Blue Green LED Ambient Mood LED Lights - From Recycled Outdoor White LED Lights

The electrical characteristics of 5mm blue and green leds are quite similar to the white LEDs used in this outdoor white LED light.

Simply replacing the white LEDs with the green and blue LEDs gives me a pair of not too bad ambient LED light. Needs careful desoldering of the white LEDs so as not to damage the PCB.

You can get newer and better LED ambient LED lights at affordable prices nowadays, but this project is just an excercise in recycling.

Here are the results. The saturated colors reflected of the walls is due to the Olympus camera which does take pictures well in low light condition. The pictures are taken with just the LED ambient light on. Light output in this case is lowered because the acrylic cover from the old light housing is yellow with age due to many years of exposure to UV from staying out in the sun.