Air freshener cross-breeding. (mild profanities)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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I would have watched but the mild profanities label turned me off. I only listen to brazenly vile profanities. Your adoring fans demand worse, Clive.
At least it's not as bad as that really rude Canadian engineering channel. It's no wonder all the advertisers walked.
I should slip in some inappropriate jokes like this:-
Guy winds down the window of his car and says "Hey kid, I'll give you ten dollar if you come in my car."
The kid shouts back "Make it twenty and I'll come in your face."
*THAT'S MORE LIKE IT.*
Uhh, I dunno about you imperials, but most of us Googled well prior to 16. Lots.
Googled what? the perfume or the incest?
Clive, you've been a naughty bear. :)
Now just add a piezo sparker, and you get a auto sensing flamethower.
brickley2000 and then you send it back for being defective
Y''know, for your evil lair. This is how they do it in the movies everybody
(don't quote me on that)
Add a speaker to it and make it play Flamethower by Judas Priest for extra points
Ahhh, the fragrance of bacon
chaotic evil
The bit about blowing up a board and then claiming it was faulty reminds me of my dad. Had a $2000 set of Keff speakers, new model got released, shop said the only way to upgrade without paying would be replacement under warranty. Wink wink.
Dad went home and plugged 120VAC into those $2k speakers. Hell of a 60hz humm for a bit and then wonderful smoke.
Still has the upgrades 30 years later :P
" and I put it back in the box and returned it as faulty" [ insert wicked laugh here], made me laugh mate
Back in the 80s, I worked at a Radio Shack store. Some of the ridiculously expensive computer parts, like memory boards, might be $1200 and special order only. They didn't allow us to return them *unless they were defective*. Not surprisingly, if a customer ordered one, then decided they didn't really want it, those boards BECAME defective by way of a 12V 5 amp power supply applied across a few chips until the smoke came out. It's not like our little store could afford to just eat a $1200 board that we would never sell. We would have been happy to return it still shrink wrapped but they wouldn't allow it.
A rare treat to hear Clive laugh [evilly].
We've all done that
+Wolfin lol that etherkiller is priceless!
John Ridley that sounds like it happened multiple times. What do you mean “would never sell”?
If someone asked me ten years ago where I saw myself as being today, I would definitely not have said "watching videos of air-fresheners being reverse engineered."
So, two years on a Sunday in what can only be described as quiet outside as 28 Days Later... Are you still watching videos of air fresheners being taken apart?
@@satyris410 Idk about him but I am!
So these air fresheners can generate magic smoke aroma, but only once! ;-)
All but the simplest of electronics have "The Magic Clue Smoke" which makes them work as intended. The smoke goes out of it and suddenly they no longer work. Saw an April Fool's prank where someone sold the blue smoke in tubes to inject back into broken electronics to get them working again.
Christian Grothaus why only once
Alex P. Burning plastic
A little wisp of sadness. :( . . .
Google for "Lucas Electrics jokes" and you'll find a ton of 'em.
Frankenglade, now with all your favorite scents, including wisp of sadness and burnt electrical components
Don't forget to look for our rare scent "a hint of incest on the breeze"
"Uh-oh. Somebody fucked up. Can you guess who?"
Big Clive provides the best ringtones for after-hours phone calls from the office.
I really kind of like these videos that show things don't always go to plan. they give me more hope for my own projects.
When we say "it happens to the best of us", this is what that means.
Wisp of sadness. New from Glade!
@Mandrake Fernflower
I was just watching the music video of that. XDDD
At least it's not "Bouquet de Exploding Electrolytic" ! !
l'eau de blue smoke
Try now the fresh original scent - Industrial electricians nightmare!
I always wanted the 'wiff of desperation ' range but it was always sold out here in Wales
This reminds me of a saying I heard from my Grandfather on more than a few occasions. It went something like "Never enough time to check your work and do it right the first time...Always enough time to do it again"
Yep - I used to design in-house test equipment in an aerospace company, and I used to say pretty much the same thing: "Never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it again..." [sigh]
Clive, I really appreciate the fact that you kept your mistake in the video where other people might have cut it out. It really helps out novices like myself to know that even people who have years of experience still make mistakes. Thanks for another great video.
I think the worst is when you go to open something and it has spring loaded gears so they catapult in all directions.
*SPROING!*
...Shit, I guess that isn't going back together.
Pat P Yes.
hence why taking apart even mudain objects requires safety glasses sometimes
Oh my god yes my utility knife is dead
With all due respect I like watching the stuff come apart!
As far as I'm concerned you needn't edit that out
*Clive breaks something*
"It was faulty"
Drinking game: take a shot of blue collar trash wine every time Clive says "aroma"
Andrew Ford That creates a scent of alcohol, bile and death.
I never knew what blue collar trash wine was until I visited the shop with a couple I'd befriended of limited means who bought wine that came packaged in a box. Pretty clever when you think about it, who really really needs a glass bottle and some dead tree carcass stuffed in it to enjoy nice wine. In a blind test, I'm sure it good wine tastes the same
@@satyris410 I think OP meant something like Boones Farm not a classy boxed wine.
@@xidarianNighttrain = hangover city.
God these things irritate me. My mum still has these things sitting in every room, but she's never refilled them, so they just sit there like cameras.
Andrew Smart Thats not a bad idea. Added to the IoS: Internet of Shit.
Maybe they _are_ cameras 🤔😮
This might be an actually solid security cam idea guys
funny you mention that! once he had the holes drilled and the lil circuit board pressed in, I was thinking how this looked quite a bit like how to install hidden cameras in household devices XD
Just you wait. There will be a sub division called glade NSA.
a good prank refill would be burning electronics smell. april fools engineers!
Airwick Garlic and rubber.
@@BigClive or liquid ass ... 😜😈
I always enjoy it more when you 'hack' a device rather than just take one apart, cheers Clive for a very entertaining video.
Your channel never ceases to amuse!
Nothing quite as disappointing as the magical reverse polarity pop of death, and the accompanying Eau de Burnt Electronics!
The brief story about putting the dead thing back in the box and calling it faulty gave me a good chuckle.
I have a personal distain for air fresheners ever since the one where I used to work would randomly spray the occupant of the men's room on their head. It became an art to avoid it's nefarious spraying, I believe it was set to a fixed timer though not motion sensitive. Nothing worse than smelling like sickeningly sweet fake flowers for the rest of the day.
I know the smell of burnt circuit well lol, my brother built a tardis for his wedding as he and his wife are massive doctor who fans. Being the computer programming expert in the family, I got asked to make the controller for the light on top and the sound (a stage amp and speaker hidden inside. Everything worked fine om the test rig (a superbright LED pulsing on and off) but then when I wired up a halogen 12v light using a cpl of mosfets (one to boost the 3v3 to 5v then the 5v one as the gate) oh boy did I miscalculate. I had decided to optically isolate the micontroller from the output. And I used the wrong type of isolator (I managed to pick one that was high resistance until light was received, then it would stay on. Whoops. Coupled with an ineffective heatsink, plus the light itself burning the wallpaper, it was...a rather choking aroma that filled the room 🤣. So, I took a chance and removed the isolator, replaced the now blackened mosfet with a better one, raided some old home electronics for bigger heatsink, and it works still to this day :) it now takes pride of place at my parents caravan site as a decorative installation.
My fingers hurt when I watch you solder.
For real. I use helping hands to join two wires together and end up burning the insulation off the wire with my iron anyway. It's amazing that he doesn't poke his hand with a red hot solder iron.
Thanks for including your mistake as part of the video. It's entertaining, but also encouraging. It's a nice reminder that *everyone* makes mistakes, even pros.
I had a bit of a polarity F-up myself the other week. I was charging a pair of 12v mobility scooter batteries outside of the usual battery case. I'd made up a simple hook up to put them in series, with a connector. I was hoping that the desulfator circuit I'd been trying out was improving the batteries. When I plugged in the charger, I got a red charging light and it stayed on. After a while I thought I'd try it on my spare battery charger and it was showing a red charging light too. What I didn't realise was, that under the influence of a nippy sweetie, I had reversed the battery polarity and the fail state of the chargers was a red light. I destroyed both chargers and had to cry, whilst ordering a new one off Amazon.
Gah! Ya missed the chance of calling the thing Frankincense! 😂
Bonus footage: Big Clive hunts down the fault and fixes it
I was trying to train electricians to wire up fire alarm panels, PLCs and electronic motor drives for 4 years who used to frequently incorrectly wire up that equipment without reading and following the installer's manual and blowing them up. They also would take the equipment back down off the wall, put it in the box and send it back to the manufacturer saying that it was faulty. After doing it several times on each job, the manufacturers would send their own technician out to wire the units and the Unions lost that work.
Robert Evans Really? I used to setup FACPs since I was like 14 and never screwed anything up without any help. all it takes is reading the manual...
Such a relaxing voice. Learned a few things here also - always worth the time to watch...
So you like Bears do you 8)
I’m very jealous of your dexterity, being able to hold a part with 3 fingers, and a wire in the remaining two, would be good for me as I have just one arm these days. I enjoy your videos
I take a shot every time Clive say "Fresh Lead Based Solder" i mean how fresh is it? Could it be incest fresh? Clive should make a scent of burnt circuit board and sell it to glade. Wait??? That's what my shop always smells like. Thanks for posting this up, I enjoyed watching.
Mark Eckelkamp
Call it - Bear let's the smoke out.
"incest fresh" Really?
17:50 - Yes, sometimes people do make expensive mistakes, but usually learn from them. Usually. One of the technicians that used to work under me fried 2 MAC2000 fixtures in a row. They were early ones without the switching power supply, and were configured for 120V. He powered the first one up at 230V and smoked it. Then he shrugged his shoulders, connected the second one and promptly fried it as well.
I personally use an air wick plug in with bonfire and crisp fall air oil and I really like it, my roommate has a bad reaction to the aerosol ones which is totally understandable as I don’t really like them either, too strong in my opinion
Honestly i quite like the fact that, even when he strikes out and gets something wrong, he still posts the video. Way to go Clive and keep up the good work !
How about an optional oil lamp pilot light in front of the vent?
C'mon Clive, you know it makes sense. These canisters are packing propane!
Why do I have they urge to try and cross-breed Clive's creation with a dalek model?
Voice chip says Exterminate! Exterminate! and jets out Minging Vanilla
I would buy a dalek shaped air freshener
Halt! You are not daaaangerous enough to be a real gay daaaalek!
Clive's favourite fragrance would be lead-based-solder-flux! With after tones of magic smoke!
Lead-based solder fragrance.. I call it "Eau de Alzheimer's"
Never thought a big bearded bloke taking apart air fresheners would be so entertaining love your work Clive
big clive is actually my hero. i love him
Glenlough campsite near Union Mills have things like this. Plain boxy ones so that you wonder what it is, take a closer look, and get an eye full of industrial air fresher.
Funny if it's not you looking at it.
18:00 difficult to hold the device and tin and iron with two hands only. So better use blue-tack to hold the device. Just stick it into it.
These are impressively complex and well designed for something that just presses a button essentially
I'm honestly interested in electrical machinery like he plays with but I'm absolutely fascinated with the way he retro fits things and I wish he did more of this 10/10
'Whitesmoke Breeze'. Can't really blame you for expleting, Clive! Thanks for showing us your mistakes.
What happens if you bring tobacco and anti-tobacco together?
I love the profanities and I do LOVE your stories of naughty times gone by :P
I absolutely loved that you left the full video as a whole ‘blown an all’ you are now on my Christmas card list as a human and not a machine, ha
You're a real jem a true electrical engineer not many of us left Paul
Learning (to check) by breaking. Really good video to show that even heroes are human.
Clive, you should come up with more 'simple' improvement videos like this, that was really enjoyable.
I don't think I have ever seen the anti-tobacco here in the states. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they just sell the same thing relabeled under different fragrance name for marketing purposes.
It's an odd one. I've only ever seen it sold in one shop that often buys in cans from other countries with different languages on them and unusual aromas.
thechosendude It is a very common fragrance her in Argentina and most of South America i would say... hahaha....! i always though that it was imported from Us.
Many hotels use high output timed ozone generators to try to get rid of the smell of smoke from rooms. They turn them on and then leave the room while it sanitises it. You get a nauseating bleach smell afterwards.
yea I was surprised to see that fragrance as well. I'm a smoker and I actually use that exact Glade product but I've never seen that canister. Oddly enough my Glade product uses the timed spray mechanic rather than the sensor and I can see when he took his apart that it has the timed settings in it as well. Is that switch just not that in the sensor version or does it have both options?
SpydersByte
I figure an answer 4 months later is better than none.
I believe that the old circuitry was bypassed for the more economical sensor-driven model. Besides, I don't see the point of the old timer. The sensor sprays when it is interrupted. Someone is there to smell it. The timer just wastes your money by freshening up an empty room. ;-)
I totally forgot about something I made from one of the motion sense ones like 6 years ago. I had a cat who was probably around 10 years old at this point and she decided she was too old to go outside to piss so she started pissing in the corner on our nice hardwood floors. After a few months of trying to stop this I gave up until one day I saw the motion thing in the store and thought "THATS IT!" I bought one I ended up removing the board from the housing and making a nicer looking box for it. I also needed it to spray outward and not straight up. I tried to make my own aerosol water can but I was never able to. Not having a proper way to pressurize the can made that part fail but I modified it to fit the cans from the dollar store.I set that thing to low sensitivity and bam no more cat piss..... in that corner. It was also kinda nice because you never had smelly feet since anytime you walked past it you got sprayed. But eventually the cat passed away and I put the device away and honestly have no idea where its gone. I wouldn't mind messing with it again.
I love your honesty. We have all been there. Sometimes recoverable sometimes not.
"I just put it back in the box and said this one is faulty" LOL, I am soo glad I am not the only person to have done that :)
DJHenjin I'm pretty sure all of us in the repair biz have done that.
Nice mod. Maybe you can get your hands on some of the even larger 'industrial' ones that are used in public bathrooms.
The first of these ones were just badged industrial ones with the light sensor function removed and the hole for the light sensor had a white plastic blank in it. There are two possible reasons for the removal of the light sensor. Unpredictable light levels in homes or the desire to keep pumping out aroma 24/7 to sell more cans.
Also, the sprayer units with off-brand label here have a very generous amount of space in them, and the circuit is either composed of free-running motor and a spring-loaded cam and shaft that moves the arm down, presses the nozzle then returns back to its timer mechanism or ones that turn on the motor every so often that presses the nozzle via sets of cogs with "finger" on it that returns to its original place by the power of spring inside the nozzle (based on either logic timers or 556 IC chips)
Strangely, the ones with variable timer only have delay of either 1, 4 or 24 hours. What an odd value.
I have seen one that has "Spray Now" button that initiates its spraying routine about 3 seconds after the button is pressed, presumably to avoid spraying noxious aromatic oil and aerosol into the person's eyes.
p.s. The ones available here either has Light Dependent Resistor or Phototransistor as light sensors, but they don't seem to do anything for some reason, as the spray function activates even with all lights off. You know, _everyone _*_loves_*_ being sprayed with aromatic oil that barely resembles any sort of flower or fruit while being in the dark with a sleepy head._
Older ones have two holes for LEDs, but only one is installed and it always seems to be *red* LEDs. It's not like green or blue ones were expensive; By the time those units were manufactured, the price per LEDs (high-intensity pure green, yellow-green and blue) was as low as $0.01. Let me ask you a question though. Who the hell thought installing *RED* LEDs behind *BLUE* cover was a good idea?! The LED has two functions, one is "heartbeat" and the other one is for notifying people about impending aromatic-chemical-spraying action. That means the LED *NEEDS* to be seen to people, but these guys seem to not care about it at all.
I used to have the best air freshener ever. It had a sensor that could "smell" and when it smelled bad odors, it would then spray the fragrance! I think it was from Air Wick, but I'm not sure. It worked very well too, although some "false smells" were not rare, especially with the window open or when taking a shower, it never missed a bad smell.
Unfortunately, at some point refills were not available anymore, anywhere.
I got one of those and took the sensor apart. I got the feeling it may just have regulated the output to a defined level of a chemical contained in the aroma. But I could be wrong.
"Minging" in a Scottish accent sounds SUPERB!
And today Big Clive teaches us some new words as the magic blue smoke escapes
Great job describing race track wiring. Very common in old pinball machines.
I'm still not too keen on auto farting air fresheners...
Your story of smoking a board and sending it back as faulty cracks me up, ive done that with a certain video game console :)
I tried your handstyle for soldering. And it worked fine! Big thanks!
But why did I have to open my subscription box and be greeted with the first word I see beieng "Incest".
It's a new designer aroma.
"Man I sure do love the smell of incest." -nobody ever.
Craptastic P
lol
Apart from Cersei Lannister
PocketRocket Fun for the whole family? :D
What's better than buying a product, breaking it, then taking it back?
Buying 5 of the product and disassembling it/combing through the parts for the best looking ones, building one yourself, then taking the rest back.
I don't understand this channel or anything that goes on on it, but I love it
story time: was in the service and someone found a spare one of these automatic air spritzer things, and in unrivaled genius, mounted it right above the sink. so i wash my hands, and look up to see it newly installed with minimal time delay, spitting out every few minutes. i little while later i see this sgt i worked with come out of the restroom rubbing his eyes on his left sleeve, with the unit and a chunk of drywall attached to the back of it in his other hand, shouting profanities. tangentially and very related to this video
can't beat clean Linen scent. i have one of those at my from door so it smells lovely when i walk in and no my house is not dirty i use them cos i like them.
The dexterity of this guy to do things like that! Mr. Fingers.
You, sir, are the Bob Ross of electronics.
A more entertaining more clive like model would have a lighter in front so as you walk past you get wisps of flame shooting at you 😆
Jeez, don't give him ideas... 😮
I'm sure you have a cone drill bit Clive,they are good for plastic. loving the fresh ideas you have. 😀 you could add an ignition coil to add a dramatic whisp of flame to accompany the Japanese doll you have.
Can you trigger the light sensitive air freshener by quickly changing the lights in a dark room ?
Those three plastic step down gears are fantastic simple use of the motor
Back in the '70s when we were young I tried to repair a classic Dansette portable record player for an old lady. The volumn knob was causing interference when one turned it. I had it all in bits in her flat and the owner was explaining what the clever young man was doing to her equipment. When reassembled I switched it on and there was a loud bang and smoke. I tried to defuse the tense situation by explaining that you get a noise when you switch an electrical device on but my girlfriend, now my wife, pointed out that you don't usually get smoke pouring out! I'd blown a fuse which fortunately was a modern push button fuse but the owner had lost all confidence in me. I offered to take the record player to be repaired by a friend of mine. As we walked along the main road to my house my girlfriend and me were laughing so loud and for so long that a girl on the other side of the road started laughing too! My friend diagnosed the problem: two wires carried 12v and two identical wires carried 240v, I'd swapped them around. Oh and to fix the volumn knob I should have squirted a liquid cleaner in - no need to dismantle the record player.
I want to thank you for this neat video, I lost my nephew today and I needed something like your video to stop for a moment and this was a delightful way to do so. thank you, sir.And it was nice to see you FINNALY scew up !
dano and it didn't involved a screwdriver.
Sorry about your loss. Take care of youself and family.
I remember what happened to my floor after I left the original big sprayer unit running overnight sitting on the floor.
The room was filled with lemon scent, yes, but the floor was also covered with an oily substance that I slipped on and bashed my head against the wall.
"... and let out a little wisp of sadness." Hilarity.
Frankenfreshener.
My Aunt has one of those ones that was popular in the 80s, that's mounted on the wall, and you press on the outside of the casing to activate it. I was moving an over-the-toilet shelf out of the bathroom, backed into it, and it scared the shit out of me. I didn't realize it still had a good canister in it. XD
At least you got it right in the end. I fucked up the preamp on a '67 Zenith Circle of Sound stereo, and it's still sitting in pieces in my living room. Been like that for 4 years now.
I hope the (mild profanities) warning doesn't get this video demonetized
If it happens it happens. I'd rather put out realistic content than comply with the ninnies.
DER NINNIES
its sad ,in UK tv shows can have nuditty and F and C words all over the place on shows like skins ,and advertisers happy to pay still, youtube and their ad companies are a bunch of soft sensitive bastards
Oh wow... it got that bad? Bloody SJWs.
i blaME BUZZFEED I HOPE THAT CANCEROUS CHANNEL AND NETWORK AS A WHOLE LOSES THEIR ADVERTISING REVNUE FOR SPREADING HATRED ON WHITE MALES
In the 70's i installed and tested telephone exchanges, we has a standalone push button dialler, it was playing up so i took it apart to fix it, unfortunately it was the old style button assembly, reed switch on the board, button, magnet, spring, and another piece of plastic, took me a couple of goes and found i had to balance the button assemblies on the board, then try to insert the whole into the top section , lining them up with the holes without the buttons falling apart.
that constant gearbox dis- and reassembly reminds me of that one time i wanted to fix a broken children's toy, and after doing so AND confirming it worked perfectly noticed i was missing 3 cogs... never figured out where those were supposed to go, and it never failed again.
Here in Canada, we now have the small cans but with a standard finger pushy things so you can spray them whenever you want
Glad to see that it all worked out for you! Unfortunately... I am a regular consumer, and unless it is software, so if it is hardware, I don't do too too much to modify or manipulate it...
I always look forward to these videos. not only do i learn a bit, but they are entertaining as well!
Clive - the only guy to jailbreak an air freshener
Dropping a little nut or bolt into a turbine and hearing the beautiful little inkle tinkle xylophone song of "now I have to take the entire thing apart again to make sure when the engine starts it doesn't destroy itself" -- otherwise known as the sound of "hope you didn't have any prior obligations".
His voice is so smooth
"This is what you do when a product doesn't do what you want." +bigclive, I can't watch TV on my fridge. Any suggestions?
Put the TV on top of the fridge? Works fine here. ;-p
You can get magnetic VESA mounts. then just mount a monitor on that with a set top box on top of the fridge. Simple :)
I would prefer to follow Clive's example and only use parts from another fridge for this project.
I did this. Except I wired it into an arduino and programmed it to record the lighting changes compared to the time of day, then average them out and attempt to spray two minutes before it anticipates the next change. It's been quite effective, and gets more accurate
all the time, particularly before I take my shower or brush my teeth (same time every day). So I walk in and can tell it just went off. Even if it fudges it slightly the smell lasts for half an hour with the bathroom door open. Also wired it to take a small lithium polymer and be USB rechargeable. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. :)
Also, my dad:
"It's creepy. It knows when I'm going to poop, I feel like it's laughing at me".
Clive:
"Sells these units really cheaply hoping to make lots of cash off the refills... much like the printer market".
My Epson EcoTank with two years of bottled ink, zero cartridges, and 5000 full black printed page capacity says hello. I got done with $70 ink refills a year ago and couldn't be happier.
I use an eco tank too.
@@BigClive They're quite impressive. The big printer companies seem to have finally given in to those of us who like to monkey with things.
I wondered if you had something similar, what with how often you have full page circuit copies for us to see.
Every once in a while, maybe once a week if I haven't used it, I'll throw a test page through just to keep the heads clear. Had a nasty experience with a cheap Canon drying out on me once that left me wary of that.
VENTILATION SYSTEM:
The Ventilation System. You had a go at me yesterday.
ARTHUR:
Yes, because you keep filling the air with cheap perfume.
VENTILATION SYSTEM:
You like scented air: it’s fresh and invigorating.
my fav Air Wick scent is "Mystical Garden" its a marshmallow - raspberry - rose blend
I love this channel. So refreshing.
Clive, you probably won't see this (and apologies if it has already been mentioned)
When drilling plastic, set the drill in reverse and allow friction to do the work, this stops the bit from snatching into the plastic.
hope that helps somebody!
I generally avoid using brand new drills for plastic. I keep the blunt ones for that type of material.
bigclivedotcom : Certainly makes sence! One other thing you (or anyone else) can do, if you find yourself drilling the likes of acrylic or other more brittle plastics and keep "blowing out" / chipping the hole when the bit is exiting, it would most certainly be worth grabbing an old/dull bit and backing it off with a grinder. For those that arent familiar with the term, it is where you increase the taper of the cutting edge. Deffinately saved my ass a few times
I think about two years ago I found exactly what you created here at a store in the US called Big Lots. Also uses huge D cells. No brand on it though, anywhere. Unfortunately, that particular Air Wick Anti-Tobacco scent doesn't seem to be available in the US :/
So much recognizable stuff going on here (I love knowing I'm not the only one): swapping polarity, gears falling out, pretending stuff was already broke before you got your dirty hands on it, wisps of sadness and damned recessed screws :D ( (Wiha Slimfix drivers resolve that problem somewhat!)
Can you show us by any chance which components exactly you destroyed? (diode?)
Bloody hell Clive - one time i created a live video and connected 2 x Kenwood Series 21 Amps together to run from one control unit - 3 hours later, no lights, no life! Devastating!
The more I watch your channel, the more I love you.
There are black lines on the side of the white moulded plastic nozzle at the top of genuine Glade refils. If you get a black marker you can copy the stripe and use cheap refils from the pound shop.
Yeah, I've done that in the past. The Pound Shop cans simply used a single band of black and it also worked. There's an infrared sensor that detects the reflected change when the plunger is pressed down by the mechanism. I don't think they even include it in the units any more. Probably due to reliability. If you put in a can without that mark it would press the plunger once and then report it as an "incompatible refill" by flashing the LED and refusing to operate.
Clive you had me at 'Mild Profanities '
I had a can of fart spray that sit nicely in the little glade ones once the nozzle was removed, I was a little bit annoyed that no one else thought it was as hilarious as me. (needless to say it was not my house that I left it in) it took them hours to realise the air freshener was un-freshening.
Wasn't your Chinese fire blaster effect also powered by those aerosol air fresheners ? Could these harmless units be converted into a fireblaster too ?