Lava Lite Colour Changing Lamp

[James Cotton]

Hello everyone, me again, with more questions, never any solutions! Today I received a Lava Lite Colour Changing Lamp, bought off Ebay. Works by LEDs and what I think is a heating coil / element. There were no instructions as such, just basic details. It has a button on the front which I can press to change the lamps effects. I can either have colour changing, single colour or colour changing strobe, I think. Unfortunately it appears that it will only colour change 3 of the colours in a sequence, and not all the colours it could / can make. But I suppose my question regards the strobing feature, does anyone know of any easy way to make the strobe slower, its pretty fast to be honest, disco material! I've looked online and cannot find this lamp anywhere, so I'm guessing it's a prototype.

Many thanks

James

[James Cotton]

I'm on it!!!!!!!!

VOXul (Nick) said:

EY!!! One of those thermometers could quickly reveal a heat issue!!!  hahaha! 

You said you were a nurse, don't they have some laying around to check temps on fancy CT scans or something?

James Cotton said:

VOXul (Nick) said:

If you have an infrared thermometer I would point it at similar spots on a standard lamp and then check that temp compared to your coil lamp. Check globe temps, cone temps maybe even bulb to coil temps.

Ha ha ha ha ha.you are mental

 

Cheers

[Metallica Man Trevor]

The smart Astro is amazing!!!
VOXul (Nick) said:

I know Mathmos has the Smart Astro that runs color changing LEDs and heats with a heating element.  Pretty cool looking but sounds like there are some issues with the touch sensitive power panel, still want one though. 

Maybe Lava is trying to follow suit with their own version?  I heard from LL that they were working on Halogen/reflector options for existing lamps, I am wondering if there might be the possibility of some kind of ceramic adapter that heats up and has a ring of LEDs in the center to update our existing lamps IF these bulbs disappear from Lavas grip.

[LampHead]

 The lamp is from about 4 years ago. They were only released in the UK for a short time and never worked.

[Keith]

Hey LampHead, whatever happened with your homemade LED lamp?

LampHead said:

 The lamp is from about 4 years ago. They were only released in the UK for a short time and never worked.

[LampHead]

I still have it and it still works. I have been eying a color changing LED I found in a cool glitter globe Santa from Cracker Barrel but im unsure if it would hold up to the heat. Powering it is another issue since the LEDs I have in it now were made to run with the heating element. Im quite sure I would need to run the new LED off the circuit board in the Santa due to its color changing ability. Some day....

Keith said:

Hey LampHead, whatever happened with your homemade LED lamp?

LampHead said:

 The lamp is from about 4 years ago. They were only released in the UK for a short time and never worked.