DIY Metal Lamp with Door Lock & Opple Spotlight

How to DIY a small lamp using a door lock and an Opple spotlight? If you're curious about this idea, check out this article.

So how do you make it? You'll need a discarded, heavy door lock — sand it down to repurpose it as the lamp base. Then replace the lamp head with an Opple spotlight. For the lamp pole, use an M6 extended round nut combined with an M6 screw. This way, you'll create a small lamp with a strong metallic feel.

The door lock is shown below:

Connector parts are shown below:

The Opple 5W spotlight with four LEDs is shown below:

Specifications for the spotlight are shown below:

The internal driver of the lamp head is shown below:

Driver and lamp board:

It uses a 9512 constant current driver. The current-limiting resistors RS1 and RS2 are connected in parallel — RS2 is replaced from 5R10 to 220, reducing the power to 3W.

Drilling and Assembly:

Once all components are assembled, the lamp looks like this:

The connector installation point is shown below:

You can add screws or weights to fill the hollow parts of the base.

The finished product is shown below:

Done.