Cheap 'n' nasty Temu lights - but nice case

[@TheNumbersPerson]

Not taking their sponsorship shows your integrity, and saying you're having trouble finding dangerous items on their platform is a higher praise than any random item review or unboxing video could give. Wins all around, for now.

[@MyBrothersMario]

@@memberwhen22 True, but not one of them has been sponsored.

[@pear7777]

Yeah, but, when it comes to safety, anything that is not mains-connected is fairly safe.

[@springbok4015]

Yes, sadly not something that is terribly common, people lose all sense of ethics and their spine when it comes to greed

[@GodmanchesterGoblin]

Not dangerous enough... Confusing the hell out of the Temu marketing department. Love it!

[@drtyslzy]

Brings a smile to my face knowing you wouldn’t take Temu’s sponsorship

[@TartarSauceIsNotDead]

Or Raycon

[@bill95743]

Nice. + Respect. Take my like and subscription.

[@peterdefrankrijker]

He still said all their products were safe. Bet he got a pretty penny for that.

[@doctorkew7913]

Um, no, he didn't... Try rewatching the radioactive pendant video... @@peterdefrankrijker

[@eccentricthinker142]

​@@peterdefrankrijkerI mean, it is kinda hard to screw up USB LEDs. ... Not unless you're blatantly trying to set a fire.

[@andrewsallee6044]

One thing you are 93.4% wrong about. "These videos won't be jolly and cheery." Well, perhaps Temu might agree with you, but I find all of your videos quite jolly. And cheery. Thank you.

[@johnwalton5576]

I never knew printed resistors were a thing Clive. Thanks for enlightening me, and entertaining me as always. Keep up the good work, and I hope your voice gets better soon!

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

Believe it or not, printed resistors have been around for decades.

[@Damien.D]

resistors were printed on the very early hybrid chips that made the Saturn V fly (an IBM component packaging process)

[@Damien.D]

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast More than half a century in fact. Times flies, heh?

[@andygozzo72]

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast yep, toshiba certainly used them in stuff in the early to mid 80s, maybe earlier

[@insanedruid3143]

recently discovered them in the datasette of my 70ties CBM PET 2001 computer.

[@vhfgamer]

I had no idea printed resistors was a thing. This fella learned something new today.

[@drussell_]

Have you never looked inside a standard carbon potentiometer? This isn't new-fangled technology, they've been doing this for like 100 years. 🙄

[@vhfgamer]

@@drussell_ Of course I've seen those. I've just never seen anyone use that same concept on a pcb in place of standard resistors. I think it's neat.

[@nexaentertainment2764]

Wait till you hear about laser trimmed resistors. Shits insane these days imo

[@EShirako]

@@nexaentertainment2764 Laser-wot?! Guess I have something new to look up!

[@SeanBZA]

Screen printed resistors are very variable, mostly because the ink viscosity varies with time during the processing of the boards, so the first few boards wiped will have a nice thick low resistance film, but as the day goes on, and the ink solvents evaporate out the amount deposited grows less, leading to a higher resistance. Also depends on the pressure applied to the squeegee, so the one side gets less pressure, as the hand is not there, and thus the differing resistances even on the same wipe. They are great for low cost applications, where you only care about resistance being within a wide range, like for a remote control, where you just need the conductive carbon pads to be anything under 1k to have the buttons work, and your power rails are going to be always done with copper traces, while signal lines will all be carbon. IR LED power and ground is copper, the transistor drive is done with carbon jumpers, because resistance is not a worry there. You used to find especially cash registers ( a very cut price market, so any cost saving was important, when you were dealing in 100k machines) had a carbon track layer on the bottom of the SRBP board, with filled vias there for contact, and the front, especially Sharp machines, had a silver ink top set of jumpers, also with a clear soldermask applied, and filled vias for this layer. Cheap, and well known to have contact issues, especially as some of them provided power to the assorted IC's used there, and also the VFD power and filament. The cure on then for service was to follow a set of instructions ( when manufacturers actually provided service info, those good days) on a series of wire jumpers you had to install, and how to remove the carbon at the via to expose copper, and solder the jumper wires, which solved all sorts of odd issues. The new machines came into service as well, getting this, and the set of stickers placed under the cash drawer, to show exactly which sets of updates had been applied, before going out to the customer.

[@sundog486]

A few years after the middle of the last century, I had the misfortune to repair car radios that used this "technology". They were absolute rubbish. Surprisingly they were a product of a major Japanese electronics manufacturer, who's other products were second to none.

[@SeanBZA]

@@sundog486 Sharp right, they really loved them, along with Technics and Audio Technica. Sony also dabbled with them, but found they were even less reliable than the Sony made SMD electrolytic capacitors.

[@randomcat9792]

I'd count your videos as jolly and cheerful, just technical jolly and cheerful... they never fail to improve my mood....

[@Shakey31]

I've got so many garden leds, solar leds, leds, headlights with leds, etc thanks to you. When my wife hears your voice on the TV, she knows i'll be ordering something from AliExpress and just sighs..

[@mikehughesdesigns]

"More dangerous products" You just made my day Clive!

[@benbaselet2026]

Printing right on the aluminimum backed PCBs might be a great way to get heat dissipated off from the thin film with a suitably thin insulating layer. I'm a little surprised they didn't just trim the R values correct during manufacturing. Too expensive to add a step in the process I suppose.

[@johndododoe1411]

A resistor plus two solder blobs cost money . However in some colors have a diode voltage of 2.2V or less, they could have been put in series to convert more of the input energy to light and less to heat . This would be a simpler board with only one resistor . In general, I want lm/W for even such simple lights in order to compare efficiency . 5V converters need an efficiency percentage to multiply by device efficiencies . Looking at the numbers, the voltages seem to be: Red: 3.2V Green: 3.4V Blue 3.4V Cold: 3.4V Warm: 3.2V All assuming 5V input .

[@SeanBZA]

Trimming those adds a complex step in manufacture, which takes a few minutes to get right. The4 screen print does an entire panel at once, and with a set of holders to allow the board to be toasted after the first pass, before you apply the top white layer, and then the screen printed black, it is only going to add on 30 seconds to the manufacture of 500 plus units, so will be used. Saved 2 seconds on PNP per unit, which is a good few minutes of time per panel, and amounts to an extra few thousand units produced per day.

[@benbaselet2026]

@agustinusreynaldi7101 at 200 mA that 16 ohms is pushing well over half a watt, not an insignificant amount of heat for an enclosed product on a tiny board.

[@Shivansh-qw5jl]

It will also blow the entire pcb 😅

[@AB-Prince]

I always find it funny when products have word spam "names" to try to catch to catch keyword filters

[@daveseddon5227]

Clive, the USB portion pushes into the unit - there is a small tab on one side to capture it. A little brute force is all that's required.

[@paolo11x11]

I have a couple of these in warm white, and yes, they are the only thing I have bought from Temu that didn't go straight to landfill. The plastic housing is melt-fit onto the USB plug itself, and can be popped off if you push down on the plastic base, leaving just the plug and circuit board - and a much more aesthetically pleasing light source. It's significantly brighter without the diffuser, and the LEDs are no longer slow-cooking in that ugly plastic capsule. The light quality is surprisingly good - it's now a brilliant point source, and the phosphor colour is pretty good for a $1 light.

[@gregorythomas333]

I didn't think it's the "Queen's English" anymore :)

[@bigclivedotcom]

Kings English now I guess.

[@markiangooley]

Maybe it’s now considered a dead language…

[@nimoy007]

I didn't think it referred to the late Liz, I thought it referred to an earlier monarch...? I'm no expert, being an American, though.

[@SpotTiger]

It will always be, since she's been on the throne for an insane amount of time. I'm surprised her legs didn't go numb!! 😋

[@wowcplayer3]

Yess, I'm broke and have been buying Christmas gifts there this year. I'm glad to see you rip apart an item I've bought, even if it's not half bad.

[@Silverfoxwolfen]

Cheap is not always cheerful with electronics.

[@zh84]

At least this stuff doesn't plug into the mains, like the infamous pink Dalek.

[@tonysheerness2427]

Some one will manage to do that.@@zh84

[@abs_nobody]

but it is chaotic I like chaotic

[@asteroidrules]

In fact it usually isn't, although it is often highly incendiary.

[@MarkCovey-qp4px]

Yes, please Temu. Mor dangerous products!

[@AmazingDX]

Good to know there are color versions of these..! I found these lights sold by the unit in only cool white at a local shop, bought four of them and painted the leds with color sharpie to give them each a different color, they work nice for decoration.

[@hopje01]

Just noticed, 1M subs! Congratulations Clive!

[@joelmurphy9369]

I can't believe it, I just bought a few of these in the white variety as gifts on my summer trip to Japan. I got them in Akibahara at one of the last warrens of amazing electronics discovery. I def recommend the neighborhood if you are going. EEVbolg has a good thread on places that are still in business. Anyway, I paid maybe a couple of $US off the shelf. Not expensive. I did take them apart. They are actually very nicely made, I think even I could print the parts on my Taz Mini2. The printed resistors surprised me a bit, but not much. Drive the cost down!, but really? To draw that much power is kinda criminal. I gave them to my sister's kids. Still thinking about doing a layout and 3D print designs for a custom jobbie...

[@TartarSauceIsNotDead]

In a era where KZbinrs will jump at anything for large amounts of money Big C turns it down for the sake of his channel. That's what you call integrity.

[@FiveRustyNails]

You featured an almost identical product some years ago which draws so little current that it doesn't even register on my Keweisi USB power meter. It also has real 30 Ohm resistors. And you loved it. "Splendid cheap USB light for emergencies"

[@Fridelain]

I remeber, bought and keep a couple with my powerbanks. Came right handy when someone set fire to the substation.

[@AzrethK9]

Bought a bunch of the warm white ones from Ali and they are great as emergency lights on a power bank. I'm using old 7 and 13 port USB hubs to get 4 (1W) and 7 (2W) LEDs together. Current is further limited by the USB lead.

[@richardcatalinajr.369]

I have no formal education in electronics and don't understand half of what goes on here. But I love this channel and Clive is always entertaining. And, I am learning! A win-win, as they say.

[@crysknife007]

I've used these as enclosures before. It is a great little plug and diffusion cap.

[@JackS425]

Finally, a schematic I can understand

[@DrKoneko]

Printed resistors sound like something out of science fiction. That's so cool!

[@drussell_]

Apparently you've never looked inside a standard carbon potentiometer? This isn't new-fangled technology, they've been doing this for like 100 years. 🙄

[@DrKoneko]

@@drussell_ ok?

[@demonicsquid7217]

​@@drussell_why assume he has never heard of these before? He just stated they sounded like something out of science fiction. No need to be a dick.

[@markbullhome]

I've got 10 of these with white LEDs, but mine have surface mount resistors and only draw 15 - 20 mA. They make great night lights. Same case but much better, at about the same price. Amazon purchase.

[@craigfjyp1]

those sound the same as the ones i got from ebay last year, i saw them on another electronics YT channel(can't remember which one) i got 5 for 1.99

[@charliesoffer]

Some of this stuff is more akin to art than engineering. Got to admire the frivolity and creativity which must play a part in getting some many fun things with a USB plug on the end to market :) x

[@wisher21uk]

Never heard of printed resistors thanks Clive 😊

[@demef758]

Long ago before dirt had been invented and I was still a pup, the way to trim an old carbon thru-hole resistor was to take a file to the side of it and start removing the carbon from the side of it. Since the resistance is proportional to the length of the resistor divided by its area, filing the resistor was a way to reduce its cross sectional area, thus bumping UP the value of the resistance. Thus, you had to start with a lower value of resistance and then work you way UP as you trimmed. You might consider using that trick here, too, because you want to INCREASE the screened-on resistance. If you have a Dremel with a pointed tip cutter, you could use it to gently carve the sides of each screened resistor, increasing its resistance. I realize these are very small resistors, but it is a way to increase the resistance without having to grind away everything. I have seen screened on resistors that are very wide, and then you can see where a laser was used to cut into the width to do the same trick.

[@treborg777]

I just bought four of these off Amazon, and your test was very timely. I was going to use these white lights as "low power" night lights in various rooms. Now I'm going to find something else.

[@kjh789az]

Thanks for enlightening us! I bought these from Temu, but I didn't realize that they are accommpanied by a Buy more stuff from Us Temu email campaign of frightening intensity and personalisation. The tone of these marketung emails ranges from the enthusiastic, through the greatful to the wildly apolagetic. You have been warned! The warm white lamps seem fine...

[@wtmayhew]

So far, I’ve stayed away from Temu suspecting aggressive marketing, and now suspicion is confirmed. I’d also be pretty leery of the privacy aspects of any mobile app for Temu.

[@jeremyboyce7921]

I love the rant about not having enough dangerous stuff. I think you need to order some Wish stuff to satiate that craving.

[@Aletheia-Media]

Mr .com Sir, As you have such a soothing and interesting voice, outlook on life etc, I often think that you're the sort of gentleman that you could sit around a campfire with a jibber all night, so why not build an LED fire and have a comp so one of your followers gets to sit down and jibber around said LED fire? I also wanted to convey that having autism and other issues, I love the colours of some of the LED's you use. So beautiful and quite soothing, so with the voice it's an easy sensory experience. I'm also homeless through no fault of my own and your videos are great to keep occupied. Have a lovely weekend.

[@petersage5157]

You could also just trim the resistors by scraping notches into them. Granted, it's quite imprecise and crude, but it gets the job done. Scrape a bit, measure, lather, rinse, repeat. Any resistance above 50ish ohms should significantly improve the lamps' life expectancy. Several years back, Dave did a teardown of an old PDA that had both surface mount resistors and printed resistors. Tolerance of the printed ones was actually about 20%, so I'd guess the bogey value for the resistors on your warm white board was 68 ohms - a nice round E6 value. (I'd post a link, but half the video is Dave either repeating himself or Dave repeating himself or waffling on about his camera aperture settings.) I've heard of a new process (circa 2020?) for printing reasonably tight tolerance resistors on flexible PCBs for IoT wankery, but I doubt these delightfully trashy lights were made using that process.

[@floobertuber]

Not only that, but Dave kept repeating himself, then proceeded to repeat himself. 😁

[@petersage5157]

​@@floobertuber Yeah, Davo likes to repeatedly repeat himself with the intent of editing out the repeats in post; it's an alternative to recording individual takes as separate videos. He misses a lot of them. I think he should use a clapperboard.

[@Roukos_Rks]

congrats on 1 million subs!

[@PeetHobby]

Newer LEDs can sometimes handle a lot more current. For example, there are SMD LEDs that can handle 150mA (when operating at 5V), and they visually resemble the older 20mA LEDs. Without knowing the specific LED type, it's uncertain whether they operate within or beyond the specified specifications.

[@superdau]

Doesn't really matter, if the LEDs can take more current. The issue is the power dissipation. A one Watt "heater" (5V x 200mA) in that plastic case will just cook the LEDs, especially with board that small (almost no heat dissipation).

[@Dr_Mario2007]

Drove Nichia 319AT somewhat harder at 1.9 Amps (around 7 Watts) in my custom LED flashlight I put together years ago, it's still functional. Bright, even. To get the most out of LED especially when overdriving them like I did, thermal management is VERY critical (I recommend the best ceramic or diamond thermal paste that you would use with the computer processors, with the powerful LED on the Aluminum or Copper MCPCB - I usually use Copper ones, as well as 100% metal LED flashlight host body like Convoy S21 to take care of as much heat as possible). Still, 150 mA white LED still get quite hot, not as hot as those 3+ Watts screamers out there offered by Nichia, Cree and Osram, though (weirdly enough, underdriving those powerful LEDs at 150mA rather than the one that's actually specced to operate at that power would barely elicit much heat in comparison even though to be on safe side I wouldn't recommend that - probably it's that larger LEDs are a bit more efficient).

[@johanlaurasia]

I see you hit 1 million subs! Congrats!

[@amorphuc]

Interesting that the resistance varried so much in the wrong directions. Thanks for sharing Big Clive. I think I got some similar lights on Ali when you showed them a while back. I still have them and they're kind of handy. I'm not sure I'd like these so much - LOL

[@floobertuber]

Yes, almost as if they _want_ them to have a short life, so you will then need to buy more.

[@harshbarj]

This is why I love the adjustable usb lights. I now have a small pile of them and on low they consume as low as 40mA. That is across 10-20 leds depending on the Warm/Cold/Neutral setting. I tested on with a 40Ah battery bank and ended up getting a little over 25 days (should have been closer to the mid 30's, but likely some losses internal to the battery bank).

[@NinoJoel]

Do you have a name or brand or link?

[@livesquad2810]

What brand?

[@My-Pal-Hal]

Reason for return: STILL LIVING 😂 ... get me the manager

[@reggiep75]

Those lights really are nice. If only someone did them right 😊

[@zecatfish2941]

My sister bought a pack of these in cool white, i dimmed one down for my mum, it was a bit of a hack job cutting the plastic out of the USB port to get more pin to solder a leg through resister to, but it works fine as a night light for the cats.

[@markcummings150]

For the many people who haven’t heard if printed resistors wait until you see PCBs with printed traces that perform as capacitors and inductors, common in high frequency circuits such as radars and microwaves.

[@wfthkttn]

Got one of these as a "gift" with my purchase with no way to refuse from getting it. Thanks for sending me another piece of e-waste, I guess.

[@dc-4ever201]

Clive, I love the whole "I'd love to review your stuff Temu, but I only do dangerous or cheap and nasty product's and you don't have enough".

[@lightcapmath2777]

This video was Great...simple and informative regarding those "printed " resistors.. Cheers! DVD:)

[@Ralphs-House]

Thank you for looking at these Clive. I have several (and other types) as I was looking at a way to get low level lighting on my DIY solar system. These didn't fit the bill, not least of which, all the faffing about to get them running on a 12v system.

[@SpaceCop]

Keep on finding bin-worthy trash from temu and the likes.. i love to see the results

[@carstensteinert6018]

Hat off to Temu. The managed to make cold-white LED a warm-cold-white LED.😂

[@markiangooley]

Bad lights but in a narrow way a best-case scenario!

[@gedtoon6451]

Nice play on words!

[@lua-nya]

I've seen these in warm white and cool white on Aliexpress. They were obscenely cheap for how they look on first glance. I see now they are obscenely simple too, not even letting the supply know they want power.

[@DigitalIP]

Grats on the Million

[@randycarter2001]

Hot stuff is all I can say. With that much current flowing these are going to significant heating from both the 'resistors' and the LED's. Also don't expect then to last long either with 150 mA flowing through each LED in a couple of these. The warm white is the only one that was perfectly reasonable.

[@leecallaghan4625]

I got two sets of these little lamps . I also had two from what I got from a shop some time ago and seen the the quality of the ones I got from the shop was much greater than the temu ones

[@wisteela]

Been given one of these today, so it was about time I watched this. I tried it just before watching. It's a cold white, and doesn't seem to get hot when plugged into a few power banks.

[@TimeLemur6]

"But as lights, they're very unpredictable." Kinda like that cut. 😆

[@grantrennie]

Thanks for another great video 👍

[@JoediyLab]

Clive, I have purchased a few microcontrollers from Temu and have found the quality quite good. Same manufacture as seen on Amazon but much cheaper. I am going to purchase more electronics items from Temu. Cheers, Joe

[@d.t.4523]

Thank you. Keep working, good luck to you.

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome Video Big Clive

[@wtmayhew]

Thank you Clive for having the integrity not to become a mouthpiece for a purveyor of Chinese junk products.

[@kousakasan7882]

I got about 5 of those in white only. For my emergency bag. I did notice some are brighter than the others. But they are low power. On a portable phone charger, they would give light for a long time.

[@thepagan5432]

A good home DIY project for bored electricians, engineers and anyone with a few brain cells. It is a good idea but needs better controls during the printing process. Thank you Clive, take care 👍

[@fredmorton1631]

Nice little enclosures to fill with a bunch of flashing led's

[@tamask001]

Technically Tempura (天ぷら) both the word and the food is Portuguese, not Japanese. The word was adapted from “temporas”.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

I've got that same volt/ammeter. It has the strange name "Makerhawk" on mine. It came with a fan-type load cell/unit. Works really good.

[@murlock666]

got 10 of the WW ones last year. use them all over the house as nightlights in old chargers. came up as 0.7W on my anker 737. Handy for what they are. cheap as chips too. only had one lose a single LED so far and they run 24/7. In my world I call that a bargain :P

[@Chris_the_Muso]

Those green LEDs are on borrowed time. I think I'd take an engraving bit to the board and shave down the edges of the resistors. I also think that printed carbon resistors are actually fairly imprecise due to variations in the screen print process. Things like viscosity of the ink and pressure of the transfer have to be controlled very closely. You'd think it would be doddle with modern manufacturing equipment but apparently not...

[@asteroidrules]

Thank you for having the integrity to not shill for the Aliexpress/pyramid scheme hybrid, and continuing to plumb the depths of weird electronic tat for nonsensical and occasionally dangerous designs.

[@triviabuff5682]

Watched this to the end, when Temu ad with a generous young lady buying stuff for random other people came on! 😂

[@LuxAudio389]

I LOVE the title of this video. "Cheap N Nasty...." LMAO....."TEMU I Want More Dangerous Products "💀

[@noakeswalker]

I have 4 similar looking warm white lights, not made/sold by TEMU, they have the same circuit but a different pcb layout, also with the printed resistors. 3 of the 4 draw about 50mA (25 each led), and the 4th one only draws 30mA, (15mA each) which was a bit of a surprise, until you told us about your lights with their crazy currents here Clive. Just for the record. Dave

[@garydebardi5540]

Run a drill thru the printed resistor from either surface to reduce the cross section. Some surface mount screened resistors are trimmed with lasers by automatic equipment.

[@Brinslade]

Hi Clive. Just a comment on your pronunciation of 'TEMU' . English pronunciation rules according to spelling (phonics) teaches that a single consonant between two vowels makes a vowel vowel sound (this often means saying the letter's name). So, for example in the word 'lady' the 'A' says it's name, but in 'ladder' it is a short 'a', as there is a double 'd'. Words like 'baker' and 'backer' follow the same rule. While this rule works for 85% of English words, it does have exceptions, such as 'love' (which is a very old word and originally spelt 'Lufuh' due the originally having the great vowel shift in English, and the letter 'v' being entered into the English much later and replacing letters representing hard 'f' sounds. Another thing is that there are some many borrowed words that English uses and the pronunciation is often closer to the original language it was borrowed from. I would still pronounce Temu as 'TEE-Moo' as the second vowel sound is weaker in English often a schwa sound 'er' or a short 'oo') . 🙂

[@will_doherty]

You could recalibrate/finesse the resistors with some care, time, multimeter and a scalpel. Fun project!

[@stevenhodgson834]

Picked up a few to see how crap they were, but actually quite pleasantly surprised at how they function. Haven't had one fail yet. Not surprised they're a bit rubbish under the hood, though, at about 50p each!

[@EatsLikeADuck]

Clive saying, "OMG' is a national treasure.

[@generaldisarray]

I have some sad news Clive poor old Betty kicked the bucket last year so surely you mean The Kings English.

[@rabbitrampage]

I got a full RGB underglow kit for 15 quid off temu. It's worked so far after about a month, but the waterproofing looks suspect and they were sold as addressable LEDs (which it definitely isn't).

[@RandomBogey]

Those are cool looking USB marshmallows

[@dave00011]

Love the power bank brand name :}

[@elementalblaze79]

"I want more dangerous products!" Says the man that makes things go bang!!! Lol

[@himselfe]

For some reason I read the video title as "Cheap 'n' tasty Temu lights" and thought "oh great, Clive has started taste testing LED lights".

[@JulianSortland]

I have one off Aliexpress. The brightness is good, and it appears to have proper SM resistors. Current is 19 mA,

[@johnmcgaw2753]

Yeah, you could choose to roll your own circuit boards but if you happened to have one of the increasingly-common laser cutter/etcher machines you could rig a jig to hold the existing light and laser-trim the resistors while in operation -- just like the big boys do in precision equipment.

[@Studio23Media]

I have gotten a couple of these included in random other cheap electronics I've bought. I put one on a small battery bank, and use it as a travel flashlight. It works decently enough for what it is. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dahnyahollier-day4217]

"I demand dangerous, I'm a big smart bear that demands danger!" - Big Clive as he turns down the credit and product

[@DelticEngine]

Those lights look so simple that one solution would be a small piece of stripboard and solder the components onto that. This would be much cheaper than getting a custom PCB made.

[@totherarf]

Well Clive, watching you do your thing does Cheer me up! Does that count?

[@Dr_Mario2007]

"More Dalek of Death, Sir??" "YES."

[@thevikingwarrior]

I love your accent!

[@JustaMuteCat]

Would been nice if you waved under the camera the fire-proof pie dish during the bit about how Temu didn’t have a good track history about having dangerous stuff.

[@Alacritous]

Would that little container hold a digispark? I can't tell by looking at it in the video

[@dcallan812]

A quickie with Clive ☺☺ 220mA 🤣 burn baby burn 🔥🔥 I think adding proper resistors if you want to use them for longer a week or so. Interesting bit of Temu poop 2x👍

[@SkippiiKai]

Oh, I just got some of those. A 5 pack of warm whites for 19 cents... I didn't need the lights, but I couldn't turn down a deal to get 25 USB plugs for less than a dollar.

[@jerrydurand4127]

Printed resistors are accurate because they are laser trimmed. I used to rebuild and modify the trimmers used for this, you'd love them! A 4kW xenon lamp powered off the 240 mains through an inductor. 2800V trigger pulse to light it. Focus all that light onto a YAG laser rod with a 1/2 hp pump flowing distilled water over everything to cool it. Those were actually interesting to modify to put out more power and run more reliably.

[@timplatts2154]

Would it be possible to drill some of the board away, down to a higher resistance?

[@Steve_Coates]

I think I must have been lucky as I bought 5 of the same style warm white lights which run between 60-90 mA.