Sunbender Do-it-Yourself Solar LED Jar Light Kit

Developed in collaboration with a science teacher from Pennsylvania, our build your own solar LED Jar light is a fun and creative way to teach and learn about solar electricity. Use your own mason jar or recycled jar and build a colorful LED light that automatically comes on at night and goes off at dawn. Choose from 5 different color LED's. I prefer to use a wide-mouth mason jar or anything that is wide enough for the battery pack. 

For optimum brightness the white jar light kit now comes with a 5V 80mA solar panel and 3-AAA battery pack. This kit is an additional $2.00 to cover costs for the additional battery, larger holder and larger solar panel.

 Comes with everything you need.

This kit requires soldering. Tools needed are soldering iron, solder & flux, hot glue gun, electric drill, wire cutters

Colored Jar light:

• 3V 70mA Poly-crystalline solar panel with wires (50 x 50mm)
• Dusk/dawn circuit board with wires and 2 x LED's
• 2 AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries
• 2 AAA Battery holder and wires (15 x 25 x 62mm)
• 4 Wire nuts

White & Firefly Jar Light:

• 5V 80mA Poly-crystalline solar panel with wires (60 x 60mm)
• Dusk/dawn circuit board with wires and 2 x LED's
• 3 AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries
• 3 AAA Battery holder and wires (15 x 37 x 62mm)
• 4 Wire nuts

A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this kit are being donated to help provide solar lighting solutions to disadvantaged communities in Africa.

Also available: Our Pre-wired version of this kit for younger students.

Science Teachers!

Curriculum is available as a PDF for free:

Solar Jar Light Lab Manual - Elementary Level for pre-wired kits.

Solar Jar Light Lab Manual - Middle School Secondary - for pre-wired kits.

Solar Jar Light Lab Manual - High School Secondary - This is the high school level curriculum and is for the kit requiring soldering.

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Check out the YouTube video below done by environmental science students from PA. Please note that the extra "switch" step has been eliminated.