Inside a 9w generic ebay t8 led strip-light.
A look at the construction of a generally available LED strip-light from ebay. Actually worth it just for the hackability…
Disassembly and schematic of an arc lighter.
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:- https://www.patreon.com/bigclive A fairly recent arrival to the novelty…
Chased by the manx buggane at dusk.
The Isle of Man is full of fairies, witches and the attendant monsters that accompany such things. One of these…
A look inside a cheap ebay smoke detector.
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:- https://www.patreon.com/bigclive Part of me was expecting that these…
A look inside a solar powered led security light.
This solar powered security light came from a UK supplier on ebay. Somewhat more expensive than the usual tat I…
A look inside a water powered led shower head.
Well this turned out to be a bit destructive. It appears that the current version of generic LED shower heads…
Random tests on an inline 3w led lamp driver. including short circuit.
When an Oz friend mentioned that the open circuit voltage of these little power supplies might well be close to…
Hacking more poundland gu10 lamps with different leds.
I forgot I'd already done a similar video to this. But here's a new version with all the same pitfalls.…
Gu10 led hacks including removing the lenses.
This is a spontaneous modification I did to a GU10 lamp to see how the removal of the lenses to…
Extending the run-time of a solar garden light.
In countries like the UK where we have a lower than average amount of sunlight (mainly due to cloud coverage),…