Quite a neat little LED lamp with a standard capacitive dropper circuit and 60 standard 5mm LEDs in series. There were 15 blue and 45 red arranged in quite a pleasing random manner. So pleasing that I got the urge to modify it into a much lower power lamp purely for the visual appearance.

14 thoughts on “Teardown and schematic of 60 led grow lamp.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Skullduggery says:

    Pretty psychedelic your self Clive,love your work ,I've learned quite a lot from you Sir thank you.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alter Miesefaust says:

    i like your videos very much!! thank you

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dustin Smith says:

    "More or less dead on"

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M says:

    Your in the new oldspice commercial!

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hobo Sullivan says:

    I'm sure this is an annoyingly common question, but what sort of pens are those? They look quite nice, and I'd like to buy a few for myself.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars voidremoved says:

    I am not smart, but are a few of the lights not the same?  I mean some of the led are somewhat out of the range of human eye, so they will seem less bright but the plants will see it

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andrew Hale says:

    Brilliant video, very informative …… My investigations have concluded the best way to buy grow lamps are the three LED types , these are listed as 6W and contain 3x3w leds, under driven with lens…. on Ebay they sell 1 to 1.50 pounds (UK) inc post …unbeatable.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sandra Stewart says:

    The question I would ask does it actually put out the correct light in Angstroms to be a grow light?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TornTech says:

    clive, PLEASEEE do a workshop/workbench tour! id love to see your power supply and how you store your bits! if you do a workshop tour i promises i will do one too!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Freon_87 says:

    I prefer the settings of this video Clive. I would like a larger view of your workbench though.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MegaWayneD says:

    Have you seen the LED bulb kits you can get from Ebay?! I was looking for some cheap electronic kits for a maker event and spotted them. They look interesting, if a bit disturbing that someone unaware of the dangers of mains electricity could happily mess about with them.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars practicalskills says:

    The set up on this video works well.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kuhrd says:

    +bigclivedotcom your changes have made a huge improvement from what I can tell from this video.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 48snapper says:

    The lighting and fixed exposure give a big improvement. I agree with others that a mid grey background would be better. Ideally one would have a fill light at the bottom of the shot, but of course this is where you are sitting. Wearing a white shirt would reflect a fair bit of light though. Alternatively a light to the left and right of your table might work nicely.

    Many thanks for all your video work Clive. It is both fascinating and informative.

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