Huge 30W ceramic core LED light (with schematic)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- One correction to make. I said and wrote 220uF for the main capacitor instead of the actual value of 22uF. (I was already thinking about the parallel 220nF capacitor when I did that.)
Just like the other lights made by Sansi, this was a beast to get apart. Lots of plastic bits tightly clipped together. But once it was apart I could see the logic behind their assembly process.
The main feature of this lamp is the custom ceramic core LED modules to help take the heat away from the LED chips. There is a bit of redundancy built in as three parallel sections of 12 LEDs are used per module. The buck driver is a classic type found in many LED lights.
Each module has a voltage of about 36V at about 160mA.
I bought this from a UK-eBay shop, but they appear to have eBay shops in other countries too:-
The price has gone up significantly since I bought this one.
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Whoever designed the molds for that deserves a raise.
Industrial engineering tour-de-force for a screw in LED.
When your talent and ability is beyond your current job placement. Over qualified and underpaid for sure
In a year or two this will be done by AI in 5 min. If not already today. Will look very different then.
I think the computers did it. The designed 1 led segment and replicated the rest.
Look like Corona Viruses embedded in snowflakes.🥶😮💨 😄
Looks like the Magic Roundabout in Swindon!
This reeks of being designed in-computer and directly 3D printed, then presumably molds were made. I love how very different it is, it feels like something from the near future.
nah, it's just a different time zone... 😹
@@kittytrail ooh, Amazon sell dem!
I think it's a future where metal heat sinks are unavailable. Probably a bad one, future that is.
@@buddyguy4723 as long as the working class doesnt own the means of production the future will get worse and worse :(
@@clown134 Getting pedaled communist nonsense by a female unknowingly criticizing a communist product is absolutely hilarious. Good job.
Sansi (三思) is an interesting choice for a name. The direct translation is thinking carefully (or deep thought).
But it also might allude to Wu Sansi, a rather colourful figure during the Tang dynasty... a brilliant man, able to navigate the highest levels of power during a time of coups and counter coups and coups to counter the counter coups... times, that usually get people like him "purged". Add to that, that he apparently had "relations" with the Emperor's concubine(s) and wife(s), then "deep thought" becomes a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
Actually there is a 400 year old novel about all this... one of those books that unsatisfied house-wives keep in their drawer, right next to their "best friend with batteries".
I've had one of these about a year. It's been on a 12/12 cycle for my tropical plants non stop and has held up beautifully. I have another as my bedroom light as the quality of the light is beautiful
"tropical" plants he says, Tomatoes? jajajajaja this guy. That being said I have a handful that I use as spotlights for houseplants, I've been surprisingly pleased with these. They seem to be brighter and less surprisingly hot than a lot of my regular LED Bulbs around the house.
@@knibknibknib yeah that's what I have them for. Much nicer to have in the house than the blue/red ones. That pink light makes it look like a strip joint. Or so I am told, I've never been to one
@@murunbuchstanzangur Degenerate here, can confirm all of that.
"nicer to have in the house than the blue/red ones" I have some of those in a storage shed, bought on clearance and intended to confuse spiders into never thinking it the right time of day to make webs. That didn't work, and the light is dizzying with my prescription lenses handling the two peaks with different focal lengths. It doesn't help that one is largely UV, tripping the filter coating and making anything off to the side of the lens extra bright. On video it looks like Twitch stream lighting. In person it's really unpleasant. Coming out into daylight everything goes green. Looking in from outside the cartoon purple pink glow makes me chuckle.
@@murunbuchstanzangur LOL!
Engineer: "Hey boss, how many molded clips do you want to hold this lamp together?"
Boss: "YES."
I used to work (in electronic design) for a boss who was a bit like that. But his favourite answer was "medium". Often caused a chuckle.
@@simonstroud2555 *lagom*
"Sorry, there was a typo - it was supposed to be 10 clips, not 100 clips"
I like the 'chinesey lamp tester' but I do miss seeing the power factor for these various lamps.
display is all 8 all the time
@@craig4320 It's just your eyes tricking you.
Just assume "low" lol
Where do we get a tester like that
@@d.j.sharff2639 China...
These Sansi lights are really interesting; I may buy one. To me, the intricate molded ceramic is at least as interesting as the lighting and electronics. Thanks for featuring these and explaining how they're designed !! (ceramic would have a thermal conductivity roughly an order of magnitude higher than plastics)
I had 4 they all melted themselves
@@IVAN_ENT Not suprised, they don't look reliable. Ceramic is not that good as heat dissipation material. Also three parallel strings without individual current control is asking for trouble. The design is flawed imo.
@@blg53 "Ceramic" is a wide field, there are ceramics like aluminium nitride or cubic boron nitride that have thermal conductivities in the range or even better of copper or silver.
We have some of these, and they work well. They have to be in open air (no top hats or other enclosures). We have them in ceramic lamp sockets in the garage, and they are reliable in that application (and very bright).
I don't have this exact model but I am running the 27W 3000K 4000lm dimmable as my main light source at home. I had 3 of them in my living room and it was like having a mini sun. Having such a bright light improved my mood a little bit. I am running them since September 2021. Now I moved and I am trying to figure out how to do a smart home installation while keeping those extra bright Sansi bulbs.
I also have a smaller 15W Grow Bulb that I have on a timer and use for jumping spider terrarium. Plants inside grow really quickly.
I've got eleven 22W and 27W Sansi lamps fitted in external lanterns. They've been in for almost 1 year, approx 4000 hours, and so far had no failures. The manufacturing quality, efficacy, CRI/colour and light output are all excellent.
I had 3 of those 40 watt Sansi lights, 2 of which went blinky blinky after a few months, last one still in its box. I have since gotten slightly smaller 25 watt ones that have not failed yet, powered on a AC smart dimmer plug. The smaller ones were bought in Feb 2022, so they have lasted over a year without any problems so far. There was some slight flicker on the lowest power, under 30% though, changes between 2 brightness levels only changing luminescence 2 or 3 times a minute. Looking forward to watching this on my watch later list to see what they look like inside.
You are so close to 1 million subscribers on UA-cam! I would love to see a bench tour as well as where your regularly used tools live and maybe some more dangerous experiments.
Yes we need a workshop tour ……pretty please
Perhaps a compilation of some of Clive’s more destructive investigations 🤔🤣😫
I'd like to see how to repair an LED desk lamp which has capacitive controls that gradually failed. It's pretty bad to chuck this out, when I'm sure there's probably a simple fix. There's no obvious fault, and my skill set is meccy than leccy :(
My order of their lamps arrived yesterday. It's about time someone started to make things that are more complex than the basic crap. Thanks for the effort. Keep working and good luck!
Yes I ordered 1 of the rgbw floodlights and 2 arrived this morning. Nice and weighty. Not plugged it in yet, but it claims 70w...
I ordered one of the 100w RGBW units and 4 arrived!! Consumption measured at 51w max but still very bright, terrible to look directly at, also it's only RGB, no W chips. Someone at their shipping centre needs to learn numbers 🤣
It's very odd. I wonder why they send out multiples.
@@bigclivedotcom It’s a cunning stunt!
@electroshed You’d think that the Chinese would be good at that sort of thing
Good to see these on your channel, they’ve been keeping my indoor citrus happy and thriving all winter in New England.
Out of all the wack LED lamps you have taken apart over the years, this one definitely has to be one of the most interesting ones, those LED modules are something else. Also, those little lightbulb test units are very tempting to get LOL. I don’t need any more stuff though, I have enough crap haha.
I have two of these. One of them is four years old and they are on 10 - 14 hours a day n still going. Oldest bulb has survived three falls from ceiling height. I grow orchids and these work great to supplemental light source as I live in a cloudy rainforest. These are also great as natural light for photography.
No wonder these are relatively expensive, the plastics complexity is impressive. Cool to see something new and interesting on the market.
They were less "relatively expensive" before BigClive posted his reviews to Patreons, and the Patreons in turn snapped them all up at normal prices. By the time we got the videos (1 MONTH later!) the prices had been gouged beyond belief.
Pay twice (once to Clive and once to the eBay supplier) or miss out forever (at least at a decent price).
Awwww man, taking this thing apart was so complex and interesting!
These LED modules are very interesting, being made of 3 strings each, connected in parallel. Since they're all run from a constant current source, if one string in the module fails, the rest have harder work to do having to conduct 1.5x their normal current each, which leads to premature failure... or maybe, on the contrary, delayed failure? Typical of any parallel-connected LED strings, nothing new here.
Small correction: the buck current is a sawtooth, not constant. By applying a rectangular voltage to the inductor, it integrates the voltage, which is ramp: i(t) = 1/L * int(V)*dt, where "int" is the integral. So if V(t) is a step, then the current is a ramp. By using a large-value inductance, you force the buck to operate in the continuous mode, which is advisable to reduce EMI. In continuous mode, you get a sawtooth current waveform through the inductor, which is passed through to the LED load.
Mind boggling amount of plastic engineering and manufacturing involved. Fascinating to be sure.
Thank you yet again Mr. Big!
Got to love those cheap LED drivers, when I switched my kitchen strip light off that's on the same circuit, it blew the capacitor living room LED light.
So now I'm fitting an 8 bulb pendulum light, with changeable bulbs, blow that you sod.
Super futuristic looking design with lots of ventilation slots and very well constructed with more clips than I have ever seen in in a light housing array so cool! Clive an interesting video,thank Ya!
My SO picked Sansi and has been pleased to see bigclive confirm the choice.
In addition to the clip fetish seen in the design, the thermal flow looked well thought out to me - keeping most of the LED waste heat away from the driver board.
A corner of my garage needs a new light, and all of those clips sound fun!
Legend has it that if anyone still has the original CAD model of this lamp, if you were to try to change any feature on it and update the model, the computer would combust in flames..
Eventually, well-worked CAD models do that anyway.
The Sansi lights are awesome, I've been running both the 15 and 30 watt versions for over a year now. Really can recommend them a lot, they are by far the best engineered, compact LED grow lamps I own.
That begs the question what is your second best?
Sansi has a 27w ceramic light here in the States, and it is somewhat like a corn cob light, but they have a 30w like the one you dissected. They have a range of other ceramic lights as well.
Where are you finding these in the U.S.? I am interested in them... Thanks.
Wow! Thanks for the reviews BC !! Got my lights today -- ordered 1 received 2 !! SANSI 27W LED Light Bulb 250W Equivalent 4000lm A21 5000K God are they bright !!! The 23W 5000°K lights we've been using in my wife's ceramics studio are 2650 lm. At 27W, 5000°K these Sansi lights are a whopping 4000 lm !! And, they sent TWO! Thank you so much for bringing these Sansi products to my attention, Big Clive !! They are most definitely the "pie-eatin' basturds" of LED screw-in illumination !!!
I’ve been a fan of this brand for YEARS. Glad to see you finally found them!! They are the BEST! I just hope the prices doesn’t go up.
too late..... LOL
So much *stuff* in these things, they look like little plasto-ceramic space stations.
I found an Ebay listing where these are being billed as a replacement for incandescent spot/flood lamps. Their option selection is odd, the 30W/200W equivalent is $19.31. The 30W/200W two pack is $11.49. they have an option for 30W/200W NEW for $8.27. They also have a 40W/300W for $24.83.
These are actually great for beginner indoor gardeners . Very hot tho so make sure you have a good exhaust and airflow .
Cob led's are really good but if the heat isn't properly dealt with they can burn out quickly .
They always do... I've never had much luck with large COBs lasting much past their 1 or 2 year warranty. 😒
I have a few of these (and the 15w version) keeping my tomato plants happy, they've been working on a timer for 8 hours per day for over a year with no issues!
So it's not just a light. It's also clip art....😊
0:37 "Great, it works, now... let's drop it" 🤣🤣
The killer clips of overkill.
VERY well designed. I think this thing could fall out of a 60 foot high ceiling and survive almost if not entirely intact.
Very nice Lamp seems quite well built
Maybe they sent two because they thought you might destroy it trying to get the bugger apart 🙂
Thanks Clive. Interesting lamps, if they weren't so expensive I'd be ordering me a few...
Same, I really like the idea of these, but they've been price gouged.
They were less expensive before BigClive posted his reviews to Patreons, and the Patreons in turn snapped them all up at normal prices. By the time we got the videos (1 MONTH later!) the prices had been gouged beyond belief.
This happens on all of BigClive's recent videos, beware! Pay twice or miss out forever!
@@TheSpotify95 I guess that we can always wait a month or two for the sellers to have dropped the prices again.
@@Shaun.Stephens I'd you want something similar, I actually stumbled across Walmart branded bulbs of all things that fit in standard sockets. They put 4000 lumens each for only 30 watts which is pretty nice. I only paid 8 dollars each for them and some of mine have been running for about 6 months now it's no problems. For dedicated plant grow lights I use mars hydro branded products, they are high quality Chinese made (surprisingly) that shio out of California. They have some basic models that run as low as 65 dollars for a 100 watt actual draw full spectrum grow light, but have a whole range of more premium products too. I personally love the SP150 which are usually around 90 each and draw 140 watts but are much higher quality. I'm not even sponsored, I just LOVE plants so I have over 10 different grow lights and my home looks like a greenhouse 😂
@@iamjustkiwi Thanks for the info James. I'm in New Zealand however so, with freight costs being what they are it's likely the Chinese options are still cheaper for me. Cheers.
Ooh! Posh schematics! And covid-like enlargements! This is Jackanory for techie nerds. Wonderful vid as always. Thank you!
It's Chinese know what a vandell you are do send2 giving you1to use!!😅 great channel to watch, learnt a great amount from you,love your analysis of the ccts! Spent hrs watching you Clive many times in bed,better than book @bedtime, you've got a very soothing voice!🤗😘🌹
i couldnt sleep, so thank you clive for keepin me company
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes breaks things when I try to take them apart!
@Clive I suspect that's AlN ceramic, which is Aluminium Nitride. It has amazingly high thermal conductivity for a ceramic, and of course equally importantly it's non-conductive, and relatively cheap at under a dollar a kilogram.
I'd love to see a "Big Clive Designed" sort of open source LED bulb. Decoupling all of electronics/leds/heat sink/structure, such that any of the four can be replaced. The beefy, pricey heat sink, and the structure itself can then be sufficiently robust to be "100 year parts". I'm positive the LED part can get to ridiculously cheap and mass-produceable. The part I fail at is figuring how *precisely* to do the 120/240 -> DC part in a way that none of those electronics will be a failure point and yet also small enough to basically fit in/around the E26 screw part.
This is so good put together. All those clips everywhere, you don't see that many in cars these days.
I wonder how the ceramic heatsinks perform, did you perhaps check with a thermal camera? It seems so much smaller then what I would expect for 30W and aluminium heatsink, I wonder if ceramics is better. Really weird lamps, fascinating stuff.
This lamp must be in with a chance of winning the annual 'How much plastic can you connect to an E27 fitting' award. I love the technology of LED lights, not so much the waste involved with them.
At least plastic is recyclable, so you can shove it in the green recycling bin (or whatever color your recyclable waste is) once the LEDs fail.
Holy crap, something I actually have! I have three of these in my bedroom, keeping the jalapenos and peppers alive for the past few years. I cant believe It
These lights like quite interesting and refreshingly well designed compared to a lot of the chineseum that is around at the moment
I want to install these in every single socket at home! 😍
Too bright!! Lol
I know that these would work well as directional lighting in areas with tall ceilings, so that the light could spread a little!
There are cord connected floodlights with these odd LED modules in them as well and Sansi make them up to 100W for the US market. I have a pair of their 50W units with a 4x2 array of the modules each; they seem to make decent work lights.
i have been looking at bigclive's page of projects. it is remarkable how our interests intersect-electronics, mains electricity, booze, long hair on our heads, and explosives/fireworks. thanks clive. i particularly like your trick of using 2 resistors to contact the pads on bayonet light fittings.
.oh, and the using of 10o resistors to initiate things is brilliant. it works on model rocket engine as well as the official ni-chrome ones at a tiny fraction of the price.
Wait he has a projects page!??!!??? Ive been following for years nd didn't know this
@@roxasparks His UA-cam name is the URL of his web site. Just do the obvious substitution of "." for "dot". Project page and a bunch of other stuff.
@@sootikins oh its a websitr
@@Okurka. but his beard is attached to his head isn't it
@@Okurka. you are ,of course, quite correct. however i am still, technically, correct too. i carefully didn't just say hair as that would imply top of head/non-facial hair. i said hair on head, so that would include beard hair too.
To call iit elaborate, is somewhat of an understatement.
I liked the Xledia lights more than the Sansi, but last time I checked Amazon, they were no longer available. I still have all my Xledia lights that I bought 8 or so years ago and they still work great.
What are the odds it's the same company or the same people behind it.
@@Convolutedtubules I think Xledia was Japanese. No idea what Sansi is.
@@aaronsj80 I'm probably mistaken, just throwing ideas in the wind.
Clive, that looks like genuinely good engineering - very rare from China!
Recently I have been getting interested in lights like these for reasons. Would love to hear your thoughts about different cheap LED plant grow lights.
There are specialist forums that will have much more up to date data on grow lights.
I've got a few Sensi 36w ones and also the cheap Amazon LED varieties. The cheap ones are ok if very close to plants but not that bright, but then they run off a standard USB plug so don't expect anything like the watts and lux they claim. A good quality 2.4amp Samsung works better than any other. But Sensi so much better but very heavy bulbs so need a strong metal lamp fitting. Also get very hot.
I am personally a fan of the mars hydro SP 150. They are 140 watts each and put out a lot of light. I got mine for 85 dollars each (I run 5 in my tropical plant room, have larger 300 watt ones for flowers) and I've been using their brand for about 6 years now with no issues, in fact my first purchases are still in use and working solidly. They're very good for a Chinese brand imo
"Hydroponics type industry"
Very smooth ;) clandestine operations require obfuscation in the conditions we are subjected to on this platform
If I were a Chinese I would be shipping a pallet .
The last one of these bulbs was pretty interesting and they probably had a surge in sales. A reverse image search would probably find your video.
I'm currently sporting a dhall bulb from b and q in the studio, neutral white filament pearl glass ,100w equivalent. (Nice light I can recommend)
I use a couple of these growing chillis, they are very good.
Very neet Led Setup on this light very unique
Strange and complex (over-engineered?) construction indeed. I wonder what kind of incandescent lamp it's made to replace? It's too fat for being like a PAR.
Even destroyed, I'd easily find some uses of the ceramic modules alone. Bright, well cooled, can easily be repurposed with a cheap power supply. Neat stuff on their own.
Very satisfying plastic crunching noises, BTW.
I think each one of those modules in a homemade light would be a neat project now that you have a crimper to make the end caps.
I wonder if the black coating improves radiative cooling
I think it's more for protection against condensation on the higher voltage bits due to being used in plant growth applications.
Sent you 2? They heard of you. One to take apart and never work again. One to actually fulfill its purpose in life!
Dune II (Game): "Construction complete"
Clive: "The destruction is now complete".
03:26 - "we'll be right back at a moment" _*entering violent mode_
I bought one of their two headed security lights & whilst I am impressed with the overall construction and light output, the mounting is less impressive as is the performance of the PIR detector. I suspect that the double delivery is the shipper confusing the single and two pack orders.
I have one with 7 of those ring cobs. Works great for my plants 😁
I bought a few SANSI 100w equivalent 1600 lumen LED bulbs last year. (model c21bb-te26-13w)I have installed a couple of them, one in a table lamp and the other in a ceiling fan. This bulb has a dual concentric array of leds almost 3" across (37 leds inner circle)..It has flow through ventilation slits that should limit the buildup of heat. My gripe with most LED bulbs is they run them much to hot and that drastically cuts their life and the light output drops off as they heat up. The result is your 100w equiv bulb only puts out the same amount of light as a 60w equiv bulb once it gets hot.
Min is built similar to yours and all that ventilation increases the life and I find the light output does not drop off as much when they get hot. I've only had them in use for 6-7 months but ther much better than the run of the mill crap bulbs you usually find for sale.
This has to be one of the quirkiest channels on UA-cam.
Any electrical/electronic supplier is going to be wary of sending product out to someone named Clive on the Isle of Man.
If the stuff's dodgy then they may well "misplace" the order or if it's good then they'll send out 2 knowing that you are prone to tear, at least, one apart.
It’s Bigclive we will send 2 one to use one to destroy. Actually this I’m quite impressed with is it make it decent at first then make the crappy.
Such a beast of a lamp
I have never seen this kind of bulb in France 👍👋
@9:03 I can see a very elated CTO running down the hallways of the exec level of a Chinese firm yelling " BIG CLIVE PROOF BIG CLIVE PROOF By George We've Done It!!!! "
I like the spider web in the middle of the light. [drunken observation] 🤘😂
I have seen this lamp in a DIY market in 2 versions, dimmable and non dimmable. The internal circuit will be built up differently and would like to see this.
Ah yes, today sir clive woke up and chose violence! Take that you clippy bastard! 😂
It looks like a prop from the original Alien film. Somewhat futuristic Aztec look about it.
Apparently isle of man is in a totally different time zone
The manufacturer/clipper designer got his monies worth!
I would imagine a lamp like that would be full of bugs, the insect kind. They certainly like to fill up our lampshades.
at the ordering office:
"We got a order from some big hotshot UA-cam"
"Great, maybe we get some free coverage"
"Now he just breaks everything"
"better send him to then to cut don on shipping"
1:23 the cold cthultlule lamp wants its video now!
"Another order for Big Clive. We should send him two as he'll trash one of them trying to take it apart."
I think I have seen their lights before here in a store because I remember seeing motion flood lights with those LEDs in them.
Hello from the cheap seats. Looks like a cool lamp.
0:21 - Well, no brighter than a standard white background, on our screens. :-P
You could make 4W spotlights out of the modules. They will last forever.
Indeed! :D
I have heard of Chinese sellers of chemistry glassware sending way more than ordered. Some debate as to whether it is built-in coverage for breakages and DOA stock (that being cheaper than human support time) or if is to ingratiate themselves with a skeptical Western market.
That's a very interesting lamp once again. If I needed a high power directional LED lamp for E27, I'd get one. Though not at over £25 each, once again the price has been gouged beyond belief. I blame the Patreons who were able to access this 4 weeks before I was.
I daresay if we don't use it as a light, we could always spit roast a chicken under it. 🤣
Designer to boss: "Hey i heard you liked clips!"
Impressive construction!
If the 3 rows of LEDs inside each module would've been factory wired in series, a module would require roughly 110V. Place a 220 ohms 1W in series with bridge rectifier and the module and it could be supplied directly from the 120V wall plug, right?
For 240V, use two similar resistors in series with the bridge rectifier and two LED modules.
I believe this possible modification could make these lamps even cheaper. What do you think?
The LEDs require current regulation.
I wonder why they bother with the screws
Maybe a final layer of protection against aggressive handling.
30W of pure clipolisiousness!
I just..haha this channel is one of the best. This and electro boom haha.
I'm a sucker for these lamp designs. 😅
Looks like this same lamp is sold as a 24w in the US. The 36W version has another LED segment around the outside and another one in the center where the vent is on this one. Interesting lamps - ultimately think they are priced too high for something that might be dead in a month ($22-26 each depending on wattage). If you could count on the buy one get one free deal, though, they'd definitely be worth it.
I'd be interested in getting a few as well. But likewise, they're currently priced too high to be of any real value over a standard LED lamp.
Methinks they were less expensive before the Patreons snapped them all up!