Today I learned an important lesson. When one is working all alone restoring servers at the office late at night whilst blasting classic rock though normally disabled speakers in an attempt to stay awake it would be wise to verify at least TWICE the following. A. You have switched audio output BACK to tiny headphones. B. Lower volume to less than a level that previously fed Journey to the back of office server rooms. and finally C. The entire floor of cubicles is not currently filled to capacity with office workers. These Three important and necessary steps should be completed BEFORE opening any video in which Big Clive bellows "Where is the Gay Dalek underwear party". Just a suggestion.
My inner movie screen works far too well. I am still laughing even 20 minutes after reading this comment. Which is starting to get rather painful at this point, but still... 🤣
isn't that basically all those screwdrivers with bulbs in them are? screwdriver on one end, probe on the other, neon bulb in the middle (at least I think it's a neon)
Well, if you poke the screwdriver into higher voltage than a regular mains voltage you could be in for a surprise since there's just a current-limiting resistor and the neon bulb.
They work really well. I've made a couple and spread them around. One on my bench, one in my tool bag, one in my glove box, etc. For when you need to know if there's power, not the magnitude. I've added a red and green LED's in series with mine, with the LED's back to back. With DC current one of the LED's will light, depending on polarity. AC lights them both. A 120v, 5w bulb will limit the maximum current to 42ma and a 220v, 5w bulb will limit the maximum current to 23ma. The 23ma is a bit on the high side but should be fine, but the 120v version (can't get them smaller than 5w here) will need around 66 ohms of resistance (resistance dissipates 60mw) in parallel with the LED's to suck away some of that LED current.
I absolutely love the way Dalek R _completely_ breaks character with that shocked "O-oh." Like yeah, killing humans via battery change is pretty fuckin nasty lmao
I've been watching a lot of your videos lately. Today, my little brother came to me with a burnt charging cable and melted charge port on the phone. measured 50v from the charging socket built into his alarm clock that he uses to charge his phone. never would have thought to check for that if it hadn't been for your videos. Thank you very much for your time and dedication!
I have one of these guys. The first thing I did was throw the power cord in the trash. The second thing I did was to remind myself to never use the USB port. The solar panel works very well and the device makes an excellent camping light.
The front and back silicon cases are my favourite kind. They don't require laboratory conditions and a very steady hand to apply like the plastic screen protectors, they don't chip and snap like the plastic covers, they don't shatter like the glass screen protectors, and they don't triple the weight and thickness (as well as block GPS signals and multitouch) like the metal/rubber case I once bought.
Death-o-meter: Love it :) It always amazes me how many people don't have a case on their phone. It's usually people with iPhones, and usually to show them off.
I don't have a case on my phone because I don't want the extra bulk in my pocket. Never owned an iPhone in my life. I did drop one phone on concrete but, luckily, it cracked the back of the phone and not the screen, and I've stopped doing the thing that made me drop it.
If I didn't keep a case on my phone, it would've been broken like a week after I bought it. I drop shit, a lot. Lol I can intentionally be careful with some stuff (my laptop, guns, etc) but with an object I have in my hands probably 30% of my day it's a little hard to be so diligent
LOL your sense of humor always makes me chuckle clive :-D Death daptor is the right name, it makes crap switchmodes look quite safe LOL. Remove the mains socket and fit the usb charge socket, 5v switchmodes are so common and a much better choice :-).
Clive: "The current is referenced to Earth, which means the RCD is going to get bridge rectified in parallel until the capacitor is discharged by the Nickel-Cadmium milliresistors." Me: *nods sagely* My brain: "What is going on"
olbrzym11 I have seen almost as bad. I bought a bulk pack of USB leads on ebay, and it came with "free USB charge port device", which was similar to what you have said. Capacitive dropper, bridge rectifier, no smoothing. Mains pretty much straight through on the hot side.
Found your channel 2 days ago and been binging ever since, I have no aptitude for electrics/electronics [got sidetracked into motorbikes/wine/women and ?er well aircraft ] but have learned more watching your vids then I have in the last 48 years .
Best thing i ever took apart was a "Portable Battery lifetime enhancer" the problem was it did nothing for my battery but when taking it apart the spring mechanism if not held would swing inward puncture the (Rather large) internal battery. Well it did and within seconds i see fire bellowing out thank goodness my chair broke or i would have a rather different colored face and hands. Some of this stuff is just made terribly.
I wouldn't recommend removing the internal NiMH cells, since connecting it to the mains without any cells installed in the expansion slots would result in full rectified mains voltage across the circuit, which would likely kill the electrolytic capacitor and/or anything plugged into the USB.
I remember several similar DIY circuits from my school years. Seems someone in China simply browsed through DIY reference circuits as well. Then cost-optimized found ones for repurposing into death traps. Brownish cushion like capacitor have strong resemblance with non-polar sub-1uF / 250V capacitors made in USSR at eighties. Most likely this one also came from recycled component bin.
Have you thought about doing a test on various 5 volt wall warts to see if any part of the USB output is at mains potential? As for the Apple charging blocks, if you use the extension cord adapter that directly interfaces into the block when one removes the outlet adapter plug( yes they come in 4 flavors, one for each major continent, USA, UK, EU, Australian) it will have an active ground lead that ties the block to ground. This seems to work at removing the tingle from the metal backs on the various iXX products. Also flipping the block in the outlet on the US and EU can eliminate the tingle.
Using some ideas I gained from your video I made and extremely bright led task light with a magnetic base that doubles as a power switch. I have a steel beam jib boom in my garage and it covers most of the garage by pivoting, when I stick the light to the jib it turns on. Now that I've described it, it occurs to me a push button sticking through the bottom where the magnets are would be more reliable on painted surfaces, rather than using the magnets to conduct current. Thank you for inspiring me
must be a 240V thing because the decoupling capacitors running on 120V don't pass enough current to be felt at all, so metal cased phones are no big deal, plus everybody uses cases.
If you touch the live wire directly with your finger you won't feel anything? Are you kidding me? Besides, it's what happens here. The shield of the USB port is directly connected to the live wire.
As an owner of a smartphone with a metal design, these kind of products scare me a lot! If I'm out and about, I'd rather let my phone die than plug it into a random USB port... Don't worry, I didn't pay anywhere near £600 for my smartphone. More like £150 on Black Friday :) Great video as always Clive
I have a ChaoDeli lamp where the SHIELD and NEGATIVE of the USB port is DIRECTLY connected to one of the mains lead. And that's not all. Battery compartment is referenced to the mains too! In fact, that's not even the best it's got! It is even connected in PARALLEL to a 2-cell (4.8V) LEAD ACID BATTERY. Yes you've heard it right! LEDs are wired in series to a pot, with no current limiting at all. The pot started smelling funny after a few minutes... The figure 8 lead it came with also looks suspiciously thin, and the Europlug disassembled itself when trying to put it in a plug socket. I have a video (unfortunately it's in Italian) on my channel about it. If enough people want it, I may translate it into English!
very interesting Clive, a friend got something similar to one of these but it runs on 2 18650 cells, charges with just 5 volts such as from a pc, and has that telescoping function but with warm white leds. and it can act as a charger. he got it from his workplace as a Christmas gift along with everyone else who works for that company.
It kind of highlights the importance of earth leakage measurements in electrical safety tests rather than just being content with insulation tests and earth bonding. Your video also shows the naivity of having un-polarised mains plugs: at least with polarised plugs, there would be a 50% chance that the USB chassis would connected to Neutral. With 2 pin mains plugs, who knows where the live connection is on the appliance (who else knows if various National electrical authorities actually care?) . Thanks for the video: I am off to test all my USB chargers and PSUs etc for earth leakage.
Nice. I have one of these camping lights. The stock wire cable to charge it with 220v had a iron nail/ something inside it, it was SOOO Weird to see. We changed the cable soon after, I wish I could keep it... I think I have a picture of it at least.
I keep coming back to these gay dalek videos every now and then, I keep seeing these pop up on various chinese online stores and a lot of them have hundreds of great reviews and it kinda worries me how there's so many people getting these things and being completely unaware they might be a couple millimeters away from a fatal shock Makes me wonder how many people have been actually killed by these things. I'm definitely never going to get anything from china that plugs into the mains, things powered by USB are a different story though, much less that can go wrong on those although I've had a cheap chinese microusb cable short out and if I didn't notice it would've probably melted the AC adapter as it was quite hot after only a minute
Goodness me...here I am loving another video of yours and realized I'm not subscribed. Might as well do it now after seeing that fabulous intro XD Great shit, sir. Keep it up!
Or just blank off the mains socket by filling it with epoxy resin and charge the batteries using the existing usb socket with a higher voltage power supply fitted with a series resistor to limit the current. Great Dalek voice at the beginning.
if you put some non-rechargeable batteries in to its battery holder and plug-in the 120v cable the batteries may end up exploding which may or may-not be fun
Clive Thanks For Showing Us How To Make The Light Safe ..Now My Wife Will Not Light Up Like A Xmas Tree When She Plugs Her Phone In To Charge On That New Light I Bought Her. .. Gotta Cancel That Life Insurance Now
It doesn't have a way to distinguish if primary cells are put in it, does it? Methinks it would release the schmoo from primary cells, with all the bad smell and risk of fire associated therewith.
That's actually not a U.S. plug. As lousy as our (I'm Canadian, but we use the same plugs) are, they are actually superior to the even worse Chinese plug. Note that the plug doesn't have the two little holes at the end of the prongs. Those are required on proper U.S. plugs to safely hold the plug in the socket.
So if you've got battries in the bottom and put it on the mains the mains voltage is going to the battries as well. Am I right in thinking some batteries will explode with mains power?
Really making me thing buying from China and buying cheap isn't the way to go. Do you ever find the name brand electronics with the same problems or is it just the cheap stuff from China. Thanks I really enjoy watching you break everything down. I'm learning a bunch. Two thumbs up.
Today I learned an important lesson. When one is working all alone restoring servers at the office late at night whilst blasting classic rock though normally disabled speakers in an attempt to stay awake it would be wise to verify at least TWICE the following. A. You have switched audio output BACK to tiny headphones. B. Lower volume to less than a level that previously fed Journey to the back of office server rooms. and finally C. The entire floor of cubicles is not currently filled to capacity with office workers. These Three important and necessary steps should be completed BEFORE opening any video in which Big Clive bellows "Where is the Gay Dalek underwear party". Just a suggestion.
That sounds like a good result to me.
Andrew Baker lmfao. I hope this story is true
XD
Andrew Baker. Um... err... Suprise?
My inner movie screen works far too well. I am still laughing even 20 minutes after reading this comment. Which is starting to get rather painful at this point, but still... 🤣
I wish there was another angle of Clive making that intro
perhaps he is wearing a pink dress and associated women underwear, i think maybe id rather not know
jusb1066 I think he'd suit it. Or maybe one of those Chinese dresses like the one Izzard wore?
I'd like to get some good angles on Clive
Most fabulous intro. More reason you quickly became a favourite of mine.
Fuck yes.
That's a pretty good gay dalek impression Clive. Suspiciously good. Are you... ya know.... a dalek?
Only if they have bear Daleks.
you must not have seen Dalek Caan. Rawr!
"Three pre-corroded screws" You never cease to amaze me, dude. The little things you say like that are precisely what make you legendary.
Now connect both together with a USB-A to USB-A cable and plug them into the mains with one plug reversed. Should be quite a nice firework
Katy Perry starts playing in the background
ultimate gay dalek suicide pact
Lets take a moment to stand in awe at bothering to put a capacitor discharge resistor in while allowing mains voltage on the USB port
i bet the postman thinks wtf does this bloke keep buying lol
Clive, Julien, Ashens and Techmoan are on a mission to make the post office profitable.
pileofstuff who's Julien? i enjoy all the other channels mentioned
pileofstuff and photonicinduction
Speaking of Photon, have you seen his last video explaining what's been going on with him? Poor guy, hope he gets things sorted sooner than later.
deathometer, a lightbulb with two multimeter probes, a must for any electronics lab.
isn't that basically all those screwdrivers with bulbs in them are? screwdriver on one end, probe on the other, neon bulb in the middle (at least I think it's a neon)
No. They will light up with non-lethal current as well, so it will not tell you if it's safe to touch or not.
Well, if you poke the screwdriver into higher voltage than a regular mains voltage you could be in for a surprise since there's just a current-limiting resistor and the neon bulb.
zaprodk If it passes 20 milliamps, itll also pass 50.
They work really well. I've made a couple and spread them around. One on my bench, one in my tool bag, one in my glove box, etc. For when you need to know if there's power, not the magnitude. I've added a red and green LED's in series with mine, with the LED's back to back. With DC current one of the LED's will light, depending on polarity. AC lights them both. A 120v, 5w bulb will limit the maximum current to 42ma and a 220v, 5w bulb will limit the maximum current to 23ma. The 23ma is a bit on the high side but should be fine, but the 120v version (can't get them smaller than 5w here) will need around 66 ohms of resistance (resistance dissipates 60mw) in parallel with the LED's to suck away some of that LED current.
I absolutely love the way Dalek R _completely_ breaks character with that shocked "O-oh." Like yeah, killing humans via battery change is pretty fuckin nasty lmao
I bet that cable is CCA not copper as well.
mikeselectricstuff Chinesium wires? Copper plated if we're lucky!
mikeselectricstuff CCA is aluminum plated with copper.
@@BeezyKing99 CCA = Copper Coated Aluminum
I've been watching a lot of your videos lately. Today, my little brother came to me with a burnt charging cable and melted charge port on the phone. measured 50v from the charging socket built into his alarm clock that he uses to charge his phone. never would have thought to check for that if it hadn't been for your videos. Thank you very much for your time and dedication!
I have one of these guys. The first thing I did was throw the power cord in the trash. The second thing I did was to remind myself to never use the USB port. The solar panel works very well and the device makes an excellent camping light.
The front and back silicon cases are my favourite kind. They don't require laboratory conditions and a very steady hand to apply like the plastic screen protectors, they don't chip and snap like the plastic covers, they don't shatter like the glass screen protectors, and they don't triple the weight and thickness (as well as block GPS signals and multitouch) like the metal/rubber case I once bought.
Behold! The Doctor Who Christmas special.
Death-o-meter: Love it :)
It always amazes me how many people don't have a case on their phone. It's usually people with iPhones, and usually to show them off.
Paul Potter why
That makes me think of when I was taking my phone out of it's case (out of boredom) a classmate reacted with "I didn't know your phone was blue!".
I absolutely hate cases on any phone though I know I only use iPhone but first watched this video on a Samsung s3 without a case
I don't have a case on my phone because I don't want the extra bulk in my pocket. Never owned an iPhone in my life. I did drop one phone on concrete but, luckily, it cracked the back of the phone and not the screen, and I've stopped doing the thing that made me drop it.
If I didn't keep a case on my phone, it would've been broken like a week after I bought it. I drop shit, a lot. Lol I can intentionally be careful with some stuff (my laptop, guns, etc) but with an object I have in my hands probably 30% of my day it's a little hard to be so diligent
LOL your sense of humor always makes me chuckle clive :-D
Death daptor is the right name, it makes crap switchmodes look quite safe LOL.
Remove the mains socket and fit the usb charge socket, 5v switchmodes are so common and a much better choice :-).
That intro was gold. Hats off to you sir.
That intro was hilarious
Congrats Clive, you are now officially my favourite UA-cam channel ever.
It's bloody terrifying how many of these manufacturers connect the mains to USB ports.
The beginning makes me think of Dark Helmet playing with his dolls. I'm dying!
Strangely enough I think the same thing when I see it. That exact scene from Space balls immediately came to mind.
Clive: "The current is referenced to Earth, which means the RCD is going to get bridge rectified in parallel until the capacitor is discharged by the Nickel-Cadmium milliresistors."
Me: *nods sagely*
My brain: "What is going on"
I am waiting for China to build USB power adapter with resistive dropper and single diode rectification.
olbrzym11 I have seen almost as bad. I bought a bulk pack of USB leads on ebay, and it came with "free USB charge port device", which was similar to what you have said. Capacitive dropper, bridge rectifier, no smoothing. Mains pretty much straight through on the hot side.
You need a zener in there too. Still.... only 3 parts.
Peter S in mine there *was no zener*.
olbrzym11 nice profile picture
I'm waiting for them to make a adaptor for electronics that doesn't step down the voltage
You just reminded me of that old channel 4 show "TV Offal". Home of the original gay daleks.
It was Victor Lewis Smith and I think it was on BBC2. You can find the sketches on you tube
davidrobert2007
I subscribe to you! Never would have thought I'd find you on this channel!
Small world - Hey!
Found your channel 2 days ago and been binging ever since, I have no aptitude for electrics/electronics [got sidetracked into motorbikes/wine/women and ?er well aircraft ] but have learned more watching your vids then I have in the last 48 years .
Best thing i ever took apart was a "Portable Battery lifetime enhancer" the problem was it did nothing for my battery but when taking it apart the spring mechanism if not held would swing inward puncture the (Rather large) internal battery. Well it did and within seconds i see fire bellowing out thank goodness my chair broke or i would have a rather different colored face and hands. Some of this stuff is just made terribly.
Ronald Mahan that would not sound like a greatly enhanced lifetime
Hmmm... I see.
It was portable, it had a battery, and it gave you an interesting time of your life(so it was a lifetime enhancer)?
0:00 ... 0:36
If the Academy don't give Clive an Oscar for this, the Academy are dead to me.
I wouldn't recommend removing the internal NiMH cells, since connecting it to the mains without any cells installed in the expansion slots would result in full rectified mains voltage across the circuit, which would likely kill the electrolytic capacitor and/or anything plugged into the USB.
Your dalek voice is fantastic.
The gay daleks should have their own segment on the BcDc show. You can call it "ask a gay dalek."
Literally the best intro to any UA-cam video ever.
This is just one of those quintessential *classic* bigclive videos.
Dr. Clive is actually a Time Lord.
Daaaaamn, that Dalek impression was pretty much spot on!
**pauses video after the intro and giggles a lot**
I'll... watch the rest in a moment...
**returns to giggling**
You do your viewers a big service. I have tested and gotten rid of all the dicey chargers I have acquired.
The beginning is worthy of a thumbs up alone.
Funny thing is that when you put the word "gay" in the title, an advertisement for gay texting/dating app pops up!
But I don't want to meet any Daleks
I would love to meet a Dalek :(
Phil Sierra or condoms
FP5Reviews sign me the fuck up now
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus It's not. I didn't even go near that thing and it appears on my sister's account too.
That intro had be laughing out loud like a mad man. BBC should hire you for voicing daleks in the future.
I remember several similar DIY circuits from my school years. Seems someone in China simply browsed through DIY reference circuits as well. Then cost-optimized found ones for repurposing into death traps. Brownish cushion like capacitor have strong resemblance with non-polar sub-1uF / 250V capacitors made in USSR at eighties. Most likely this one also came from recycled component bin.
30 seconds of pure laughs, amazing. I love your sense of humour Clive.
Have you thought about doing a test on various 5 volt wall warts to see if any part of the USB output is at mains potential? As for the Apple charging blocks, if you use the extension cord adapter that directly interfaces into the block when one removes the outlet adapter plug( yes they come in 4 flavors, one for each major continent, USA, UK, EU, Australian) it will have an active ground lead that ties the block to ground. This seems to work at removing the tingle from the metal backs on the various iXX products. Also flipping the block in the outlet on the US and EU can eliminate the tingle.
Clive, remember what mum said about mushrooms you found outside. ;)
"Clive, don't eat them. Make tea from them."
She said "smoke them Clive, much better this way"
I guess I'm going to be a lot more suspicious around stuff that plugs directly into mains from now on
I have to revisit this vid every so often just for the intro.... love it.
Clive when I see you solder or screwing your hands are as steady as a rock so you aren't clumsy. I envy your steady hands :)
That little bit at the start was well done. Please do more, they are funny.
True but god help it if anyone else tried to pull it off..........They'd probably be sent to a padded room somewhere LOL.
So I stumbled onto this video while looking up a clip of a Dalek shouting "EXPLAIN"....Dammit Clive. I was NOT prepared for that intro.
Using some ideas I gained from your video I made and extremely bright led task light with a magnetic base that doubles as a power switch. I have a steel beam jib boom in my garage and it covers most of the garage by pivoting, when I stick the light to the jib it turns on. Now that I've described it, it occurs to me a push button sticking through the bottom where the magnets are would be more reliable on painted surfaces, rather than using the magnets to conduct current.
Thank you for inspiring me
Kind of scary things these Killer Daleks...! Keep up the great work Clive. Nick.
I look forward to seeing the next dalek death-light - three will definitely make a party!
no dalek sex? I'm disappoint :'(
they both have usb sockets, theyd need an adapter dildo for any action
+Da Keks spikey sex huh :)
They need a USB hole warmer.
The best 'hole warmer' for shoving up isis/daesh would be my big 60w solon soldering iron!!!
quaxk We don't need it
must be a 240V thing because the decoupling capacitors running on 120V don't pass enough current to be felt at all, so metal cased phones are no big deal, plus everybody uses cases.
Yes I would agree. I have never experienced what he was talking about here in the United States.
If you touch the live wire directly with your finger you won't feel anything? Are you kidding me? Besides, it's what happens here. The shield of the USB port is directly connected to the live wire.
chems *everybody uses cases unless they're a fuckin' masochist.
As an owner of a smartphone with a metal design, these kind of products scare me a lot! If I'm out and about, I'd rather let my phone die than plug it into a random USB port...
Don't worry, I didn't pay anywhere near £600 for my smartphone. More like £150 on Black Friday :)
Great video as always Clive
My grandmother gave me one of these for the holidays. I showed her this video.
I think this is the best title of a youtube video ever
I have a ChaoDeli lamp where the SHIELD and NEGATIVE of the USB port is DIRECTLY connected to one of the mains lead.
And that's not all. Battery compartment is referenced to the mains too! In fact, that's not even the best it's got! It is even connected in PARALLEL to a 2-cell (4.8V) LEAD ACID BATTERY. Yes you've heard it right!
LEDs are wired in series to a pot, with no current limiting at all. The pot started smelling funny after a few minutes...
The figure 8 lead it came with also looks suspiciously thin, and the Europlug disassembled itself when trying to put it in a plug socket. I have a video (unfortunately it's in Italian) on my channel about it. If enough people want it, I may translate it into English!
very interesting Clive, a friend got something similar to one of these but it runs on 2 18650 cells, charges with just 5 volts such as from a pc, and has that telescoping function but with warm white leds. and it can act as a charger. he got it from his workplace as a Christmas gift along with everyone else who works for that company.
How can I not click on this video when it has such an appealing title?
Ok, I award you the Oscar for "Best Title of a UA-cam Video".
It kind of highlights the importance of earth leakage measurements in electrical safety tests rather than just being content with insulation tests and earth bonding. Your video also shows the naivity of having un-polarised mains plugs: at least with polarised plugs, there would be a 50% chance that the USB chassis would connected to Neutral. With 2 pin mains plugs, who knows where the live connection is on the appliance (who else knows if various National electrical authorities actually care?) . Thanks for the video: I am off to test all my USB chargers and PSUs etc for earth leakage.
Nice. I have one of these camping lights. The stock wire cable to charge it with 220v had a iron nail/ something inside it, it was SOOO Weird to see. We changed the cable soon after, I wish I could keep it... I think I have a picture of it at least.
I keep coming back to these gay dalek videos every now and then, I keep seeing these pop up on various chinese online stores and a lot of them have hundreds of great reviews and it kinda worries me how there's so many people getting these things and being completely unaware they might be a couple millimeters away from a fatal shock
Makes me wonder how many people have been actually killed by these things. I'm definitely never going to get anything from china that plugs into the mains, things powered by USB are a different story though, much less that can go wrong on those although I've had a cheap chinese microusb cable short out and if I didn't notice it would've probably melted the AC adapter as it was quite hot after only a minute
You could make it better by fitting a cheap usb boost converter - at least you'd get a constant 5v output
What are you using to record videos? i heard you saying ipad, but quality of sound and video is really good
It's an iPad 2.
bigclivedotcom with internal microphone? what do you use to hold ipad?
The iPad sits on two pull-out supports on an overhead shelf. The built in microphone seems to deal with ambient audio well.
bigclivedotcom Nice, im just surprised how good it sounds and looks since its recorded with 4 year old ipad
bigclivedotcom aren't you scared for the day it might break down and you haven't got a replacement video camera ?
I've probably watched this ten times over the years, just for that intro.
Really good Dalek impression!
Goodness me...here I am loving another video of yours and realized I'm not subscribed. Might as well do it now after seeing that fabulous intro XD
Great shit, sir. Keep it up!
Brilliant. Video title of the year 🏆
The 680k discharge resistor is somewhat hypocritical if you kill people via the USB plug.
wow the new season of doctor who looks great
It’s 3 am and I don’t know how I ended up at this particular video but that intro was amazing hahah
Anodized aluminum, the most common metal used for phone cases is non-conductive assuming the anodized layer isnt scraped off
I saw the title of the video and subscribed immediately, I have no idea what this channel is about and I don't care
Wise choice. This channel is just glorious. Oh and be sure to check out the fanny flambeaux doll video for starters. That made me push the button :-)
Great impressions. Loved that intro.
Please provide links to where these (and any clones) are sold so we can complain to the website (ebay or Amazon, presumably).
Or just blank off the mains socket by filling it with epoxy resin and charge the batteries using the existing usb socket with a higher voltage power supply fitted with a series resistor to limit the current.
Great Dalek voice at the beginning.
if you put some non-rechargeable batteries in to its battery holder and plug-in the 120v cable the batteries may end up exploding which may or may-not be fun
Ben Chavez ~ yes, very true, but in Clive case it would be 220volts, and where I come from its 240volts mains, yay!
It's not just Fun, it's !!FUN!!.
Mr. Bob Cyndaquil - yes you are right lol
vk3hau - yes i know but the plug on the charging cord that comes with the camping light has a US plug on it.
Just the title is enough to get me watching this one first coming home from work. Love the skit at the beginning.
Clive Thanks For Showing Us How To Make The Light Safe ..Now My Wife Will Not Light Up Like A Xmas Tree When She Plugs Her Phone In To Charge On That New Light I Bought Her. .. Gotta Cancel That Life Insurance Now
Niges View On ThinGs Why Are You Typing Like This?
no you simply have to expand it into uhh them kinds of situations hehehehe
It doesn't have a way to distinguish if primary cells are put in it, does it?
Methinks it would release the schmoo from primary cells, with all the bad smell and risk of fire associated therewith.
In your safer circuit,the RC portion in AC input and Rectifier are removed and an external 5v usb charger is suggested.It is ok.
I've got a metal bodied OP2, I do like it, and I think it helps with heat dissipation, that said, it's in an otterbox 😊
wow doctor who should hire you
I laughed so much to the gay darlek showdown. Great video as always. 👍😉
Your gay Dalek impression sounds EXACTLY like Cosmo and Dibs from You and Me.
I'd forgot all about them and that show
Just watched a Doctor Who episode containing Daleks.
What a coincidence!
Omfg, this is what I first see when snorting memes
bearing in mind the "thin" mains lead has a U.S. mains plug. these are always 110v not meant to be used on 240.....
+captainboggles The Chinese use these plugs for 220v.
That's actually not a U.S. plug. As lousy as our (I'm Canadian, but we use the same plugs) are, they are actually superior to the even worse Chinese plug. Note that the plug doesn't have the two little holes at the end of the prongs. Those are required on proper U.S. plugs to safely hold the plug in the socket.
Better to put the resistor in the + not in the ground: if your metal-cased load touches your metal-cased source there's no current limiting.
So...Basically, with the addition of alkaline batteries, this also functions as an electrically fused grenade?
The first 32 seconds should be a movie.
Go watch some TV Offal :D
TV is so yesterday... :D
This is what happens when you let Captain Jack insert his dongle in one of the Dalek's ports.
Big Clive is the reason why I never buy electrical items from ebay.
plenty of dodgy stuff in the shops here in Aus
All you need to look out for is stuff that's too cheap to be true.
Tiberius Wallace
That's funny because Big Clive is the reason I buy a lot of stuff from China! The crappier the better💩
Big Clive is the reason why I *do* buy electrical items from ebay.
Have you ever contacted the manufacturer and/or seller to tell them how dangerous the device is and how it could be fixed?
for the first 25 seconds of the video, I was unsure if you were drunk or whether I was just in the weird part of UA-cam again. :-D
So if you've got battries in the bottom and put it on the mains the mains voltage is going to the battries as well. Am I right in thinking some batteries will explode with mains power?
Really making me thing buying from China and buying cheap isn't the way to go. Do you ever find the name brand electronics with the same problems or is it just the cheap stuff from China. Thanks I really enjoy watching you break everything down. I'm learning a bunch. Two thumbs up.
Nice. We don’t have Whole house RCDs in America. Just little GFI plugs.