The biggest LED COB panel yet! Voltage/current tests.

Ғылым және технология

This thing is huge and bright. It runs at around 12V, but has no integrated current regulation. This means that if connected directly in a vehicle application the current could be very high and the voltage drop across the supply cable will be a factor in limiting the current.
The circuitry is basically four large parallel arrays of LEDs connected in series to make up roughly 12V combined forward voltage. I did some voltage/current tests as follows:-
10V 7mA 70mW
10.5V 170mA 1.8W
11V 790mA 8.7W
11.5V 1.72A 19.8W
12V 2.85A 34W
12.5V 4.2A 52W
12.8V 5.2A 66W Current Limit of bench supply.
As you can see form the voltage to current ratio the current increases significantly with a small voltage change.
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  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke6 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing to think how LED lighting has evolved in the past 15 years, from large lumps of layered PCBs filled with 5mm or 3mm white LEDs, to flat panels of LEDs like these pumping out 70 Watts of light, it's impressive... :D

  • @tncorgi92

    @tncorgi92

    6 жыл бұрын

    30 years ago I was playing with components in my Grandfather's workshop, making random circuits, and he always told me to take it easy on the red LEDs because they were so expensive. Like a dollar apiece or something. These days we just throw crap away unless we absolutely need to save it for something.

  • @mathuetax

    @mathuetax

    6 жыл бұрын

    I guess what amazes me is the sheer light output. The first LEDs I played with (surplus HP and Monsanto) were only useful as indicator/pilot lights where there wasn't a lot of bright ambient light.

  • @hippopotamus86

    @hippopotamus86

    6 жыл бұрын

    70 watts of heat and light.

  • @gordonlawrence4749

    @gordonlawrence4749

    6 жыл бұрын

    I was working on LED's for Arrow Electronics (distributor) for lighting back in the 90's. Back then they were really rubbish but it was obvious the tech was on the way.

  • @Tekwyzard

    @Tekwyzard

    6 жыл бұрын

    Similar here. When I was a kid 35 ish years ago, I treated myself to my first LED, a yellow one. Blue ones, white ones, and UV ones weren't even a glimpse in some mad scientists eye yet. Anyway, during one of my dangerous experiments involving a mains transformer, I ignorantly left out the current limiting resistor, and melted the poor thing. It actually stayed lit as the plastic melted, at least until the leads parted company anyway, then I got an electric shock from the dangerously bare mains side as I unplugged it in a panic, hahaha, bloody kids eh?? I doubt any modern LED would even get close to surviving that punishment. I was gutted though, that LED cost me a fortune, and I stupidly killed it. Was lesson learned though. I'm actually using some 30 ish year old red LEDs for a project at the moment, because the colour and brightness of modern ones is just wrong and not in keeping with the setting in which the equipment will be used. I love the colour of those old LEDs :-)

  • @fogllama
    @fogllama6 жыл бұрын

    I bought several of the smaller size Clive played with in a previous video. I am using a 555 timer based PWM to dim it, and a 6.8 ohm current limiting resistor. Been running it for hours and it is still running cool. Thank you Clive for finding and playing with these things.

  • @gorinator
    @gorinator6 жыл бұрын

    Just want to point out that your video descriptions are top notch. Normally the only suggestion of how the viewers could get something is an Amazon affiliate link, where we find an inflated price. Here we get the right ebay search, with the right filters already on, so that we can get the best possible deal. Thanks for looking out for us Clive.

  • @vicmiller7191
    @vicmiller71916 жыл бұрын

    I just love you fascination with lighting effects. A very neat panel indeed...Thanks for the Demo.

  • @fraaggl
    @fraaggl6 жыл бұрын

    Wohaou ! This one is my favorite COB for now on ! I bought two before the end of your awesome presentation !

  • @Rider19Ih
    @Rider19Ih6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude for making this video with the current testing and such. Been looking into these large COB panels for a project.

  • @LazerLord10
    @LazerLord106 жыл бұрын

    I really want to buy these, but I don't need any more of them. Time to start a new project, I guess.

  • @thomasmcdougall614

    @thomasmcdougall614

    6 жыл бұрын

    LazerLord10 make a grow light from them

  • @agvulpine

    @agvulpine

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thomas: Just peel off the phosphor?

  • @NGC1433

    @NGC1433

    6 жыл бұрын

    Use them as tiles in a bathroom...

  • @NineSun001

    @NineSun001

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly my thought. I soon have a new bench light :-D

  • @mikerhodes9198
    @mikerhodes91986 жыл бұрын

    Take it outside at night and fire it up. Let's see what it looks like.

  • @BergRD
    @BergRD6 жыл бұрын

    Nice! Got some of the smaller types you showed a video or 4 back. They work great and only 1 out of 6 had bad LED's on board but the light produced even at 12v is so overwhelming it's not even noticed. Good stuff and thanks!

  • @StefanHartmann-hartiberlin
    @StefanHartmann-hartiberlin6 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I must get this... great big COB element ! Many thanks for the info.

  • @JuanHerrero
    @JuanHerrero6 жыл бұрын

    I like the "dumb", no inbuilt regulation stuff. That way you can put exactly what you want, and run it with no loses with a "barely enough" power supply.

  • @-yeme-
    @-yeme-6 жыл бұрын

    0:30 almost all these ebay sellers are drop shippers. they hold no stock, they never even see any of the stuff they sell. they just list stuff on ebay and pass orders and payment, minus their cut, onto big warehousing and mailing services. thats why you see the same items with the same photos and identical descriptions listed by dozens of different sellers. you could pick any of those identical listings and no matter who you order from, it will come from the same place.

  • @mrgreenswelding2853

    @mrgreenswelding2853

    6 жыл бұрын

    yeme that would explain things.

  • @rodsofgod6863

    @rodsofgod6863

    6 жыл бұрын

    They all are drop shippers!!! All of them..

  • @Debbiebabe69

    @Debbiebabe69

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just read up about 'drop shippers' yesterday. I always assumed the term referred to people that do business by using services that drop their shipment rather than deliver, for example myhermes, but it in fact a completely different meaning - stockless middlemen that just redivert their orders to China.

  • @mrgreenswelding2853

    @mrgreenswelding2853

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just bought one from an Australian seller. It will still take over a weekto get here. Something that should take less than a week.

  • @gorinator

    @gorinator

    6 жыл бұрын

    For some context, it's still called 'drop shipping' if it isn't the entire business model. For instance, where I work we make custom building materials. We drop ship the installation hardware. This way the customer only has to make one order, gets exactly what they need, and doesn't have to pay to ship it twice.

  • @ImigrentfromMars
    @ImigrentfromMars11 ай бұрын

    THis just showed up and I can't believe it's been 5 years already, I bought some of these when you made this video,

  • @johnbrookbank2969
    @johnbrookbank29696 жыл бұрын

    New projects in future for sure ! Thanks for the great info !

  • @ryandrew8075
    @ryandrew80756 жыл бұрын

    Saturday mornings aren't complete without a Big Clive video

  • @furryearrapeuniverse324
    @furryearrapeuniverse3246 жыл бұрын

    Is it weird i find these videos oddly relaxing? Clive's soft voice and smooth lighting in the videos really make me relaxed.

  • @superbun277
    @superbun2776 жыл бұрын

    Warning: This video contains graphic scenes of LED array mutilation.

  • @condew6103

    @condew6103

    6 жыл бұрын

    The mutilation does make one cringe, but very good information that the panel is 4 regions of LEDs all in parallel, and then the regions in series for about 12v. I like the redundancy such that one or two LEDs failing open should not appreciably affect light output or longevity. Failing short would probably blow the LED off the board with 5A thru the bad chip. The one aspect of discrete or surface mount panels that I don't like losing is repairability, but if the panel can suffer some failure and keep going, that helps a lot.

  • @vaio232

    @vaio232

    5 жыл бұрын

    :(

  • @acmefixer1

    @acmefixer1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kind of a shame, ain't it!??!

  • @ianhill20101
    @ianhill201016 жыл бұрын

    Good effort for the destruction test. Very informative top guy.

  • @rodrickau
    @rodrickau5 жыл бұрын

    Sent you coffee, Great video presentation. Should be in all schools. Thanks.

  • @braeburnhilliard8340
    @braeburnhilliard83406 жыл бұрын

    That is pretty neat. It looks like it could be a lot of fun!

  • @ArifKamaruzaman
    @ArifKamaruzaman6 жыл бұрын

    Another cool-to-have LED on the shelf right there.

  • @agentbertram4769
    @agentbertram47696 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video Clive! I must away and order one of these!

  • @LongPlaysGames
    @LongPlaysGames6 жыл бұрын

    That thing is huge! I probably need one to light my work bench now :)

  • @4DRC_
    @4DRC_6 жыл бұрын

    In awe at the size of this lad.

  • @FerralVideo
    @FerralVideo5 жыл бұрын

    These work VERY well used on a three-cell Lithium battery pack. The full battery voltage is at the full drive voltage of the light. Then, as the battery runs down, the light will gradually dim, giving you a handy indication that your battery's running low. The LED cutoff is just above the safe minimum voltage of a 3-cell pack, so even if you set it and forget it, it shouldn't over-discharge. Only complication is that you may need some way to cool the panel at full power/full charge, until the battery runs down a little. Fortunately though, you have 12v right there if you wanted to connect a fan and heat sink system ....

  • @victorcrumvictor5665
    @victorcrumvictor56656 жыл бұрын

    nice video and Spectacular testing .. i love it

  • @tazz1669
    @tazz16696 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Clive another great video. Makes me want to tinker and get the son involved in soldering which is a very useful skill for mending broken stuff, I've fixed lots of stuff over the years sometimes just by resoldering a wire or 2 where most would just chuck it out and buy another. Feel I need to buy some project boards so I can get him away from his Xbox for a while.

  • @tncorgi92

    @tncorgi92

    6 жыл бұрын

    soldering is a good skill to have... I learned when I was a teenager and even though none of my jobs have been the type to require soldering skill, a situation always comes up where something is broken and someone says, "Does anyone here know how to solder?" You can be the one who saves the day and gets remembered when other opportunities arise.

  • @-yeme-

    @-yeme-

    6 жыл бұрын

    open his xbox and desolder a wire from something. too sneaky?

  • @tazz1669

    @tazz1669

    6 жыл бұрын

    yeme only if I wanted to die. Spoke to him today about it and he seems really keen. Result for dad I think, have ordered a few little boards to try out so hopefully my soldering skills are up to the task and he picks up this skill. I'll soon have him watching Big Clive with me :D

  • @ranger175a2w
    @ranger175a2w2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks from Texas Clive

  • @Elec-DIY
    @Elec-DIY6 жыл бұрын

    LEDs on the cob..., run!

  • @SpydersByte

    @SpydersByte

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad that, with 21 likes and 1 comment, at least 23 people understood this reference :D

  • @PrintingPerspective
    @PrintingPerspective6 жыл бұрын

    This LED look insane :) as I saw it, I immediately thought what kind a project I can make with it! ;D

  • @davelordy
    @davelordy3 жыл бұрын

    The colour temperature of these are around 6000K+ so they make good SAD lights.

  • @licensetodrive9930
    @licensetodrive99306 жыл бұрын

    YES! I have found my new front light for my ebike :D

  • @ReeceM69
    @ReeceM696 жыл бұрын

    Love the cob lights. Got them in my car

  • @javiertorres7970
    @javiertorres79705 жыл бұрын

    I bet you can make some amazing grow lights, Clive.

  • @6F6G
    @6F6G6 жыл бұрын

    For automotive applications this lamp would benefit from having a basic 2 transistor constant current regulator so the light output doesn't vary depending on whether or not the engine is running.

  • @fourzerofour7860
    @fourzerofour78606 жыл бұрын

    Woohoo. Big LED light!

  • @10p6
    @10p62 жыл бұрын

    Nice. I put two RGBW panels on my sound bar for graphic equalizer, and the specs says needed 76 watt PSU for each panel of 8 x 32 LED's for 256 LEDs per panel. Well 76 watts blinds you. In reality, even hidden behind speaker cloth, in daylight, the panel is perfectly visible at 2 watts per panel. The sound bar is on my channel if you want to see it.

  • @neville3151
    @neville31514 жыл бұрын

    While i enjoy watching you taking things to bits, very often i buy those items just to check them out for myself. Now i have a large drawer full of assorted little toys.

  • @Globetrottahh
    @Globetrottahh6 жыл бұрын

    Nice find!

  • @kimsleep4111
    @kimsleep41116 жыл бұрын

    Sit back, and enjoy..unfortunately kids, the only thing burnt today is Clives image sensor in his camera.

  • @maicod

    @maicod

    6 жыл бұрын

    or his eyes :(

  • @frankheijkamp3792
    @frankheijkamp37926 жыл бұрын

    That panel is indeed massive. Clive do you have any way of measuring the Color Rendering Index (CRI) of this thing?

  • @RWBHere
    @RWBHere6 жыл бұрын

    Very nice. Thanks BC.

  • @SeaJay_Oceans
    @SeaJay_Oceans5 жыл бұрын

    Looking forward to the 8.5" x 11" sized LED panel. :-) Light up the Night !

  • @sonajero25
    @sonajero255 жыл бұрын

    very interesting presentation

  • @gordonlawrence4749
    @gordonlawrence47496 жыл бұрын

    The first thing that went through my mind was bulkhead light. I'm pretty certain there are some cases roughly the right size for that. They would fit a small PSU too so you could feed them with say 36-48V reducing your feed current.

  • @ALAPINO
    @ALAPINO6 жыл бұрын

    Seems like a decent low profile light panel to build up from. Too bad the pads seem to be quite small.

  • @DigitalIP
    @DigitalIP3 жыл бұрын

    I use smaller 10w versions of these for Yard illumination using an AC-DC 60w 5amp power brick, they do very well for that. I also have 1 on my Tahoe as an extra Reverse/Illumination light connected to a cig lighter adapter.

  • @TheFlacker99
    @TheFlacker996 жыл бұрын

    I got 2 of those driverless led's at 100 watts each. Fantastic light, puts out a ton of heat though with a giant heatsink.

  • @AwsomeVids83
    @AwsomeVids836 жыл бұрын

    I think I'm going to buy one right now.

  • @meowcula
    @meowcula6 жыл бұрын

    "excuse me rambling about, i'm just experimenting" umm... that's one reason why I watch you :D

  • @ElmerFuddGun
    @ElmerFuddGun6 жыл бұрын

    12:35 - The current went up 10x when that section was shorted out. And that is with the reduced voltage... if it was being run with a higher voltage PS (not current regulated) the current would be very high and limited "by the wiring". Something to keep in mind when wiring it up.

  • @electronicsNmore
    @electronicsNmore6 жыл бұрын

    12 rows by 20 is 240 chips. Must have meant 28 across That's a huge COB. Great video!

  • @ArlenMoulton2

    @ArlenMoulton2

    3 жыл бұрын

    He said 28

  • @VanFlicke

    @VanFlicke

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had to listen three times and still didn’t hear 28. Shrug. No big deal

  • @TheComputec

    @TheComputec

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@VanFlicke I think he said 20 to begin with but in later comments, after he murdered the first LED he did say 28.

  • @sincerelyyours7538
    @sincerelyyours75385 жыл бұрын

    This looks like a really neat idea. Some vendors are now selling an impossibly small looking LED dimmer for this COB array that they say can handle up to 12A and deliver 244 watts(!) on 5-24V DC -- all for $2.75 delivered. Ooooookaaaaaay, lets see if it works. If it does the lamp should work well mounted on a homemade aluminum slide suspended underneath the top equipment shelf of my new electronics bench. Thanks, Clive!

  • @rafaeloda
    @rafaeloda6 жыл бұрын

    How the hell this channel wasn't in my life before?!?

  • @yiravarga
    @yiravarga6 жыл бұрын

    This is the first thing you’ve shown off that I’m really tempted to buy! It’s a very nice looking panel, and I got a lot of cool ideas for this. Could you do some more testing? Would it handle 300W for at least 200 milliseconds? Maybe 100W for 400 milliseconds? With heat sink of course, I never go without a heatsink.

  • @FryGuyNS
    @FryGuyNS6 жыл бұрын

    I got one 7" x 8.25" rated for 300 watts! WOW the light output! Needs a huge heatsink to run cool.

  • @funkybobblehat
    @funkybobblehat3 жыл бұрын

    Hello big Clive. Love your videos and in this one you mentioned that you would not run 70 Watts through this panel. I've just ordered one to play around with I was wondering what controller you might suggest 2 power one or more of these? What you need one controller per panel or could you get one controller to Power four or five of these. I am looking to keep temperatures down and figured this unit could help in that regard. Any help gratefully received. Regards

  • @jagboy69
    @jagboy696 жыл бұрын

    I think my welding table is about to get some new seriously bright lighting!

  • @GadgetBoy
    @GadgetBoy6 жыл бұрын

    I might have to get one of these to look at. I recently picked up a 1000x usb microscope. It's good enough to see the bond wires on the COBs.

  • @keaganknapp2237
    @keaganknapp22376 жыл бұрын

    There is a even higher power one on Ebay that I bought and it is rated at 200w and it is in the form of a large circle measuring about 160mm

  • @roninpawn
    @roninpawn6 жыл бұрын

    So Clive... Say you were to create a circuit that intentionally shorted out each section of the panel at timed intervals. Instant rave light?

  • @bigclivedotcom

    @bigclivedotcom

    6 жыл бұрын

    It would be easier to get some of these in different colours (when they become available) and have a flat fronted light with sequencing circuitry in it. Like a coloured strobe.

  • @danielczech560
    @danielczech5605 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up for your videos! I really enjoy watching them. I bought six smaller COB LED panels with each 50 watts to give my pepper plants a little boots of light for winter time. But they heat up quite fast and i got about 70°C after 7 minutes with one of them mounted to a passive cpu cooling unit. Could you make a video how to build a passive cooling unit for serveral of those in a row? I was thinking about some kind of aluminium plate.

  • @Chickey
    @Chickey6 жыл бұрын

    Have two of these, one turned up with a single bad LED another had a chunk out of it which was a shame but got my money back so hey oh shall use them for some new lights i've planned still.

  • @christopherames5552
    @christopherames55526 жыл бұрын

    Only Big Clive Exes can dislike his videos.

  • @Woermelon_cat
    @Woermelon_cat5 жыл бұрын

    Bought this based on this Video great buy!

  • @randymerrell7953
    @randymerrell79535 жыл бұрын

    What would I need and what would it take to use this LED as home lighting? Are there drivers you could connect to home circuitry and be able to use this LED cob?

  • @iamdarkyoshi
    @iamdarkyoshi6 жыл бұрын

    Your favourite 100w LEDs are being sold in COB form now, and they're perfectly even I got some for my garage, they haven't had any issues with dying rows or uneven leds after running them at 90w+ a day

  • @urugulu1656

    @urugulu1656

    6 жыл бұрын

    m.ebay.de/itm/COB-LED-Panel-Lampe-Spotlicht-10W-30W-50W-70W-100W-120x36-220X120-200x10mm-/263642714031?nav=SEARCH

  • @urugulu1656

    @urugulu1656

    6 жыл бұрын

    they are intrigingly cheap... less then 6 euros...

  • @MegaMetinMetin

    @MegaMetinMetin

    6 жыл бұрын

    Luke Den Hartog i find with leds they last forever but its the converter thats dies

  • @stinkycheese804

    @stinkycheese804

    6 жыл бұрын

    A "WHOLE" day? I've ran lots of 10W to 100W COB that lasted 100 hours before dies started dying... You're much better off running something like this at half power and that on a massive heatsink, or closer to 1/10th power if you prefer little to nothing heatsinking it.

  • @cnerde

    @cnerde

    6 жыл бұрын

    Meaning 90+w every day all day... derp.

  • @proyectosledar
    @proyectosledar6 жыл бұрын

    Woooow, I need that!!!

  • @AlkDarksniper

    @AlkDarksniper

    6 жыл бұрын

    Proyectos LED ¡En cuánto lo tengas, yo veré ese video! Saludos amigo. -Un seguidor fiel (aunque nunca comento) jajajaja

  • @eyeswideshut7732

    @eyeswideshut7732

    3 жыл бұрын

    what for, air traffic control? 🙂

  • @jorditribo94

    @jorditribo94

    3 жыл бұрын

    Saludos desde Bariloche!

  • @christopherames5552
    @christopherames55526 жыл бұрын

    Imagine going back in time late 1970's and you forget this board in you pocket.

  • @dirtrusty7228

    @dirtrusty7228

    5 жыл бұрын

    Instant butterfly effect. WWIII, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

  • @ast_rsk
    @ast_rsk6 жыл бұрын

    Well color me interested in this. What would it take to have a plug-in power supply with variable power for one (or two) of these?

  • @fastbike175
    @fastbike1756 жыл бұрын

    Thats a great pannel. How small could a regulator be built for this? Ive put together a rectifier for my wr450 lighting to be able to use LEDs. The single large pannel would make a very interesting replacement for the entire original headlight.

  • @1kreature
    @1kreature6 жыл бұрын

    As a public service you should expose more of the wiring on the board and discover if it's safe to drill holes anywhere. Mounting these to a proper heatsink with good/firm pressure will be hard since they have no holes in middle. If it is safe to drill holes in a few locations inbetween the LEDs it would help.

  • @MrBraffZachlin
    @MrBraffZachlin4 жыл бұрын

    i cannot find an efficiency such as lm/w on these or umol output etc so i could determine whether a series of these could replace the mid power led samsung strips and boards using the lm301b diodes.. do you happen to know if this could be used in a similar horticultural application like the mid power led diode strips ppl use from samsung and bridgelux? i realize these wont have quite the specs as the best samsung diode but i'd still be interested to know if say a panel of 10 of these could be used as a grow light for 1-2m^2

  • @andrewmodelly6432
    @andrewmodelly64325 жыл бұрын

    Is there a component which I can limited the voltage being put through one of these LED lights. I have one and want the light to run at the same brightness at 14 volts as 12 volts so I can use when the car is running and not running. I was thinking to use a potentiometer but would like something that would cap it at 12v without having to fiddle with it.

  • @Karl_Kampfwagen
    @Karl_Kampfwagen4 жыл бұрын

    Nice 👍 12 V solar array, to battery, to lighting, or a regulated 12 V supply would be BOSSSS

  • @budandbean1
    @budandbean16 жыл бұрын

    Where do you suppose you might be able to get a heat sink for something this size? If I could figure out a lens and a way to keep it from overheating, this really could be a great little fog light.

  • @mevk1
    @mevk17 ай бұрын

    hot clothing iron is vice of knowledge -great tip!

  • @pequodexpress
    @pequodexpress2 жыл бұрын

    I have to make a choice between variable voltage supplies. Should I go for a 3v-12v 10 amp regulated power supply or a 9v-24v 5 amp power supply?

  • @JimNichols
    @JimNichols5 жыл бұрын

    Ohhhhh that's is ferocious. ..

  • @AttilaAsztalos
    @AttilaAsztalos6 жыл бұрын

    When you went to 5 amps, I had to instinctively squint. Which is utterly ridiculous; I'm still looking only at my monitor's dialed-down backlight...

  • @leyasep5919

    @leyasep5919

    4 жыл бұрын

    that's true and it's a really fascinating psycho-visual behaviour : your brain "feels pain" from the contrast despite the lack of dangerous light. It makes you reconsider what pain is and how it works.

  • @thedillestpickle

    @thedillestpickle

    4 жыл бұрын

    I watch videos of people welding and it's the same thing. I've trained myself to know not to look at a welding arc and I instinctively look away.

  • @heyidiot

    @heyidiot

    4 жыл бұрын

    At five amps, Mr. Spock was freed of the parasite, but unfortunately, he is now quite blind.

  • @TheComputec
    @TheComputec3 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate you sacrificing the panel in the pursuit of knowledge. Just a shame the manufacturers don't share that info on a schematics document. After all they can hardly keep it a secret given the price !! If this was needed for a critical use, such as an emergency illuminated information display it is handy to know how much illumination you lose if one led were to die. Maybe they just don't want to spend the money getting the design info translated into English? or they simply don't care what happens to them once they leave the sweatshop... erm I mean factory !

  • @Dannyvirk
    @Dannyvirk5 жыл бұрын

    So glad you didn't 'TIG weld these', last time you did it was like watching someone beat up R2D2.

  • @willybee3056
    @willybee30566 жыл бұрын

    I heard that someone said, let there be light.. Was his first name Clive, too? Keep up the good work. ..

  • @infinixs4blue65
    @infinixs4blue654 жыл бұрын

    Hi, what are normal application of this, say light for the back of the car, etc?

  • @EFLO3D
    @EFLO3D4 жыл бұрын

    I bought four of these a while ago. Thinking of making a work light.

  • @dazzjh40
    @dazzjh406 жыл бұрын

    Yep got to get me one of those.

  • @ch2o2
    @ch2o24 жыл бұрын

    killer !

  • @_BangDroid_
    @_BangDroid_6 жыл бұрын

    Fricken nice

  • @Tadesan
    @Tadesan5 жыл бұрын

    This style of troubleshooting is just what surgeons do!

  • @ElmerFuddGun
    @ElmerFuddGun6 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up for the wilful destruction... errr... testing! ;-)

  • @DarronBirgenheier
    @DarronBirgenheier2 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to install some of these LED light panels in my 1986-vintage motorhome to replace the 12V bulb-type fixtures that are in there now. I will be living in the motorhome full-time (in a static position) starting later today (hopefully!). A few years ago, I installed one in a shipping container house that runs from a PV array and a 200AH 12V AGM battery. I have been VERY impressed by it. It's cheap, and has very "soft" output because of the large area. The motorhome has ONLY 12VDC lighting, so unless I plug in a bunch of extension cords and put up 120VAC lighting, 12VDC is all I can do. Given that I'll eventually be off-grid with the motorhome, 12VDC is actually an advantage for me, as I can run all my lights directly from the PV-charged battery in the RV, without needing to have an inverter on when only lighting is needed. These panels can be easily dimmed, too, so they use just a tiny amount of power to put out plenty of light for most situations, but crank up the knob and they get HELLA bright!

  • @bigclivedotcom

    @bigclivedotcom

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are loads of choices for 12V lighting these days. You can also convert just about any light to 12V.

  • @aloberdorf4579
    @aloberdorf45796 жыл бұрын

    is this viable as an off grid application for lighting ?

  • @nlSpiller
    @nlSpiller6 жыл бұрын

    Could you make this as a mobile work light with recycled 18650 cells? Would it be bright enough on 3s?

  • @deanwaters
    @deanwaters5 жыл бұрын

    Sweet i have the same measuring tape Wilkos 0.99P tape

  • @RifaiAL
    @RifaiAL5 жыл бұрын

    Can you help me build an RGB LED strip strobe light for use with my levitating water effect project? The color combination of RGB strobe LED's must be selectable.

  • @thekhiman1
    @thekhiman16 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, thanks for making this video. If I were to wire it directly to a 12v car battery, what would you recommend for a voltage regulator?

  • @bigclivedotcom

    @bigclivedotcom

    6 жыл бұрын

    Simplest thing would be a resistor. By the look of what's being sold online some seem to rely on cable resistance to limit the current.

  • @thedillestpickle

    @thedillestpickle

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bigclivedotcom Since you were attempting to destroy it anyways... It would have been interesting to see what unlimiting the current would have done. Does it have enough resistance to limit the current on it's own? I am looking at getting one of these for a solar application where energy will be limited. I don't want to use just a resistor which could use up half the power itself, so I will look further into how to limit the current.

  • @thedillestpickle

    @thedillestpickle

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mind you without spending more than 10 dollars if possible

  • @Debbiebabe69
    @Debbiebabe696 жыл бұрын

    What do these panels require as regards cooling?

  • @jasondoe2596
    @jasondoe25966 жыл бұрын

    Very very neat! I wonder if I could find some "warm white" ones with known specs... (emission spectrum & CCT). I think you shouldn't underestimate the accumulated heat though, especially if not directly heat-sinked (or actively air-cooled). I don't think over 1A is realistic for 24/7 usage, if you care about its longevity. Then again, this thing is quite cheap for what it is.

  • @marktaylor5282
    @marktaylor52825 жыл бұрын

    What kind of current limiting 12V led driver board do you recommend? I see some one ebay, but is there one you have expereince with that works well for beginners?

  • @bigclivedotcom

    @bigclivedotcom

    5 жыл бұрын

    It depends on how you're powering the panel.

  • @marktaylor5282

    @marktaylor5282

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@bigclivedotcom 3s or 4s battery pack with 18650 cells most of the time Or a 12V 6a AC transformer sometimes.

  • @LazyBunnyKiera
    @LazyBunnyKiera6 жыл бұрын

    Got any pictures of these things lighting up a back yard or something? Due to how thin it is, i could thing of quite a few uses for such a light.

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