Deluxe LED Menorah Kit

The Deluxe LED Menorah kit from Evil Mad Science is an updated take on the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one "real" candle plus the lighter candle, or shamash), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night. (That's (2+9)*(8/2)=44 candles all together, for those of you keeping score.)

Ours works pretty much the same way, but uses less wax. When you turn it on, it displays the correct configuration of LED "candles" for a given night of Hanukkah. Each time that you press the button (or switch it off and back on), it displays one more light than it did the previous time that you turned it on (unless it showed all nine last time, in which case it goes back to two). The LEDs are lit up in the traditional sequence, with a gentle fade.

This menorah kit is very easy to build, and includes a pre-programmed microcontroller, battery holder, nine ultrabright LEDs, an alignment guide for the LEDs, and a laser-cut acrylic stand. Once you've built it, you'll have an elegant little LED menorah, ready for the holiday season.

Visit the Jameco Workshop page for an in-depth look at the LED Menorah kit, complete with an assembly walk-through.


The kit comes with 10 mm (huge!) diffused lens LEDs. The kit has yellow LEDs, and requires two AA cells (not included). Suggested AA batteries (P/N: 198707)

Any of the versions can be built with the shamash in the center or on the side (you get to decide while you're building it) and the LEDs can be mounted flush to the circuit board or up to 1 cm above it.

The Deluxe LED Menorah kit is a soldering kit. Basic electronic soldering skill is required, and you provide standard soldering tools: a soldering iron + solder and small ("flush") wire clippers. Suggested soldering kit (P/N: 2113228). No additional knowledge of electronics is presumed or required -- and no programming is required either.

Easy "through-hole" construction ("No surface-mount nothin' nowhere!"). Clear, full-color comic-book style printed instructions are provided with the kit. Lead Free These kits kits are RoHS compliant (lead free). You'll find that everything works well with either regular or lead-free solder-- whichever you care to use.

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