This is a comparison of the old and new (2015) styles of the Poundland solar bubbled-acrylic light.
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Can you do an upgrade? Make it work on 3.7v…
clive !!! im from the future !!! this will last 6 years !!! you will have to change the LED's in 2021
a blast from the past, good stuff. I'm just catching up having watched all the recent stuff. 11,059 views but only 211 up thumbs? things were different back then it seems 🙂 Thanks keeping going Clive. 🙂
Another great tutorial thanks, does anyone know if you can buy these chips (yx8018) I think mine is faulty.. Thanks… John 🙂
Clive, I was wondering how much power can that solar cell put out during a typical charge cycle? It might be that the battery change may be due to the solar cell's ability to never be able to charge the battery on the typical day where you don't get much sunlight. All of the ones I purchased seem to corrode at the battery contacts, or the battery just goes flat due to not being able to be charged from the solar cell. Also, Solar cell going out as well.
I bought a whole lot of these lamps late this summer in Sweden from 3 different retailers at 5 SEK (2/5 of a GBP)
Internal construction was identical to your 2015 version except the ones from Rusta and Jula had a 2/3 AAA in them, and the one from Bauhaus had a comparatively huge 2/3 AA. Also the Jula one had a slightly smaller solar panel.
None of these had the neat bubbled acrylic light spreader though, just a clear faceted cover under the LED. That won't matter too much since the reason for buying them is using the provided power for other applications such as playing sounds instead of lighting a LED.
Here in 'merica you can get solar lights that use the amorphous panel and a AAA battery for 99 cents which is about .65 pounds. One of four still works after 3 years and the rest probably just just need the battery terminal corrosion cleaned. One advantage of the button cell is the lack of spring contacts.
Im thinking of modding one of these to fit on my bicycle as a sort of marker light. Shouldnt be too difficult I think.
At the moment they're on special offer – 3 for the price of 2. Watch out for the small colour section on the label. I'd never shopped in poundland until I started watching these videos
I must be really tired. I've sat through this whole thing. Hahahahaha!