the previous version would have due to the way the lights are mounted but space didn’t permit but hopefully it won’t look too bad. As I used a step light, there will be a feint light on when dark, then the brighter led when the sensor detects movement.
