I may or may not have had a slight incident involving LEDs and 240V.
I quite enjoy just randomly modifying things for no particular reason at all. It's very therapeutic to do something with no real purpose. That's what I was doing here, until I inadvertently added some excitement.
When I smooshed the LEDs in to make way for the bottle, a solder spike pierced the other conductor. It was a one in a thousand chance with quite a few variables.
The reassuring crack was an LED demonstrating their excellent abilities to break high current faults in a controlled manner.
When I replaced the LEDs I cropped them down in size to leave room for the wire.
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I quite enjoy just randomly modifying things for no particular reason at all. It's very therapeutic to do something with no real purpose. That's what I was doing here, until I inadvertently added some excitement.
When I smooshed the LEDs in to make way for the bottle, a solder spike pierced the other conductor. It was a one in a thousand chance with quite a few variables.
The reassuring crack was an LED demonstrating their excellent abilities to break high current faults in a controlled manner.
When I replaced the LEDs I cropped them down in size to leave room for the wire.
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And One only needs to make a leap of faith towards the ideal All the time Clive. For it is as true and constant as human Peace , that the Aliens were sent by god to save the humanoids and there the planet Earth. Net More They are princ more. Thank God that the aliens are here, and have been before us , made Manifest Perception in Time to save the not wretched enough gone wrong again humanoids and their Filthy Air Planet Smog
you could could call your first design " Pop and Fresh "-Air freshener system
RIP LED
Clive what are the odds of across the mains occurring . Ew ain't you the lucky one.
Sorry for your temporary setback. The effect in the end was cool.
That's so nice looking! I may have to take a stab at making my own 😊
Haha, love the way you jumped when that LED popped, I didnt know they did 250v LED's straight into mains.
I think the resistance is a bit too… low, too.
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Co-worker was verifying LED polarity with an unballasted 9V battery. It backfired much in the same way, and he decried the drvice as a "Lo-o-owww tech LED." He shaped up in his tech bench habits shortly thereafter.
I'm stuck for anything to say!
It can be a bit tricky when your straw hat blows of – in the workshop!
I'm so used to you using the hopi/quicktest that I wasn't expecting it to be live when you plugged it in. I actually got scared when I heard the pop.
Having LEDs in some things like this would be a good idea so you know if it's on so you don't forget to turn it off
I don't understand how the LED's can survive 220 volts. (240v there sorry, locally 220v hence the little bug)
Wondering would it be possible to solder in a small fuse and if so what spec ???
Just trying to make it safer.
When it shorted and leds popped it did not appear to trip the beaker ???