Indie Lights

Indie Lights is a product for independent household lighting. When the Sun sets African households are lit by energy from the grid, solar devices, batteries and fossil or bio fuels. However, what happens when the grid isn't up all day, a solar device isn't fully charged, batteries run out or fuels produce fumes that are harmful to parents and children?

Indie Lights seeks to solve the likelihood of the above problems happening by making household lighting independent of limited common renewable and non-renewable energy sources. The lights are energised by simply turning a knob coil which stores up potential energy and gradually releases its energy to power a generator as it unwinds, eventually producing energy for lighting. 

Indie Lights will provide millions of people around the world with more access to energy for lighting at a lesser cost and longer use than renewables and non-renewables currently in existence.

This project solves the problem of incessant power supply for household lighting in developing countries.

Indie Lights aims to limit the need for extraction and processing of chemicals for batteries and accompanying carbon emissions. This is achieved by storing energy in its mechanical potential form rather than chemical form. Communities will be free from harmful disposal of batteries and chemical risks of water and air pollution. 

Coils that store potential energy can last long after typical batteries are worn out and can no longer hold electric charge thereby reducing the option for replacing whole mini lighting systems with new ones; longer lasting coils also keep electronics circuits and LEDs in full life cycle use. locally repairable by replacing common electronic components, LEDs, coil, electric generator.

The parts that make up Indie Lights are also simple and locally repairable by replacing common electronic components, LEDs, coil and electric generator, which a local electronics hardware person or electronics hobbyist can repair.

This project seeks to serve low and middle income communities in Nigeria.

Indie Lights is a product idea for independent household lighting. LED bulbs are powered by mechanical energy stored in wound springs and have no need for grid connectivity or battery storage.