USB rechargeable flame lamp teardown (with schematic).

[@LiLi-or2gm]

I just ran the video at 1/4 speed to better see the lighting patterns of the leds. I got more than I asked for!! Hearing Clive at 1/4 speed (with pitch being unchanged) is absolutely a treat. Yes, I am easily amused, but OMG, he sounds positively tossed! I love you, Clive- just as you are, and your voice is amazing at any speed!

[@realrandom7666]

lol

[@georgemuron482]

I had to to try it out!!! Hilarious!!!

[@jayare1933]

Just had to see what you meant! He gives me ozzy vibes at 0.5. "Sharon!... PURPLE BURGLER ALARM!!!!" I don't want to go back to normal speed, but he sounds TOTALLY SMASHED! Time to go back and rewatch all the videos on this speed!

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Possible product optimizations: 1. On the input board, use a high wattage 2.2ohm resistor instead of the mechanical diode and the 4 10ohm resistors. 2. Solder a battery connector on the input board, removing a manual wire soldering step. 3. Change the blue plastic bit to a ring with an upward ridge to hold the main board. This saves the aluminium piece and makes assembly faster (because of the larger hole). It also saves two screws and allows the various mains supplies more room. 4. Use a 7-output driver chip (ULN2003 style) to drive the low side of the matrix instead of the 3 discrete mosfets and 3 PNP or p-channel drivers instead of the current 6 to drive the high side. Same 6x3 matrix layout with opposite LED polarity. Assumes you can find a cheap driver package variant that doesn't waste too much energy at low voltage. Idea is to lower component count and total BOM cost.

[@joannerevill9592]

Hi Clive, The PCB material used in the flame lamp is probably Kapton. If you do a search on ebay for Kapton PCB, you will find it comes in many different sized rolls. I've made a few flexible products with it.

[@mazemakes]

Removing the capacitor causes the lamp to always operate in flame mode! Yes! Seems like the mcu can live without the smoothing, and I can finally get rid of the stupid extra modes. Thank you Clive!

[@philipholden9065]

How do you identify the capacitor?

[@user-zm3ji8uu2q]

Clive, we do a lot of camping and I've been looking for a substitute for the oil-fueled "tiki torches". After watching your tear-down, I bought a few of these via eBay and we're delighted. I found one thing which makes these even more realistic; putting them inside a frosted glass oil-lamp globe. You'd swear it's actually on fire. These make a lot of light, so I think they're winners for illuminating camp. I'll have to work out a pole-mount for them, but that should be easy. Thanks so much!

[@bigclivedotcom]

The LED ones are a lot cleaner too. And no oil smell when stored.

[@Vidar_Odinson]

Wow, some of those LEDs are put on quite cockeyed.

[@Doom2pro]

Adds to the random flicker effect ;)

[@AdricM]

I was thinking because the chip is square, putitng a few cockeyed will make the diffused squares more diamond and make it all look less pixely and more flame like. weather or not its sloppy work or intentional i dont know, but it may have made the sourcers (ebayer or whomever) pick this model over other flame models because of it.

[@rich1051414]

I have a feeling the pick and place wasn't working right and people had to place the rest. I have never seen a pick and place machine misplace components that bad before. These flame effect lights aren't incredibly cheap yet, so they can probably get away with it.

[@graemedavidson499]

Would make an interesting motor cycle brake light - flaming rear tyre effect!

[@johnwmacdonald994]

Those have a surprisingly nice effect. Thanks Clive.

[@peteb2]

Thanks for all these dissection videos Clive on cheap chinesium gadgets that interest me as a tech but because i simply don't have the time, would love to see what's inside and keep up to date with the "how'd they do that'' ....

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Two thumbs up, one for Clive one for flicker flame lighting. And a good job for everyone all around... bits makers and take her to's.

[@BristolMatt]

Unrelated to this video, but in one of your previous videos you mentioned the difference between alkaline and zinc batteries.... That advice has came in handy for me and the Mrs with buying batteries this Christmas so thank you.

[@mikecawood]

I had a big Volvo 740 estate many years ago which had a mercury tilt switch to control the under hood light.

[@wanjockey]

I always thumbs up your vids as I really look forward to them and share with my fellow electricians at work. Thanks for sharing.

[@superdau]

A really nice product. Janky and ingenious at the same time. Using a diode as a spacer. Makes me wonder why they didn't just make one of the standoffs in the socket a little bit longer. Or maybe the casing is used for other versions of the lamp with different circuitry that needs the space. The heatsink as round shape, glue surface and screw mount. That is something they surely could do cheaper.

[@AlexLaw_Qld]

My money is on the shell being from another product, and there being a diode used as a spacer there.

[@whitehoose]

Since your very first review I'm an addict too. Something about fire in a bottle. I have combined 3 of the original 4.5v(?) led panels using just one base to give an inferno. They do quite nicely on a poundshop powerbank but I haven't tried a bareback 18650. My newer versions are 12v and don't easily combine or like boost converters so are a bit of a dead loss. One uses a proper accelerometer chip to do the flip which is a bit novel. Amazingly I've only fried one of the oldest, but reclaimed all the transistors and LEDs so not a complete loss.

[@JerryEricsson]

Thanks a million for the videos, going through some tough times with near deaths in my family right now, and watching one of your video's is better then a Valium in calming my tense nerves. Being in charge of end of life choices on your mom is a tough thing indeed, and with a sis suffering from brain cancer and not in her right mind makes it 10 times more difficult. Thankfully I can go to Big Clive and have his wonderful voice lull me back to some sort of sanity before the war continues.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Been there. My dad died from a brain tumour and chose when he went. Me and my brother nursed my mother for a very long time until she eventually passed. Fortunately these times will pass and you'll get your own life back again.

[@gkdresden]

I like these candles with the pendulum flame which is pushed only once in 2 to 4 seconds illuminated by a LED from below. This design gives a very realistic flame imagination.

[@bigclivedotcom]

I've down a few dancing candle teardowns.

[@VjMavdog]

Always thumbs up for a Big Clive video.

[@TATICMOOR]

A thumbs up for good crap as it was fertilizer for the mind, mistakes, and all. An intriguing module of LED flame effect array. I've come across this added diode, or resistor or another component being used as a packer to level off the PCB inside a unit. In this case, it looks like the diode is bumping up that side to the height of the USB socket, Plus, these non-connected components are also used to wedge the circuit board into its housing.

[@robertcalkjr.8325]

Pretty neat little setup. Thanks Clive.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

Don't know if you did a teardown of the solar tiki torch version of this, Clive, but if memory serves it had the same LED panel and battery, but a small solar cell that doubled as a light sensor. You stuck the thing into the ground outside to charge up, and it would light up after sunset. We needed a "flame effect" rig in one of our projects, and this didn't quite fit, so I hacked one together out of WS2812B addressable RGB LED (AKA Neopixel) strips. I later made an updated version that played a crackling campfire audio recording and reacted to the audio by "sparking". That was a fun project.

[@mrman991]

I've got a similar bulb but it's a screw in one. It also doesn't have a button switch but cycles through the settings by turning it on and off. Would it be possible to fix it to one setting some how ?

[@extracheese7837]

clive, could you do a video on electroluminescent wire/panels?

[@webchimp]

Chasing electroluminescent wire. (A look inside the controller) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWaTaHZnpsuLfa8

[@simonhopkins3867]

@@webchimp thanks for the link.

[@bluephreakr]

For EL panels, Applied Science has a video about EL paints and some various applications. You could even make a video wall for it, _however_ the caveat is the paint requires you to paint on your own board, basically, and the Lumilor starter kit is _hella_ expensive.

[@ko6ghy]

I believe the 100 ohm gate resistor is to limit the current which due to the gates capacitance can be large directly connected. The trade of is turn on time but that's clearly not important in this application.

[@lkahfi]

please teardown active stylus like adonit snap. I'm interesting about the circuitary

[@keithpattison6763]

Mercury switches were great in boiler pressure switches, rarely failed, unlike the contact ones that replaced them

[@mfx1]

Doing switch detection using brownout seems kind of clunky but also elegant in a cost engineering way. Guessing the cheap micro probably doesn't have EEPROM to store state detected via an I/O pin but does have a preserved reset cause register.

[@EsotericArctos]

Loving all these videos. The mistakes just make it all the more enjoyable. It shows you are human :)

[@locouk]

These numberless chips, are they ambidextrous or are they programmed on the board after they’ve been soldered? I mean, how do they know they’ve put them on the right way around with no markings to reference which way is up?

[@anlumo1]

They're in a specific direction on the reel, so the pick&place always mounts them correctly. Those aren't soldered by hand.

[@ejonesss]

i think why numberless is either they are proprietary or they are stolen/counterfeits and they want to not allow the world to know they are counterfeits.

[@gordonlawrence4749]

@Dave Micolichek There are the odd few with the chamfered edge too but not many. I think for some reason it's not much used any more. Same as the centre top u shaped dimple. Not seen one of those for about 3 decades.

[@ericrasmussen9892]

@Dave Micolichek 0

[@ejonesss]

wouldnt it be better for them to do a walmart "oh we need you to scrub the bathroom" as soon as they punch out?

[@johncockerill6800]

Would it be possible to put a larger capacity battery in

[@crimsonhalo13]

I own the 120v mains version. Got mine for $10 on eBay and it's pretty awesome. If I can get a battery operated one, it'd be perfect for a mobile fire effect for Halloween.

[@gilbertsprojects2954]

Hi Clive, I was at the hospital earlier with my daughter (nothing too serious) and I saw that the ‘medical inspection light’ thingy above the bed used some big led cob’s in a very large housing, I’m guessing it’s to house the power supply and room for cooling/heatsink??... have you looked at any of these lights before, and/or any other medical stuff?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Medical products tend to be really expensive because of all the testing and power supply isolation/noise requirements.

[@mentatphilosopher]

Could the low voltage behavior actually be a deliberate prompt to recharge the unit by emulating the “candle” burning down?

[@MicraHakkinen]

Given the general quality of these things, I'd be surprised if it's actually a conscious design decision to have it cut out before overdischarging the battery. I'd expect it to be more likely that it's simply the microcontroller's brownout detection circuit resetting it.

[@RobinWatson27]

How's the quality of the light diffusion across the market on these? I bought (what turned out to be) a smaller one and it's still quite pointlike; the one in this video looked very smooth indeed(is it a camera thing?). Any suggested fixes?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Most of these lamps benefit from either a bit of diffusion in the fitting they are in, or viewing from a distance.

[@Lukas.H9]

@bigclivedotcom are you sure about the 100 Ohm base resistors? This would result in ~30mA base current per transistor

[@JayH7745]

Ever since I bought a few different models of these flame lamp bulbs I've wondered what a large flat panel of these would look like. :)

[@GadgetBoy]

Looked like there was a slot to slip the PCB through on the second part of the housing...

[@ronkloiber]

Has anyone found a way for these to ALWAYS turn on in Flame mode?

[@TheFreak111]

Someone in the comments here mentions removing the capacitor.

[@dusterdude238]

I always give you a big thumbs up Clive. your videos are always very interesting, and informative. high-5 for a job well done:)

[@Farmerwannabe]

I have HDMI slitter . 3 inputs and 1 output. I wanted to use it the other way. But it doesn't work way would that be.

[@bigclivedotcom]

It's usually one input and three outputs. It has to buffer the input to drive the outputs so can't be used in reverse.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Damn, now I want one. Ordered it on eBay - the only 2 offers I saw were either in GBP or AUD, so they were not targeted towards the EU. We'll see whether it arrives before Christmas (probably not).

[@phonotical]

Replace links with more leds?

[@Phr3d13]

I liked the video for this one a lot, but I like the other led flicker flame light better, the one that had orange/yellow/white LEDs in it.

[@TheFreak111]

Would be more realistic I guess, higher color rendering index, since flames are full spectrum light and not a single amber color.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

I need one of those for a fire-staff for LARP. Still need to find a way to get the fire effect as default. Guess I have a gift for a good friend. Love it when you can repurpose stuff!

[@bigclivedotcom]

If the unit is powered down long enough it will revert to the flame effect when turned on. You could accelerate the reset with a resistor across the MPU's capacitor.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

bigclivedotcom Thanks! Good that the flame effect is more or less the default one. Guess 100k should do the trick?

[@bigclivedotcom]

@@DrakkarCalethiel 10K should be fine.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

bigclivedotcom Thaks again. Ordered two today to use in props.

[@Scrogan]

Isn’t that FET gate backwards?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Probably. I'm rubbish at drawing FETs.

[@aserta]

I'm thinking that the wavy nature of the support messed with the pick and place machine.

[@MadTitanGamer]

Awesome video 👍🏻 is it possible to power these without the battery. The one in mine is no good. Only last a couple of minutes and they just flicker

[@PiratCarribean]

On some listings on ebay of those mercury tilt switched there are images in it with already cracked and empty tubes...

[@aurthorthing7403]

That circuit board film stuff looks like something from 70's-80's toys. I tore apart many toy record players and crappy synthesizers made like that.

[@barrygreengrass3379]

Clive will you be testing how the light runs for on a fully chaged battery, and the battery capacity please

[@bigclivedotcom]

Current draw with a freshly charged cell is about 200mA. Cell capacity measured at 1100mAh.

[@TJ-ed8mw]

Could be intresting to put this behind a lithophane for an intresting display

[@xZise]

One thing I'm wondering, but how do they drive three columns using only two mosfets?

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Fabian Neundorf There are 3 n-channel MOSFETs.

[@bigclivedotcom]

There are three MOSFETs. Two together and another on its own.

[@andybobandy641]

Clive. I've always liked a nice flame light. Very cozy....but, I have an off topic question. Weren't do all volt meters show an OL (overload?) on the display as soon as the leads touch power before they give the actual voltage reading? It keeps me up at night.

[@bigclivedotcom]

The OL isn't really an overload sign. It's more of an over-range indication. I guess it's just something that fitted well in the seven segment displays.

[@andybobandy641]

@@bigclivedotcom Hmmmm. But, why do it do dat? All of mine do it. Why not just display a 0.0 and ramp up from there? ..... more mysterious questions from the world of the angry pixies..... Thanks for the videos, Clive. I'm addicted to your hypnotic voice.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Andy BoBandy It only happens on auto-ranging meters. They have switched themselves to the 200mV range looking for voltage on the disconnected leads, then ramp back up to the true range after connecting to your source.

[@wimwiddershins]

The ad at the beginning was of the 5sec variety, below my fuck off threshold. I wonder if you could cut the last column out and wrap it tightly around the cell?

[@markfergerson2145]

More than a year late, I know, but I just watched Adam Savage build one of these into a reproduction old railroad lantern and was driving myself nuts wondering how it worked. I had thought up three different ways it might have been done- thanks for validating my number three guess even though I thought it would have been too expensive even to mass produce.

[@publicmail2]

That style switch bad solder not withstanding have poor contacts, a bit of contact cleaner works well soaks in thru button.

[@SlyPearTree]

Are those two colors, orange and yellow, LEDs? i.e. they light yellow on one polarity and orange in the other. The schematic does not seem to support that but how else can the effect be reversed when the lamp is put upside down? I think I'm not getting something important, I blame the beer I'm drinking.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

SlyPearTree The orange versus yellow difference is just the difference in intensity/angle of white light hitting the outer cover over the turned off LEDs. So white = LED on. Orange = Lit only from LEDs at the far end. Yellow = halfway.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Dave Micolichek They are not lighting other LEDs, they are lighting that plastic cover. But camera swamping may make an all orange light look yellow or white.

[@Xardas22222]

Mh, I don‘t understant how one pair of LEDs can lit up becaude when transister one is active, the whole upper row is active. Is then only mosphet one active theoretically the first row in the upper left would be lit or not?! How can a single pair lit up...?!

[@sparkyprojects]

The LIFU flame lamp has a linear power supply (yes, a transformer) and runs it at about 5v, i made a vid of it as another youtuber would find it useful as a portable lamp (he runs his on 6v from alkaline) I wonder what the point of the heatsink is on your lamp, the LIFU has an aluminium tube full length.

[@xj650t]

I've seen these on eBay, but not sure how you'd actually use them, as in how can you get them to stand up and not fall over in a mounting, surely you'd need a flat base.

[@1973retrorabbit]

Candle stick holder... Or a toilet roll tube..? 😉

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Retro Rabbit Or the end of a hollow aluminum broomstick. Toilet roll too big diameter.

[@gsppuffer]

How do they make that,assemble it,ship it and sell it for 5 bucks?

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

gsppuffer Board assembly is robotic. Wire soldering is manual labor with medium skill. Assembly, packing and shipping is zero skill manual labor. Delivering the package to the right house is medium skill but they use old mutual mail delivery contracts to not pay full price for that final step.

[@publicmail2]

Can you do a quick comparison video between the 2 bulbs Feit and this one? I picked up the Feit from the other day and like it, definitely a decoration LED.

[@brianjohnson5789]

warm the glue up with hair drier and it should come to bits?

[@bigclivedotcom]

I tried heating the glue and it didn't seem to soften. I ended up peeling the lithium cell off carefully.

[@BertGrink]

Hey, mistakes are GOOD! For one thing, you learn more from mistakes than from success, and secondly, they help you stay humble.

[@garbleduser]

For that circuit board media pick and place is more like hunt and peck!

[@jayherde0]

They might have considered adding that 'build up' sequence at power up as a battery level indicator. .. A row of a few of the 'walls' along the bottom of a window might cause some concern across the way (as long as it's not in Clive's window ;-) )

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Jay Herde A single one in ramp mode behind a curtain would be more dramatic, like a giant flame filling the room.

[@barrygreengrass3379]

Clive, how did you get the battery off the led panel? I want to put a 3000 mAh capacity battery in.

[@bigclivedotcom]

With patience. It was well stuck on. I think I warmed it slightly and peeled slowly.

[@Mr.T4LLY-0]

Wow Clive, you must've been really tired. I know I talk bollcoks sometimes when I'm ready for peeps. Those flame lamps are pretty neat and the work gone into mass producing them gets better. No ad - origin adblocker works a treat :)

[@bren106]

Tiredness isn't a prerequisite for talking bollocks. I've perfected the art of doing it at all times, even when bright eyed, bushy tailed, and fresh as a daisy.

[@jamespatrick4684]

I attached one of these to solar panel and put it in an outdoor lantern. Looks great but defaults to solid (non-flickering light). Any one know how to disable that function so it will only flicker?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Sadly, many of the multi effect features are locked in software.

[@vikashpatil-n5t]

anyone can help to build the firmware ? anybody has made this bulb .

[@LongPlaysGames]

That's a neat way to make flexible circuit boards.

[@JohnQLamb]

Hmmm Infinity mirror box thingy...

[@kyeole3234]

Where I gets resources chip program information for like this flame effect thanks 👍

[@kyeole3234]

I want to make a DIY project.

[@bigclivedotcom]

You'll have to write the software yourself or use the chip from an existing product.

[@kyeole3234]

Please share Chip name and coding hardware details

[@garygranato9164]

hi clive is it possible to change an led flood light(warm white) to ir(850nm) ??

[@bigclivedotcom]

If it's the type that uses a 10 by 10 matrix of LEDs and a separate driver then it may be possible to find an IR LED to put in.

[@garygranato9164]

cheers clive

[@raptureboi]

Clive always gets a thumbs up from me!

[@thekaiser4333]

How many flame lamps have you got now?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Quite a few. Some of which are in a stack of unrolled panels.

[@duncste01]

@@bigclivedotcom they have to be used in some future project.

[@tncorgi92]

Clive, it would be cool if you and the Manx Beard Club could review some holiday decorations or snacks.

[@bigclivedotcom]

We've just recorded a video about Canadian candy which will be released soon. Not considered the festive treats, but it's a good idea.

[@mikenco]

@@bigclivedotcom M&S do a MInce Pie Liquor, it's about 6 quid in a gold bottle. The ingrediants are 'odd'.. it lists 'alcohol' as an ingredient, rather than whiskey or brandy etc,, check it out.

[@seannot-telling9806]

Paul Drake why should they have to pick? Both at the same time and if we get a little drink also it could get really FUN. Still you onto something I think.

[@seannot-telling9806]

@@bigclivedotcom How about some Christmas candy and some liquid refreshments. Maybe something red and something green.

[@greenaum]

@@mikenco The "alcohol" will be something like mass-produced corn alcohol. They ferment it in giant vats and use it for all the various "liquors", alcopops, novelty weird flavoured stuff. Itself, it's fairly flavourless but will get you pissed. It's a bit crap, really, all this booze that tastes like fizzy pop. When I were a lad we had Cabbage and Dogshit Flavour MD:20/20. You could get one in every colour of the evil rainbow, off-orange, bilious green, somewhat suspicious cyan, etc. And they were all fucking awful. You had to EARN getting pissed back then. We didn't even have 3 litre white cider tramp fuel. Anyway... mince pies are horrible. And that suspiciously cheap liquor is probably just E666 Mince Pie Flavouring mixed with the corn booze. .

[@TheMonsterTutorials]

This is slightly unrelated to the video, but, would you recommend any UK mains power meters?

[@coxfuture]

Hey Clive, I fix phones and I have at least 200 old iPhone batteries taking up space. I wonder if you'd have any use for them, or any ideas for a project with tons and tons of flat lithium cells?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Tempting as it is, I'm not sure shipping them would be a good idea.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Faffy Waffle Put them in those empty "100000mAh" power banks and sell locally with an honest sticker saying "xxxx mAh power bank with replaceable battery, upgradable up xxxxx mAh", then have a different basket with large hobby batteries that can be popped in (use the standard hobby connector where installing the recycled batteries). Sell both products at a nice profit margin.

[@johnnythefixer]

I bought three bulbs like this, and they don't flicker until you turn them off and on three times, which isn't ideal. Does anyone know if it's possible to alter the circuitry in any way to make it default to flicker every time ?

[@drkastenbrot]

since its hidden in the software on that chip, the easiest way would probably be to add a microcontroller inbetween switch and circuitry to simulate a triple push.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Try it on a different circuit. They should normally reset to the flicker effect when turned off for several seconds, but if the lights are controlled by an active switch like a light sensor or PIR detector then the slight leakage current may stop the processor from resetting.

[@terrandroid]

gasoline and a lighter will do the trick

[@thomasneal9291]

frankly, there's enough plastic in that so you probably just need the lighter.

[@AdricM]

sounds like an odd choice the manufacturer made. might check its circuit it may have mode select resistor pads.

[@myfastcars]

Excellent tear down and explanation.

[@louistournas120]

Hey Big Clive, did you have a video about that cigarette lighter that uses a high voltage and creates a spark by ionizing air? I saw one at the store for 20$.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Search my videos for arc lighter.

[@bostedtap8399]

Great reverse engineering Clive, nice inventive concept, rear of the PCB has a nice pattern.

[@Fly0High]

Like I'd ever thumb down a Big Clive video.

[@Flashy7]

it seems that there are many different clones on the cheap market. I have some without memory of the last mode (I have to turn on-off 3 times every time for a flame) and without the orientation sensor and they look quite bad: you can count the LEDs from even a distance through the white plastic diffusor (must be too close to the LEDs). I have a very different one with nicer flame look, it has a memory of the last mode and the upside down sensor. nothing is perfect: it makes a noise in the 2 useless modes (constant and breathing).

[@AlexLaw_Qld]

A soldering iron/heat gun can be used to frighten the noisemaker into silence...

[@jackwalker6239]

Hi Clive, I recently brought a new phone and I have noticed when the screen is off it is charging at 9v and when the screen is on it charges at 5v both at around 1.5-2A I thought this was bit strange as I thought the USB standard is 5v. I took a video of this if you want me to send it you for your take on what is going on. Thanks so much for all your entertaining videos. Jack

[@bigclivedotcom]

Modern fast charges negotiate with the phone and can put out a higher voltage to allow much higher power to be transferred over a standard USB cable at the same current. It then gets converted back down in the phone to lower voltage at higher current.

[@jackwalker6239]

@@bigclivedotcom Thank you so much Clive, learned something new today.

[@TheSod70]

13 second advert. No worries, they don't bother me. Gives me time to make sure I have a drink. ;)

[@SianaGearz]

I think liquid metal switches can be made with Ga/In alloys rather than mercury now. Probably just a matter of cost, i mean these rattly ball things are essentially free, liquid alloys cost actual considerable money.

[@SianaGearz]

I don't see a stripe on the diode. Which would make it not a diode. Maybe it's a special purpose dummy component in diode casing?

[@TheNathanNS]

I know sweet fuck all about electronics but something about Clive's videos are really interesting, even if I don't understand half of what he's on about lmao.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

I didn't get an ad but KZbin seems to do that on Chromecast....

[@mrcorndog625]

Where can I get this? Can't you leave a link in the description?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Search eBay for a local or Chinese seller.

[@cabe_bedlam]

LARP safe(er) flaming staff here I come!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

Gregg Bond Dang, same here! :D Definietly need to make a fire staff.

[@ThetaReactor]

I've been meaning to stick some of these in some decorative lanterns for proper D&D mood-lighting. I'm glad they've got battery-powered models now, so I won't have to buy the plug-in version and DIY the battery pack.

[@hughbrackett343]

I used to put tiki torches along the front of my camp but I became wary of drunken Dagorhirm crashing into them. Also I couldn't in good conscience leave them unattended although I observed others who did. These lights ought to do the trick.

[@DahVoozel]

I definitly am going to make a gem light based off his last video.

[@z1z2z3z4z1z2]

another staff to add to the pile.. going to work on one of those lightning staffs ( plasma ball)

[@lifeoftekki]

I have a rather tiny Voltcraft Multimeter lying around , with a not working Display. I want to send it to you if you want. The Batteries are new but there is something wrong.

[@Lfreeman98]

I’ve watched loads of your videos Clive & it’s the first time I remember hearing you ask people to subscribe - thanks for that, I think by now most people know how KZbin works!! (I am subscribed BTW!).

[@bigclivedotcom]

I just sometimes wonder if it does encourage people to check if they're subscribed. I prefer to let people make the decision themselves.

[@rolandkeith5322]

A review on a MPPT solar controller would be good

[@wonsnot]

Don't feel bad about reminding folks that made it all the way to the end to subscribe. They obviously like the kind of thing you're doing over here if they did make it to the end and aren't subscribed they probably thought they were or intended to anyway. As for those that are already subscribed, its nothing too big or off-putting. If you started begging for subs at the beginning, then you're asking for trouble.

[@der.Schtefan]

I wonder how cheap MEMS tilt ICs are nowadays, probably cents.

[@GamingAmbienceLive]

Adam savage loves these did you see his video of it it was about a month ago?

[@juncusbufonius]

Turned out nice again