This reminds me of my very old lighted mirror (though I'm sure the same thing is still out there) that had regular incandescent sort of lighting, and also that sickly green fluorescent glow and the option to have both on at the same time, so you could make sure your make up didn't look fine at home but awful in the office.
I just ordered one of these on eBay today (but from a cheaper supplier in China. I find that stuff from Singapore takes ages to get to Australia while the stuff from China will get here in about 2 weeks if it's shipped via airmail). I've been replacing all my lights with LED versions when I remembered the light in the range hood/exhaust. It's a 40 W tungsten bulb with an E14 socket. At first, I bought some LED COB lights (3 W and 3.5 W, I think) then I remembered this vid. I measured the space and should take this 40 cm light easily. At 13 W it should provide a lot more illumination plus the colour temp change would be interesting (it should also mean that the wattage should be halved when not using both colour temp sets) while using less than the existing bulb.
Well, it arrived yesterday and it was the 16W version rather than the 13.1W version that was advertised. And it wasn't selectable. You only got full brightness - and it was far too bright for what I wanted. Also, the screws were on very tight. I couldn't get the middle one off without damaging it.
I made my own version of this for my office overhead lighting. Multiple rows of high density 24V LED strips zone controlled by an ESP8266 over Wifi. Threw in some RGB strip control for good measure.
The led driver appears to be a 2 bit latched binary counter, the resistor and capacitor are probably connected to the clock input, the capacitor in this case would be to prevent bounce.
My brother says I need to have cool white in the morning and warm white in the evening to help align my sleep-wake patterns better. Something like this would simplify that.
Eyesight the same Clive. I had to change from ordinary glasses to vari focals at the age of 48. Now I can again read the numbers on a d-type, but looking at it with my head at a funny angle.
I so wish that Philips would add an LED lamp to their Hue range that would replace the fluorescent tubes in so many kitchens. It's not that I want to hold parties in my kitchen, but it's a place where my hands are often full when I need to switch the light. A Google Home in the kitchen would also give me a timer and a radio, for which I currently need multiple boxes. Surely it can't be too hard?
Says 20W on the thing, draws only 10. Reminds me of the cheap chinese floodlights. Also the choke looks like a through hole transformer soldered on the side, kinda funny, the other lamp had this too. Anyway GreatScott likes these kind of lights with alternating warm/cold white LED's.
My bench lights are twelve 10watt LEDs attached to a strip of aluminium angle, 6 cool white, 6 warm, with separate adjustable current limiting supplies for each temperature, so I can adjust the colour, and brightness to what I want ;) The bench is too messy to actually use it anyway...
Needs modification, replacing the electronic gubbins with a three-way switch to toggle between the three colours without the need to switch on and off... :D
I wonder if that star shaped led light bulb has the same or similar power supply. Power factor looks about the same, with high switching frequency there is no visible flicker. My guess on that star is inside that lamp is a miniature version of that power supply.
Umm, Clive? Have you been browsing the dodgy aisle in Poundland again? 'There are some things I'd really like to feature in videos but they're actually so big I'm gonna have to start the video with them well, just being shown where I can actually fit them in'
Is there a video which shows the set-up of Clive’s bench? I’m intrigued as to how he both has the lighting/camera setup and what else he has in the workshop.
Clive, Im looking into making something similar to this but with 60 x 3w LEDS with few diffent colours ranges for an aquarium. How do I work out the power supply and what resisters to use?
+bigclivedotcom The new LEDs are washing things out and the text is very difficult to read on printed pages or items. Can I suggest they need turning down a bit, or perhaps some extra diffusing?
Smash the star lamp, have it plummet like shooting stars are supposed to. Big Clive have you seen the 150w driverless leds on banggood? Are they the same as the lower wattage ones
Oh wow, thank you for having such a look on the comments :) I am new to your channel and it would have already saved me 20€ if I had seen this video. I watched it now and indeed they seem pretty much the same as the linked on ebay ones. Pitty.
Hi Big Clive great videos. Thought I would drop you an idea for a future video which is those galaxy bulbs, you could investigate how they worked. Thanks.
They work like infinity mirrors. The inside of the lamp has a point source of light that shines through masked shapes in a fully mirrored interior. The outside of the lamp is partially mirrored, so the image bounces back and forth creating multiple images between the mirrored surfaces.
Clive, can you tear apart one of those semi generic puff sensors used in a lot of ecigs there’s no information on them online and they don’t seem to be a simple switch but have logic inside
I did that in a video. It used a microphone style case but with a switch composed of a thin disk of conductive membrane separated from another metal disk by a very thin spacer. When you draw it causes a pressure differential that causes the membrane to make contact with the disk and the standard push-button style control chip inside the package then powers the heater and the LED on the back of its PCB.
Have you gotten into a 'squidger' decoration before? would be nice to see the cut corners with shock protection since you turn them on by smacking them.
Yep, I got one of each type. The one that switches between just cold and warm white is faulty though, for some reason it always defaults to cold even though it's supposed to have memory. The 3-in-1 version though works perfectly and is awesome, I just wish it was cheaper so I could get a lot more of them.
Must admit I'm tempted by the changing colour temp version, for emulating circadian rhythms. Shame about the fault, Philips definitely need to up their QC
So the power supply rectifies the ac, then sends it to a buck converter to change the voltage of the dc. I'm wondering why not just use a transformer to change the voltage of the ac, and then rectify that. What's the advantage of using the buck converter?
leds are more sensitive to current than voltage, current spikes can easily destroy them, most ac -> dc converters are built to control the voltage more accurately than the amperage/current so i'm hazarding a guess they're buck-boost led drivers, built for the specific purpose of driving leds found this one in case you want some more research: www.mouser.com/pdfdocs/lumiled-avoiding-current-spikes.pdf
That looks like four of these could replace the 4 , 2 foot florescent tubes in my shower. Is there any notation of the luminous output? Thanks for your help and advice, ,, and good job... Clive. ..😆
It's common on some low voltage things like metal cased tablets when used with a plug-in power supply. If you get the same effect off something that should be grounded like a cooker or washing machine then it's a warning sign that it may not be grounded properly or a potential difference may exist between something in its vicinity.
The most concerning thing is a metal cabinet mirror in the bathroom, it has a built in fluro tube atop. When the light's on, the cabinet feels fuzzy. Been that way for 20 yrs. I just checked continuity with earth and there is none. Not a good sign lol
I found a similar driver chip but not the same pin-outs, its the *Toggle (Side-Step) Dual-Channel LED Driver ZLED7002* in google :) It performs a similar function but I dont think it does both outputs together. That chip on yours must be a dedicated chip or clone of something else lol :) x
Unrelated question: How long does a pc powersupply hold a charge after you ripped out the powercable? I was once told that it can be extremely dangerous to open up your powersupply and start messing around, even days after the cable has been removed.. Any truth to that?
They should self discharge quite quickly, but a faulty unit may not. There's an often quoted case where a kid was found dead at his computer with the lid off the power supply and the plug out at the wall. The most likely thing that happened there was that the kid got a shock and then immediately unplugged it before fading away.
Googles voice recognition apparently doesn't understand Clive's rantings.... All sorts of weird words are in the captions. I don't normally watch with captions. I had them enabled to watch a Chinese video.
I am probably nearly your age but i would like you to be my father and show me how to make and take stuff apart...(partly it is the accent.. ) anyway.. love your stuff keep it up maybe one day i will be able to fight off the zombies when they come for me...!!
I just got an email from UA-cam advising me that my channel will no longer be monetized unless I have 1000 subs and some other baseless criteria. This is notice to inform all my subscribers that I will no longer be watching anything on UA-cam, will be cancelling all my subscriptions and will block UA-cam from my home router. Take care, all.
Clive (or anyone else), do you know of an LDO regulator that can run an LED at 1 amp? I bought a CREE XP-G2 and will be using a resistor to limit current and an 18650 to power it, but I'd like a flashlight with a steady output.
Get a lithium battery protection circuit and stick a buck/boost converter off of it, this way you won't need a resistor and the 18650 battery won't be discharged to unsafe levels. If you ran a lithium battery way down and just smacked the full charge voltage across it, it's likely to go on fire.
I know it's about the right size, but the mode selection mechanism basically ruins its utility. Why would anyone use it for signage lighting when it can't practically be set into any mode other than 'cool white'? A photocell or timer can't rapid-cycle contacts like that. I suppose the mode control IC could probably be removed and shunted, but who would actually do that (other than us)?
Why are there two equal resistors right next to each other rotated by 180°? Since I guess this is done using a pick&place machine, isn't it a waste of time to rotate one of these two unnecessarily?
Lots of Chinese products are hand soldered. I even heard that when they do use Pick and place units, resistors aren't lined in a way in the strip. In other words, cheap components.
They could be using cheap component sources, or they could be using reject/leftover rolls from other projects. Since China is basically the manufacturing capital of the world, it's real easy to ride on the backs of bigger businesses with their leftovers.
big clive.. Please can you screw up more often as we get too see more of you when u make it public by mistake. :) can we see more food rash packs i really enjoy seeing u doing more social things :)
DO THE VOICES TOO, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, CLIVE, YOU DO A LOT OF VOICES THE GAY DARLIC VOICE, THE SAFETY POLICE VOICE ETC... WE HAVE NEVER HEARD YOUR AMERICAN VOICE HAAHH HOW ABOUT IT, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T.
wrong product? you have the wrong listing that you printed out. it tells all of us that the listing you printed is different from the item you purchased.
I can't think of anything more annoying than having to switch my lights on and off several times every time I entered a room just to get my preferred color. I just bought a multi-mode flashlight (torch) whose first mode is flashing. I can't remember ever wanting to flash a flashlight (torch) let alone that being my primary need. This multi-mode stuff is getting ridiculous.
Today I received the stuff I ordered from AliExpress back in December. The Chinese postal service is really under high load during that time and so everything is delayed (although it's nowhere near as bad as last year), so I'd say that you're right.
Yes, looking good. I'm using to these shipping durations, since I'm ordering a lot from AliExpress. The record time I've had to wait was 4 months I think, that was during 2015 Christmas.
Aputure do their Amaran wide range of colour-temperature adjustable LED studio lights, some of which are really portable (www.aputure.com/products/al528-1)
Just preachin’ the good word of the lord here .. I actually almost all together stopped using ebay for chinese goodies - aliexpress ships significantly faster (up to 3 weeks insteads of sometimes 6 7 weeks with ebay) and up to now always with at least some form of tracking ...
Many Aliexpress sellers don't ship to the Isle of Man as standard. I've had issues where I've bought an item and then discovered they won't ship it here and I have to fudge the address and hope it makes it.
I would be hesitant to make any conclusion on ebay vs aliexpress shipping time. There's no obvious reason they should be different unless you're ordering from a local seller on eBay. eBay has a much nicer search feature compared to Aliexpress. You can format the search to filter out results. Aliexpress has a lot more items for sale though, in my experience.
Darleee HOW DO YOU GET ONE ITEM AND FREE SHIPPING? WE HAVE TO FIX MOST ITEMS FROM THE CHINA MAN LAND BEFORE WE CAN EVEN USE THEM, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T
Darleee HOW DO YOU GET ONE ITEM AND FREE SHIPPING? WE HAVE TO FIX MOST ITEMS FROM THE CHINA MAN LAND BEFORE WE CAN EVEN USE THEM, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T
I think I'm going to change my dog's name to "Spudger." He gets into everything.
Awesome idea!
Also a perfect name for a ferret.
🤣
This reminds me of my very old lighted mirror (though I'm sure the same thing is still out there) that had regular incandescent sort of lighting, and also that sickly green fluorescent glow and the option to have both on at the same time, so you could make sure your make up didn't look fine at home but awful in the office.
"This is quite a long unwieldy thing to fit under the camera"
Yeah, we know BIG Clive
dillerboy
That's why no one calls him Wee Clive!
I can bearly control myself!
Clive: Should I analyze the bulb, or smash it to bits?
Me: Why not both?
2:08 Cold white, warm white.
Cardboard box?
That high CRI LED looks awesome.
Big Clive gets sent "wrong item", Clive still wins!
Cold white, warm white, tepid white?
I got a bench lamp which had selectable warm white or cool white or a mixture, I use it for my videos in the dual mode to improve the colour temp.
I just ordered one of these on eBay today (but from a cheaper supplier in China. I find that stuff from Singapore takes ages to get to Australia while the stuff from China will get here in about 2 weeks if it's shipped via airmail). I've been replacing all my lights with LED versions when I remembered the light in the range hood/exhaust. It's a 40 W tungsten bulb with an E14 socket.
At first, I bought some LED COB lights (3 W and 3.5 W, I think) then I remembered this vid. I measured the space and should take this 40 cm light easily. At 13 W it should provide a lot more illumination plus the colour temp change would be interesting (it should also mean that the wattage should be halved when not using both colour temp sets) while using less than the existing bulb.
Well, it arrived yesterday and it was the 16W version rather than the 13.1W version that was advertised. And it wasn't selectable. You only got full brightness - and it was far too bright for what I wanted. Also, the screws were on very tight. I couldn't get the middle one off without damaging it.
Just did my interview for an electrician apprenticeship. Thanks BigClive
I hope you are successful in getting it. Don't be put off if you don't. Keep looking.
bigclivedotcom thanks!!!
Many uses for a photographic light! Thanks Clive!
I made my own version of this for my office overhead lighting. Multiple rows of high density 24V LED strips zone controlled by an ESP8266 over Wifi. Threw in some RGB strip control for good measure.
Two in one day, its Christmas again!
As to the bulb Clive, smash it, go on Clive you know you want to dont't you Clive, Clive look into my eyes Clive, smash it Clive.
I can think of a few uses for these strips. They look very interesting.
The led driver appears to be a 2 bit latched binary counter, the resistor and capacitor are probably connected to the clock input, the capacitor in this case would be to prevent bounce.
Looks nice for under cabinet lighting
My brother says I need to have cool white in the morning and warm white in the evening to help align my sleep-wake patterns better. Something like this would simplify that.
Eyesight the same Clive. I had to change from ordinary glasses to vari focals at the age of 48. Now I can again read the numbers on a d-type, but looking at it with my head at a funny angle.
I so wish that Philips would add an LED lamp to their Hue range that would replace the fluorescent tubes in so many kitchens. It's not that I want to hold parties in my kitchen, but it's a place where my hands are often full when I need to switch the light. A Google Home in the kitchen would also give me a timer and a radio, for which I currently need multiple boxes. Surely it can't be too hard?
Do you take teardown requests? Could you teardown a Y1018 TENS unit?
under counter lights replacement, these are great design
yeah i reckon, clive would notice if it was shonky
Says 20W on the thing, draws only 10. Reminds me of the cheap chinese floodlights. Also the choke looks like a through hole transformer soldered on the side, kinda funny, the other lamp had this too. Anyway GreatScott likes these kind of lights with alternating warm/cold white LED's.
Great video, I was looking to understand how cycling power lets the unit know to change colors.
My bench lights are twelve 10watt LEDs attached to a strip of aluminium angle, 6 cool white, 6 warm, with separate adjustable current limiting supplies for each temperature, so I can adjust the colour, and brightness to what I want ;)
The bench is too messy to actually use it anyway...
Show us a tour of your lab.
Yes please.
Против Глобал any need?
Needs modification, replacing the electronic gubbins with a three-way switch to toggle between the three colours without the need to switch on and off... :D
4:32 "The bench has its limitations in the size of things you can fit under it"
They don't call him Big Clive for nothing!
I wonder if that star shaped led light bulb has the same or similar power supply. Power factor looks about the same, with high switching frequency there is no visible flicker. My guess on that star is inside that lamp is a miniature version of that power supply.
Umm, Clive? Have you been browsing the dodgy aisle in Poundland again?
'There are some things I'd really like to feature in videos but they're actually so big I'm gonna have to start the video with them well, just being shown where I can actually fit them in'
That switching chip might be a Bright Power S4225MB "Wall Switch Dimmer", switching A to B to (A+B)/2.
Yes you can smach the star open. As long as its done in an inappropriate way.
Is there a video which shows the set-up of Clive’s bench? I’m intrigued as to how he both has the lighting/camera setup and what else he has in the workshop.
Happy weekend for double dose of BC....
Thanks! Love your vids....
would you do a video on those programmable rgb led strips?
Thanks to you I have a weird obsession with lights and ordering things off Ebay
not saying that's a bad thing though
I'd like this strip in an "always mixed" mode with 120cm length to put into existing CFL tube fixtures...
It could be hotwired internally by bridging the LED strings straight to the current regulated rail.
Would you draw the circuit path on the white silkscreen to give a better representation of the circuit path?
Clive, Im looking into making something similar to this but with 60 x 3w LEDS with few diffent colours ranges for an aquarium. How do I work out the power supply and what resisters to use?
+bigclivedotcom The new LEDs are washing things out and the text is very difficult to read on printed pages or items. Can I suggest they need turning down a bit, or perhaps some extra diffusing?
Smash the star lamp, have it plummet like shooting stars are supposed to. Big Clive have you seen the 150w driverless leds on banggood? Are they the same as the lower wattage ones
The high power driverless LEDs seem to be a multiple of arrays with lots of the current regulating chips.
Clive can you do a review about the high CRI LED strips on eBay ?
that start bulb, does remind me of a ship in a bottle...
You could make a big seven segment display with a few of those.
I vote to be creative with the creative light bulb :D
I am not sure if you will see this but if you do, please check out The pacs Poweraware Cord. It glows if current flows.
Looks like a scaled up version of the chasing USB lead. (I made a video about that.)
Oh wow, thank you for having such a look on the comments :) I am new to your channel and it would have already saved me 20€ if I had seen this video. I watched it now and indeed they seem pretty much the same as the linked on ebay ones. Pitty.
Clive can you do more stuff on audio circuits?
Hi Big Clive great videos. Thought I would drop you an idea for a future video which is those galaxy bulbs, you could investigate how they worked. Thanks.
They work like infinity mirrors. The inside of the lamp has a point source of light that shines through masked shapes in a fully mirrored interior. The outside of the lamp is partially mirrored, so the image bounces back and forth creating multiple images between the mirrored surfaces.
Clive, can you tear apart one of those semi generic puff sensors used in a lot of ecigs there’s no information on them online and they don’t seem to be a simple switch but have logic inside
I did that in a video. It used a microphone style case but with a switch composed of a thin disk of conductive membrane separated from another metal disk by a very thin spacer. When you draw it causes a pressure differential that causes the membrane to make contact with the disk and the standard push-button style control chip inside the package then powers the heater and the LED on the back of its PCB.
bigclivedotcom So say this piece got damaged from ejuice, could I replace with a momentary push button?
I wonder if this video is supposed to be public yet.
No it wasn't, I screwed up again.
i was thinking the same thing xD
Unbridled knowledge and excitement bursts forth from Clive's channel like hair follicles do from his chin!
If hair follicles are themselves bursting forth, and not just hair, something unusual is going on...
Have you gotten into a 'squidger' decoration before? would be nice to see the cut corners with shock protection since you turn them on by smacking them.
Ashen's had one that didn't work on his Halloween 2017 video.
yey! new video :D on the theme of lights; how bout a teardown of Philips Hue?
Would connecting the aluminium back plate to ground cause any problems?
I don't think it would, but it's clearly not intended to be grounded.
So what would the search term be if I wanted to get some of these? Original seller doesn't send to Iceland. :(
Bas Withagen I couldn't find the seller at all!!
Das sad
Try the wattage, strip and 220v as keywords.
topher use the UK eBay site. The seller is listed but has no items on the us site.
Thanks for sharing 😀👍
does it works for mushroom cultivation? do you know?
Body Temperature? With your desk sitting at 10°, it is still pretty warm.
smash that star bulb! use the hammer of knowledge.
The Philips sceneswitch bulbs have a similar functionality, quite a neat idea
Yep, I got one of each type. The one that switches between just cold and warm white is faulty though, for some reason it always defaults to cold even though it's supposed to have memory.
The 3-in-1 version though works perfectly and is awesome, I just wish it was cheaper so I could get a lot more of them.
Must admit I'm tempted by the changing colour temp version, for emulating circadian rhythms. Shame about the fault, Philips definitely need to up their QC
You must have ordered these a while ago. The seller is no longer selling....anything apparently, bummer.
+j Gorkisch Try eBay.co.uk some sellers have different names in different country-sites.
So the power supply rectifies the ac, then sends it to a buck converter to change the voltage of the dc. I'm wondering why not just use a transformer to change the voltage of the ac, and then rectify that. What's the advantage of using the buck converter?
leds are more sensitive to current than voltage, current spikes can easily destroy them, most ac -> dc converters are built to control the voltage more accurately than the amperage/current
so i'm hazarding a guess they're buck-boost led drivers, built for the specific purpose of driving leds
found this one in case you want some more research:
www.mouser.com/pdfdocs/lumiled-avoiding-current-spikes.pdf
Smash the star! :) I'm just curious about the driver with no flicker.
Question- How large can an single LED be made? Does anybody know?
How old is that MK three pin plug? 😂
howdy Clive, as the leds have no series resistors do you notice more light o/p compared to other led strips that do?
The current regulation is done by the power supply chip.
lumens out / watt in
link for LED strip?
That looks like four of these could replace the 4 , 2 foot florescent tubes in my shower.
Is there any notation of the luminous output?
Thanks for your help and advice, ,, and good job... Clive. ..😆
Note that these are for 220V use.
bigclivedotcom
Oops,,, thank you for the reply, ,, those won't work here...😎
That fuzzing feeling on metal surfaces, I get that on so many different things. Always been a bit concerned, it's safe then?
It's common on some low voltage things like metal cased tablets when used with a plug-in power supply. If you get the same effect off something that should be grounded like a cooker or washing machine then it's a warning sign that it may not be grounded properly or a potential difference may exist between something in its vicinity.
The most concerning thing is a metal cabinet mirror in the bathroom, it has a built in fluro tube atop. When the light's on, the cabinet feels fuzzy. Been that way for 20 yrs.
I just checked continuity with earth and there is none. Not a good sign lol
Did you keep the quick-test off screen to avoid questions?
The Quicktest didn't fit on with this long strip.
You could turn it on at least once to show how it works.
I found a similar driver chip but not the same pin-outs, its the *Toggle (Side-Step) Dual-Channel LED Driver ZLED7002* in google :) It performs a similar function but I dont think it does both outputs together. That chip on yours must be a dedicated chip or clone of something else lol :) x
Unrelated question: How long does a pc powersupply hold a charge after you ripped out the powercable? I was once told that it can be extremely dangerous to open up your powersupply and start messing around, even days after the cable has been removed.. Any truth to that?
They should self discharge quite quickly, but a faulty unit may not. There's an often quoted case where a kid was found dead at his computer with the lid off the power supply and the plug out at the wall. The most likely thing that happened there was that the kid got a shock and then immediately unplugged it before fading away.
Googles voice recognition apparently doesn't understand Clive's rantings.... All sorts of weird words are in the captions.
I don't normally watch with captions. I had them enabled to watch a Chinese video.
I am probably nearly your age but i would like you to be my father and show me how to make and take stuff apart...(partly it is the accent.. ) anyway.. love your stuff keep it up maybe one day i will be able to fight off the zombies when they come for me...!!
Hey Clive, I'm getting rid of a Personal Locator Beacon. If you're interested in tearing it down let me know.
I've recently turned 40 and I am struggling to read small text.......doesn't help that my right is already fooked
I just got an email from UA-cam advising me that my channel will no longer be monetized unless I have 1000 subs and some other baseless criteria. This is notice to inform all my subscribers that I will no longer be watching anything on UA-cam, will be cancelling all my subscriptions and will block UA-cam from my home router. Take care, all.
Clive (or anyone else), do you know of an LDO regulator that can run an LED at 1 amp? I bought a CREE XP-G2 and will be using a resistor to limit current and an 18650 to power it, but I'd like a flashlight with a steady output.
Get a lithium battery protection circuit and stick a buck/boost converter off of it, this way you won't need a resistor and the 18650 battery won't be discharged to unsafe levels.
If you ran a lithium battery way down and just smacked the full charge voltage across it, it's likely to go on fire.
Any buck/boost converters you suggest?
Any of the ebay chineseium buck/boost boards will be fine as long as you don't run them at full load, as they tend to start acting weird.
I had a look around on eBay but this design seems to be a Europe only (220V 50 Hz) thing. :(
It's probably aimed primarily at the Chinese 220V market.
Ah well. Enjoy the nice lights Clive! And thank you for replying. :D
I know it's about the right size, but the mode selection mechanism basically ruins its utility. Why would anyone use it for signage lighting when it can't practically be set into any mode other than 'cool white'? A photocell or timer can't rapid-cycle contacts like that.
I suppose the mode control IC could probably be removed and shunted, but who would actually do that (other than us)?
Eh, i couldn't read SMD text when i was 20, so you've made it a while.
Why are there two equal resistors right next to each other rotated by 180°? Since I guess this is done using a pick&place machine, isn't it a waste of time to rotate one of these two unnecessarily?
Lots of Chinese products are hand soldered. I even heard that when they do use Pick and place units, resistors aren't lined in a way in the strip. In other words, cheap components.
They could be using cheap component sources, or they could be using reject/leftover rolls from other projects. Since China is basically the manufacturing capital of the world, it's real easy to ride on the backs of bigger businesses with their leftovers.
Same as common down lights.
Had it for over a year
"Insect-killing blue light"? Please tell me more!
big clive.. Please can you screw up more often as we get too see more of you when u make it public by mistake. :)
can we see more food rash packs i really enjoy seeing u doing more social things :)
DO THE VOICES TOO, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, AMERICAN, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, VOICE, CLIVE, YOU DO A LOT OF VOICES THE GAY DARLIC VOICE, THE SAFETY POLICE VOICE ETC... WE HAVE NEVER HEARD YOUR AMERICAN VOICE HAAHH HOW ABOUT IT, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T.
Yes, we want the bulb to be smashed open!
Hope the eye sight thing doesn't happen to me! I'm 40 in June!
i think it needs to meet the vice of knolage
wrong product? you have the wrong listing that you printed out. it tells all of us that the listing you printed is different from the item you purchased.
I thought I could get away from work inspecting PCBs all day but those solder balls on the resistors are just bad. Thanks china.
dose it run on alternating bypolar whats. ;)
no one has any clue what you're trying to say, buddy.
Look up the video "DANGEROUS 100W LED EXPLODES!"
Retrograde Studio Yes
that video came up on my recommended for you list.
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,'-)
Oh yass😂😂
I can't think of anything more annoying than having to switch my lights on and off several times every time I entered a room just to get my preferred color. I just bought a multi-mode flashlight (torch) whose first mode is flashing. I can't remember ever wanting to flash a flashlight (torch) let alone that being my primary need. This multi-mode stuff is getting ridiculous.
Looks like warm whites are 3528 and colds are 2835? Strange, 3528 will die much sooner
sounds like you're saying butt-crack-ya-later haha
Who wants a light that changes color temp every time you turn it on?
It resets after a longer off delay.
What's this!?!? "Big Clive late Christmas special"?
Today I received the stuff I ordered from AliExpress back in December. The Chinese postal service is really under high load during that time and so everything is delayed (although it's nowhere near as bad as last year), so I'd say that you're right.
anlumo1 I hope you got everything you ordered and as you ordered, can't imagine having to get something replaced and then having to wait again.
Yes, looking good. I'm using to these shipping durations, since I'm ordering a lot from AliExpress. The record time I've had to wait was 4 months I think, that was during 2015 Christmas.
Aputure do their Amaran wide range of colour-temperature adjustable LED studio lights, some of which are really portable (www.aputure.com/products/al528-1)
Phil S I got a 404 page not found error. Hopefully, it's only temporary.
Just preachin’ the good word of the lord here .. I actually almost all together stopped using ebay for chinese goodies - aliexpress ships significantly faster (up to 3 weeks insteads of sometimes 6 7 weeks with ebay) and up to now always with at least some form of tracking ...
Many Aliexpress sellers don't ship to the Isle of Man as standard. I've had issues where I've bought an item and then discovered they won't ship it here and I have to fudge the address and hope it makes it.
uuu ... rough ... and did it work ?
I would be hesitant to make any conclusion on ebay vs aliexpress shipping time. There's no obvious reason they should be different unless you're ordering from a local seller on eBay.
eBay has a much nicer search feature compared to Aliexpress. You can format the search to filter out results. Aliexpress has a lot more items for sale though, in my experience.
Darleee HOW DO YOU GET ONE ITEM AND FREE SHIPPING? WE HAVE TO FIX MOST ITEMS FROM THE CHINA MAN LAND BEFORE WE CAN EVEN USE THEM, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T
Darleee HOW DO YOU GET ONE ITEM AND FREE SHIPPING? WE HAVE TO FIX MOST ITEMS FROM THE CHINA MAN LAND BEFORE WE CAN EVEN USE THEM, JUST ASKING, OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T