Hi,
I am in the very early stages of a new project idea.
I have been reading and watching youtube videos about using LEDs as a solar collector to generate voltage.
I was thinking of using this to charge a battery, then at night use the battery to power the LEDs as bicycle lights. The idea is to use them as side-lighting, so they wouldn't need to illuminate the path ahead, just make me visible to cars.
So my thinking is to use LEDs in series into a buck/boost converter into a Li-Po battery charger. Then I think I might need to use a second buck/boost to power a 556 timer to get a kind of strobing effect with the LEDs.
Does this sound feasible?
Can anyone suggest the pitfalls associated with such a project?
I am in the very early stages of a new project idea.
I have been reading and watching youtube videos about using LEDs as a solar collector to generate voltage.
I was thinking of using this to charge a battery, then at night use the battery to power the LEDs as bicycle lights. The idea is to use them as side-lighting, so they wouldn't need to illuminate the path ahead, just make me visible to cars.
So my thinking is to use LEDs in series into a buck/boost converter into a Li-Po battery charger. Then I think I might need to use a second buck/boost to power a 556 timer to get a kind of strobing effect with the LEDs.
Does this sound feasible?
Can anyone suggest the pitfalls associated with such a project?