Revisiting an OLD project from 20 years ago - with schematic.

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@TiptreeJams
@TiptreeJams 8 ай бұрын
Yes it was 'Prototype mains LED lights' on 23rd May 2022. But that said I love watching BigClive videos over and over again anyway.
@HobbyHalloween
@HobbyHalloween 8 ай бұрын
I know that feeling. I had the same kind of shock when I looked at a date on a project and said that was 20 years ago!
@SeanBZA
@SeanBZA 8 ай бұрын
Looked at one, and i made it in high school........
@ryanroberts1104
@ryanroberts1104 8 ай бұрын
I can usually date mine by the soldering. It starts with wires twisted really really tight and progresses from there. :p
@Mark1024MAK
@Mark1024MAK 8 ай бұрын
Oh, let me check a project I made after I started my first job, ah 1988! It’s a bench PSU that I still use. Only thing that I have replaced is one of the potentiometers. Although one corner pillar in the case is broken. All the parts came from Maplin by mail order.
@gregorythomas333
@gregorythomas333 8 ай бұрын
Revisiting old projects are always fun...not only for the nostalgia...but also remembering the way you were thinking at the time along with what was the technology available.
@POVwithRC
@POVwithRC 8 ай бұрын
My brain: "Oh 20 years ago, the 80's" My sad Brain: "No, 2004" 💀
@mumblbeebee6546
@mumblbeebee6546 8 ай бұрын
Twenty years ago I was showing our new apprentices the Joule Thief on your website (and enjoyed it secretly when they spotted the blown-up Rolo later… 😎) I am so glad I found your channel a few years ago, life would be decidedly poorer without your wonderful voice teaching and amusing me!
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
The Rolo experiment would be much better now with video.
@SkippiiKai
@SkippiiKai 8 ай бұрын
I enjoyed this just as much as the first time you made this video a few years ago!
@curtishoffmann6956
@curtishoffmann6956 8 ай бұрын
Future Clive to Past Clive - "Where'd you hide the other flat cables?" Past Clive: "Wouldn't you like to know?"
@samuelholmes3696
@samuelholmes3696 7 ай бұрын
Nah past Clive would be drawing him a schematic of where he’s put them.
@ffffffff-vv7yp
@ffffffff-vv7yp 8 ай бұрын
This project keeps getting more and more well presented during every remake. It's noteworthy this was just as antiquated when the 2022 and 2016 versions went on air. Just think about the rate of technological progress going on about 15 years ago. Those were the times - yeah, I know other fields are changing really fast at the moment. I'm excited to see the 2030 version. Young tech geeks who were hardly born in 2016 will watch and be amazed.
@ffffffff-vv7yp
@ffffffff-vv7yp 8 ай бұрын
@@mikebond6328 In case of homebrew replica, yeah.
@ericthecyclist
@ericthecyclist 8 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the LED oscilliscope I built 45 years ago from a diagram in Popular Electronics magazine. I had a 10x10 grid of leds soldered into perforated board with wires running both ways. It worked, but every so often, one of my solder connections would fail. I had to use it in a dim room to be able to see the red leds.
@mistermeaargee2670
@mistermeaargee2670 8 ай бұрын
I bought three rare and very expensive blue LEDs for the rear of a Melenium Falcon model I was building. Great effect with laser-etched 'hologram' foil behind them!
@amorphuc
@amorphuc 8 ай бұрын
Thanks Big Clive. Wild how time flies. It's sometimes really cool to look over past projects to see how you'd maybe change them today or appreciate the work you did.
@RODALCO2007
@RODALCO2007 7 ай бұрын
I like these simple designed led lamp circuits with no fuss. Great to dissipate the heat over multiple resistors scattered around the circuit. Nice perfectly aligned LED's.
@OldNerdyMeathead
@OldNerdyMeathead 8 ай бұрын
Love this content. Going back to old projects with upgrades due to new tech on the market is awesome!
@johnrehwinkel7241
@johnrehwinkel7241 7 ай бұрын
You mentioned wondering if things still get blocked by customs. SparkFun did have a little fracas a while back when they bought a batch of inexpensive multimeters from overseas and they were held at the border because the yellow/gray color scheme was trademarked by Fluke. A bunch of people were mad at Fluke, but they hadn't done anything, it was the customs agents that made the decision. Fluke was very nice about it, and gave SparkFun a batch of genuine Fluke gear to replace the impounded lot. I notice that some of those LEDs haven't failed entirely, they flicker some when power is first applied.
@MrAlex3461
@MrAlex3461 8 ай бұрын
"You know Clive, he can fix anything with a soldering iron and a dram of whisky." "You know Clive, always designing circuits with the precision of a Highland bagpiper." "You know Clive, he can debug a system faster than you can say 'Edinburgh.'" "You know Clive, he swears his oscilloscope speaks Gaelic." "You know Clive, he insists that haggis tastes better when eaten with a side of microchips."
@michaelanderson8010
@michaelanderson8010 8 ай бұрын
Thanks Clive! A great blast from the past although it seems like yesterday!👍👍
@A_Retired_MSgt
@A_Retired_MSgt 8 ай бұрын
I think it would be really cool if you did some more videos of your older projects and see what if anything you would do differently if you had to do them over. Love your channel btw.
@KeozFPV
@KeozFPV 8 ай бұрын
I was born when you built that. :)
@transmitterguy478
@transmitterguy478 7 ай бұрын
I was born about 100 years after the Civil War!😂
@KeritechElectronics
@KeritechElectronics 8 ай бұрын
This is interesting. Revisiting old projects sometimes gives you the warm and fuzzy feeling of nostalgia, sometimes makes you cringe.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
Yeah, I found a slightly cringy one recently. I'll probably make a video about it.
@ryanroberts1104
@ryanroberts1104 8 ай бұрын
OMG...I remember best hong kong! I think I've probably been bumping into you on the internet since around '04! Jesus I'm old!
@RaJ2986
@RaJ2986 8 ай бұрын
I been follwoing your site for about as long. Purchased a few of your RBG controllers and still using them to this day. Also still have quite a few of your highflux PCBs.
@acmefixer1
@acmefixer1 8 ай бұрын
I had a conversation with another author of a project that applied rectified but unfiltered (not "smoothed") DC to some nonlinear devices like LEDs. He said it had to be multiplied by the cosine of the phase angle of the conduction. For a blue LED, it doesn't conduct until the voltage gets up to 3V. So if the AC across the LED is 6V peak, the LED is conducting current during the 3 to 6V part of the cycle. But I've forgotten the rest of the calculations involving the cosine, etc. I hope that was helpful. The greatly simplified solution is to connect an electrolytic capacitor across it and get straight DC, making it easy for the meter.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
The blue LEDs start conducting and glowing at about 2.6V with increasing forward voltage as the current increases. That makes it a super-complicated voltage/current waveform.
@erickvond6825
@erickvond6825 8 ай бұрын
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and I've never seen these projects before.
@mina47879
@mina47879 8 ай бұрын
Looks like you've covered them twice haha, the one that's been previously mentioned by someone else, and "Prototype LED modules from 2004. (with schematic)" back in 2016. They're still interesting tho, and i missed those previous two.
@paulstaf
@paulstaf 8 ай бұрын
Search your videos for this: "Prototype mains LED lights" it was a year ago...
@stephenmanning1553
@stephenmanning1553 8 ай бұрын
Showing us antiques that you made. Fantastic.
@mikebond6328
@mikebond6328 8 ай бұрын
Vintage
@robertgaines-tulsa
@robertgaines-tulsa 8 ай бұрын
I don't remember you talking about this. It does take me back to when LED lights were still new and these janky lights were only available from China. I got into an LED lighting craze at that time. The dim, cold blue light and all the individual LEDs felt like lights you'd see in Star Wars. I eventually got sick of them and switched to warm white LED bulbs when you could finally get inexpensive ones at the store. Lately, I've switched to brighter daylight bulbs as they seem to help with my depression. They also make colors pop out better.
@BromideBride
@BromideBride 8 ай бұрын
Not just old school 2nd class leds that fail. I spent this morning swapping smd leds from one gu10 lamp to another based on the latter having just one short and one open circuit. The former had five blackened, Incinerated and several that look cooked. Annoyingly, the lamp works for a while then one string of 30 - half of the lamp, goes out until the power is turned off and on which restores it briefly. So I now have to find the leds that are going open circuit I guess. It has a cap, bridge, resistor driver board that was stuffed behind the non heatsink led circuit board leaving a brown burn mark. They weren't even cheap ones,just badly built for the throw away society. A few years ago I would have binned the pair of them but my new found knowledge from your channel & similar has caused me to start understanding these issues sufficiently to attempt a repair. Plus it saves me a morning of driving 30 miles, paying as much for parking as fuel to get there and hunting for a shop that sells replacement lamps or waiting five days for China or eight for British sellers to despatch and deliver some.
@urugulu1656
@urugulu1656 7 ай бұрын
they are cheap ones just sold at ridiculus markups
@BromideBride
@BromideBride 7 ай бұрын
@@urugulu1656 you must let me have your crystal ball or perhaps, with your insight, you can find my missing 8mm socket
@frogz
@frogz 8 ай бұрын
Reminds me of a to3 transistor, 2 cement wire wound resistors from radioshack and 2 windings of speaker wire, hot glued to a flyback from an old TV, that's one thing I'm going to miss is the availability of free flybacks in the alley
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
I gave myself a few high frequency burns making similar high voltage inverters. These days a MOSFET might be the way to go.
@wimwiddershins
@wimwiddershins 8 ай бұрын
Blue LEDs were amazing when they hit the market. Remember when they'd stick a piercing blue indicator on every bloody thing.🫣
@simont3686
@simont3686 8 ай бұрын
Remember when?!?!😂 They still put them everywhere.
@Poult100
@Poult100 8 ай бұрын
I think it still happens too much. Makes me realise the red LED has been under rated all this time.
@simont3686
@simont3686 8 ай бұрын
@@Poult100 Yes. Red or amber are so pleasant to look at. They don't stress the eyes at all. Even green is better than blue. Blue is literally the worst color for indicators. But somehow the companies still equate the modern-ness of a product to the brightness of its blue LED.
@tncorgi92
@tncorgi92 8 ай бұрын
I had a couple of external hard drive cases, the single blue LED power indicator was so bright you could read in a dark room with only that powered up. Must have been good quality though, I don't remember one ever failing on me.
@simont3686
@simont3686 8 ай бұрын
@@tncorgi92 Maybe something is true about the theory that brightness equates quality xD
@juanferreira5931
@juanferreira5931 8 ай бұрын
Found an old preamp board I made in 1979. One of the pots was a bit noisy, but it still works quite well.
@wisher21uk
@wisher21uk 8 ай бұрын
Love the blue leds nice circuits too thanks Clive 😊
@JamesRound-mj9on
@JamesRound-mj9on 8 ай бұрын
Just watched about Shuji Nakamura and the blue led amazing story
@callumBee
@callumBee 8 ай бұрын
I think I remember you releasing this on your site all those years ago! Really wanted to build it but at that time I hadn't moved onto tinkering with mains! You eventually release those panels with the Piranha LEDs. You kick started my love of RGB LEDS, Built them into the flood lights along with your controller and used them on my mobile discos for a while.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
The Piranha panels were great at the time. A very affordable way to make an RGB floodlight.
@RobertCraft-re5sf
@RobertCraft-re5sf 8 ай бұрын
I miss this super cool 90s red LED sign I used to have. It was so cool. it had a little tiny keyboard just to program what it would say. it was like 25 pounds. Solid. That thing was so cool....
@zomgsako
@zomgsako 8 ай бұрын
I might steal that washer-strain relief design for my 3d printed enclosures.
@FrostByteUK
@FrostByteUK 8 ай бұрын
My word.. I made something similar to this for my pc about 20 years ago... Those translucent blue hammond boxes were/are everywhere.
@chrissavage5966
@chrissavage5966 8 ай бұрын
Can't beat some nice LRF on a project. We had a large set of component draws in our workshop and had dedicated 3 of them to LRF, MRF and BRF.
@samakovamk
@samakovamk 8 ай бұрын
we seem to have had an issue with our left hand, "one moment please,i need a Band Aid"....careful big Clive, careful....lol..best regards...
@psirvent8
@psirvent8 8 ай бұрын
Totally unrelated but the tiitle and thumbnail reminded me of it: I just bought a cheap nose trimmer that is said on the website to have a built-in LED but it's actually a tiny incandescent bulb ! And switching it on reminds me of my childhood's incandescent flashlights as well as of the era itself.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
That's very retro. Probably an old design that hasn't changed.
@d.t.4523
@d.t.4523 8 ай бұрын
Thank you, keep working.
@cheyannei5983
@cheyannei5983 8 ай бұрын
I know what you mean about being unable to find a video. I spent like two years on and off looking for a video that featured a little side-firing 18650 light that almost looked like a mini fluorescent tube. By the time I found it, the factory that had made them in that size ceased production. I ended up finding an Energizer light that was the same size and roughly fit the bill. Speaking of, I bought a spare of that Energizer to send over, but it seems almost impossible to disassemble.
@DrHarryT
@DrHarryT 8 ай бұрын
With 60 LED's in series here in the US you can run them with a rectifier and cap directly off of the 120VAC mains.
@i_am_aladeen
@i_am_aladeen 8 ай бұрын
Clive talking about "having to cut" some plastic, while wearing a bandaid 😁
@HardwareHarry
@HardwareHarry 8 ай бұрын
Hi Clive, thanks for another interesting video. If you made the same project today, would you use a death beam capacitor to smooth the output of the full bridge rectifier? Smoothing seems ubiquitous in designs now, I guess they would eliminate any visible flicker, and give the LEDs a much smoother supply (I wonder if LEDs using smoothed power would last longer and fail later than the identical build without the capacitors)?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
I might, but that does increase the voltage to the sinewave peak. So it would require more LEDs.
@michaelmoorrees3585
@michaelmoorrees3585 8 ай бұрын
Looking at old projects, I'm looking at my old LED digital clock. Its big ! 6" (15cm) tall digits made up of 28 discrete 5mm red LEDs per digit. Six digits. TTL logic. Uses 15W, and a linear power supply. Mechanical hourly chime. Dim old red LEDs, as it was made in 1982, when I was still in college. All LEDs still working. Replaced a power supply cap, when it was only 10 years old, and 2 7447s over the decades. Blew a lot of dust out of it, as its vented.
@johnsenchak
@johnsenchak 8 ай бұрын
Have you ever visited Belfast in Ireland ? It seems like it's closer to the Isle of Man
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
I've worked there.
@marcse7en
@marcse7en 8 ай бұрын
While watching this video, Big Clive, I noticed that there were 115 comments. Why is this significant? ... It's significant because I see the number 115 literally everywhere, all the time! What's special about the number 115? ... It was the house where I grew up from 1968, aged 6, and it's the house that my late parents left to me, 20 months ago. I'm still not allowed to move into it yet. At this rate, I'll be moving to the bloody cemetery instead! ... Probably plot number 115 🤣
@gazzaka
@gazzaka 8 ай бұрын
The green one had a lovely shimmer on camera !
@AnthonyChopra
@AnthonyChopra 8 ай бұрын
wish i could go back in time and learn how to make them from you. i think in 2004ish i was learning how to make my social centers PC go Pop by changing the RED Switch at the back of the Powersupply to 110V hahah had fun and no one found out untill i came clean back in 2012 aboot it. i did how ever learn about the safity issues and such of PC Power Supplys
@tin2001
@tin2001 8 ай бұрын
Dumb arse kids used to do that to the teachers desk computers in my high school... Until the standard procedure for unpacking new PCs had an additional step of dribbling 2 part epoxy into those switches. Fortunately by the time I got a job in a school, those switches were a thing of the past and they all have full range inputs.
@GWorxOz
@GWorxOz 6 ай бұрын
Always good.👍 👍 👍 👍
@markfergerson2145
@markfergerson2145 8 ай бұрын
I think you did do a video on those lights, unless you do a lot of projects with those serpentine tracks. But that’s okay, looking to see how a project has aged (or not) over a span like that is a Good Thing. Honestly I’m surprised that more of the green LEDs didn’t die or change color. You mentioned that you think heat might be the cause- letting it warm up for an hour or so and looking at it with an inexpensive thermal camera would be instructive. Would have been nice to have those twenty years ago, no?
@roadracing22
@roadracing22 8 ай бұрын
Could we do a build along with the “Red Healing Light” type of display. Make it a live stream?
@greentravels2850
@greentravels2850 8 ай бұрын
Repeat or not, still an interesting review of some projects plus a learning experience for somebody newly watching. I'm interested in seeing more about the ionizer project. 2004 was only 5 years ago, right? Right??
@lint2023
@lint2023 8 ай бұрын
We had the old round cathode ray tube oscilloscopes when I was in school. Time flies. Time flew.
@BD-xz6te
@BD-xz6te 8 ай бұрын
I own a couple of those that appear to be Navy surplus.
@SigEpBlue
@SigEpBlue 8 ай бұрын
Cool. I own at least four of that type now. I think maybe ONE has a graticule...? From a different era, certainly, but still useful.
@imark7777777
@imark7777777 8 ай бұрын
I actually think something with the search on KZbin has been broken the last few months because every time I tried to search for something either in history or on a channel I can't find it but if I use the regular search I usually end up finding it. I immediately don't remember these. However that leaves the possibility that they didn't have a case last time I saw them which, means it's possible they were there somewhere, as I remember a couple of circuitboard LED projects. Either way a nice revisit. I Definitely remember that circuit board layout from something.
@tin2001
@tin2001 8 ай бұрын
It's a US election year... They do this every 4 years (and to a lesser extent in the midterm years).
@waynethomas3638
@waynethomas3638 8 ай бұрын
That burn on your left hand must have been quite deep to be still requiring sticky plasters😔😒😀 I have one on my left shin from my time as a motor rewinder. The result of a blob of melted plastic motor insulation, that landed on the leg of my overalls. It keeps releasing a scar plug that requires occasional taping😀
@richardturton6900
@richardturton6900 8 ай бұрын
Be careful taking that ioniser on the plane Clive, the airline may say it's a particle beam weapon.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
It didn't get seized, which is nice.
@blackcountryme
@blackcountryme 8 ай бұрын
Angry plug in Gnome hat!
@sootikins
@sootikins 8 ай бұрын
"You could poke an eye out with that thing"... >confiscated!
@rimmersbryggeri
@rimmersbryggeri 8 ай бұрын
Red Red Brown? SAme as the UB40 song. 🤣🤣🤣
@wynterash8778
@wynterash8778 8 ай бұрын
Hey there! Have just purchased a whole bunch of solar LED lights in Poundland and my troubleshooting on google led me to your channel! Essentially nothings turning on despite being left in sun for hours, is there a video you can point me to where I can learn how to identify the problem? I have zero technical knowledge but I do have a screwdriver and enthusiasm!
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
Check there's no battery tab to pull out and that the switch (usually hidden under the lens) is in the on position. They can also be a bit sensitive to ambient light sources and stay off if you have another light nearby.
@nomusicrc
@nomusicrc 8 ай бұрын
Not a bad idea to visit projects 20 years later and start all over again lol
@Doug-b4p
@Doug-b4p 8 ай бұрын
Looks like your burn is healing well
@twocvbloke
@twocvbloke 8 ай бұрын
I think you have shown these (or stuff similar to them) before, but it's probably long enough ago that it's forgiven to see them again, reminds me of when I turned a dead CFL (Philips or GE where you could unscrew the bulb that covered the CFL) into a 12v LED light, except I did it poorly, assuming the LED were all 3v and "12v" was actually 12v, and they burned out eventually, some rather smokily... :P
@CrazyOregonBeaver
@CrazyOregonBeaver 8 ай бұрын
About 30 years ago I built one out of surplus green LEDs from Tektronics. Here in the U.S with a 120 volts and about a 170 volts peak. I use a group in series of 6 X 12 or 72 LEDs, and in both directions for a total of 144. Straight into the wall. It has been running all that time with no failures. I'm just waiting for one go, and then it's all over with. I think, or maybe just half of the panel. 😂
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
I think the foreverbright LED strings ran directly across the power too.
@DelticEngine
@DelticEngine 8 ай бұрын
Curious coincidence that 5.4 divided by 1.414 (like you would to determine RMS from Peak voltage) equals 3.8?
@bikkiikun
@bikkiikun 8 ай бұрын
What would be the pros and cons of adding a "smoothing" capacitor to your lamp? I'm guessing, you would need to handle peak-voltage, instead of RMS and I also guess it would ruin the powerfactor. But is there anything else against or in favour of a cap?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
It would be a good improvement, but would require a lot more LEDs to keep the resistor dissipation down.
@transmitterguy478
@transmitterguy478 7 ай бұрын
Tell Ralph hello!🍾
@Elberto71
@Elberto71 8 ай бұрын
What year were sleeved pins introduced on uk plugs? Surely not 1984 😮
@SodaWithoutSparkles
@SodaWithoutSparkles 8 ай бұрын
You should really get a small handheld electric screw driver. Those pen-lile ones are nice, dont have too much torque to strip the screws. A slight downside is that they might also not have the torque to pull out tight screws.
@Len_M.
@Len_M. 8 ай бұрын
Be careful, we don't need a life-size Clive the Fanny flambeaux! 😂
@TOMKATPEDALS
@TOMKATPEDALS 8 ай бұрын
I know this era of eBay LEDs. I was making projects like these too especially after the 2007 incident in Boston with the aqua teen hunger force lite brite marketing campaign that had the big 10mm LEDs.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
I made a rough copy design of those PCBs after that incident.
@paulchamberlain7942
@paulchamberlain7942 7 ай бұрын
Dont forget the metal staple in the desk..... oh well, fingers crossed, for what I'm not sure.
@Hobypyrocom
@Hobypyrocom 8 ай бұрын
people in the past were laughing at me for connecting LEDs in arrays in parallel, it was common back then to wire them in series, nowadays almost all producers wire them in parallel...
@Alan2E0KVRKing
@Alan2E0KVRKing 8 ай бұрын
I have seen the cases on your videos before, not sure if it was with LED's depends if you used the cases in anything else you made back then.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
I still like these coloured cases.
@darrenglynn597
@darrenglynn597 8 ай бұрын
Very interesting is it the hoppi that you used for the Power drangeage. . Or have i spelt it wrong many thanks Clive.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
Either the Hopi or Antai for measuring power.
@Spiralem
@Spiralem 8 ай бұрын
Searching for video on youtube now is like... Do you mean this other related video? Do you mean this video that we think you might like? Do you want to watch sponsored/ads? Do you want to watch the video you search for?
@tin2001
@tin2001 8 ай бұрын
You forgot the repeated insistence on recommending CNN videos for reasons I really can't understand since I'm in Australia. "Don't recommend this channel" apparently means "until they upload a new video".
@BrettCooper4702
@BrettCooper4702 8 ай бұрын
To search videos. Download all the subtitles and search them or load them into an AI and query that. Gemini ai can take a single video to chat about but not a playlist or youtube content. I didn't try adding videos one at a time but I think it would be overload. Would be an interesting dataset anyway. So I might see if I can download just the closed captions from the 2351 videos, i'll be right back (maybe).
@martin-vv9lf
@martin-vv9lf 7 ай бұрын
clive you could do a teardown of an impact driver, the iron ones you hit with a hammer. they are a mystery to me and there are no teardowns on youtube.
@Slikx666
@Slikx666 8 ай бұрын
Clive. I remember them but I think they only made a guest appearance in a video. I've just been looking through your videos from the oldest to the newest. I went passed such classics as "Kinder suprise (pyro style) 😎" , "Review of dangerous Japanese Fanny Flambeaux doll" 😆 , the dangerous "Avoiding electrocution (Feat real shocks) 😳 " right passed the interesting "Can you distill mouthwash? 🥴" and got as far as " Another exploding resistor art masterpiece 😲" before giving up trying to find it. It would be interesting to know if any new subscribers go a look at you back catalogue of videos. They're missing out if they don't. 🤔
@Christian-lh7ux
@Christian-lh7ux 8 ай бұрын
Hey Clive, what did you do to your left hand? 😅 With you we're used to bruises and scratches but this looks a little unusual even for you. Hope you did appropriate wound care and not just ethanol for internal use even if scotch whisky heals almost everything 😂 Try cold plasma, it is said to work miracles 😅 Whishing you all the best.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
A tiny burn that triggered eczema. It's only just getting better now.
@joeschmo622
@joeschmo622 8 ай бұрын
Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, I got samples of one of the first commercial blue LEDs from Cree as a production sample, and then a white one when those came out. Diffused, so blue was hazy, but eerily "unusual" in that you only ever saw red and that lime green, some yellow thrown in for variety. Blue was... *wow!* White was a little unimpressive, as it had the infamous "Cree Rainbow", especially noticeable when you'd hold one close to a white card or wall. Blue center and yellow periphery. But it was *white.* Well, sort of. I made a rather bulky keychain light out of the white one and a camera button-cell (forgot the number, looked like a flattened mushroom).
@snakezdewiggle6084
@snakezdewiggle6084 8 ай бұрын
It was 20 years ago today, Big Clive taught the band to play... Nope no deja Vue here. 👍
@darkknight145
@darkknight145 8 ай бұрын
It would be interesting to rebuild this with modern LED's (same circuit) to see the difference in light output and power consumption.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
Massively high light output. It would be interesting to see an old one and a new one side by side. Even just changing half the LEDs in one unit.
@TDOBrandano
@TDOBrandano 8 ай бұрын
I am not sure you featured these projects before, but you might have shown them briefly while discussing 3D printed enclosures.
@mduvigneaud
@mduvigneaud 8 ай бұрын
I feel like maybe you have shown the red and blue project boxes but I don't recall if that's just because you use colored LEDs in a lot of projects and I'm just conflating different things in different videos.
@pault6533
@pault6533 8 ай бұрын
Isn’t the measured voltage drop across the resistors affected by the diodes when they are not conducting the unsmoothed DCV?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
The main issue with getting a measurement is the unsmoothed DC and odd current waveform due to the voltage drop across the LEDs.
@jeepien
@jeepien 7 ай бұрын
What was that thing that looked like a wavy staple in the workbench, which was visible at several points in the middle of the screen?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
Search for the plastic welder video.
@hinspect
@hinspect 8 ай бұрын
Bridge a full 220V 😳😬 Automatic pucker just thinking about it, but I don't have much courage! 😊
@chuckthetekkie
@chuckthetekkie 8 ай бұрын
A lot of those resistors look quite "well used". Also you features these on Sept 10 2016. "Prototype LED modules from 2004. (with schematic)"
@TheTruthAboutLemmings
@TheTruthAboutLemmings 8 ай бұрын
I made a pyramid ioniser case from paper mache using a unit like that recovered from an old air conditioner fan thing and put a neon bulb in it. But unfortunately I think a new ioniser module is needed since I see no noticeable signs it's working when I look at the carbon brush. Anyway, break apart tissue in warm water, add pva as desired, shape, dry... profit. The poor man's 3d printing.
@lachlan1971
@lachlan1971 8 ай бұрын
Maybe see you if you're our and about in Glasgow.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
Back on IOM, but back to Glasgow soon.
@jadenhuibregtse501
@jadenhuibregtse501 8 ай бұрын
Coming to America!
@paulmeynell8866
@paulmeynell8866 7 ай бұрын
I want to know what the best IR light is for filming a house for bats with a camera?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 7 ай бұрын
You can get IR CCTV illuminators.
@leotoro51
@leotoro51 8 ай бұрын
I just realized that for fast few episodes I am watching Your chanel because I am interested if Your Left hand is healing well ... well, get beer [better!] soon mate !
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
It's better now, but gets worse in upcoming videos, to the point I wear a glove to protect the innocent.
@MrTrollHunter
@MrTrollHunter 8 ай бұрын
I have often been wondering about what the powerfactor is a measurement for when the powermeter appear in your videos. So, what does it stand for and how is it calculated/measured?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
It indicates the relationship between the voltage and current waveforms. Not super important for most people, but quite important for the utility industry.
@nicholasviney5975
@nicholasviney5975 8 ай бұрын
I must do, ohh what's that over there. Story of my life lol
@alankingvideo
@alankingvideo 8 ай бұрын
You never do V squared over R. Is that because you like to see what the current is as well. Or just because it's simpler to understand Ohns law in 2 stages?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 ай бұрын
Just habit, and also liking to know all the variables.
@davidfalconer8913
@davidfalconer8913 8 ай бұрын
You might put that in your ( Wagobox capsule ? ) .... but .... looking at the price ( £ 9 ) , it would be MUCH cheaper to use a big jam jar , the types that holds pickled gherkins are VERY spacious .. ( tried - n - tested ) .. DAVE™🛑
@tommyb6611
@tommyb6611 8 ай бұрын
You made those in 2004? Wow, to have access to leds at that time
@cameradoctor205
@cameradoctor205 8 ай бұрын
I'm having a feeling we have seen these before too Clive .........
@lImbus924
@lImbus924 8 ай бұрын
yeah, I think the red and blue have been shown before, but that was more like adjacent to the original topic of the video. I think.
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