Fly at night it with kites is an experience to try.
See
fly illuminated kites is still more beautiful and with this easy project you
will build your nighttime lights.
They are enough some LED diodes and a
battery and the play is made.
LED diodes are those small bright sources omnipresent in
all electric apparatuses, usually of red or green or yellow color, that is
possible to find in every electronic components shops.
They are preferable of
brightness type that are seen from far away, the color doesn't matter and
depends on the tastes.
Because they works to around 2 volt, using a normal 9 volt
battery you must put four or five of them in series like illustrated in
underlying picture .
You have to make attention to don't reverse the two
terminals polarity because otherwise the LED is burnt, it's enough to remember
that the positive terminal is a little bit longer than the other
.
As you can see in picture , I have used two LED series
placed ondelta longerons with the battery fixed in central position.
It's
necessary to connect all the LED with pieces of thin cable by means of welding
because otherwise the electric contact won't ever be good, for fix them they at
kite could be used plastic clips as well as velcro strips.
Replacing any
LED with an intermittent light type one (one for each wing in the illustrated
example), all others LED will flash also.
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