What's inside LED light up shoes? And can they be fixed?

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@AstAMoore
@AstAMoore 8 жыл бұрын
“Hey, Bobby, come out and play!” “I can’t.” “How come?” “Still charging my sneakers.”
@merryweather3713
@merryweather3713 6 жыл бұрын
**loud bang followed by a few muffled screams** "....Bobby?"
@dennis8196
@dennis8196 5 жыл бұрын
Sneakers? Spot the yankee
@mcomiskey7
@mcomiskey7 5 жыл бұрын
*Dang it Bobby!*
@Ultrazaubererger
@Ultrazaubererger 8 жыл бұрын
Those shoes turn any nail you might step on into a landmine :D
@GadgetAddict
@GadgetAddict 8 жыл бұрын
I bet these a joy to take through an airport.
@UberAlphaSirus
@UberAlphaSirus 8 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking
@punker4Real
@punker4Real 8 жыл бұрын
it's a bomb lol "every one freaks out over leds"
@Davedarko
@Davedarko 8 жыл бұрын
as long as they're not in your luggage but in your carry on then you should be fine...
@leonkernan
@leonkernan 8 жыл бұрын
Wires hanging out and cheap Chinese lithium batteries. Why would anyone be worried? :-P
@FlynnClubbaire
@FlynnClubbaire 8 жыл бұрын
I once took a double-gasket pressure sealed aluminum tube with a raspberry pi, arduino, and several power circuits wired together inside through TSA... Twice. The guards in portland wanted to know what it was for. The guards in Texas didn't even seem to notice it. Tbh as long as you put these shoes in the tray, they aren't gonna give a rat's behind.
@KJW648
@KJW648 8 жыл бұрын
I was shouting at the screen, "charge it first", once you found the connect unplug hahahah !
@TrinomCZ
@TrinomCZ 8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, exactly.
@Densor001
@Densor001 7 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. But it wouldn't be a Clive video if he didn't pull it totally apart !
@SalsAhiNama
@SalsAhiNama 6 жыл бұрын
Me too and when he started demolishing the charge connector..........
@morrisontimothy227
@morrisontimothy227 6 жыл бұрын
He could have havked it after charging
@FaSMaN
@FaSMaN 8 жыл бұрын
Somehow I dont like the idea of walking on Lithium batteries :/
@RMJ1984
@RMJ1984 8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that seems both dangerous and stupid. Makes you wonder what would happen if one of them blew. I imagine that would burn and hurt your foot quite badly.
@FaSMaN
@FaSMaN 8 жыл бұрын
RMJ1984 it would also be interesting to see if it has proper protection for things like overvoltage ...
@captainatt
@captainatt 8 жыл бұрын
RMJ1984 I read this in Clive's voice
@just5444
@just5444 8 жыл бұрын
HPZeta it's like putting note 7 under your feet while charging
@tinplategeek1058
@tinplategeek1058 8 жыл бұрын
Just stand on a nail or tack and watch the fireworks.
@jfan4reva
@jfan4reva 7 жыл бұрын
The thing I like about this channel is that Big Clive is not detered by the fact that there are "no user serviceable parts inside" (warning printed on the back of US TV sets after they stopped making them with vacuum tubes.)
@pshq
@pshq 8 жыл бұрын
So did it turn green when charging finished?
@nrdesign1991
@nrdesign1991 8 жыл бұрын
I was about to ask that too
@mbirth
@mbirth 8 жыл бұрын
Asking the important questions!
@25566
@25566 8 жыл бұрын
it probably just turned off, most chinatown stuff does once it's charged.
@jaydownlink
@jaydownlink 8 жыл бұрын
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@kill-nine
@kill-nine 7 жыл бұрын
Have a pair. They just go dark after charging. Also, they don't light at all unless given like a 2A charger.
@Stjaernljus
@Stjaernljus 8 жыл бұрын
LED shoes from the 90s were either powered by caps that got charged when walking/running or a coin cell that only lit up while moving.
@nrdesign1991
@nrdesign1991 8 жыл бұрын
I had rubber boots with a red LED at the back, when I was young. One broke pretty quickly (the LED module and the boot itself). So go buy shoes that are shoes, not mediocre shoes combined with mediocre gadgetry.
@StephenButlerOne
@StephenButlerOne 8 жыл бұрын
SandyStarchild la gear lights forgot about them
@chrispychickin
@chrispychickin 8 жыл бұрын
Wow, if that lithium cell is 100% sealed in resin, I could see it becoming a mini foot-grenade in the case of major failure... The nice thing about pouch cells is the whole, not venting when they get a gas buildup, just puffing up. With a plastic shell, i could see some poor bugger with a very sore foot
@daviddavidson2357
@daviddavidson2357 3 жыл бұрын
I remember having a pair of these when I was really young, about 4 or so. I kind of remember taking it to bits when I'd grown out of it. Had no idea how it worked at the time but I remember there being a tube with a metal ball bearing that must have acted as a switch to turn them on for a set period of time. They must have had really long life batteries, I don't recall them running out of power. I doubt they had some charging system built in like the jerk off flashlights.
@Coolkeys2009
@Coolkeys2009 8 жыл бұрын
Clive many people seem concerned about the safety of the batteries, can you show that they have nothing to worry about under various fault conditions :-)
@johnhill5745
@johnhill5745 8 жыл бұрын
Hello Clive,I have just had to repair one of my grandsons led boots.It was dead so I checked the charging socket first and found that the internal connections were destroyed,It was a bit of a task de soldering and re soldering the tiny micro USB socket but I managed to do it. Enjoy your channel thanks.
@genghisbunny
@genghisbunny 8 жыл бұрын
I watched this, saying to myself, "when's Clive going to destroy a shoe?" Always destructive exploration. Thanks for sharing, Clive!
@skullcabin7444
@skullcabin7444 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Clive, my kids shoes stopped lighting (exact same brand as you de-constructed) and I found a loose connection...I never would have guessed what the problem was. Loose wire strikes again!
@twizz420
@twizz420 2 жыл бұрын
7:16 I've soldered together the wires from MANY of my headphones when the jack broke or whatever and all you have to do to deal with that fiber in the middle is just burn it with a lighter (not too long or you'll cook the copper) and then you can solder it really easy.
@tyvole2387
@tyvole2387 8 жыл бұрын
Disappointed you didn't replace that nasty RGB LED strip with warm white...
@Lazarus7000
@Lazarus7000 8 жыл бұрын
Ah, I love servicing non-serviceable assemblies. Although, at the end of the day, there's far more serviceability in these shoes than I was expecting. The ones I had as a kid just had a little clear plastic module that slotted into the heels and contained a lithium coin cell. No charging facilities; it was a primary cell and you were intended to replace it when it wore down. Also at least once the module squitted out the back of the shoe when I was running down the corridor.
@vthrash7832
@vthrash7832 8 жыл бұрын
I never had shoes with light as a kid. god i wanted so much... Probably i will buy them now, you know, because of reasons
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 жыл бұрын
Well now you can buy them AND hack them.
@kill-nine
@kill-nine 8 жыл бұрын
They are available on Amazon. $35-40 or so in adult sizes. I just ordered a pair for the wife and me for our evening dog walks. Just search "adult led shoes". I'm not greedy/assholeish enough to link using my affiliate ID but Clive totally could.
@rickybobby8563
@rickybobby8563 3 жыл бұрын
@@kill-nine I was thinking of using them maybe for a rave. But I guess you are right, using them to walk the dog would be much more ideal..
@joinedupjon
@joinedupjon 8 жыл бұрын
Too bad they don't fit - that purple e-pipe needs a suitable pair of slippers to go with it.
@dtvking
@dtvking 8 жыл бұрын
Only size 15! You are so lucky. I'm a UK 16-17 and YES i do have Big....................................................................................................................Shoe boxes. Nice investigation video Clive, thanks
@mcomiskey7
@mcomiskey7 5 жыл бұрын
Shoe boxes? More like sofa boxes
@revmpandora
@revmpandora 8 жыл бұрын
Holy crap! You wear a size 15(16)?!?! Daaaaamn! So can we start calling you TripodClive instead of Bigclive?
@WaltonPete
@WaltonPete 8 жыл бұрын
revmpandora That's size 15 shoe NOT a 15 inch penis! 😉
@AppleAssassin
@AppleAssassin 8 жыл бұрын
Well you know what they say about big feet
@mr_b_hhc
@mr_b_hhc 8 жыл бұрын
yep, big shoes
@downtroddendave860
@downtroddendave860 8 жыл бұрын
I can imagine various utilitarian uses for something that added this functionality to existing shoes... maybe something like a large elastic band that you can slip over your shoes... better night jogging/walking awareness... handsfree lighting for dark places, etc... can't say that I would want that option on my shoes all the time though.
@Durrdalus
@Durrdalus 8 жыл бұрын
I once found a small module on the street with lithium coin cell & tilt switch. It was possible to access it by starting to cut away on the resin with snips (creating a crack leads to another crack leads to another crack, .....), so you may be able to access the circuit board if you really wanted.
@CatheteriZedEYE
@CatheteriZedEYE 8 жыл бұрын
i can picture you now clive, walking down the street at night, lighting up the floor with these disco shoes
@CatheteriZedEYE
@CatheteriZedEYE 8 жыл бұрын
re-cap this video, *MAKING A PAIR OF DIY RGB-LED FLIP FLOPS*
@Bou_Diran
@Bou_Diran 3 жыл бұрын
honestly these shoes look kinda silly but in a fun way at the same time, i actually would kind of like to get my hands on some. not sure if BC ever intended people to be using his old vids like the home shopping network but i'm glad for it regardless~ lol
@Seegalgalguntijak
@Seegalgalguntijak 8 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, we had shoes with red LEDs that had no battery, but flashed all the time from walking, so they had some kind of energy harvesting device in them.
@Seegalgalguntijak
@Seegalgalguntijak 8 жыл бұрын
mharris1270 Cool, more than 25 years later! I remember not knowing how they work, but I don't think I tried opening them up to look...I don't even know where they went, I guess my parents may have given them to some other kid, after my feet outgrew them...? No idea! ;)
@Seegalgalguntijak
@Seegalgalguntijak 8 жыл бұрын
+ELECTRONTHORP2 Yes, something like that. As far as I can remember, I never got the chance to find out what it was.
@mickkennedy1344
@mickkennedy1344 8 жыл бұрын
LED shoes are great if you're doing best man at a friend's wedding -- or going in to see your bank manager about a loan.
@BassGuitarGuy128
@BassGuitarGuy128 7 жыл бұрын
Or visiting your girlfriend's parents
@mickkennedy1344
@mickkennedy1344 7 жыл бұрын
Or going to a funeral.
@varikvalefor
@varikvalefor 7 жыл бұрын
WhiteHawk “Mmmmm... we'll call you with our final decision.” “But look at me shoes!” “Oh my god you're hired.”
@Ragnarok540
@Ragnarok540 5 жыл бұрын
Use them for first dates, is quite the conversation starter.
@bitemykrank1970
@bitemykrank1970 8 жыл бұрын
The perfect iShoe for the iSheep of the world.........glad to see Clive treating them as they deserve. If they began AT THE FACTORY with the scissor move, it would save time and effort.
@zx8401ztv
@zx8401ztv 8 жыл бұрын
Size 15 feet!!, do you have shoes made at the local canoe shop? lol.
@Feeshgmod
@Feeshgmod 8 жыл бұрын
zx8401ztv i went into a nike shop the other day, had UK size 22!!! They were like clown shoes
@zx8401ztv
@zx8401ztv 8 жыл бұрын
Wow 22, ive never known anyone with feet that big. You are sure it wasnt a canoe shop :-D
@Davedarko
@Davedarko 8 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he never heard that one before...
@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ
@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ 7 жыл бұрын
EU 45 size
@Aussie50
@Aussie50 7 жыл бұрын
lol
@iamdarkyoshi
@iamdarkyoshi 8 жыл бұрын
Clive, you should try using these modules as a "theatre prop led driver" by using single color leds on each of the three RGB channels, and then doing two sets of them, spreading channel A and B randomly around the prop. I feel like it would make quite a neat effect
@JohnDoe-qx3zs
@JohnDoe-qx3zs 8 жыл бұрын
Like the disco stick used by an American performer early in her career?
@AmbroseClarke
@AmbroseClarke 8 жыл бұрын
Hi - I took apart one of those kids shoes that blink for a bit after each step - the module looked very similar - a circuit potted in clear resin just like yours - it wasn't rechargable though and just had a large button cell. I guess the resin package makes it water proof etc.
@68MalKontent
@68MalKontent 8 жыл бұрын
I just love your sense of humour and speaking style :)
@TheRealSasquatch
@TheRealSasquatch 8 жыл бұрын
Now induce a catastrophic failure in the battery module .......
@ketas
@ketas 7 жыл бұрын
i'm pissing myself in laughter here... "so basically you're walking on lithium battery, not sure that's good idea though"
@eddpearson
@eddpearson 8 жыл бұрын
I got a similar pair of shoes last Christmas, not the same, but they look like they use the same potted circuitry, down to the same battery. Mine have done the same thing, one working one not, though with the module swapped between shoes it still doesn't charge. Time to explore more!
@michaelparker2449
@michaelparker2449 8 жыл бұрын
With that sealed in battery this is the first time I've ever seen a foot grenade.
@tubybubi
@tubybubi 8 жыл бұрын
If you step on a nail it will make a good foot warmer. ;-)
@jo2lovid
@jo2lovid 8 жыл бұрын
A foot long flame thrower.
@ReneSchickbauer
@ReneSchickbauer 7 жыл бұрын
If you kick someones butt, you get a nice special effect. Ok yeah, you might need a new foot, but some people will do ANYTHING just to get into one of these "Fails of the Week" videos...
@ketas
@ketas 4 жыл бұрын
natural shoe bomber
@stefantrethan
@stefantrethan 8 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a pacemaker that module. I'm sure that same factory in china could pump out pacemakers for $1 ;-)
@PeterOekvist
@PeterOekvist 8 жыл бұрын
stefantrethan "pump out pacemakers..." Funny guy....
@jusb1066
@jusb1066 8 жыл бұрын
yeah but few would work, some would blow up, most would last 5 minutes and need a micro usb charger....not very practical!
@EscapeMCP
@EscapeMCP 7 жыл бұрын
But think of the savings to the NHS budget, not only in the cost of pacemakers, but also due to the fact that dead people don't need CAT scans, ECGs or looking after in general. :)
@BassGuitarGuy128
@BassGuitarGuy128 7 жыл бұрын
What would that pacemaker look like? A used car battery with a strap so you can hang it around your neck?
@hinzster
@hinzster 8 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing here, but I immediately thought "that's going to get pulled out too far" once I saw that little charging module. Even before you discovered the disconnected connector. A dot of glue and it wouldn't have been a problem anymore, and the adhesive metal strip behind the circuit board confirmed it: They really don't put too much thought into those cheap electronic gadgets...
@AlexLTDLX
@AlexLTDLX 8 жыл бұрын
A trick I learned to deal with the wire with string (or fibers) in it - usually they're a low temp polymer, so going over the stripped ends with a lighter balls up/melts the string, then it's easy to pull off. HTH.
@rebernard82
@rebernard82 8 жыл бұрын
when all else fails, force prevails. I love this channel
@kiefac
@kiefac 8 жыл бұрын
Welcome to ElectricAlert, I'm your host Killer Clivestar, leeeets get roooooiiiight into the shoes!
@varikvalefor
@varikvalefor 7 жыл бұрын
No. Just no.
@beefcakeandgravy
@beefcakeandgravy 8 жыл бұрын
I would have tried charging it first before ripping apart. I'm guessing that being unplugged from the charge supply wire, it's never been charged from the factory and when you connected it back up to the loose connector It may well have worked if you plugged it in
@olemissjim
@olemissjim 8 жыл бұрын
George Smith my thought as well. "The charge ports unplugged... "
@EgoEimai
@EgoEimai 8 жыл бұрын
Very interesting your way to search the problem out, bravo!!
@chrisknipe2213
@chrisknipe2213 3 жыл бұрын
Earned myself 8 stitches in my leg just two weeks ago from a blade like that Clive! Never towards yourself! Shit happens, and quickly :)
@rolls_8798
@rolls_8798 4 жыл бұрын
(through no fault of your own) this may have been one of the most un-satisfying videos I have ever seen. I am left with a deep-rooted sense of discomfort and it is not going away
@iankime2755
@iankime2755 8 жыл бұрын
Did the LED's change colour once the cell fully charged? That would be a neat idea.
@carlg5838
@carlg5838 8 жыл бұрын
The reason for the stainless-ish steel tape can be explained in the notorious failure of early efforts at wrapping flexible LED strips around the soles of shoes - repeated flexing of the rubberized sole occurs while walking. The flexing is concentrated at the front of the heel area, which tends to bend the copper circuit board in a "forbidden" direction, since it's only meant to be bent in one axis. The thin copper traces become work hardened and brittle at those kink points until they break and the shoe only partially lights. Laminating the LED strip with the steel strip in a tube of heat shrink thus keeps the assembly much more rigid in the vulnerable direction. Gives it a fighting chance for them to last more than a few days in active use!
@4clive
@4clive 7 жыл бұрын
Remind me not to send my LED sneakers to you for repair.
@bluephreakr
@bluephreakr 8 жыл бұрын
What confounds me is why they used such a chunky connector, and why it isn't just soldered in place. They also could had made it a 6-pin connector at the end and during manufacturer, fed the cables for everything so it is at the rear of the heel, but installed opposite so the 6-pin connector going to the battery and board was at the very back to ensure the device didn't become disconnected. The only bit of weirdness to plan against would be at the back of the foot, which some foam padding fastened in with hook-and-loop would had aided. As for the battery, it and the board being heavily conformal-coated with battery and board in a custom-made metal box would had done, _or_ battery in the heel, board in the rear would had done just as well instead of resin-coating it. Matter of fact, the board being on a piece of flexible motherboard, then coated with a flexible conformal spray at the other side would resolve the weirdness, as well custom-made "Waterproof" flex ribbon connectors would had worked.Where the strip ends, have a flex connector folded 180 to go toward the board, then folded over and across the board to the connector would had done just as well.
@godzil42
@godzil42 8 жыл бұрын
@Clive: could you at some point make a video on your LED tester? I have one and found the printed value to be slighly incorrect (I've made a comment about that on another of your video, but I'm not sure you get notified of that)
@ThatGuy-nv2wo
@ThatGuy-nv2wo 8 жыл бұрын
This looks similar to the WS2812b (or one of the similar ones like the ws2811). You can buy strips of them quite cheaply online, and they're extremely easy to control(if you can manage the timings, which isn't too hard)
@turtlewmiller
@turtlewmiller 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, i have the same issue! Im from the States and my size is 14 1/2 (its really hard to find half sizes so i usally go 15, and my feet are really wide, usally 4E is about right.
@djorgen104
@djorgen104 8 жыл бұрын
If anyone ever offers up another pair of LED or other "electronic" shoes, remember to remove the laces so the shoe can be opened fully and the tongue folded under and stuffed in the toe. The steel tape is for rigidity. The tape appears to be standing on its edge inside an impact absorbing structure. The steel tape would prevent the much softer LED tape and vinyl sleeve from curling or twisting in the channel.
@locouk
@locouk 8 жыл бұрын
I was hoping for an overvolt of the battery's, just to see if the resin contained the magic smoke any better than e-ciggies. 😂⚡️🔥💥
@macey75
@macey75 8 жыл бұрын
How can I be the man, when you are the man Clive???!!!!!!!!!
@luisfelipelarotta5962
@luisfelipelarotta5962 8 жыл бұрын
Clive, to solder that annoying type of cable you can lit the end and burn the textile fibres to leave the copper alone. Be ready to blow and extinguish the flame before it advances too much and starts to burn the plastic insulation.
@han_pritcher
@han_pritcher 8 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if you could've just undone the laces to get better access, but I suspect these shoes are so cheap the laces are just for show.
@brandonsmith1198
@brandonsmith1198 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I found where I am. I just looked at for, but these are challengeable shoes, right? What do they make chargeable shoes from sketchers?
@user-hq2fy5cs1k
@user-hq2fy5cs1k 8 жыл бұрын
2:02 take off the shoe lase , it will make it easyer, and also i know for a fact that some of these shoes have little clips to hols the plastic sole to the shoe whit a small whater prof ring around them
@ZXGuesser
@ZXGuesser 8 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they use that stiffer LED tape just to make it easier to shove into the sole without getting twisted
@DarkPuIse
@DarkPuIse 7 жыл бұрын
As someone who is also a American 16, Clive, I feel your pain. Keep them toes safe, I know you smash them everywhere just like I do.
@thephantom1492
@thephantom1492 8 жыл бұрын
My guess: they pulled a bit too hard while assembling, which caused the wire to disconnect. Since they don't fully charge the battery it just drained itself bellow cutoff voltage OR have a shipping mode (where it disable the circuit until it see a charge for a little bit), which explain why the initial shorting didn't worked. As for the metal tape, I would assume it is acting as an heat spreader, to avoid making hot spot due to the resistor and leds heat... ... and yes, walking on the battery make me uneasy. I would have expected it to be in the sole of the foot, not at the heel. However, the heel is less flexing, so might be a compromise between flexing and pressure. Pressure may be easier to handle. Or they just don't care.
@vehasmaa
@vehasmaa 8 жыл бұрын
That lithium battery might give new meaning running like fire under your heels...
@felixcat4346
@felixcat4346 8 жыл бұрын
Or if the battery leaks, like when wearing a wire tap, a "Hot Foot".
@wdavem
@wdavem 8 жыл бұрын
I want to see that lithium cell go off in the sealed compound! In 1992 or so there were the LA Lights shoes. Somewhere I have the potted light module, it is in fact several lithium button cells, very minimal circuitry (some sort of pulse one shot thing) and a REAL mercury switch! The shoes themselves were far higher quality. I'm not sure if even such a simple light module was cheap enough to go into the flimsier shoes available in those days - I'll guess it was mostly a name brand gimmick initially and I think they cost somewhere between $45 to $70 dollars.
@NathonDalton
@NathonDalton 8 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking the "steel-like" metal is there to keep the LED strip from twisting around its axis so that the light shines in toward the middle of the shoe or down toward the ground, etc. Maybe it's a sort of spring steel and returns to its shape, keeping it facing outwards.
@hermaeus_jackson
@hermaeus_jackson 8 жыл бұрын
Boy are those Yeezys?
@-eMpTy-
@-eMpTy- 8 жыл бұрын
jesusHERCULESchrist yea, they took the design of the yeezys 350 boost and made it 10x times worse lol
@dorfschmidt4833
@dorfschmidt4833 8 жыл бұрын
Those are Cheezys. :)
@StarmanDX
@StarmanDX 8 жыл бұрын
He's had his own shoe since like 2009, first Nike now Adidas (he has some of his own and he did one with Louis Vuitton), he's doin' pretty well
@SummonSector
@SummonSector 8 жыл бұрын
they are the new 2017 yeezys man shhhh
@leedaniel2002
@leedaniel2002 8 жыл бұрын
jesusHERCULESchrist these comment sections are always a weird mixed bag
@fmjkevlar
@fmjkevlar 7 жыл бұрын
Clive! you was having a bad day there wasn't ya😂 if you reconnected that supply cable you could have fixed those shoes, sent them back almost untouched 🤔 I was covering my eyes when you was checking the draw from the charge cable whilst unplugged hehe
@hotdogs1026
@hotdogs1026 8 жыл бұрын
You should live stream! I can imagine the chat lol
@jlucasound
@jlucasound 5 жыл бұрын
At first I thought, "Queer Shoes". By the time you were cutting them up, I felt bad. They look pretty cool. They look like they could be comfortable, as well as flashy. The Lithium in the sole. Don't get them wet and don't wear them on construction sites or use them to go climbing on a pile of old, broken pallets. Wear them to the night club. The uppers look so "meshy". Flexible. I think what got me was the resemblance of the green to the Kawasaki green I remember as a youth. I felt sorry for that shoe. :-(
@imeakdo7
@imeakdo7 8 жыл бұрын
also the ones that sell here have the port inside a waterproof pocket and the button is on a separate waterproof pocket. they also have 3 instedad of 2 led's
@grayanderson6840
@grayanderson6840 8 жыл бұрын
I am very surprised you didn't check the battery first. I think you would need 3 of these strips for each of your shoes :-) Size 15 wow!! I thought I had big feet at size 12.
@foxtrotkilomike
@foxtrotkilomike 8 жыл бұрын
Change the LEDs to warm white
@mopeer1
@mopeer1 8 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this teardown!
@x9x9x9x9x9
@x9x9x9x9x9 8 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried thinning down the tip of the isesamo? I "sharpen" mine then knock off the edge/burr so it wont slice flex/ribbon cables but since its thinner it gets into things easier.
@cindyw6091
@cindyw6091 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!! Pulled up the bottom and it was a loose connector!!!
@jek__
@jek__ 5 жыл бұрын
Out of every machine I've ever seen you take a look at, I think these are the least likely thing I'd ever personally use. That includes ridiculous things like the toaster-in-a-bathtub water heater, and the hot dog electric chair
@LordCarpenter
@LordCarpenter 8 жыл бұрын
The entire module is potted to create a hard shell to absorb the impact while it's being stood on, as well as to create plenty of hard shrapnel when the battery explodes. ;)
@Element_Finland
@Element_Finland 8 жыл бұрын
1:57 "... unreasonable force might actually have to be really unreasonable foreskin"
@ast_rsk
@ast_rsk 8 жыл бұрын
Size 16!? Holy shit. Big is an understatement.
@EscapeMCP
@EscapeMCP 7 жыл бұрын
I assume that the metal strip doesn't have the sticky removed as that would restrict the LED tape from being bent. The way they have done it allows the metal to slide when turning corners. Perhaps they ordered the sticky stuff and only after sticking it on (on a few test trainers) did they realize this was an issue and left it unstuck??
@jakp8777
@jakp8777 8 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid the la gear light up shoes were really popular and they had a mercury switch inside to activate the lights.
@a.j.w.hackert3894
@a.j.w.hackert3894 8 жыл бұрын
Me too, BigClive! I'm a diminutive American 13 wide and I am usually dissapointed when shoe-shopping!
@asmolbean9300
@asmolbean9300 4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else wish they lived with Clive and just came downstairs randomly at 1am to see him take apart neon shoes with LEDs in several times smaller than his shoe size and just silently stare at him in wonder and then go and eat grated cheese from the fridge.
@ParedCheese
@ParedCheese 8 жыл бұрын
Did the LEDs go green at full charge?
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 жыл бұрын
No. The red just faded out.
@mickadams4471
@mickadams4471 3 жыл бұрын
Working in the City of London, our office security called me as they had X-rayed a delivery for our company, which looked suspicious. It was a pair of shoes with batteries and wires……this was shortly after the ‘shoe bomber’ incident and the X-ray images looked very similar. After the explosives unit came, they deemed it safe and the embarrassed recipient realised the implications, but her ‘hen do’ outfit was safe…..😀
@litefoot900
@litefoot900 8 жыл бұрын
That's a fair pair of brothel creepers there Clive. Some nerve it would take to stote around in them.
@villeheikkila3027
@villeheikkila3027 8 жыл бұрын
Could you take an ASMO charger to bits? It's a premium-priced charger that's supposedly fire safe and doesn't use any electricity when stuff is not plugged into it. I'd like to know if it's worth the high asking price or if it's or just a load of crap.
@ekojar3047
@ekojar3047 4 жыл бұрын
My mom got a pair of these from a garage sale. When I first plugged them in, I saw a faint red light flash but now nothing. Do they require hitting the button a certain number of times or something. The connectors are all together. I've even tried swapping the battery modules. These where a little easier to get to than your new ones. I'm guessing whoever had them before saw your video and fixed them at one point. The batteries do look swollen. Also I havent stripped any wires yet on it. Everything is still intact. I dont see any burnt looking wires or chips.
@ditheraith
@ditheraith 8 жыл бұрын
16:26 The force is strong with this one.
@Ingvehetland
@Ingvehetland 8 жыл бұрын
@7:28 you said their hard to solder and do something with. isn't taking a lighter quickly over the wires a solution to remove the fabric so that you're only left with wire at the tip, then solder it? -That's what i've been doing when reparing my headphones :)
@jayherde0
@jayherde0 8 жыл бұрын
"do something with" = terminate
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 жыл бұрын
I did that when I soldered the wires back onto the charger PCB. It works well.
@Ingvehetland
@Ingvehetland 8 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom Ah ok. thank you for awnsering :) keep up the good work, i look forward to every new video of yours! :)
@ItsJustJoeC
@ItsJustJoeC 8 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain. I wear an american size 15 and trying to find anything that isn't a basketball shoe is near impossible. Also I am not totally sold on the idea of walking on a battery like that.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 жыл бұрын
Certainly not if you have a size and weight to match the foot size.
@ItsJustJoeC
@ItsJustJoeC 8 жыл бұрын
And then some, unfortunately. Not to mention many of the environments I end up in often have very pointy things laying around and I would prefer to keep my feet from looking like the before part of an athletes foot commercial.
@ajohnson153
@ajohnson153 8 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom Especially since these probably came from a seller on DHGate or some other marketplace for goods from China.
@joinedupjon
@joinedupjon 8 жыл бұрын
The effect would be a lot nicer imo if they'd manage to incorporate the thick diffuser layer from the light strip in the previous teardown... unfortunately that dayglow tigerstripe pattern just wouldn't go with my new wardrobe from Dickies spring collection. I'm thinking it might be quite a feasible mod on a DrMartens sole - the stuff they're made of 'sort of' has the right optical characteristics and is already quite thick - pretty sure you can weld that stuff with a hot knife blade. (joinedup inc assumes no liability for shoe modding accidents)
@alba-atheist
@alba-atheist 8 жыл бұрын
A these controllers are well potted and presumably water proof, would they be any good for outside projects? Also how much could they drive?
@-Gadget-
@-Gadget- 6 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom: 9:38 Crank up the voltage and current and test for maximum smoke 👍👍👍
@samdavies1752
@samdavies1752 8 жыл бұрын
How tall are you big Clive? Size 15?!
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 8 жыл бұрын
6' 4"
@atreyu558855
@atreyu558855 8 жыл бұрын
my thougt aswell! jeez i have big feet but they are a puny 11`5 against the giant that is Bigclive! XD
@GGigabiteM
@GGigabiteM 8 жыл бұрын
+bigclivedotcom I can relate to your annoyance of finding footwear. I wear size 12(US) shoes, but I have duck feet so they need to be 12-3E which are neigh impossible to find. The last time I went shopping for shoes, I went to five different stores and only found one pair after looking at probably 50 pairs of shoes that fits. Shoes are so hard to find for me that at various points in time, I had to wear extra large snow boots everywhere because they were the only things that would fit properly :|
@DavidLeeKersey
@DavidLeeKersey 8 жыл бұрын
I got kind of the opposite problem. I wear a size 16(US) but are really narrow in the arch (about a B-C) and wide in the toe (D-E). So it's either fit good in the arch and pinching my toes or room for my toes and slopping around in the arch. If you're in the US check out Zappos they have a big selection of wide shoes. Mail order is the way to go for weird feet I haven't bought shoes in a store in 15 years.
@RexDorchester
@RexDorchester 7 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom You always seem to answer this question haha, makes a guy seem inadequate! And I'm 6'1"!
@KentuckyRanger
@KentuckyRanger 7 жыл бұрын
@ 3:56 It reminds me of the neurostimulator they implanted in my back, LOL! Or maybe a pacemaker with bad wiring...
@zx8401ztv
@zx8401ztv 8 жыл бұрын
LOL oh clive, so funny :-D :-D Dont let the blokes in the white coats see this video, "Just stand still while we help you put this special jacket on." :-D. Oh well, im sure you can find a use for the leds :-)
@moycakes
@moycakes 8 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain with footwear, I wear a US 15.5 wide, often US 16 with some brands, even big and tall stores lack shoes my size.
@reacey
@reacey 2 жыл бұрын
Clive, I'd love your input on this, I had an intermittent backlight issue on an "edge lit" smart TV, when looking at the leds, some of them (9 out of about 120) weren't testing as a diode, although they still lit up when I tested them with my power supply, I've seen leds fail before where they don't emmit light but still act as a diode, and so the rest of the backlight array stays lit, but I've never seen leds fail in a way where they don't act as a diode but still emmit light, is this possible? Or am I doing something wrong somehow? This particular TV also had a blown 2.2ohm smd resistor on the power supply board near the led driver ic and the ic itself had a tiny hole in it.
@bigclivedotcom
@bigclivedotcom 2 жыл бұрын
When gallium nitride LEDs fail they often develop a rogue parallel resistance that will mess with the diode test on a meter.
@reacey
@reacey 2 жыл бұрын
@@bigclivedotcom so they had definatly failed. That's good to know I replaced them. Along with the resistor and ic and the tellies still running touch wood. Thanks for clearing this up, I hate it when I don't understand something.
@MattTester
@MattTester 8 жыл бұрын
Someone posted a link on a forum I use to a powerbank that looks the same as the Poundland and Poundworld ones but being sold by Citroen with their logo on for £18. I'd love to know what the internals are like compared to the £1 units but I don't think I'm brave enough to buy one!
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