A cheap wall mounting light that can be used for lighting paths, floors or walkways without glare.
Like many modern LED lights, this unit should be considered disposable. If it fails the whole unit will have to be replaced or repaired.
Construction is quite nice, the light level is OK for a pathway at night and the PCB has some level of hackability. Either changing the LEDs for a different colour, using your own design of PCB or just changing the dropper capacitor to 100nF or 220nF for a lower intensity light.
Here's a link to the CPC page for these lights in the UK:-
https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/pel01324/led-wall-light-100mm-dark-grey/dp/LA07984
They do a few different sizes.
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Like many modern LED lights, this unit should be considered disposable. If it fails the whole unit will have to be replaced or repaired.
Construction is quite nice, the light level is OK for a pathway at night and the PCB has some level of hackability. Either changing the LEDs for a different colour, using your own design of PCB or just changing the dropper capacitor to 100nF or 220nF for a lower intensity light.
Here's a link to the CPC page for these lights in the UK:-
https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/pel01324/led-wall-light-100mm-dark-grey/dp/LA07984
They do a few different sizes.
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.
One day this guy is gona open a woman's head to see inside,…… To see whats going on 😂
Hi Clive can you recommend any decent serviceable outdoor lights, capable of surviving Scottish weather? I'd like some to mount on stone walls either side of my driveway but most seem to be disposable as you say.
Is it possible to underdrive those leds to prolong the life of them?
Love the dissection of products, have learned a lot – I think…
Have you ever done / considered doing the same to outdoor Christmas decoration lights , snowflake effect etc…?
As for the warning not to touch- It is an LED light, maybe they do not want people to assume there is only a "safer" 3v on the board?
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To waterproof your outdoor cables:
1. Hold the conductors with vice-grip pliers.
2. Slide the jacket away a short distance.
3. Remove vice-grips.
4. Put on disposable gloves.
5. Apply CLEAR Gorilla Glue to the wires and fillers then manipulate to assure complete coverage.
6. Slide jacket back to original position.
perhaps it is water proof but not moisture proof so as humidity enters it condenses with temperature drop to water over and over till the thing is about filled. then the waterproofing holds the water inside.
Love your videos!!
Looking at the schematic, you could remove 1 of the 4 resistors, raising the resistance from 50 ohms to 66.7 ohms which would decrease the light a bit but increase the longevity of the leds a bit of you could manage with a bit less light. Love your channel. Take care. Tootles… Wade
The LEDs look like mischievous cats
Something tells me that warning message is on there because on an accident someone kept repeating
The case looks like some manky 1970s hotel room light
Its just missing a wood effect sticker around the edge 😂