Making a simple mains led decorative lamp.
I've now added this as a project on my website at http://www.bigclive.com/diyled.htm It's basically a super simple mains powered decorative…
Cracking the ice on leds.
This is a technique called cracking the ice where an standard lensed LED has the end of its resin case…
Simple flicker led candle hack.
Very simple swap of the lurid yellow flickering LED in an LED candle to a static warm white LED. Or…
Deadly chinese plug adapter.
A common adapter supplied with many ebay products from China that has quite a few design flaws. This exciting device…
Different g9 base led lamp teardown.
Teardown of a short fat little G9 base LED lamp. Typical capacitive dropper circuitry, but some devious (dubious) techniques to…
Check out my smokin’ pink ring.
This is a teardown and circuit analysis of a small USB powered floating water atomiser. when you sit it in…
Poundland led table lamp teardown.
Internal analysis of a cheapo Poundland (a UK dollar store) adjustable LED table light. It's nice that it uses 3…
2 watt led lamp teardown.
Yet another Chinese ebay lamp gets taken to bits. This one is kinda neat because it is a fairly minimalist…
Teardown of a g9 led lamp.
This is a cute little LED lamp bought from China via ebay. Contrary to the listings 3W rating it is…
Deadly led lamps from china on ebay.
Just a couple of the wide range of LED lamps openly sold on ebay that have deliberately exposed solder connections…