Christmas lighting picks 2017.
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Some Christmas lighting materials that I feel are worthy of mention for this season. Please excuse the extreme exposure variation. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
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I hope dave finds Kemptown Andy :'(
Clive has a heart of gold, and all the PSAs he's been doing as his channel gets more popular are a fantastic idea.
I wish more people were like him.
The world definitely needs more Clives!
Josh Davies: I hope so too
thank you (and thank you so much Clive too)
Dave
My favorite line: 14:33 "It's not a flickering LED. It's just a shit battery holder."
12:44 "I did another video where I took a dump..." Big Clive, Xmas 2017.
heard this from the kitchen where I'd gone to get a drink and nearly fell over laughing.
If anybody is making a BigClive soundboard, this grab is a MUST.
This first one is quite a nice swedish brand that has been around forever. My dad has a string of christmas tree candle lights that is at least 30 years old made by them..
That's awesome. I watch your channel for the technical info, and the general cheeriness that you exhibit. The fact that you are willing to help someone find a lost relative is truly heartwarming. It only took a few seconds to make the announcement, but it's the thought behind it that really makes you think.
"Camptown Andy".... Sounds like a a sleeper cell activation word.
Ian Colquhoun Keep an eye on the headlines tomorrow
Kemptown, I believe, just outside Brighton.
What could make Xmas better than an upload from Big Clive?
Always pleased at what I get for my Patreon dollar. Keep 'em coming!
No offense, but I'm so so glad that pop was on your end. I heard the pop and freaked out and thought something went pop in the back of my room. lol Then you said something went pop and I was like WHEW! lol
A rollicking 2018 to you and to your brother Clive. Many thanks for all you do here. Adrian
Happy Christmas bigclive. Much love. Thanks for all the videos.
dedication is watching this and nodding along about all the subtle color variants when im partially colorblind lol
I like the first set you showed. The random flickering effect of the leds is nice.
Merry "Whatsit" day Clive. It was -7 degrees C this morning when I got up. Bloody cold weather. I remember your work in Glasgow on the Xmas lights from a few decades ago. I never knew I'd ever see one of those responsible for it on UA-cam, especially as I emigrated to the USA a while back. Ah yes, Craigie Street. We used to have to clear the "ladies" away from the loading dock of a certain office building whenever we had a delivery. It was THAT long ago!!!
Clive, where do you store all the stuff you've bought over the years? It must be an incredible amount by now.
"Oh no, it's so bright!"
Thank you for all you work through 2017 Clive, very enjoyable & Merry Christmas
Have a great Christmas Clive. Thanks for all the information, education and entertainment.
Merry Christmas Clive =)
I want that first set of lights!! Vegas-neon style flash patterns replaced by a gentle random flicker!? Yes please! *edit ordered some from amazon, can’t wait, cheers Clive, I’ve been looking for something like this for years! :D
"Then I took the chip, took a dump." This is why I love you Clive.
Nice work Clive!
We have this year 300 lights in three sets on the tree. 2 x cold white and one warm white. From Homebase, a fiver for 100 lights. Really good looking PSUs, solid and childproof looking.
Nice one for keeping up this good work. I might see if there are any lights left at Poundland betwixt Xmas and Hogmanay
A Blithe Yule and a Guid New Year!
Don't forget that there are C and D size adapters available that take a "double-A" (AA) cell. These are handy for using NiMH AAs to power devices wanting more oomph (just use high capacity NiMH AA cells).
Merry Christmas big dude! 👍
Still a fresh video two days past Christmas. Cheers Clive!
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I need to know more about Kempt town Andy. Do da do dah.
Merry Berry Christmas Big Clive.
I like the glow and warmth that tungsten lamps give
Finnish at the box, and UK plug. Very universal packaging :D Merry Christmast Clive from Finland
Oh, those incendiary imitations look sweet!
With all of those sets which run off two 1.5V cells, you can replace one of the cells with a Joule Thief circuit and run them off of one cell instead. Because the Joule Thief can continue to run down to a very low voltage, you get about the same life out of a single cell as you'd get out of two cells, so you're effectively doubling the life and halving your costs regarding batteries.
Yes, I did that myself, with three identical 2-cell LED strings. I salvaged the makings of the coils from dead CFL lamps. The only other components you require are a bipolar NPN transistor (almost any bipolar NPN transistor will work) and a 1K Ohm resistor.
Each CFL I've opened has had two suitable coil formers. One is a choke on a ferrite core and the other is a toroidal transformer. There's enough wire on the choke to wind two coils. You need two windings each of around 35-40 turns.
Merry christmas Clive..... cheap electrical wonders is always a treat to be appreciated
Merry Christmas and always great to watch
Thanks Clive. Bit late for Happy Christmas, but have a great New Year! Giving me lots of info for next year's lights!
Merry Christmas, Clive, and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
If there ever is lighting shortage at Poundland, just look at Clive's place.
Hoping you have a thoroughly lubricated Christmas and New Year. Thanks for the hours and hours of cool, interesting and lets not forget ever so 'slightly' dangerous videos.
You can tell that the "light going back on" warning is at least partially from Clive's raver days hahahaha
Merry Christmas/happy holidays from Canada!
My dilated pupils thank you 😝
Merry Xmas BigClive. Thanks for all the great vids through the year.
Thank you, Clive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Enjoy the Carlsberg(s)!
I accidentally got daylight led bulbs for our kitchen table light 5 60w bulbs. The washout was blinding! After watching your channel long enough,you would think I would know better,Holy poop!
Ahhh, you are too good to us, an upload timed to arrive on Xmas Day. Have an enjoyable Xmas and New Year.
There'll be another video for evening viewing.
bigclivedotcom I wonder, will it involve exploding Christmas pudding?
I bet it includes Ralfy. Both testing an MRE meal :) If I'm right what did I win ? :D
lol, I feel like you're maybe lending a bit more credit than necessary for a simple click of a mouse to upload a video.
But we know it's the most loving click of Xmas.
I do like a nice set of globes.
I'm glad you covered what caused the circuit to trip. That question was bothering me though the rest of the video.
Happy Christmas, Mr. Big!
Big Clive, the master of Christmas lights. (fairy lights)
Whoa those are really neat sets I'll have to see if they have any US plug style kinds here.
I really like the easy on the eyes golden glow on the LEDs. :)
Oh and we got a pop and a light blowing up and the end result at the end. ;)
The first ones look amazing! Must get! Have you seen Wilko colour changing ones?
A great XMas gift from Clive
Ahh thanks. My yearly Big Clive Xmas episode right on time.
Merry Xmas Big C!
Oh, i expected the "beer: check, bear: check" :3 Merry Christmas to you, Clive.
LEDs in skateboard wheels! Actually caught me by surprise yesterday as my daughter pulled it off the shelf, spun the wheel and the lights went on. Not something easily taken apart. I really am not challenging you to because I can see a blade slipping. Merry Xmas to All.
Best of luck finding Dave’s brother, and merry Christmas Clive!
In Texas we say "recording memory contents". Taking a dump means something different entirely. Merry Christmas.
merry xmass clive buddy !!!
9:05 interesting.. it's using (a variation of) the DIN loudspeaker connector (DIN 41529) that was sooo common in 1960s and 70s audio equipment in most of Euroland
Yes, the speaker style DIN connector has been used in Xmas lighting for a long time.
The first set must use non-flickering LEDs because the flickering ones contain a small chip inside and they wouldn't support the current when the LED is on and would limit too much the current when the LED is dimmed
WOW! Posting on Christmas day, must be almost as bad as me logging in to watch it! LOL Merry Christmas Big Clive!
"Konstsmide" (literally: art smithing) is a Swedish company and their products are the state of the art, the cutting edge when it comes to lighting products.
Merry Christmas Clive and thank you for all your great videos 😊🎅🎄🎁🐧⛄
17:45, tungsten christmas lights. The best!
Good review of Christmas lites-can we expect Big Clive's pick of your favorite New Year's adult beverages?
Clive, can you nake a set of 50 of the slow colour changing LEDs?
I think it'd look really nice
It would. I should.
Luke Den Hartog you can get them from Wilko
For making sets of lights, does anyone know of any place to get that clear PVC insulated (7/0.20mm?) wire similar to that the Poundland battery Xmas lights are made with?
I ordered some packs of 100 colour changing RGB 5mm LEDs, advertised as slow (and also 100 fast) from the Chanzon UK store to make up some strings with:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01C19END2?m=A29VZUSG1WM39I&ref_=v_sp_widget_detail_page
I loved the explanation in replies by Paul Sengupta to zh84 (about 10 comments below) that the flicker has been produced by modulating the signal to the LED with an audio signal playing "Fur Elise" or "Happy Birthday" as from musical greetings cards on some early flickering lamps - brilliant!
I like the new generation LED lights the best. The colours are just so vivid and nice compared to the old lights.
Maplin Electronics in the UK are selling (or possibly sold out now) LED chain sets with IR remote control. I'm sure they won't be rocket science but it might be nice to see inside one. Sadly only 2-wire, although it does have a memory.
Hmmm... This is like Dollarama, Dollartree, Poundworld, Poundland.
Halloween is barely over, and already we are on to Christmas lights.
Or am I a year out of date.
But Clive's review of Fairy Lights / Christmas Lights is always welcome. :-)
Oh dear, Clive taking a dump on Christmas... what an image.
I can see the future! One day, there won't be a new big Clive video. We'll think, "there'll be one soon". Time will pass. Still no Clive. Unbeknownst to us, you'll have been blown up by some errant gadget. So, in anticipation, RIP Big Clive, much loved by many.....
My brother has been told to upload my final video if I do die doing something foolish.
@@BigClive if?
Well I've been trying for 54 years so far.
Merry Christmas Clive, thanks for a great year of very interesting videos. How do you find this stuff on ebay? Can you make an episode on how you pick what you buy and give us all the list of gifts (videos) to look forward to? It amazing how you find these things.
Love the real glass bulb set :-D, yes im an old sod lol.
The plastic stem with a blob at the bottom needs black tape wound around the top to hide sideways led light, they would look nicer then :-D.
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Hope you are having a loverly xmas clive :-D
Bought a set of those Poundland traditional fairy lights to do the LED conversion and there was only 48 fittings.
The plug's a bit flimsy feeling and has an odd security screw so I'd recommend snipping it off and replacing it.
Merry Christmas big Clive, I hope you have had a good year
Hmmm I must check the local shops for those shimmering ones, we get a lot of konstsmide stuff here in Finland. Maybe I'll cover the transparent terrace roof with a thousand or so LEDs for nice ambient lighting :-)
MERRY CHRISTMAS ! Look forward to all your work !
Is 31v a standard UK volatge for lights like this? 12v and 24v are usually standard here in the US.
It has evolved as a standard for LED strings. Probably because the typical forward voltage of an LED is 3V so multiples of ten in series add up to 30V. That allows easy multiples of ten in a string. 50, 100, 200, 500 etc.
bigclivedotcom Americans are generally not so decimal, so maybe the easy 4 or 8 multiples - giving you easy dozens - is preferred there.
Jasper Janssen Can confirm. Christmas lights generally come in strings of 120ct and 240ct here.
The transformer outputs 24vac, then the flasher unit / multi function controller output 31vdc. Then, the new plugs with the controllers inside incorporated both of these together, so the output is 31vdc.
Alpha Road Christmas Lights 2 that seems like a ridiculously expensive way of doing things, to upconvert from 24 to 31V rather than just using a 31V adapter in the first place. At least when you are selling complete sets.
I was hoping for a warm Christmas greeting from Ralfy, just like last year.
Merry Christmas BigClive
I live half a mile away from "Kemptown", I know a few Andy's, I'll get back to you
Merry Christmas, Clive! Great video as always.
Merry Christmas clive.
Hey Clive, I have a set of the lights you showed at 7:50 . After using them for about two weeks, every other LED on the string began to get dimmer slowly until they no longer functioned. Yet the other LEDs that work run normally, batteries aren't flat either. Sounds like a problem with the polarity switching circuitry that I figured I would share with you.
If you have tried fresh batteries then it could be the H-bridge. Easiest way to test would be to cut the two wires and swap them. On some of these they have greens and blues in one polarity and reds and yellows on the other. If the battery voltage is low only the reds and yellows may light.
Happy Christmas Clive! Thanks for the great videos!
Awesome vid as always 👍
Beer is good and Ralfy is likely a good place to arrange high octane lubrication, but I never see Ralfy supporting. Do you think collaborating with the locals a way to check his calibration?
Merry Christmas Clive
Clive can you have a look at one of those Christmas light show projector things. They are remote control. Operates on 24v DC and I'm wondering if there is a way to change the light patterns to Halloween or just other stuff.
Merry Xmas! I have a question for bigclive!
Why does it have a warning on long rolled extension cables to unwind fully before use?
direwind1 The thickness of copper in cables is just enough that it won't heat the plastic beyond a safe limit (usually 70°C) at full load. But if it's rolled together, the heat can't escape fast enough and overheats (at high or full load).
It's for thermal dissipation. If you leave a cable rolled up on a drum and use it to power a high load the cable will get hot and possibly start to melt. It's fine to leave excess length rolled up if the load is very light like Christmas lighting.
Thanks, haha unwinding as we speak as I do have a high load on them!
I once repaired a friends vacuum cleaner where the cable reel had melted due to the same problem. It was quite a high powered machine and they'd obviously used it a lot without the cord fully unwound from the dispenser. Easy fix and I advised them to follow the instructions to unwind it fully before use in future.
bigclivedotcom is it ok to leave it coiled up for home entertainment equipment like TVs and computers?
Every time you show Poundland products I wish the US Dollar was in a better state, the dollar places here doesn't have anything fun like you all get.
Only good thing I have found in a Dollar Tree is a amplified speaker. Other than that they have a bunch of USB cables with crappy resistance issues.
Merry Christmas brother
Merry Christmas !!
Happy Christmas Clive.
Merry Christmas Clive and a Merry Christmas to all
You must have more Christmas lights than Woolworths? Merry Christmas.
So you did have the blue color trash chandeleur up, I never thought that was serious and makes me want to see what other crazy lights you have set up.
Most lights in my house are one-offs.
bigclivedotcom Which is exactly why I want to see them! :-D
very nice lights indeed. i love having a photo realistic ips monitor they show up pretty much as you describe them to be in the video. thats only way be able to see them as good as can take it the camera settings are tuned enough. love how when something goes wrong and just like eh find out what happened later. if it was me im always like.. well bad words and anger later rofl. Merry Christmas. happy new year lets hope for more explosions and more cool led tech comes our way.
Merry Christmas Clive! 🎄🎅🏼🍾🍻
I keep seeing little battery powered sets like this at my local Superstore (a Canadian chain) for between $10-20 depending on the set. No dollar store carries them around here.
E-bay is your friend.
I've bought a number of things off e-Bay. I've found shipping to always take a while, and depending on the shipping charges and conversion rates, it might not be worth it. Depends on what you're getting.
Order from somewhere like Digi-Key, and you'll have it within 1-2 business days as long as they have it in stock, which is very nice.
Merry Christmas, Clive to you and your family. Hope you have a wonderful day. Any chance you could post the links to the lights you're showing? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Merry Christmas again!! 🎄🎅🎁
Merry xmas Clive, maybe you could do this video before Christmas Day next time though!