Can we repair the Reindeer and the Witch?
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2014
- One of my solar movers fell off the shelf and stopped working and another hasn't worked for quite a while so today I fixed them.
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Greenzelda the gentle Witch was lonely so she got a pet bug and named him Igor. She told him that he could roam anywhere in her realm but he must stay clear of the thin live wires. One day he was careless, got tangled in the wires, and ZAP-- Igor was no more. The Witch fell into a deep sleep until a kind Prince came along and awoke her with the gentle touch of his soldering iron.
Brilliant :-) I might paste that into the video description.
Love your story!❤
Haha Eye of frog and tail of newt - the Witch's potion ruined by the brute.
Am sure that little fella crawled in via the magnet gap and broke the wire.
Nice job on the panel repair, flux is your friend with those Vimun's. I normally add a spot of superglue to the join afterward.
Well done with that tiny copper wire! Now can i do it like you is the big question!!!???🤣 stay tuned i'll let you know if I succeed or scream😄
Good luck, you need a small soldering iron, some solder, a steady hand, and good glasses. Oh, and it is probably a good idea to practice first on something else if you have not used a soldering iron before 👍👍
Luckily I do have soldering experience as I used to do stained glass using the copper foil technique. I have a small soldering iron but this will certainly be a challenge!
@@monawize1 I wish you good luck 👍👍
I just bought a few of these at my local 1 euro shop in Berlin - was taken by their waggling in the sunlight, even within their packaging. I immediately thought the birdies (owls, chicks) might be useful to keep real birds from nesting on a ledge above a doorway on our outdoor porch (when they do, we avoid that door until the birds fledge... but it's quite messy!). I am delighted thanks to you to find out how these wagglers actually work! I do have some soldering experience, but I've tested all mine and they're working fine. Thanks for the intriguing look at the innards!
Hey thank you Toby. UA-cam seems to have messed up the comment notifications again, I only just found your comment 😊
Nice job there.
Hey, thanks :-)
Where can I purchase a circuit board for an outdoor solar power garden ornament?
That rather depends exactly what you want it to do. If you want it to charge a battery during the day and then light an LED at night your quickest option would be to buy a cheap solar light and take the circuit board out of it. You might be able to find them online on a site like AliExpress - here is a search aliexpress.ru/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20200531032456&origin=y&SearchText=solar+light+circuit+board
my Solar Mover is about 6 years old! I've watched your videos and I don't have any problems with wiring that I can see. Do you think it's just too old to work anymore? I can not find help anywhere for mine!
xXxShawny123xXx it is unlikely that is too old to work as far as any of the mechanical parts are concerned. The amount of wear is minimal although I don't think I have any that old. I don't know if it is possible for the solar panel to deteriorate over time. The only information I can find relates to the large panels you put on the roof of your house and they are not the same material but they are expected to last for at least 25 years. On all my solar movers the solar panel is glass so is not subject to the problem that some garden lights have with the resin covering discoloring over the years and I would guess yours is probably glass too. In my video I showed that one of the glass panels had broken when the reindeer fell on the floor so it could be possible yours might be cracked. The wires that go to the coil are so fine it is very difficult to see them so you might not even notice if one of them is broken. You could try connecting a normal 1.5 volt battery to the same terminals that the solar panel go to and see if that gets your mover working. You need to make sure you connect it the right way round. If that gets it going then you know the circuitry is OK and there is a problem with the panel. Reading back through what I have written here I realise I haven't made it clear that there 3 main components to the electrical circuit. 1: The solar panel 2: The circuit board 3: The coil
Two wires go from the panel to the circuit board and they are easy to see. Two wires go from the circuit board to the coil and they are as fine as a human hair and NOT easy to see.
Thanks for commenting on my channel love all the things u make could u make an electric plane plz
Hi gingang, I intend to make another electric plane at some time, but not soon. Here is the last one I made Electric Powered Styrofoam Plate Airplane
Thank you for this video. One of my daughter's movers stopped waving to her and she is quite upset about it. I took out the circuit board and found the broken wire from the coil to the circuit board; however it is too short to reach the spot to which it needs to be soldered. Would it work for me to bridge the gap with copper wire of slightly larger diameter?
Yes, that would work fine. Your biggest problem will be soldering the fine wire. It is difficult to work with it that thin. In addition it is enamel coated wire so you have to get the coating off before the solder will take. This is easy enough if you just hold the tip of the wire in the hot solder for a few seconds, the hot solder burns the enamel off.
@@GrandadIsAnOldMan Thanks for your help Granddad. It works fine now. I used one strand of lamp cord wire. It was still more than three times the diameter of the original wire but it is working better than ever. I used a lot of flux to be sure the coatings were burned away. Next I need to glue the circuit board to the surface to which it was secured before. It looks like they used hot glue. Do you know the best distance between the coil and the magnet? Cheers,
@@GrowLLLTigeRRR brilliant, always great to hear about a success 😁👍
Where did you get the solar reindeer from?
Probably Poundland, they have a series Father Christmas, Snowman, Reindeer and for Halloween they have Witch, Pumpkinhead, and Skeleton.
I have a question about the wiring on these gadgets. I am working on one with two broken wires. One wire is from the outside of the coil wire, which I believe goes to the negative solder pad on the small circuit board. The other has one end connected to the positive solder pad and the other end is loose. I can't figure out where the other end of that wire is supposed to go. Can you help me with that? Thanks.
+John Curry Just be clear. . . Also connected to the positive solder pad is the wire leading to the center of the coil. There two wires connected to the positive pad: one goes to the center of the coil; the other has a loose end. It's the loose end one I need help with.
+John Curry when they solder these wires I have noticed they often leave long tails rather than cut them off neatly so that is probably what you can see. As you have already guessed there should be two wires going to the coil. Those are the only two very fine wires. The only other wires are the two thicker wires that go to the solar panel. You may have trouble soldering the very fine wire as it will be enamel coated. I hold the wire on the tip of the soldering iron in a small ball of solder until the enamel has burnt off and the solder takes, then I solder it to the tag or the other end of the broken wire if it broke in the middle somewhere and is a bit short.
What if you don't have a soldering iron, can you use glue?
No. You need to provide a link that conducts electricity. Glue doesn't. If you are good at working at very fine detail, and you have enough wire to work on, then you could clean the wire and twist it together, then put glue over that to stop it coming loose. Unfortunately the wire is so thin you would struggle to do this. Note, the wire does have an enamel coating which you would need to clean off first. It insulates the wire, so just twisting it together will not provide a conductive path. Here is a video I found that will show you the general "twisting together" technique ua-cam.com/video/9aIKD3Y8lYg/v-deo.html
I just had a thought. There are special conductive glues available. Quite expensive, probably more than you paid for the solar rocker. You would still need to clean the wire to remove the enamel coating. But it might be cheaper than buying a soldering iron. I have never used any, so I cannot advise you further.
Resold at Wegmans in 2019 (both of them)
Hi Chris, I am not sure what you point you are making. I live in the UK and Poundland is a UK company that sells items at £1 - hence the name Poundland - probably similar to your Dollar stores. Items like these solar rockers would have been sourced from China when they would be manufactured and packaged and possibly branded to suit the retailer's requirements. In some cases they may well have overmanufactured a range producing excess stock and sold them on at "end or run" rates. Is that what you are suggesting? This video was published in June 2014
I þink þis was kind of just a little note I made, þe Snowman in þe background was also resold at Wegans in 2019
Hello, I have a budha and it has three wires one is broken off somewhere but I can't see where it would go
Any ideas
The coil will only have 2 wires, but when they assemble the unit, they often leave excess hanging over. They pull the wire over the solder point on the circuit board and solder it, but they often leave a tail of excess wire. That may be why you are seeing 3 of them. In total there will be 4 wires from the circuit board. Two thicker wires with plastic insulation going to the solar panel. Two hair thin wires going to the coil. The thin wires have a coating of clear varnish to insulate them.
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Thanks for that. The two small wires look like they are attached. This is a budha his head nodes and his hand waves a fan.
The small wires do they both go to the coil outside
Thankyou
Just looked and the two wires are crossed and touching each other do that matter
@@vicmills7702 the wires are insulated with varnish so crossing them should not matter. You haven't said if the rocker is faulty or if you have just taken it apart to look inside. A very basic issue is people expect them to work indoors under artificial light. Many modern lights do not give the right sort of light to operate them. Another simple problem can be a mechanical issue, the parts are broken, bent, or misaligned.
Hello
I have looked inside as not working rest of them are working this one stopped so thought I would check you tube how to fix seen you. I have taken a photo but can't send to you
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I got an owl that is not working. Took it apart but couldn't find any loose wires. Than one thin wire broke off... I fixed it. Re-atrached other one too. Tried - not working. Repeated process three times. I am sure I attached all wires good... still, not working. :( Now I am depressed. No happy end for my owl.
Those thin wires are coated with enamel varnish insulation. If you tried soldering it, there is a good chance the enamel is still insulating the wire. If the soldering iron is hot enough it will burn the enamel off, sometimes it burns the wire too. Alternatively you can try scraping the enamel off with the edge of a knife, but with care, or you just break the wire.
Thank you for your reply. I guess I definitely did something wrong with those thin wires. Now they are so short I don't even know if there is enough to give it one more try... but it is not working anyway so I will try one more time by scraping with knife. *sigh*
@@katpaws74 good luck🤞🤞those thin wires are a real pain to work on. You could extend them, but you would need to find some extra from somewhere else. I am really struggling now, even with my reading glasses on, for fine detailed work.
I have pup on a dog house and it all looks good but it still won't work. 😢
The wires used to make the coil are so fine that they can be broken very easily, so even if they look OK going from the circuit board to the coil they may actually be broken where something has rubbed across the surface. That is a common failure when it is dropped and the pendulum magnet drags across the coil. The other typical problem is the wires connecting to the solar panel coming loose or the panel itself being cracked. It is very rare that the little circuit board fails. Then there are mechanical problems, maybe one of the plastic pivots is broken or off it's bearing.
@@GrandadIsAnOldMan thank you I will check everything again....... Thanks for your help!
you mean you had to " debug" it.? i have a fleet of these . this is good info. the circut reminds me of something called franklins bell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_bells ah . deadbucg wiring,
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Another "Awesome" repair! please put some "blue tac" on the bottoms of your BUDDIES to prevent future crashes, Ha
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