Does anyone know how we could make a driver that could use something like a 9V battery to power the LED lightbulb like Dean Kamen had? This would be extremely useful for helping sell them.
well an easy way to demo them would be to bring a robot battery hooked up to an inverter and power them inside a lamp.
you could also just bring a lamp and ask to plug it in wherever you are.
I was thinking that it would be a great way to show the small energy usage.
Spend the $20 for a Kill-A-Watt and take that with you, perhaps with a lamp, and a normal bulb to show the energy draw difference. I’d show it running off wall power. A battery will confuse people.
9 volt “Transistor” battery is not capable of sourcing 7 watts:
http://www.powerstream.com/9V-Alkaline-tests.htm
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An inverter really is the only option unless you want to hack into one and remove the transformer and rectifier, or ask that they unscrew one of their lightbulbs for testing.