HOW TO MAKE A 220 VOLT LANTERN (SPOTLIGHT) FROM A CAR HEADLIGHT FOR A HOUSEHOLD

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When the idea came to use a car headlight as street lighting, the question immediately arose about the power of such lighting.

Using a “native” 12-volt light bulb proved to be problematic - the transformer does not fit into the headlamp! There was no desire to separate the weatherproof housing separately for this and lead from it to the headlamp a wire of large cross section.

The way out of this situation was the use of compact halogen lamps with a voltage of 220 volts. On sale there were lamps with a power of 35 and 50 watts. I heard about 75 watts, but could not find. Applied both found types - work successfully.

All that was left was to come up with a reliable way to mount it in the headlight, which allows replacing a failed lamp without any special difficulties.

Let's start by “disassembling” a standard 12-volt lamp in order to remove the fasteners.

The lamp is a lamp itself and a mounting "skirt" connected by soldering.

We separate the lamp from the skirt warming up the soldering place on any available equipment, in our case it is a gas stove.

Then we cut out a piece from the foiled textolite, mark it according to the size of the legs of the bulb, drill, cut, solder along the perimeter and at the end we get the following: