Some of the recent talk of moonlighting must have sparked something in me this afternoon, really this has been on the to-do list for over a year now.

Amazing what you can create with stuff thats been collected in all of my treasure boxes (aka junk bins)

DIY Moonlights:
old cell phone charger - 6VDC @700mA
some CAT5 wire - actually just one pair (any wire 24 gauge or lerger will do)
10 LED's - 3.3V 30mA @ 3000mcd
10 - 100 ohm resisitors

The wall wart should be able to drive 20+ before it's stressed.

A bit of soldering and voila.

The hardest part was waiting until dark to see how they worked.... I finished soldering them and had them installed in the canopy around 2pm or so... waiting the 6+ hours almost caused physical pain!

Pics are really sorry, they don't do the effect any justice, I really need to work on on figuring out how to get better exposure in low light with our digi. In person the effect looks fantastic. Need to get some more resistors to add another half a dozen or so to the string, I really can't believe I actually ran out of them, most likely I put some away so they wouldn't be lost....hence I couldn't find them.