Don't Stare Into The Beam!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night... Oh, this is just too bright and not beamy enough for me.
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That lens is a TIR lens, Total Internal Reflectivity. It's found on many LED flashlight to produce a narrow beam with a sharp edge cutoff. So basically you have an RGB LED flashlight in a cheap plastic case. Not the worst thing on the market, I suppose, could have been better with a rechargeable 18650 battery.
I have ordered something similar to that. I would like a night light. :)
I have a few torches with these lenses, I'm rather suprised how well they work, especially considering they don't have an actual reflective coating, so megga cheap to manufacture.
I am definitely NOT walking into the break room and asking "What should I do with THIS?"
Big Clive needs a pink one though, I will say that.
Seeing tat like this makes me glad that I still have my old light fixtures and a box of hoarded incandescent bulbs.
My astigmatistic eyes thank me for it.
Blinding ... I suppose I'd wrap the base tube and a bit taller with at least black construction paper ... that might mitigate ??
This needs placement behind a small screen so you can only see the beam and not the unit directly.
Alternatively: aim it at a mirror ball
"Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"
The only Bruce Springsteen song I like.
Flat-wounds!
@@michaelmoore7975Manford Man’s Earth Band 1976 was the original. Not sure if Bruce did a cover of it.
@zulumax1 Springsteen wrote and recorded it 1st. It was on his 1973 debut album, _Greetings From Asbury Park N. J._
But MMEB was the one who popularized it and made it famous in 1976. They added their own bit of flavor, too.
@@michaelmoore7975 Thanks, there were a lot of song writers whose songs were more popular when someone else did them. Harry Nielsen wrote the song “One” that Three Dog Night made popular.
Fran read the extremely small recycle instructions carefully, It quite clearly states to hit the unit many times with a very heavy hammer and throw into a trashcan (not included).
It appears that it may need placing in a corner, as on the box.
Definitley not MIL Spec build as no match for The Chisel! :o
I think I like the low light Digital Clock so far. :)
Nice work Fran! 👏
Another quality product from PRC (:
It’s got a flared base. I wonder. *Wait NO. DONT* *lightsaber noise* *dead*
was not expecting the narcan hippo joke completely sidelined me
Interesting how very old-fashioned tools, the hammer and chisel, are the best way to disassemble modern products.
killer queen dynomite with a laser beam
The green looks like a the same color as shown in an old MadTV's skit of nuclear Christmas lights made by none other than Spishak!
You might enjoy a Meteor Lighting ProBeam psychedelic oil wheel effect projector a lot more. :)
"Hmmmm" I chuckle to myself " Consumer packaging that misrepresents the product inside. ??????? "
Nah... Never happens.
Right?"
It would make a good Halloween party prop... Maybe it could be to point out where the bathroom is..
All Hail the “𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞”
Bravely cleaving knowledge in this perilous age of wonton planned obsolescence
Spudger of doom :)
From the chisel of discovery to the dumpster of destiny
Did I miss it but where was the "strong" adhesive?
That lens is made for a single LED, with the 3 off center RGB dies that's why the hot spot was off center. I've got flashlights that create a beam way better than this thing.
Driving those LEDs that bright I'd think you wouldn't get more than one night out of a set of batteries, maybe one day with high capacity NiMH.
A sign seen at Burning Man. "Big scary laser. Do not stare into beam with remaining eye".
Flat base flush to wall. I’m texting as if I’m expecting Fran to listen to me. Nope, I’m wrong, again
I dearly love that snarky sense of humor of yours! Don't EVER change!!😂👍
Looks like Bender’s antenna
Looks like the lens is just beam focusing? Maybe the problem is that you don't have a fog machine running in your lab all the time?
YOU BROKE IT! 😭
I only came to see the "Strong Adhesive" demonstration.
With those types of cases I much prefer the "hacksaw" of discovery.
The chisel of discovery and the hammer of exploration! 🔨
A nice touch would have been a wireless remote control for selecting the color of the beam, fade from one color 2 another and ability to vary the brightness, Edison bulb from 5 below has such a setup, this thing is just blah.
4:12 Explosion containment plastic cup
I notice how practically every gadget sold on Amazon, is "durable" these days.
That's why there's a whole segment of the economy refereed to in every economic report as "durable goods" - no one's interested in flimsy goods anymore :)
starlite starbrite first l e d I see tonite
The chisel of discovery is exactly like my Marples which has a blue handle.
I like it it would be cool for mood lighting, just hide the base behind a piece of furniture and have the beam splash color up the wall!
However, no external power source no sale.
xD A bumper or animation along with a jingle for the Chisel of Discovery would be amazing, not that I think it absolutely needs an introduction. I cheer every time I hear that phrase. Time for concussive exploration!
what if you crossed the beams?
Man.... The internet has ruined me.. but at least it has a flared base
Beat me to it
That circuitry seems a little over the top for what you need, surely a dial switch with 4 options would do (RGB and off)
Those switches tend to come in 1-state and 2-state (for flashlights that alternate between steady on, and seizure mode), but typically not 3-state, so they implemented that in software on the ubiquitous 8-pin mystery microcontroller. It's funny that they have everything there to do color mixing of the channels (a microcontroller and 3 separate mosfets driving the LED), but all you get is red, green, or blue.
green wall cvm,.ish,. well its art via photons
yeah but that Convenient ON/OFF switch..
"Green Flame!"
The line on the enclosure seems like the indicator. Junk.. lol
Olight have cheaped out on product development i see.
It could have been made better they could have used 55mw lasers and line generator lenses and a glass optical mirror
🎵But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night...🎵
The only Bruce Springsteen song I like.
@@michaelmoore7975 I always thought that was ELO. Silly me!
Could do with converting to USB 🤔
is it just me ..?
how lazy to use an RGB led and not make it mix any of the 3 colors. Is the led so powerful that driving multiple colors drains the battery too quickly, or would the lack of a proper heatsink make the base all melty?
It could handle powering more than 1 LED die at once, esp. considering that RGB color mixing effects can be achieved with only slightly more power than a single color at full power. It costs nothing at all to add secondary colors and rainbow color cycles to such a device. However, when the 3 color dies are offset physically in a single package, and projected through this kind of narrow angle TIR lens, it magnifies the primary color offsets so badly that overlapping color fringes on the wall are very obvious and annoying artifacts. At a distance, they mix well but the wall reflections near the lens end, and the 3 overlapping circles that would be visible on the ceiling, look cheap and terrible. The extra lobes that project from the central beam are what create most of the annoying glare, they could have been avoided by using a larger and better quality TIR lens but that would have driven up the cost slightly. Everything about this product screams "lowest possible cost above all else".
The Chisel of "destruction" that is.. It's a cool idea, but only if it had a remote control for special applications.. that's a deal breaker for me. Thanks Fran!
Contrary to popular belief, matching batteries is not a miracle based occurrence, and is simply a predictable probability.
It should at least have an external power jack (USB or center pin) and a warning sticker about the LED emitting potentially retina burning light.
How about not staring in the beam?
Fran, you are sooo on the spectrum!
This is something you don't say. I suspect most of the viewers are too .
I discovered that I was quite late in life at 58 but when I was a lad and was bullied at school I would have loved to know the reason why I didn't fit in .
It's a flashlight disguised not to be a flashlight. 😀
👽
Discombobulated into destruction! The internal build was all too simple, boring even - getting there was not.
Hi Keri
Hi Keri 🎉❤
The chisel of discovery strikes again...
8:26 I thought you were going to say "Chisel of Doom"!
@4:40 "...make sure they're (batteries) not _'currently'_ leaking..." Welp, you can tell it's definitely Punday.
Brought to you by the AA battery manufactures of the world. Current consumption? Battery life?
Current consumption? ALL. Battery life? measurable in seconds
"Do not look into beam with remaining good eye."
Thanks
Powerful is the chisel of 🎵🎶discovery🎉
Junk. How much did that cost? I could have built something better in my home. Not worth the batteries to use. After a night of use, you'll need new batteries. The case would be perfect for an ionizer.
Haha Chisel of Discovery! Brilliant 😀
Wow! "The Art of Technology"
chisel of discovery...hammer of science?
When you apply the chisel to see if a thing sizzles and all it does is fizzle it is abysmal!😢
those are some talented hands
Thank you Fran, for buying this techno crap - so we dont have to. :-)
Did I just see Biden’s name on the circuit board?🤔
Lame product. Glorified flashlight. But, still interesting content by Fran. At the very least, we can see what misleading packaging is out there and the guts of the product.
Total junk who"s only purpose is to increase battery sales.
More the type of kit I'd expect on a "Big Clive" video.
At least you ended up with a nice RGB LED module, but what a wasteful way of getting one, having to 'peel off' all the other crap first.
What are you going to do with it to the poor hippos? 🦛
Come up with some hippothesis, of course :)
she kept saying Narcan for hippos - like they're OD'ing on heroine - looks more like something else for h0rny h0rny hippos - new from Hasboro... Hey kids, did you like hungry hungry hippos? Well have we got a new one for you...