This is an adaptor to allow three lamps to be put into a single lampholder. It's aimed at the photographic industry where they want a lot of light. It is intended for LED or fluorescent lamps and not for tungsten lamps due to the heat issues of a large cluster of tungsten lamps. Quit a nice thing, but with a few hazards typical of generic Chinese stuff. The fact it converts from a bayonet cap holder to Edison screw holders means that the outer thread of the lamp may be live. (It's supposed to be only the pin at the back that is live/hot.) The thread also sticks out far enough to touch. The connections to the lampholders are with uninsulated metal strip tucked under loose wire, so in the right circumstances it might be possible to get a shock from the back of the assembly too.
But other than that it's quite neat. It would look nice with LED candle lamps in it to make a simpler light fitting into a more glitzy chandelier type light.
But other than that it's quite neat. It would look nice with LED candle lamps in it to make a simpler light fitting into a more glitzy chandelier type light.
How is this shit allowed in the UK? Even eastern bloc countries before the 1980s had stricter standards.
I'm sticking with bayonet where the metal casing isn't L or N
That's a death-adaptor for sure – should be in the title!
Could some kind of indicator light be used to show a live/neutral swap on these adapters? While it wouldn't make them inherently safe, having a red warning light come on would be better than nothing
It looked from the back like maybe there were supposed to be plates over the back of the branches.
Hey Clive, why are you pretending to be opening the cover for a first time?!
I can clearly see the marks on the plastic from at list two previous attempts.
And "I wonder if this is glued in" was way over the top…
Good videos by the way but no need for drama. Almost finished watching all your videos and love it.
Can you please consider revisiting 100w LEDs and perhaps design a good power rating driver for them?
Thanks a bunch!!!
thats not getting a BSI kitemark lol
They definitely wanna kill us…
ABSOLUTE PANTS !! Shortly into the vid, you identified this issue with having a BC cap with an ES socket.
The BC cap can go in either way round which then leaves the outer screw on the ES cap at risk of being on the live side.
Also, that strip of uninsulated metal in there…..What a total crock of rubbish. They done that so that they don't have to use expensive copper wire. Removing that metal band and "doing-some-tests" on it may very well identify it as steel (use a magnet) or aluminium.
I very much doubt that it's a chrome-plated copper strip!
And as for hving it more-or-less exposed on the back like that…. if that became hot because of the lamp being used, the insulation on the other wire (which is in close proximity to it) might melt, the whole thing goes short with a resultant loud bang and a shower of sparks!
I'd be inclined to have this out in the garden and give it a high-current BEATING, and see if it can handle the currents. Of course, I'd go sensible to start with, maybe the kind of amperage you'd expect for 3x 100w lamps (300w divided by 240v = 1.25A) but that really doesn't produce heat at the lamp holders like a real lamp would, so…..
Again, in the garden, i'd stuff three lamps in that and switch on. Let's see how long it is before the thing lets loose.
Another thing not taken into account with this product which I think you might have missed out on: OVERLOADING.
Let's suppose that someone was using this for brightly lighting a room for whatever reason it may be and they stuffed 3x 150w lamps into this….. That would be 450w being tugged from the central BC fitting.
Can it take that much? What about the lampholder on the ceiling and its wiring? OK, that would really only be 1.87A on that light socket, but when you think that most lampholders never get to see 0.5A, it dos need to be taken into account, so I think that this device should really be fitted with an end-user-replaceable 500mA fuse.
Thanx for showing,
-BoomBoxDeluxe.
11th April 2015, 12.50
OHS masters xD
Obviously hat product is not compliant and pose a potential lethal risk for the end user.
I suggest that you share your video's always with trading standards
Looks like it has the shallower US-style E26 sockets. Euro E27 bulbs fit, but the top of the base sticks up about a ¼". I've bought some LED filament lamps & one of those LED disco bulbs that are fitted w/ the latter base.
Well, The metal screw on the edison screw on a properly wired socket will be neutral, but that goes out the window when converting to another type of socket, which is not specifically polarized…
Geez that thing is dangerous !!! It should ship with a free roll of insulation tape so you can mummify it to safety.
Thx well I'm looking for one, how much does it cost
What is the name of the green ecig you have
A dodgy product from China? surely not!!