How to Make LED Candles

LED candles can create romantic ambiance without the fire danger associated with real candles. You can also put them throughout the house when the lights go out and you don't want to use flashlights. Follow these easy steps to make LED candles.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• One 100/220 OHM resistor
• One wire cutter
• 9-volt battery clip
• Four wire connectors
• Needle nosed pliers
• Heavy-duty tape
• 9-volt battery

1. Pick up the 100 and 220 OHM resistor and make sure the wires on each side are straight. Hold the wires on one side together and bend the ends over about an eighth of an inch to keep them together.

2. Grab the black negative lead wire from the battery clip. Expose about a quarter inch of wire on the end by trimming the plastic around it and peeling it off.

3. Bunch the resistor wires and black negative battery clip wire together and slide a wire connector over the three wires, shoving them inside. Using needle nosed pliers, squeeze the wire connector together to make sure all the wires are making contact.

4. Hold the two wires on the other side of the 100/220 OHM resistor. Take the long side, or positive wire, on one of your LEDs and bunch it together with them. Slide another wire connector over all three wires and squeeze the connector with needle-nosed pliers to make sure they’re making good contact.

5. Grasp the remaining negative short wire from your LED and connect it to the long, positive wire on another LED. Twist the wires together to make sure they get a good connection inside the wire connector. Slide the wire connector over them and squeeze the connector with needle-nosed pliers.

6. Trim down the remaining red positive wire on the battery clip if it’s more than an inch long. Cut and peel off about a quarter inch of the red plastic off of the end. Twist the battery clip wire and negative LED wire together and slide a wire connector over them. Pinch the connector with needle-nosed pliers.

7. Use a narrow piece of duct tape to bundle and fasten the connectors together with the battery clip so everything isn’t splayed out. Make sure the LEDs are pointing up and the battery clip connectors are pointing down.

8. Bend a couple of adjacent metal pieces outward on the battery clip connector using needle nosed pliers. Snap the battery clip onto the battery. The bent pieces create a sort of switch that you can slide on and off the battery to turn the LED candle on or off.