Day two without our Lenovo AIO desktop

Which has gone in for warranty service - intermittently runs hot. This will be the last time cos the 3 year warranty has like two weeks left. 

So...back to the faithful Scorptec box which these days normally resides in Al's Workshop.
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Deer night light - Part 1

New customer has placed a order but I am banned (lol) from posting anything about the job, it's a gift for a special person. I should be OK to post about her bonus night light. 

Bonus gifts are usually smaller around 6 x 4 but in this case I'll make it A4 size.

Customer made the above choice so already printed that on A4 glossyphoto paper.

Tyrrells Sweet Chilli & Red Pepper Chips 165g

My favourite - after the market went to Brandon Park Reject shop for the Tyrrells chips and yes they have them so got the special 3 for $5 bucks.

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Al's Workshop - Developing new ideas

People have been about country property name signs - that's interesting. Already researching some ideas which could end up as a new product line.

Caribbean market - OMG

Never ever in all my years going there have I seen it so crowded. Gave up doing the usual right turn which was backed up past Borg street, pulled out went past and U-turned back into the left turn which itself was backed up but not to bad but still took a while before I handed over my dollar coin. Inside was a sea of vehicles right across to the factories, worked my way around to the back carpark and all good - last photo.

This is the left turn and much better that the right which is backed up way past Borg street - WTF

I'm in but hardly moving, still had to wait for quite some time...why is it like this ?

Phew...here we are !!!

LED lights x 3 with RCU video clip

LED lights x 3 with RCU

As posted I want to modify one of the lights to power LED string or rice lights and if it works out I can offer this as a lighting option with remote control for the night lights.

As posted this is what I got from the market for $10.

Pulled one light apart, unsoldered the battery wires and held up to the desk lamp to get some idea of the PCB component and track layout. Interesting that the five LED's are in parallel with the IC switching the negative through the usual current limiting resistor. Cut the track on the LED side of that resistor and connected a length of six string LED's

Lights off..

Turn on lights with remote control.

The question now is how much current can I pull from that IC which has no identification on the package. Enough for now I'll take some more measurements tomorrow and see how it pans out. I need to get that lab power supply.