Triple 5 K subscribers. Congrats Clive you've won a timer.

@bostedtap8399

4 жыл бұрын

The only timer!. Brilliant 😂

@ethanpschwartz

4 жыл бұрын

I thought you meant he had 15k subscribers and did NOT get that joke. I need to go to bed.

@johnfrancisdoe1563

4 жыл бұрын

Martin Muehlhaeuser Another K and he'll get two for the price of one.

@roberthousedorfii1743

4 жыл бұрын

You MUST CT scan a 555 timer IC and ASMR it to decent music. Nobody Does It Better.....

@londonnight937

4 жыл бұрын

@@ethanpschwartz Me too, it's 12:37AM here :l

Clive back home and full of ginger beer, the world is again at peace and ready for hacking LEDs.

@JamesAllmond

4 жыл бұрын

And on the 2nd try, hack the correct one! I am still laughing...

@ronniepirtlejr2606

4 жыл бұрын

Big Clive I think you have a buzz going! :-)

@TheLoxxxton

4 жыл бұрын

I have no idea what Clive is talking about but I know what is saying!! Does that make sense? I would for sure hire him to rewire my house. 'Clive just do you think is best' happy to pay to leave him to it.

@TheLoxxxton

4 жыл бұрын

Just don't make my house look like Edinburgh tattoo!!

@iancymraeg7388

4 жыл бұрын

Fortified ginger beer..

Nice to see that the practice of measuring flux in pauls is spreading

Pifco (described as "UK housewares and personal care", I suppose the latter is the vibrator department) was bought by an American company, Salton Inc. in 2001. Salton changed their name to Russell Hobbs Inc (they acquired that British brand at the same time they bought Pifco) in 2009, and were bought by Spectrum Brands (which was originally Rayovac) in 2010. So it hasn't really been a British company in nearly twenty years... (though it appears to still be registered in the UK.)

Glad to see your hands are recovered.

@harriehausenman8623

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Wish you the (dermal) best!

@robertgaines-tulsa

4 жыл бұрын

Till NEXT TIME! Buuhuahahahaaa! At least, he doesn't deliberately stick his fingers in a 7kV television flyback transformer like Shango066 does. "That tingled my bottom!" No, that's Svengoolie...

I love your idea of a party, vibrators and fairy lights! Just what you need on a dark and stormy night.

Louis isn’t a repair channel anymore. It’s a NYC real estate channel!

@bdf2718

4 жыл бұрын

And a cat channel.

@jhsevs

4 жыл бұрын

Can't stand the man, to be honest. This is probably an unpopular opinion

@simonmason7765

4 жыл бұрын

@@jhsevs Louis roseman is an obnoxious prick and has allot to hide I have had personal experience with the little turd and he is simply just not to be trusted.

@georgeprout42

4 жыл бұрын

Louis may come across as obnoxious to some, but I felt dirty for installing QT back in the day (work PC, never at home). Apple policy is the issue, and he's doing a great job for pointing out how they rip customers off.

@annverleedowns311

4 жыл бұрын

That's the little fellow that can't keep a women because he's a vegan and wont eat tuna , and to busy shopping for real estate for cats

I like how you can tell about the effects of the dark & stormy on Clive, especially in the second half of the video. He even messes up by picking the wrong lamp to modify and somehow gets super hyped up. Really fun video. Welcome back home Clive, missed you shenanegans!

"Open electronics and alcohol! It's a splendid combination!" And yet- you still shock yourself less than Electroboom, who does this stuff sober. ;) Maybe if he had a couple stiff drinks... (=D

@georgeprout42

4 жыл бұрын

Mehdi knows exactly what he's doing, sorry not sorry 😉

@Zipppyart

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgeprout42 he does. Sometimes I wish he would actually get serious with his content, but he's very entertaining so I don't really care

@The2Coolest2

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zipppyart He had a series where he was serious but he stopped :(

@jakmak1199

4 жыл бұрын

@@The2Coolest2 A serious series... seriously ? 😬

Welcome back home. Your hands healed nicely! 👍🏻

Oh, how I have missed this type of videos. Excellent video, sir! Made my morning way better!

Ah Pifco... brings back memories from the 1970s and cheap, very cheap, torches and battery powered fans

I liked the older design of Poundland lamps. I've had a few (3w) in use for the last couple of years, and none of them have failed. Excellent value.

Clive could you do a video talking more about apparent power factor / power factor and the implications of new smart meters? I've been holding off from having one installed, and want to know what knew charging schemes they might enable negatives / positives etc. And how much there in the interest of consumers v providers.

@23RaySan

4 жыл бұрын

for a standard home installation you get billed for active power in most countries. You are billed for KWh, not for KVAh. A smart meter probably doesnt change anything on that

@alexatkin

4 жыл бұрын

As consumers it allows you to see what you are using. We rely on ours to tell when our oven reaches temperature. For providers it avoids needing to send someone to read the meter and let's them see what actual load you are putting on the grid (apparent power) vs what you are actually using. Also gives them a clear picture of exactly who us using what and where which could potentially help target where to put micro generation sites. Its unclear if they will ever switch to billing by apparent power but it means they could which is the worry.

@23RaySan

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexatkin i would understand it somehow if the electricity companies would billing their customers for apparent power. sure, you get nothing out of it, but on the other hand, the electricity company has to burn something to "compensate" for the phase offset. if you power, say for example an oldschool lightbulb, with an efficiency with say 10%, you have also to pay for the whole power consumtion of the bulb, not just for the light you get out of it. simmilar principle applys to apparant power...just saying luckily out appliances are getting better and better and modern SMPS come with real good PFCs

@Mark1024MAK

4 жыл бұрын

beingatliberty - the so called advantages of so called “smart” meters are oversold. Yes, you can monitor your electricity consumption. But after a couple of weeks, most people will get bored of this. And if you already switch off devices and appliances, it will *NOT* save you any money whatsoever. It also won’t save you any money if you are too lazy to switch off devices and appliances. The first generation of “smart” meters often will no longer work as smart meters if you change your electricity supply company (at least in the mainland U.K.). The second generation smart meters are supposed to be better in this regard, but it’s too early to tell. The cheapest electricity deals are often from electricity supply companies that don’t require smart meters. Smart meters are not free, the money for the smart meter programme comes from charging bill payers more. How good is the data security? With smart meters transmitting consumption data, at some point enterprising criminals are going to figure out that you can tell if no one is at home using smart meter data... The national grid already has a very good understanding of the mainland U.K. power requirements, so I’m not sure smart meter data is going to make any significant difference in this regard. I strongly recommend instead of wasting time on a smart meter, instead look at turning off unnecessary electrical devices and appliances. And when you need to buy replacements, look at the efficiency figures. Also cheap items may not last as long as better quality items. So also take into account lifespan and quality.

@steverpcb

4 жыл бұрын

This video explains it kzread.info/dash/bejne/ineou7CHdNbSes4.html

Glad to have you back home Clive!

Back at the bench, stormy and fun. Saw those lamps last week-end. Now I will get some for playing.

Great to see you back at the bench Clive!

Kudos, Clive. And extra kudos for the ElectroBoom reference!

🎵 Clive wears his sun glasses at night so he can So he can Watch things as he tests LED lights🎵

@FarWesternGarrison

4 жыл бұрын

perfect!

@knightmarex13

4 жыл бұрын

Has a nice ring to it

@mlight6275

4 жыл бұрын

wot is choon ?

@ConorNoakes

4 жыл бұрын

Corey Hart - Sandstorm ;)

Vibrators and Fairy Lights is, incidentally, the name of my upcoming band.

@jakmak1199

4 жыл бұрын

Buzzcocks?.... Oh, that's taken too.

@mcomiskey7

3 жыл бұрын

That's ironically the name wrote on my first comunion tape.

Thanks Clive, nice poundland screwdriver set, worth every penny. Off down in the morning to get some lamps.

I think that around the 20 minute mark Big Clive really gives into the Dark and Stormy. It's great!

Vibrators and fairy lights to make a party...you have totally made my day, Clive!

Clive, I love your LED videos sir!!

I have 2,5kg of lead based solder stashed away. Multicore brand. Smells so good! I think that it'll last the rest of my life, if i use it for repairs. Maybe when it starts running out, i'll switch to lead free for new homebrew projects so i can work on lead based products with lead based solder.

Congratulations on the 555k subscribers

I've been looking for an equivalent bulb in our Dollar Stores. Good hackage!

Clive your on one tonight brilliant keep the good work up

I really enjoy these hack videos. Good times. Cheers from kansas. Tungtangulation as AvE would say.

aaahh...pifco the patron god of bicycle lights !!!

@stevewatts3502

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, torches. Dildos and fairy lights?.. Scarey childhood Clive musta had!

@MrDuncl

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevewatts3502 and hairdryers, As for vibrators, he means "Massagers" just like the Hitachi Magic Wand :-)

"That is so unprofessional... Welcome home" Thank you. I've never been happier.

According to WikiPedia: "The Pifco brand is no longer used by Russell Hobbs, but was licensed for use by KB (Import and Export) Ltd in 2007 who went on to market a range of electrical items under the brand, from LED Christmas lights and lighting to heating and cooling appliances."

This was great! Thank you Big Clive!

Love this type of vid Clive.

Funny, I was just repairing an LED bulb as this appeared in my subscription feed. In the end I couldn't remove any good LED's from the donor board without breaking them so I've just shorted the blown one out, the string now see's an extra 15mA so goodness knows how long my hack will last. I'm hoping my liberal application of thermal paste will balance it out!

"Open electric connections and alcohol, splendid combination" BigClive 2019

@alberttyong

4 жыл бұрын

ntm, high voltage :3

@alberttyong

4 жыл бұрын

ntm, high voltage :3

@alberttyong

4 жыл бұрын

ntm, high voltage :3

As one who's read some of the scientific papers covering dendrite formation in lead-free solders, I have to say I was surprised when I first learned about this phenomenon. Tin is an all-around weird metal.

could measure it in place, or go with the destructive method... Destructive it is! (have a thumbs up for the destructive method :))

I do envy Clive's finger dexterity. I used to be that skilled with a soldering iron. Maybe it's the ginger beer...

In the US military we fluoroscope all circuitry to eliminate lead free soldered components. After analysis of equipment failure using lead free solder we discovered whiskers growing on the solder which shorted out components.

Nice video Clive! Thanks!

It's always the ppbus or a capsitter! Mr Clinton wants some Greenies! 😄

@nickmiller9537

4 жыл бұрын

Drop it like its G3 hot

thanks! Love your video's and this one was very nice!

7:14 "Fairly lights and vibrators, that sounds like a complete party." 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍 Clive, comments like that are part of why I love you so much.

Twisted Resistor! Great band!

@bostedtap8399

4 жыл бұрын

Gold or Silver?, Record!. Like it.

Hi this video looks crystal clear FAB : )

Great video Big Clive

I have a couple night lights running off a 12 volt power supply that runs a bunch of gadgets around the house. I use a 12V LED strip but put an extra LED in series, so it's much dimmer. Overdriving & overheating LEDs is a sure way to reduce their lifespan.

Thank you, Big Clive, for your fun discoveries and analysis. I suggest you examine a 4-ft LED tube which replaces a fluorescentube. Called "Plug-n-Play", you install it just as a fluorescentube and it gets its power from the ballast. Would love to know how it does that. (Recently I installed 4-ft. LED tubes which allow removal of the ballast and simple rewiring of the fixture to connect 120 VAC to the correct end of the LED tubes.

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

I looked at a Samsung tube recently.

I like slightly intoxicated Clive XD

Yay for the return of Clive's naked hands! 👐👍👏

I got my dad a 5W poundland lamp of that style when you first featured them (to replace a cfl in a landing light that was doing the annoying flickering thing cfls on long wires do) and it's still working fine in an open lampshade... if you want to investigate a LED lamp with problems I've had 2 threepacks of 6W Hyundai branded bulbs (BC and ES) from poundstretcher that all got very hot and died in a week or two in open lightshades. (iirc paid £3.99 per 3pack) I even tried sticking heatsink fins made of beercan aluminium to the outside to see if it would help (didn't seem to make any difference - the fins got hot but the bulb died anyway)

Brilliant, I really enjoyed this video! I've only just found your channel and look forward to watching more. Now, where's my soldering iron and bottle of gin :)

I had a pifco battery powered clothes brush. I bought it at a jumble sale when I was a kid, no idea why.

Great hack Thanks for sharing 👍😀

Loved it!

Pisco is Chilean/Peruvian grape booze. And it's delicious (:

Not enough flux :'(

@PsiQ

4 жыл бұрын

no fluxs were given during this vijeo . femtopauls of flux.

Pifco! Not heard of that brand since I was a kid.

@blackcountryme

4 жыл бұрын

The bike lamps on my Raleigh chopper were pifco.

@navexelac2

4 жыл бұрын

@@blackcountryme Thanks to Clive i bought a PIFCO Photoelectric smoke alarm. So Clive must have forgot to mention they make those too.

@tasherratt

4 жыл бұрын

@@blackcountryme Pifco and Raleigh were both part of the same company for a while.

@blackcountryme

4 жыл бұрын

@@tasherratt could be, buy the big Eveready lights were better... But Eveready batteries (card and paper wrapped) were rubbish.

7:74 - "fairy light and vibrators, that sounds like a complete party" bigclive 2019

Can't wait to see the look on the electric providers faces when they switch everyone over to apparent power. There's going to be lots of houses that won't register on their systems. Thanks Clive.

As ever superb!

Hey Clive my poundland has just had delivery of their Xmas led light range, there are some interesting designs.

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the stock coming over to the local store.

Pifco used to be a good quality budget electronics company. I remember they made good kettles, toasters, irons and excellent radios many years ago

Welcome home !!

Can you use a resending service? There has to be one in the UK that will serve IOM specifically,

I'm a sucker for *really bright* E27 LEDs. In 2015 I bought an Osram 17W bulb which supposedly had around 1500lm (or even more, I don't remember). But now it has failed me, after the warranty has run out and after an estimated run time of 15.000h, so about what they predicted. Still, this isn't very satisfying, because an LED wouldn't need to fail. In this case, it is the power supply that failed (at least I suppose so), since the LED starts flickering as a whole. However, it is so badly glued shut that there is no hope of opening it in a nondestructive way in order to repair it or replace the shoddy component. But the worst thing about it is that I haven't even learned from that experience, and I bought another Osram bulb, because they are the brightest with their 21.5W and around 2400lm. While my Phillips LED from 2011 (back then it was an 11W high power LED with around 800lm, ridiculous for today's standards, but it made good light) still works no problem. Oh well, I've also bought some new 18.5W Phillips LEDs with 2100lm. If they happen to last longer than the Osram does, then it'll be Phillips all the way from that point on. If the postage to the isle of man weren't as expensive as it is, I'd send the dead or dying Osram LED to you for a post mortem, Clive. But since it is a one way street anyways (as in: once you're in, you'll never get it back together), I'm not even sure it would be worth it.

Big clive has a buzz going! :P

Holy crap those postage storys suck. Hope you manage to find away to get around your postage woes Clive. Great video as always

In your enlarged photo. The LED at the 5 o'clock position is mounted in the center of a pad and there is a circuit break the the Gap at the 6 o'clock position. But very good video. I think I'll stop by the dollar store and see what's in stock.

Hi Clive welcome home.

I bought a couple of the 5W PIFCO LED bulbs shortly after Poundland dropped that style for the Electrek brand in favour of the later ones, one cold white, one warm, nether of which I liked so they're languishing somewhere in my bedroom in a box of junk... :P

Thanks Clive.

Wow, 𝑷𝒊𝒇𝒄𝒐, now there's a blast fae the past . Every other thing in my hoos was from 𝑷𝒊𝒇𝒄𝒐. Thanks for the memory. Lol.

@edgeeffect

4 жыл бұрын

Extra points for the italics!

@MurrayMints

4 жыл бұрын

@@edgeeffect 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼

good tear down. Does anyone know when PhotonicInduction is coming back. I like BigClive's vids for sanity and PhotonicInduction's vids for insanity :-)

@sleeptyper

4 жыл бұрын

KZread as the single income source hasn't worked for a long time now and setting up sidebusinesses is a hassle that many hobby Tubers don't want to go trough, so they have just stopped creating content because it's time, effort and money wasted. Andy is one of them, apparently - which is no surprise considering all the things happening in his life.

@crimsonhalo13

4 жыл бұрын

Kreosan from Russia is filling in for Photonicinduction while he's away. Look up his channel, they just released a vid this week involving an 8kw Tesla coil and an electrified watermelon helmet.

@ben--

4 жыл бұрын

About 4 months ago, he said that he was coming back with a new series, however, nothing has come from that so far. kzread.infocommunity

That LED at 5:00 is gonna be dim with the tracks as you laid out. ;-)

Spot on Clive Cheers

I have a vintage pifco roadside lamp it looks like a dalek the doctor had fun with and turned it into a lamp

Someones had their coffee (or stronger) this evening "Not 100% sure" - Clives super accurate anyway :-)

An always dark wedding lense well allow you to look directly at the leds,I have found if you make a way for it to hover over them is the best that way you can still see what you are doing

thanks Clive. RLTW!!

Welcome home, Clive. Also, yes, lead-free solder IS rubbish, and it's not juicy at all!

Can you show how you would measure the power factor of such a low current device? Would you use a 'scope and some sort of shunt? And an isolation transformer, perhaps?

I mostly use lead free solder. It's cheaper and works well enough. You have to use rosin-core and thin lead-free solder

i definitely like Clive + Dark&Stormy

I have a pifco electric bicycle bell. And a faulty quilt from Asda.

Ah, Pifco, I’m amazed they’re still going, even if it is just cheap tat now.

Hi Clive another great upload 😄. Just going back to the 6000LM LED Deformable Radar Garage Light Motion Activated Ceiling Lamp, can you recommend a driver to make it dimmable - or is it not possible? 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

It's tricky finding proper dimmable drivers. Some are sold as dimmable when they aren't.

Landfill is normally acidic, so the metallic lead will become lead salts soon enough.

@Tim_Small

4 жыл бұрын

I keep some 60/40 in my tool kit, but I only use it for tricky repairs on crowded boards and the like...

I think I'm going to get some of those 5W jobbies (in the Glasgow sense) to mess about with.

@edgeeffect

4 жыл бұрын

Huh huh huh huh.... "jobbie"

@gordonlawrence4749

4 жыл бұрын

@@edgeeffect was wondering how long it would take to get a laugh.

I think this fluid that Clive is imbibing may be more alcoholic than usual as it seems it may have caused a rare Clive error on his printed blow up! The LED at 5 oclock seems to have both its contacts in the same board island. I may have to ask for the recipe. lol but seriously awesome addictive video as usual. Al

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

You're right. It was quite a hard board to trace out because of the white finish and large island-style tracks.

Nice video, glad to see that those LEDs are hackable to control the intensity and increase lifespan :) On the subject of apparent power, do you know which (if any) electricity companies are charging their customers for apparent power?

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Some states in the USA are charging for apparent power.

@TheSpotify95

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigclivedotcom So no energy supplier in the UK as far as you know? Also I just saw those PIFCO bulbs in Poundland today, but the power equivalence is quite low. They only rate the 5W bulb as equivalent to 32W, and the 3W is equivalent to 23W... Why don't they sell a 60W or 100W equivalent?

Firstly, welcome back home Clive... It would be somewhat _wrong_ (tm) to use anything less than a 400V capacitor for the small electrolytic. One of the common failure modes of an LED is to fail open circuit (and keep in mind there's around 60 LEDs in series). In this case, there is almost no load on the output of the bridge rectifier leading to 340V+ across this capacitor. (If it were a 250V capacitor, the magic smoke would leak out in a hurry) Edit: Also, when you 'hacked' a lamp by replacing the capacitor with resistors, you're power factor would still be rather ordinary. The LEDs would not START to conduct until they reach their forward voltage and with such a SMALL smoothing capacitor at the bridge output, I would expect the PF would remain fairly poor

Pifco brand is owned by RKW Ltd, who also own Tower, Elgento and Akai brands. I'd guess the bulbs have always been supplied by them, previously as a Poundland brand but now Pifco, probably just a contract change.

The Louis Rossmann Mention... He is quite the celebrity.

Really like this mod. And I have resistors.

"Always change you leads from amps to voltage setting" Yeh guess who kept forgetting and blowing up fuses!

@Cornz38

4 жыл бұрын

If you own a Fluke meter, you soon remember as the fuses are about 20quid a set!!

@AJB2K3

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cornz38 yeh, found that out after blowing 3 and the boss telling me!

Clive is slowly turning into Kenny Everet, All in the best possible taste

Watchout for the PIFCO ladyVibe in a poundland near you soon?

Normal service has been resumed, flickering HOPI, pink lamp holder, and MDF :)