The LED neon-style ornaments are getting better and better. From the early version with vacuum formed thin plastic backing, to the moulded white plastic outlines, and now this very rugged version that looks like cast acrylic sheet with the channel for the LED strip and wiring holes cast-in.
It's also using an interesting approach to terminate wiring onto the internal LED strip by making slits in the back, and directly soldering across two solid mid-LED pads to get a strong invisible connection. The LED strip has a resistor per LED giving a theoretical maximum current of about 10mA, which ensures long LED life while keeping the total current down for easy powering by a simple USB power supply. This ornament used about 800mA (4W).
It's a shame it's hard to get the 5V LED-neon strip at the point of making this video. It's commonly used in this style of ornament as the single LED and resistor arrangement means it can be cut to very accurate lengths, and obliterating an LED in the process doesn't really show too much.
You could retube these ornaments with the 12V version, but that can only be cut at a resolution of about 1 inch (25mm).
LED-neon uses a continuous strip of LEDs on a flexible PCB, that is mounted sideways in a white and translucent extrusion. The light is bounced before illuminating the diffused front, resulting in a very smooth neon-like linear line of light.
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It's also using an interesting approach to terminate wiring onto the internal LED strip by making slits in the back, and directly soldering across two solid mid-LED pads to get a strong invisible connection. The LED strip has a resistor per LED giving a theoretical maximum current of about 10mA, which ensures long LED life while keeping the total current down for easy powering by a simple USB power supply. This ornament used about 800mA (4W).
It's a shame it's hard to get the 5V LED-neon strip at the point of making this video. It's commonly used in this style of ornament as the single LED and resistor arrangement means it can be cut to very accurate lengths, and obliterating an LED in the process doesn't really show too much.
You could retube these ornaments with the 12V version, but that can only be cut at a resolution of about 1 inch (25mm).
LED-neon uses a continuous strip of LEDs on a flexible PCB, that is mounted sideways in a white and translucent extrusion. The light is bounced before illuminating the diffused front, resulting in a very smooth neon-like linear line of light.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
I have one of these. I am American, but I own a couple businesses in Asia and live in China for most of the year. My living room is set up for entertaining, as I entertain friends often. I have a built-in bar between my living and dinning room and the walls are covered in these on a black sheet metal wall that has holes drilled in it and backlit. There are tons of companies that assemble these, mostly small family businesses, however, the frames are mass produced by a manufacturer to be sold to the smaller businesses. The "neon" accent wall in my home has 12 of these….some shapes and some English phrases/words. EDIT: I forgot to mention, I have had these for about 3 1/2 years and have had no issues with any of the LEDs burning out. I moved into my apartment 4 years ago and did a lot of decorating over the first 6 months. The LED strips I used through the apartments alcoves, under counters, behind wall mounted TVs and under my balconies railings were from the same company that assembled these. I could have bought them from a super-cheap company, but spent a little more to get them from a better LED supplier. 3 1/2 years with no issues of LEDs blacking out and all of my smart controller still functional is pretty good in my opinion.
"This is a very large Pineapple that I've had to ram in sideways." Pineapple sounds painful any way you do it.
Neon, it's an led with a gluestick on the front 😂
Over where i am, it's just called the neon flex led
Its amazing how low the volts can be for led lighting now, but funny enough i changed all the bulbs in my house to leds which i love but my Bill has gone up????????????
Yeah butt…
Did it come with a
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I am guessing if the brightness was visibly uneven, a co0nenction could be made without too much hassle to the far end of the green section, so the whole fitting it was powered from both ends. Quite attractive this LED "Neon" stuff too.
The plastic looks like polycarbonate. The same thing they make turntable dust covers from in the factory.
Hello sir! I just wanted to tell you that the portable UVC lamps are now invading the $1 stores here in the US. I bought two of them today, one to take apart and the other to use. They're using real UVC bulbs, they take 4AAA batteries and screen printed in red, right below the light is "DO NOT LOOK AT LIGHT OR USE ON SKIN"
I wish I could send you this unit but I'll have to settle with posting it to twitter for you to see!
It’s a really nice way of using LEDs tho 👌🏼 looks nice
The first sentence makes your eyes water.
I do own a banana, pineapple and a cherry LED light and I love them. Nice quality and very nice lighting. I wish they had more choice for fruits (i.e. apple, strawberry, grape, etc.)
May be getting the ice cream one as well.
I make these as custom signs, sometimes phrases or words. I have the advantage of using a CNC Laser or Router… and I can't come anywhere near $30 for a sign like this. Considering the time for assembly and soldering. There's one thing that I do differently than anyone else… is that I've cast some colored silicone end caps to hide the bright hot spots and unfinished looking edges.
Another trick I've picked up along the way, is that you can just fold back the LED strip even with a light on it, to meet your cut ends or termination points. Even though you've only got the 1" spaced cut lines to work with. You can still get your neon to end where it needs to end, without having a dark/dead spot, or compromising your design. This is most useful when connecting letters in scripty fonts, or the short little bar segments, like the horizontal line in 'A'