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Solar Night Lamp

By Ashutosh Bhatt November 15, 2018



Here is a simple Solar Night lamp that turns on automatically at sunset and stays on till morning. It uses 1 Watt High Bright White LEDs to illuminate a confined area.
6 Volt 150 mA Solar panel is used to charge the battery during day time. This mini solar panel cost around Rs.300. Its positive and negative terminals can be directly connected to the battery. Current from the Solar panel passes through IN 4007 diode which acts as polarity protector as well as rectifier. 470 uFcapacitor functions as a reservoir to give steady charge to the battery in varying sunlight conditions. 
Lamp circuit is an automatic switch controlled by an LDR. During day time LDR conducts taking the base voltage of the Driver transistor SL 100 and it will be non conducting to keep the LEDs off. At sunset, resistance of LDR increases and transistor conducts. White LEDs get power and switches on. 

Solar Lamp Off

Fig. 1: Image of Solar Light Circuit Board – Lamp Off 
 

Night Lamp On

Fig. 2: Image of Solar Light Circuit Board – Lamp On
 
Use any Medium power NPN transistor like BD139, TIP 122 etc if SL 100 (CL 100, BEL 100) is not available. Placing the LEDs in front of a reflector ( or Mirror) will increase the light.Light from the LED should not fall on the LDR.Use 6 volt rechargeable battery.  Adjust the POT to set the sensitivity of LDR so that at the required light level, LEDs turn on.Alternately, 4.5 volt battery or mobile battery can be used.Backup time depends on the capacity of the battery since the White LED takes 3 volts and 100-300 mA current.
Solar Panel Setup

Solar Charger

Fig. 3: Image of Front view of Solar panel- LED 
 

Solar Panel working

Fig. 4: Image of Solar Panel in Sunlight
 

Solar Charger with LED

Fig. 5: Image of Back side of Solar panel with diode, capacitor and Test LED
 

Solar Panel Connected to battery

Fig. 6: Image of Solar panel connected to battery
This can be used to charge Mobile phone
 

Final Solar Charger setup

Fig. 7: Image of Final charger setup

 

 

Circuit Diagrams

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