Don42,

Excellent project and details. Using your housing as a heatsink and coupling with thermal grease has given me some ideas for other uses. I am impress with the sunset to sunrise electronics you have housed in a transparent pill bottle. You may think this is simple but I think it sounds pretty advanced for many other applications (e.g., Holiday decoration lighting). Thanks for the posting.

By the way, the CREE products are all well made products. Three years ago I retrofitted more than 50 ceiling recessed lighting fixtures in our house to energy efficient CREE LEDs with wide bezels making a very clean and contemporary looking conversion. The best thing was the CREE LEDs worked with all the 20 year old style Lutron Maestro dimmers and did not have to replace a single dimmer.

Regards, Paul