Building the Dept of Villainy LED neon controller.
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- This video uncovered a new secret feature of the Samsung phone I was recording with. It stopped and started recording again roughly every 30 minutes as most do for file size reasons. But for the final bit it stopped and restarted after focussing on some random area that means the last part of the video has a slight focus issue. I'll be wise to that "feature" in the future.
This video is a full build of the prototype Department of Villainy LED neon controller. It can control 15 channels of LED neon or other simple 12V loads to allow animated signs to be made.
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I know virtually nothing about electronics, but what a compelling and relaxing way to spend an hour and half in the soothing company of Big Clive. Thank you BC.
very well described too, not saying its a 101 so if you dont know about certain lingo or fuctions of the componets you may not like it , but thats good for people that know about the stuff , soo its not a kindergarden explaination on everything, other wise each video would be a 6 hr electrical coarse.
My new nap routine is playing your videos continually before dozing off. Your baritone authoritative compassionate voice is soothing to the soul. Not trained in engineering, more of a hobby and you make learning fun. You've give so much more to the internet than you give - thank you.
A lot of people use my videos to help them (and their babies) drift off to sleep
Eric Rosen playing chess is another good one before sleep
When I was about 6/7 years old, (now 50), I decided I wanted to have my own electronic repair shop, I was already taking old audio stuff apart that I got from jumble sales. Unfortunately my parents moved us all over the world which disrupted schooling something rotten. I got my electronic qualifications for where we lived in the mid to late 80's and got the job, (through word of mouth), of checking and repairing electrical/electronic equipment for most of the second-hand shops in my town. I loved it. Working from home on old stereos, tv's and table lamps.
At 6-7 I tried to make PCBs but none of the schematics I tried worked. I was doing it wrong obviously, but I also couldn’t find information.
Also I’m French and I couldn’t read English at the time.
@@antoy384 All the fancy automation equipment is in German anyway.
You bought old stuff ??
I picked it out of the garbage .....
At 6/7 You had money ??
Everyone thinks all Americans are rich , I wasn't .....
@@antoy384 that's funny; kind of reminds me of something Frank Zappa said in an interview- when he was a kid he tried to write music based on what written music looked like... upon taking some to a musician to have it played, he was told that it was not possible to play it... of course.
peace be upon you, sir.
@@arnietapp423 who mentioned americans? And why are you trying to one up him?
Just my two cents, but I really like simpler "old-school" style of websites, they're much nicer to use, never have browser compatibility issues, and tend to present all the information you want in a manner that's easily accessible and searchable, I kind of wish more websites were like yours still.
@Matt Quinn I definitely don't miss the old, "This site works best with Internet Explorer version x.xx or newer, requires Flash version x.xx, and a screen resolution of specifically xxx by xxx," at the bottoms of so many web sites. Properly scalable pages have been a godsend.
@Matt Quinn bad design is bad design, I don't think its fair to use those relics as a baseline example of a classic static page. Google.com has had only subtle incremental changes for two decades for a reason. To really see what you can do with a static page check out csszengarden.com
@Matt Quinn No need to be a dick.
My website was hand-coded in HTML and javascript years ago and I've never seen the need to change that.
'This webpage uses frames', please change your screen resolution in order to view anything of any use. Although I do miss geocities.
Clive, it is like spending time with a good friend.
When I make the videos I feel like you're all there with me.
@@bigclivedotcom hi clive,can you please help me,i have inverter said 10000 watt but it wont run my 500 watt compressor,would you be able to modify it to put out more power?
@@MrGodsking Generally not designed for inductive loads.
@@bigclivedotcom we are, 🍺 cheers!
And now an old friend, I’ve been watching these for so long.
You didn't think your channel would get so big? This is exactly what beginners and experts alike enjoy. Your monologue is very easy to follow and it is rare that I don't learn something watching your videos.
Yes! Like the funny tool that bends leads. I never saw anything like it.
When your design includes a large number of identical resistors, you can speed up the assemble a lot by using resistor arrays in DIP packages. Costs more, but if you're only building a few boards the time savings could be worth it.
I've used those in some designs, but the bridging of full size resistors is useful on single sided PCBs so you can sneak tracks past.
I've cheated and soldered in DIP I.C. sockets before, and then pressed in the resistors later, but I'm not sure I'd trust the connections for long term use, especially with higher value resistors.
@@davelowets That's not what I meant. You can buy resistor arrays that come in DIP form. Typically 8 matched resistors in one component.
Suddenly, I felt like I was watching a Bob Ross painting video. You are doing great, keep on!
Agreed, he’s like the Bob Ross of the electronics field.
Happy little LEDs
I thought exactly the same! Great video!
lol,i am chuffed that other Clive enthusiasts know who Bob Ross is. Excellent!!!!!!!!
Agreed. Soothing voice.
Skip bits? Are you crazy? This is perfect background entertainment while I'm folding the laundry (there's a lot of it...)
I feel so much the same. Single-take videos are great precisely because there isn't that effort to compress too much information into too little time as you have in more "prepared" publications. I feel like I have Clive right here in my home office working on stuff with me and we're making casual conversation while we work.
Finished it yet?
I will say that this video upload was very timely. I have come down with a respiratory infection 5 days ago and have been pretty much cooped up in the house and more so, my room. No going out, no work, no class at night. Dave (EEVblog) just uploaded a really great teardown video which was really spectacular and that put such a smile on my face. Then I got an email notification about this upload from Patreon and saw how long it was and was overjoyed. I've spent a total of nearly 2 hours watching two awesome guys whom I look up to, doing awesome stuff and it really helped my mood and made me feel a lot better. Still feel like a bag of shit set on fire, but a little less horrible lol. Thanks Clive!!
Hope your ailment passes quickly.
Yeah my house 4 weeks ago we all got it, then we all seemed better, now my son and I have it agian, a week or so in between. Getting ready to run him to school and he sounds worse today, coughing. I felt like I was in the early stages of pneumonia (I've had pneumonia 5 times in my life so I know) anyway not sure what country your in. But get to a dr. If ya haven't. My son missed 4 days of school. The first go round then 5 days the second go round and this isnt the flu. They tested him. It's crazy.
@@raymondmucklow3793 I live in northern Illinois (USA) and yeah, its not flu but its terrible. My chest is on fire and cough production does not lean towards a sinus infection. I have no energy, very worn down, hot then cold but no fever, achy bones and joints. I went to the urgent care clinic yesterday morning at 7am and they put me on amox-clav (double antibiotic) and benzonatate pearls. It seems to be working a bit but the burning in my chest/throat is horrible.
@@bigclivedotcom Thank you Clive! I am hoping the same as well.
@@StreuB1 yeah i know exactly how ya feel, all i can say is sleep. i live in kansas. i just slept for days.
Just came across your channel which has brought back memories of when I used to design circuits and produce my own PCBs. Unfortunately due to a genetic condition I have pretty much lost my sight so its impossible to do that stuff now, but its entertaining and interesting to hear you construct projects. Incidentally my dad was an electrician for nearly 50 years and also as part of his apprentaship worked in steel mills and power stations. Amazing that components such as the 1n4001 and78xx regulators are still available.
Awesome nice to hear
speech to type function?????????????
@@realrandom7666 lost sight later in life probably has some semblance of sight and muscle memory for where keys are on the keyboard,
Lol, I've been typing on QWERTY keyboards for 3 decades, and I STILL am a horrible typer, and don't remember where the keys are... 😏
It just never clicked and sank in for me for some reason, BUT, I can tear apart anything mechanical after looking at it for 15 seconds, and then completely recall where each part goes to put it back together... go figure. 🤷🏻
You are the reason why I use and recommend Wago lever-type connectors for domestic electricity.
They are a bit big and not cheap, but their ease of use and re-use make them very good tools.
Same here! I'm in the USA where those twist-on wire nuts are ubiquitous. I've recently switched to using Wago lever-type connectors based on Clive's nefarious influence, and I like them a lot better.
@@Nf6xNet good to know. I've seen them before but don't know anyone who personally uses them. I've been wanting to try them.
I recently used Wagos when I rewired the third floor of our home. They work so well it’s amazing - especially after I found several splices that were secured by wire nuts that were loose and showed signs of overheating.
I love that you can actually get zero ohm resistors. We always wrote 'tested with zero ohm resistor' when we bridged circuits out to fault find large machines
Nice!
@@kooga112233 ?
@@Raycast_ yuh is he ok?
Who
@@Raycast_ What
26:28 Middle finger, ring finger, pinkie - _three point grip._ Index finger and thumb - _solder feeding._ Got it. I was faffing around soldering something the other day and couldn't get everything in the right place with my hands. I knew Big Clive had a way of doing it!
Many PCB soldering tasks require a 3rd hand. You don't always have a 3rd hand tool handy, or because it doesn't move, you learn to juggle the small parts for soldering. Almost all pros that do odds and ends jobs learn to use more of their hands. Holding two parts, aligning them, applying solder and holding a soldering iron happens all the time in the industry.
Yet even then, with very long fingers and large hands it's still difficult for me xD
@@isettech Yes, I guessed that pro's would be used to this. I'm a hobbyist who finds it tedious using a third hand device. I knew I'd seen Clive do this before, but couldn't find the video, so it useful that he does it again here.
Yes, you really get to learn how to move your fingers independently (weirdly though I never managed to play an instrument). I sometimes even hold the solder with my mouth, because my left hand is busy holding two parts together and I'm too lazy to jig something up for a one-off joint.
Ah, I used to be on Demon long ago, one of the few UK dial-up ISPs that wouldn't force you to hang up every two hours.
I graduate from school this may, and I have to say Clive your videos always reminded me of why I work so hard to become an electrical engineer. It is such a fascinating field, keep up the good work!
Nice project. When you mentioned the steel mill it brought back memories (I would say good memories but I’m trying to be truthful here) of the two years I had a “Vacation Bid” in the casting unit at National Steel’s Granite City Division in Illinois USA. I filled in for whoever was taking their vacation that week, so my schedule was always up in the air. When working at our Ladle Metallurgical Facility where we adjusted the chemistry and the temperature of the roughly 200 tons of liquid metal in the ladles, we used a triple set of 24 inch diameter carbon electrodes to arc and heat up the contents in the ladle. You always tried to make it back inside the control pulpit after taking a test sample or throwing in additives as quickly as possible because if you were outside the pulpit when the relays kicked in and the electrodes started arcing it was like being punched in the chest. It was literally painful to breathe for the first couple of seconds, every time it happened. Even if you knew it was coming. So, of course, we had to walk every new guy through there when they first showed up, after we asked wether or not they had a pacemaker first, naturally. Between my time at the steel mill and my time at the oil refinery I ended up with a lot of stories, and in several of them I was lucky I didn’t die. Now im crippled so I don’t get to do too much of anything.
Watching this is worth every second. It's like having a conversation with a friend
I agree with the diagnostics LED's comment. I like diagnostic LED's also. It just makes troubleshooting easier.
Omg. I have distinctly blue eyes, and have been messing around with electronics since I was 4, computers since I was 9 and I've been a professional software developer for 10 years in the local ISP industry. You hit the nail on the head!! Wow!
What I love about your channel here, among other things, is that you often come up with several phrases I would not expect to hear from other people who talk about electronics on UA-cam. My favourite phrase today is "aren't too fussed about being able to rub your hands sensuously on a circuit board". Thanks for the grin, chuckle & smiles. Task accomplished. 😄😄😁😁
I have brown eyes and I'm a plumber/heating engineer/gas engineer so your survey got me spot on! Now you should release it as a scientific research paper! You might even get it published in one of those fancy science journals. The Nobel prize for internet surveys maybe?
Fantastic! I love these long build videos and your stories and being able to learn from someone that's got so much experience. Also nice since I live alone and can somewhat keep me company while working on something of my own. :D
Yet again you gave me flashbacks. My electrical apprenticeship was industrial/commercial, and once had to work a 'ghoster', replacing a complete distribution/bus bar construction that had been completely burnt out by an exploding rotary furnace. The bus bar enclosure was the size of a coffin, with switches so big it needed a mans weight hanging off them to operate. Armoured cables as thick as your arm. Pulling those off the drum is what has given me a life long lower back problem. You gotta love industrial three phase!
I always misread “villainy” as “villany”...
Villany in Hungary means electricity 😂😂😂😂😂
There is a town named Villány in Hungary.
Like electrickery?
@@andrew_koala2974 I am 65, lived all my life in England and I still have trouble ;-)
nitehawk86 I love that wine :)
Andrew_koala how is English in the top 5.. the easiest language in the world..
Just look at how you can use “you” as referring to a group of people, a person, as a formal way to address someone you would address as sir/Madame but also can be used to address a child..
In Dutch and most likely Hungarian, there is a different word for all of these.
Clive, Thanks for the real world reference's to your experiences, I find your recollection's bringing back my memories from my career, particularly my apprentice training in the steel industry back in the mists of time and working with high power systems. Indeed I have worked on Electric Arc furnace power supplies with one in particular being a 72 MVA transformer supplying a Furnace that could refine 100 tonnes of scrap steel into high quality steel in 50 minutes! I hope you agree that we were privileged to have worked on such equipment that is now sadly long gone in the UK.
I think your find they stop filming after 30 minutes due to import tax reasons, if it records longer then 30 minutes it is classed as a video recording and falls into a high import duty
I have been building hobby kits for 50 years and it is enlightening to see how somebody else does it. I thought your video would be boring but I learnt much from it and in particular the stainless desoldering tubes and the flush cutters which I will get . Sure beats heating the pad and giving it a quick knock on the bench. Thanks
Heating and knocking is great for many desoldering applications.
I love how Clive just talks totally random stuff while building his next project, really entertaining man :)
Fantastic villainous build video! I just ordered An Engineer SS-02 solder sucker from Amazon, $27.54 with tax, delivered tomorrow. Replacing my old Swedish Precista pump. Thanks for the entertainment and the tip!!!
The Engineer SS-02 solder sucker arrived today and I couldn’t be more pleased with the quality of design, build quality and functionality. Only used it for a few minutes on a small project but it works better than my 40 yo Precista or my cheap Chinese knockoff. Nice rebound damping allows you to keep the tip where you want it, not bouncing all over spewing tiny solder particles.
Doing repairs, I check fuses first, if its a glass fuse, you can see if its a short (it will look like a explosion went off it in it ) if it looks just melted (it was over loaded) next check power rails, if one is dead, check regulator chips , if they are ok check the startup cap and secondary cap for switch mode supply's. That usually cover 90% or more for repairs for me.
"you can see if its a short"......wouldn't it be an open?
@@RC-nj1by what caused the fuse to fail...
@@RC-nj1by yes it would be open
Thanks for this exchange, made me chuckle :-)
For anyone wondering why: a hard short often sputters the fuse wire onto the fuse glass (which then looks mirror-like, kinda like a 'getter' splash if you're a tube / valve person) and causes an open because the fuse is blown.
And BC has a nice video on fuses, which explains why HRC fuses are filled with sand to suppress the arc and sputtering.
Another great educational and entertaining video, Clive. I'm disabled so drive vans to accommodate my wheelchair and other paraphernalia. I was a bit snobby about Fords at first but since the mid-1980s found Transits the most comfortable to accommodate Big John.
I love the Isle of Man, since first going there as a child in 1971 just after Summerland was opened. Been there many times since, including working at Noble's. I work in anaesthesia, and my company is based in Ramsey - not for tax evasion but best compliance. There is a chasm between rich and poor but I see that all over the UK too.
a note on House electronics, one of the main reasons is ease of use while I was doing the electronics at my house with a mate, we used the wager clips because of 2 main reasons, Extensibility and ease of Access, if we where to solder the wires that's it, its a hassle to then unsolder them to re-route the lines. that and bringing a soldering iron around the house is a pain and one the mini ones wouldn't be powerful enough to heat up the thick copper cables.
I admit...I was not really looking at the video, just listening to your voice and I felt relaxed
I've been dabbling with electronics for 29 years now - how have I never seen that bending device thingy before??
Looks like some knitting tool!
@@andrewwalsh3744 You think?
@@tzisorey Really not sure.
@@andrewwalsh3744 Not a big kmitter, but I dont remember seeing anything among my gran's stuff. But I could see something like that being used for straightening bent needles or something.
@@tzisorey Model boat building tool: Occre Pin Pusher (19108)
You’re absolutely right about the connectors.
If you have to use them every day you know the „cage“ ones are much better and easier to use
I'm with clive when it comes to looking for problems.
People keep telling me I'm a pessimist, I keep trying to tell them that I am a realist. There will be problems, what is wrong with looking ahead and avoiding the worst ones.
Optimist: I see the glass is half full
Pessimist: I see the glass is half empty
Realist: You two have noticed that this is urine, right?
Only a matter of perspective. Three friends are walking in a tunnel, one is only seeing the dark, the other one is seeing light at the end, and the last one sees the train approaching, while the traindriver only sees three ideots on the track
@@edgeeffect Add...
Engineer: I see the glass is twice the size it needs to be. . .
Those who don't anticipate failure modes spend a lot of time scratching their heads.
@@v8snail Add
CEO: Can you do without the glass?
I have no idea why but UA-cam randomly plays this to me at least once a week! Must know how much I love your work I guess.
That's odd. And a long video too.
@@bigclivedotcom no complaints! It’s nice to wake up or come home to you explaining not to use ma’s best scissors. Seriously at least 30 views of this video are my chrome cast and the UA-cam algorithm.
It also thinks I’m fond of old naval documentaries and is forever suggesting them
Clive, the 30 minute recording cut out has to do with the classification of the device. After 30 minutes, devices will classify as being a videocamera, which costs more for the manufacturer then limit the maximum recording time. That is why videos will be limited to 29 minutes and 59 seconds.
Hi Clive! New Subscriber here - when I worked for a sub-contract electronics company, we had two different methods for bending components - for small to medium batch production, we had a bench-mounted unit with a handle - worked like yours, but you could feed the bandoliers straight in! For prototypes, we had sets of individual 'benders' that were colour-coded for their size - I still have 3, yellow for 0.4", green for 0.5" and blue for 0.6" pitch - they were very simple construction - a cast aluminium part with a 'v' groove for the component and a slot for the wires, and a 'u' shaped steel part that was hinged to the other at one end, with a return spring set in a recess in the ali part, and a locating 'dimple' in the steel (the painted part).
I have a handle based one here now. Not affordable when I was younger and really could have used it, but very affordable on eBay more recently.
As a doll collector I came for the Flaming Fanny.
As a general geek I stayed for the disassembly and analysis of cheap tat.
That's still one of my favorite videos ever. Its so ludicrous it just works XD
Well Clive, I think you've just secured yourself a job aboard NCC-1701 - Mr Scott would be proud of how quickly you fixed Uhura's communication console!
I really love it when a plan comes together, and when something works as it should from 'switch on' - reminds me of my very first 'single shot' success in building an electronic circuit, an audio amp based around an ECL86 triode/pentode valve (I was only just 12 years old!). There was a massive sense of satisfaction to be derived from building it, powering it up, and it working from the word go! - Lovely stuff.
Anyway, this is just what I had in mind a month or two ago, when you were introducing us to your LED-neon strips.
I'm far more lacking when it comes to hardware design but as a programmer I had a similar experience when a friend approached me asking me to help them program the microcontroller for the custom RC car they had built. Flashing the EEPROM and seeing it spring to life and operate the motors in perfect sync with the control inputs was a big deal to me as my 12 year old self. Also that ended up being a very beneficial friendship between us as we are both into exploring automation and our skills mesh well for building local home automation projects and such, they can build the I/O for my code to work in a way I can't. I'd most likely kill the hardware if I attempted to design the circuit as I have a rough idea of the basics at best, just enough to be dangerous to any device in my sole care probably.
Love these build'n'talk videos. =)
Great questions from everyone.
This past summer I grew my first beard. It was about 3 inches long/short before I shaved it off.
So, yeah first beard at 45 years old... ;)
What does it mean.
Hi Clive, love your channel. I don't do much electronics now, more digital sound engineering, but I started my electronic career after my YTS - yes, I was that spotty youth. I was placed at C&N Electrical in Gosport, Hants, making PCB assembly aids. I took a PCB and a build guild and digitsed where the components were selected. I then took a photograph - yes 35mm film, of each step which also encoded which component bin the assembler had to pick from. Once I had gone through the entire build, I took the roll of exposed film and developed it just as a roll of negative and installed it into a cartridge. This in turn was inserted into the assembly jig, which was similar to what you started with. Above the jig was a projector which shone through the image into the board showing the assembler where to insert the component. Once done, the lid was closed, as you did, and reversed. Depending on the component, either 1 or 2 legs were soldered and the legs cropped with a pneumatic tool. This PCB then went to a wave soldering machine, where I actually moved onto and machine soldered the entire board. Fun days for a 17 year old. I now build sets and/or run sound for amateur theatre and have a couple of mentors who actually desgin and build sound desks we use - what better mentor can you get. Just getting ready for West Side Story where I've arranged the set and built other bits for it. Have to wire up a "jukebox" to play some of the music and finally get to play with a dry ice machine where, hopefully, the band will get a tast of!
Love the fact that you don't just do electronics, your MRE tasting is fabulous, and I can never forget the doll with the exploding fanny!
Keep up the good work. You never do a dull video.
At 68 years old, I may well be a bit older then the average watcher (OH eye color blue - career's 24 years law enforcement - 8 years as a soldier in the US Army Communications - College degree's - Paralegal - Computer Science - Gun Repair (all associate's degree's). At any rate, back when I was a boy, we had a very good grasp on recycling, no need for bins and such. Pop and Beer Bottles had return bounty of 2 to 5 cents, so when we wanted a candy bar, we hit the ditches and gathered bottles, hit the grocery store and gathered our rewards, then hit the candy isle and got the candy. We used to head out to the city Dump, which was open to the public, and unsupervised back then, and hunt for copper, we tore into washing machines, and other places where we could find cooper wiring then took that to the local junk yard, where they paid us by the pound. Of course much of the cooper had insulation on it, this we would burn off in coffee cans and kerosene, or in a pinch gas. Aluminum was just getting value, so we would gather that as well, also iron had value, as we got old enough to get dad's pickup, we would hit the local farmers, they all had old obsolete machinery in their tree patches, we would ask if we could clean that up for them, most said yes, and even furnished lemon aid for breaks, as we tore down old machinery and loaded the pickup with scrap iron and steel. Of course times have changed, and kids are no longer expected to make their own money if they want to attend a movie, or eat a candy bar, thus we have fallen on the recycle projects of today. I still have wonderful memories of cleaning up ditches around town, and the inovative ways we had to tear down old farm equipment, well that is indeed another tale.
Thanks for sharing!
Of course this story has to end with "kids today are worse".
Yes. I remember those days. I got started the same way, old stereos, tvs from the dump, taking them home and stripping them for parts. I used to make up space ship control panels with lights and switches as a 12 year old.
Of course such a thing would never be permitted these days. Can't have people being able to earn money without the tax man watching your every move and 5,000,000 pages of legal bureaucracy weighing you down.
We did the same until we discovered some shops put the 'empties' outside the rear so we promptly 'acquired' and resold them,shocking behaviour but money was very short at the time.
Clive. In reference to soldering residential electrical. My father straight out of highschool had a job working for a place wiring houses, this was back in the day of the Rural Electrical Co-Op going out and bringing electricity to rural farms and communities. At that time they used a solder pot much like what you'd find around a shop now to do mass tinning of component leads. They twisted the wires, fluxed them and dunked them in the pot. After it cooled they taped them up. He also told me.about some older houses that were wired with "tube" basically you has a hot and neutral run across the rafters on little insulators. Lights and plugs were connected directly to this power buss. Very sketchy.
I use Lego to make prototypes. Technic is particularly useful. Very quick but not cheap, I only use my old retired sets.
I've watched this a few times, usually put it on in the background while working on something else, and I have to say, watching you form those leads with that desoldering tool is immensely satisfying!
I just ordered some smaller PTC fuses for the next version.
@@bigclivedotcom That'll certainly make it easier to create a nice tidy looking board. :)
Bigclivedotcm this cool Building the Dept of Villainy Led Neon controller
Lego is capable of _so much more_ now, especially with the introduction of Mindstorms and the most recent Powered Up system!
I had both Legos and an Erector set loved them
Need some sort of quick fixture? Lego. Need to wind coils? Lego. Need a fume extractor? Lego.
Endless posibilities, not only for kids!
@@DrakkarCalethiel true but Gilbert was first to include a motor and pulleys used I rings for belts
After I got out of the Army I worked in an electronics plant automatic insertion department. Combining all of the components into taped rolls and then placing that onto a machine that cut, bent, inserted and affixed to the circuit board. Mind numbing work but it paid the bills!😂
I cant wait to watch, I am in the middle of some LED Neon projects right now.
Nice job Clive, I have watched this video in segments over the last two days, as I was busy with other stuff. Your Q and A was awesome. Brilliant soldering skills and PCB design.
De-soldering tubes ? I've never seen those before. And they double as lead benders. Must look out for some. Thanks Clive
noakeswalker They are awesome for desoldering power components and heatsinks. Couldn't be without them anymore!
Found them on ebay under Hollow needles desoldering tool electronic components Stainless steel 8Pcs/lot very inexpensive. I love discovering new tools especially with multiple uses.
hah went to aliexpress to look for those and lo and behold they have em... added to my 11 nov shopping list ;)
"Desoldering needles" was the search term I used to find them. I had no luck looking for "desoldering tubes."
I must find those ! Would be very helpful ! 😊
I’m blue eyed and am am a mechanic specializing in electronic troubleshooting. Always have loved electronics and anything mechanical. Great video as always Big Clive!!!!
For ‘bench scissors’ may I recommend our favourite supplier ‘poundland’ I just bought a pair for my workshop. They are excellent.
These longer videos are my comfort.
This is great, I have to say I'm an hour into the video. I have to pause to run my son to skrool😁. Your assembly videos are awesome. I'll edit when I'm done watching. 🇮🇲 That was fantastic, professionally done. Neat, Clean. Well done.
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I also wanted to mention I watch this gamer he had got onto the topic of people listening to his videos in the background while they work or clean house. I was like that sounds familiar. So I had pointed them in your direction. I wonder has you tube taken the place of talk radio. I do talk radio all day, videos in early am and at night, I dont watch TV. BigClive started a new phenomenon. Tips hat to BigClive.
I was a electrician from 87 to 1999 , In a lot of homes made during and before the 1940's I seen cloth wire where 2 wires coming into opposite sides of the box were pulled so tight that where straight and overlapped a inch and soldered then taped. My dad was a electrician from the 60's to like 2010 and he told me that when he started there was no wire nuts or anything, so they would have a small pot of melted lead and they would have the wires overlapped a inch ,because copper was expensive and they would dip the wires in the lead and wrap with tape. I hated it when I would come across it because there was usually only a inch to inch and a half of wire coming out of the pipe!
21:56 That sound, "PWOINGGGG" I don't why, I lol'd.
jrmorrisjr could work as an error sound
I got a pair of Xeron snips with my resin 3d printer (Elegoo Mars Pro 2, I'd recommend it) and it wasn't until Clive talked about them in this video that I finally understood why I prefer them to my citadel ones for model making
If they came free they are probably clones.
This is my favorite sort of video from you, love it!
Clive, well done indeed! We all love your stuff and really do want you to be around and making more vids for a long time to come. With that said PLEASE do something about the solder smoke! You can say the stuff is harmless but so were cigarettes before they weren't! At the very least mount a 12v fan blowing across your face between you and the soldering. Surely you have a 12v power supply. Take care PLEASE! Keep the great vids coming!
I've head the 30 minute recording limit has nothing to do with file sizes or technical, but rather some obscure law which states that devices which record more than 30 minutes of video will be burdened with an extra tax or something because they are professional video recorders and thus are always used to pirate video content and hence they must be taxed to death. My memory escapes the details but sounds plausible..
HD web cam + raspberry pi... Problem solved.
Yes, it's an EU thing. Video cameras attract a higher level of import duty, and are defined by any device that can record for 30 mins or more continuously, so to avoid this many devices stop at 29'59". Sometimes manufacturers sell different versions for different regions so that the USA version, say, doesn't have the limit, while the European one does. And sometimes it's possible to hack the European version to remove the limit.
Definitely still a thing with DSLRs and similar. Canon definitely keeps that 29’59” limit on theirs in the US as well, probably to try to nudge people into buying a video-oriented device of which they sell many...
Yup. The 30-minute recording limit is to avoid higher taxes on 'video cameras' in Europe, since there are different tax brackets for still cameras and video cameras. smartphones are 'still cameras' to the taxman.
Well there's another retarded, poorly thought out EU law to add to my growing list.
Just Brexit already, and show other EU countries the sky doesn't fall in when you do. The rest of the world doesn't need the EU screwing things up for us.
If you find yourself doing a lot of high thermal mass work; consider getting yourself a medium duty Glazier iron like Weller’s W100P. It targeted at stained glass artists, but it’s my go to when I need more consistent heat load but not necessarily higher temperatures.
Though to be clear, this is not going to replace your daily driver or be well suited for general purpose electronics work.
4:15 Couldn't you crop-form the resistors straight out of the bandolier?
Then you get the bonus of the offcuts being left on the bandolier tape and not all over the bench with the resistors
but then they wouldnt be bent
@@americanginseng319 Yes they would, the crop and form tool cuts before bending.
This really made me itch. Seems like a much faster and less messy method. Though admittedly I've never touched the stuff. This guy's an old pro.
Have had the same question about RC models, solder versus crimping. The military and aviation all crimp, its reliable. Solder connections can break where the solder ends and the wire begins. Solder flux residue can also cause issues.
Last comment, I promise. I've found when I need to de-solder a plated thru hole, it's easier to put the pump on the opposite side of the board from the iron.
While desoldering a lot of capacitors from dimmer racks for replacements at work we found it easiest to prepare everything and then have one person at one side of the large PCBs with a solder sucker and another person holding the PCB vertical and heating the solder joints. It resulted in a production line of desoldering.
I got myself one of those S-993A desoldering guns from Amazon. For a cheapie Chinesium tool, it's actually not that bad, especially for the price. The one thing I'd change if you get one is to stick some ATV gasket (or the actual silicone mounting compound for electronics, if you have it) onto the solder connections inside the thing, just to protect the solder joints from the motor vibrations. I've tried using the desoldering pump, but I found it to be much more hassle than it's worth. By the time you've got all the holes clean, you've damaged half the pads.
I really, really enjoyed this video. Something deeply relaxing about watching someone build something and talk about related subjects at the same time. Sort of AS MR but more fun. I even had a nice dream involving The Department of Villainy 😊
1:09:36 - It's not file size; even if it there was some filesystem limitation, it would be trivial to close one file and start buffering immediately on the next frame, to save on a separate file(*). It's not like frames are recorded one at a time, anyway (they have to go through the compressor, typically in groups of 15 or more, sometimes over 100, depending on the codec, so the asynchronous buffer is built in).
*The reason why many devices stop recording at 30 minutes is... taxes.* If something records for longer, it's classified as a video camera and pays extra customs fees in several countries.
(*) Some devices actually do this (again, independently of filesystem), possibly as a (dubious) way to get around the "video camera" customs classification, so there's no "seam" at all, it's literally a single stream split across "30 minute" files.
I worked for Maplin for about ten years on and off, until a few years before they totally crumbled. When I first started in the 2000's we stocked a decent selection of components and tools, many of which became catalogue only then were completely discontinued. While the circuit board rack may have been a catalogue only option, and one I never perused, but we certainly never had such a unit in stock, so I suspect it's origin is either elsewhere or was discontinued before my time. I'd have definitely grabbed one had I known about it though, looks like a dead handy bit of kit.
Worryingly I have many of those Efest batteries! Though tt be fair they're a lot better than the early generation light pink Efest 18650s, back when they all had nipples, before the mass de-nippling of factory cells.
I'm struggling to think of a Villainous application for this device
It's for a villainous piece of signage.
Hook up chairs with electrical buzzers and use this to control them.
Guess with 2 amp per chanel you can easily use one of these to sequence electronic ignitors for when you want that (scale model) bridge blown just the right cinematic way... or to make a small fireworks display.
To trigger offensive signs to repulse politricksters when the come canvassing to your house....Something like" F**k off you lying b***stards".
Last year was Kryptonite pendant lights, which I have yet to build.
I have watched this video probably 5 times (YT keeps having it pop up in my auto-play) and it's almost soothing/relaxing just listening to it as I work on my own stuff. Between Clives baritone voice, Isle of man accent and the way he talks about tech it's as if I got a buddy with me talking shop as I go about my work. Now I just need to get one of these boards so I can build it myself. Lol
This was a prototype PCB. I have a live stream channel if you want long background videos. BigCliveLive
RE 30 minute stop on videos - there is a legal reason for that. There is apparently some kind of import duty on camcorders - and the law says that if it records video over 30 minutes at a time, it's subject to "camcorder" import duty. But if not it's just a camera that shoots video. There's usually no actual reason to limit to 30 minutes. Sometimes it's file size - 4GB limit on FAT filesystem, or the battery won't last anyway or something, but this tax thing is I think the usual culprit.
my phone caps at 4GB for videos and just stops recording
@@TheAechBomb 4 gig file cap on fat32, great when you download a 8.5 gig dvd and need to transfer it to a device that cant read ntfs/exfat(cough, ps3, cough cough)
@@TheAechBomb Sometimes it is a file size limitation. 4GB means they're using FAT32 on the card, that's max file size on that filesystem.
Oh, Yes, Clive, we like you. Watching your videos is better than medicine. Even the non pharmaceutical type, i.e. laughter. Although you provide that also, with the proper "dosage". Your "bedside manner" is worthy of a class in the most highly regarded medical schools. I dub thee "Doctor Big Clive". (Please! No shock therapy, Doctor!) ;-)
"What's inside a 0 ohm link?"
Why don't you open one up for us? Seems like we could find out pretty easily.
A wire !
I hoped they were a source of superconductors that work at room temperature. ;)
"What's inside a 0 ohm link?"
Fire.. just pass a few hundred amps through them and you will see.
I did open one up and there were two steel caps with the lead wire bonded onto them, and a slug of copper in the middle.
@@AndyHullMcPenguin
Oops,, here is one to think about, , if the conductor is absolutely zero ohms, then the math will tell us that there can be no heat to extreem current flow.
And that is how a room temperature superconductor works, and why, if they allow us to have them , it will be world changing .
Superconductor.org
Is what to check out.
When I were a lad, we had soft drinks you know? Most of them came in glass bottles. Yes they were more expensive (the glass bottles that is). Was it the famous 6 ounce coke bottle that cost more than the cola inside the bottle? But we used to recycle all the bottles as there was often a "deposit" of as much as 10p on the bottles which you would get back from the shop keeper or off-licence. Worked really well.
Just after the 3 minute mark "there are some countries where internet access isn't good" - ah, I see you've heard of America, especially anywhere barely outside urban areas.
Sometimes even in urban areas you get situations like mine, where your service has been out for 3 weeks and the technician just doesn't feel like stopping by for two weeks in a row.
@@cheyannei5983 Or mine, where you are in a major metro area and get consistent service, but also easily verified deep throttling!
Forsooth:
Any connection to a service that keeps data on your speeds (like updates via Microsoft) gets my full paid for ~25-30mb/s down! (at 60 bucks a month, wtf?!)
Anything else gets 10% of that. Legitimately 10%. Normal download speeds in the house above 2.4mb/s are enough to choke out other traffic on the network.
And latency for anything is horrendous, because the upload throttling is almost unusable. Anything above 80kb/s up causes issues on the network.
But we don't need laws and regs to make sure the ISPs don't fuck us with a rusty rake.
Riiiiiiiiight.
@@Cemi_Mhikku It may be worth using a VPN in your case :U
I have no issues with my internet
If you made it 3 minutes into the video by now then I don't think your idea of shitty internet is quite the same as people that still need websites designed for dialup to "conveniently" access the internet, even if it may feel like it sometimes.
I like learning how things work like the automatic hand sinks, smoke alrms, etc... your content has improved quality of life!
3:50 I thought those cutter/formers were made to use taped resistors. Just go down the line cutting and forming them and you didn't have to take them off the tape first.
They're designed for bandolier reeled parts, yes. When I worked on production lines we'd have a desk-mounted version - you feed the reel in and they fall into a bin.
Can it collect the cut off ends/swarf, as Clive found it annoying with both these and the clipped/formed components on his bench 🤨
I really wanted the bench version, but it was incredibly expensive. I ended up buying one on eBay a few years ago. The hand trigger version doesn't work too well on bandoliered components because the cut ends of the previously trimmed components often fowl the blades.
When I was using the hand version in earnest I set things up so the cropped leads went into one container and the shaped components when into another.
I make stuff on veroboard and need lots of short links... so I save all my cut-off ends... well, except for cheapi resistors, 'cus they use steel wire not copper... and even I'm not that tight.
I used to work at a shipyard as an electrician. Installing wiring of all types throughout the ship as it was being built. For those massive cables we resorted to the whole gang wrestling the cable. We would have one man about every two feet just to handle the weight of it. Fortunately, there were very few of that size. Most wiring was easily handled by one or two men.
Cable pulling. Not good for the backs of taller guys.
Tenths of an inch. - The measurement of nicely splayed legs.
When?
@@charadremur333 Whenever your IC leg pitch is 2.54mm
94 minutes well spent. Nice to see you got some Manx Gaelic on your PCB Clive
funny thing about zero ohm links is they come in different series and Tolerances :D
Don’t understand electronics I’ve done electrics associated with plumbing and heating work but I’m completely mesmerised watching you videos Clive and i throughly enjoy them !!!
Long build videos like these, especially the ones with work-related Q&As and stories always make me regret not pursuing trade work when I was younger. I grew up in a place and in a time (and with an attitude) that pushed me towards lower-rent office- and computer-type work.
Luckily, there are still chances to get my hands dirty. Which keeps me sane.
You could always diversify.
@@bigclivedotcom I think that's a fine idea. There's inherent stability (and satisfaction) in more physical, tangible work.
Ordered the kit of desoldering needles to give them a try. AU$2.04 with free China post and be damned LOL.
Clive, you gotta be kidding 😂 As I was a child, I was just like you! I also constantly built coin operated vending machines, mechanical and electronical ones of all kinds!😳😂 I used Fischer Technik Robo-Pro for these machines, because you can graphically program all your assembled machines‘ circuits using a software based on graphical logic-blocks (if, or, and, for, Nand, etc…), I/O-blocks (Motor, Pin x, Speed y, Start), Delays, and much more… Those Coin operated machines still attract me to this day, thus I straight up went to europe’s largest vending- and reverse-vending-machine manufacturer „Sielaff“ during my obligatory practical term for my electrical engineering bachelors degree 😉
Clive, what tolerance do you prefer for your zero ohm jumpers? 5%? 🙃
I like your component bender/cutter and soldering jig. Nice to see a bit of good old thru hole action instead of SMD. I like a good soldering iron session.
FYI: The 30 minute recording limit is NOT because of file size limits. It is for taxation reasons. If a camera/phone/toaster records more than 30 minutes in one go, it is considered a video camera rather than a camera/phone/toaster which records video. The import tax is about double, hence the limit. All other quoted reasons such as 'image quality' and 'sensor protection' are lies - the only reason for the limit is importation tax. (DJI, I'm looking at you!) File size is a fun one to debunk. Strictly speaking any file size limit also can appear to limit recording time; after all, a 32bit Operating System will usually limit files to 2GiB (they can do 4GiB but 2GiB is easier to work with for *reasons*). However, it is very simple just to open a new file and seamlessly continue recording. Those toasters which do this also insert a fake recording delay of between two and ten seconds between files so as to prove the toaster is not a video camera. Most of us hack our devices to remove the limit.
What does a "toaster" record? Burning toast? Serious question.
Re resistor markings; back, way back, in the 1960s I used resistors with numerical markings, I remember that they had green bodies and I think that they were branded 'TSL' (Technical Supplie(r)s Limited?). It was necessary to fit them such that the values could be read once the equipment was completed and, of course they became unreadable after even minor overheating.
The 30 minute recording limit is an entirely artificial limitation introduced in response to an EU tax/import duty.
Some years back, I worked in an electronics factory where we assembled custom orders for different clients. Some orders were as small as one single board, while others could be several thousand boards. (Larger orders were often referred to larger production companies that could automate even more of the process than we did.) Anyway, the 0-Ohm resistors (I was told by one of the engineers) were used when the original design called for some other value, and it was later found to be unnecessary. Instead of redesigning the board, we would just load 0-Ohm resistors in the holes and solder them like other resistors. It also looked more professional than adding jumper wires. (And before anyone argues, I'm also aware that sometimes, a board served more than one purpose, and needed resistance for only some of those uses.)
*Spits beer over computer* err, i have brown eyes
Well that explains why I prefer hardware to software
And I prefer software and the eye colour thing agrees... Interesting. (although I'm developing a healthy interest with electronics too, programming my own hardware will probably be the sweet spot)
Clive, I find a good way of clearing the solder from a through plated hole is to melt the solder then insert a stainless steel pin into the hole with a twisting motion. This pushes the solder through without it sticking to the pin and preserving the through hole plate. The sort of pin with a glass ball on the end , used by dress makers and balsa wood model aircraft makers are ideal.
I used to use Rapid until they changed ownership. Things got worse after that.
I was comparing Rapid's prices from just a few years ago, and they've rocketed.
bigclivedotcom yes, they got bought out. The new owner upped the prices, reduced the ranges and the service got worse. Sad really as Rapid were the best, easy to deal with, very fast delivery, great quality and cheap prices.
mechano was my building toy of choice
Meccano for mechanical engineers (angles, pivot points, bent things), Lego for computer engineers (monolithic pieces, right angles, integer offsets).
It doesn't matter what you're doing nor saying, Clive. I just enjoy the sound of your accent and calming voice. That's a very unusual statement, coming from a hermit. :-)
You're like an oral oasis in the middle of a hostile political battlefield. Thank you for being here. Oh look! I must have inadvertently learned some useful tips and tricks, along the way. It's a win/win!
Then, you awakened a nostalgic memory of falling asleep at the workbench in ~1982, while doing 'ghosters' to finish a laser projection system for Cliff Richard's European tour, including a night Edinburgh. Glamorous show biz, eh? 24/7, sleeping with 15 road techs on a tour bus and loving every minute of it. What in the world was wrong with me?
BR 😎
When you started soldering I cought myself unconsciously performing my "blow soldering smoke away" puff xD .
As much as you want to, don't. It can cause the solder pool to cool too quickly and result it bad joints. I have to resist doing this myself! :)
@@PhilWilliams81 Not if you're blowing horizontally, directly outwards. Of course, yes, if you blow ON the work it'll cause undesired rapid cooling, but a horizontal stream of air at mouth level, straight out, I see no issues
I hold my breath !
Most people who solder a lot get into the natural rhythm of breathing out gently as the flux vapour passes by. When you watch someone else solder it can trigger the same reaction.
I believe that back in the days of knob and tube, it wasn't uncommon to see soldered connections in home wiring. The problem with soldered connections in both home wiring and an automotive wiring is that the solder tends to make wires brittle, so if any flexing occurs it will snap the wire off. On a PCB, you don't have this problem.
Real old style stuff, point-to-point wiring on terminal strips, could have that problem. However, In that era, one was always instructed to make a sound mechanical connection before applying solder. Typically this meant threading a lead through a lug, twisting it tight, trimming it, and then soldering it. Also, anything heavy was typically bolted to the chassis. Iit's been a long time since I saw electronics with a metal chassis with tube sockets and big ugly caps riveted to it.
the 30 minute max on a phone has something to do with USA import duties. anything that can record for more than 30 minutes is a camera and subject to different taxes. I can't remember the details. sorry.
I don't think that's correct. I have a Nikon camera and the recording time varies with the resolution of the video image. The higher the resolution, the shorter the recording time. And it's nothing to do with any file size limit either.
@@two_tier_gary_rumain yes, but it depends on the intended market or or if the manufacturer is bothered. I think the OP was correct in suggesting it has something to do with sales tax or import duties.
I've not quite gotten into electronics yet (I'm a software engineer) but the thing that seems to appeal to me is that the tools and the components stay the same. You can count on learning things once and using that knowledge for a very long time.