If it's worth doing it's worth doing with excess. Having bought 100 of the wireless LEDs before discovering that the exciter coil already came with some, I got the urge to see if I could get them all to light at once.
Note that some of the LEDs are hacked. It's the ones with double LEDs if you can spot them. I removed the tiny PCB and soldered two LEDs in inverse parallel directly to the inductor.
The ambient current of the unloaded coil was 80mA. With 110 LEDs in it the current went up to 200mA.
There's a longer video showing the circuitry and some oscilloscope waveforms here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3K0suY1Dc

110 wireless leds in one exciter coil, let's see if it can light them all power on light off. Yes, it lights them all, there's a link to a longer technical video. In the description, if you want a bit more information.

14 thoughts on “110 wireless leds in one coil”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars volvo09 says:

    Then you bump the table and 1/2 of them fall over.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Craig Jensen says:

    Lame. Do 100,000.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jord says:

    If Clive doesn't do it then who will?

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars RS says:

    Clive Tesla 😉

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Blethen says:

    Do you have a link to the LEDs or are you just using the ones that came with the coil? Ordered mine yesterday. Love this.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars g0hjq says:

    Short and to the point!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Simon Hopkins says:

    Made me think about a kaleidoscope!

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dave Seddon says:

    Ha! I played it at .25 speed just to get value for money!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jim Williams says:

    I'm surprised you didn't create a number in the coloured dots, although I am colour blind so maybe you did 🙂

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Josh Myer says:

    A+ use of shorts, I appreciate your making it an on-ramp to a real video.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Stimpel says:

    feckin shorts, feckin youtube lol

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Miller says:

    Crikey – this must be the shortest YT video ever – yet still more interesting than many 10 times the length!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tony Weavers says:

    Damn, that was fast!

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wolfie RARAR says:

    Sweet, cheers Clive

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