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Sun Jar: What's Inside

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11.10.06
Design & Architecture (lighting)

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Our post on the Sun Jar was popular and picked up everywhere; Now, thanks to Inhabitat, we get to see the working drawings. As we suspected: a solar cell charges battery which powers the light. There are a thousand dumb and ugly things that do this; what a difference the designer's touch makes. ::Inhabitat

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As you suspected? What else could it be powered by, lightning bug souls? It seems Inhabitat site is down, do they give schematics?

jump to top Anonymous says:

Forever? I'm guessing the battery will die long before the LED does but it's not going to last forever.

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