Someone mentioned that Techmoan had featured this on his channel and they wondered how it worked. Here's a link to Techmoan's video:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZTSvgF4h8
So let's take one to bits.
Here's an ebay.com search link, but note that many of the ones shown are clearly just plain LED leads....
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=usb+flowing+light+cable&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1
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14 thoughts on “Flowing light usb cable teardown and schematic.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Sayers says:

    My oled tv have two hands and a notepad burned into it 😎😎

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kurazaybo says:

    I had one of these,I really liked it

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joseph Steffen says:

    I recall that the egress routes in the bunkers had the walls painted with "glow-in-the-dark" paint on the walls. The floors had a "greenish" stripe for exiting and a different color for a different purpose. It wasn't powered: its purpose. I thought that it was really cool. But, I am unaware of the cost. It was the early 1980s.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joseph Steffen says:

    Big "C" in the house!

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chaz says:

    Light emitting capacitors seems like fire crackers!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Belcher says:

    My rven exploder clife

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Belcher says:

    Too the Beethoven my even exploder

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ReverseEngineered says:

    Oh my god that high pitch squeal! Yes, my speakers can reproduce it, and yes, I can hear it. Damn that's ear piercing!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars New frontier says:

    I had on of theise years ago was a little brighter. One rough tug and it caught light 😬

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Billy Line says:

    Wow, I thought it was going to be an LED strip Controlled by Christmas light circuitry, not a different tech. The sound reminds me of the CRT static noise. I wonder if there is high voltage. That would probably affect charging speed though.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tristan Wegner says:

    In my experience, a given fluorescent product often is the most faint in the blue version. Makes sense, as florescence involces exitatiion at high photon energies, and emission at lower energies. As blue is quite high energy for visible light, less photons are emitted. Back in the days, bright BLUE Leds were the missing peace for the LED revolution.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Miss Yotsuba says:

    Why pull it apart? These are as rare as rocking horse shit these days…
    Best ever charger and no where sells them… My wires have fallen out from the charging phone end. I need the thing fixing or new USBC end put on.
    Can you help?

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Deepjyoti G says:

    Quick question: WHat happens if the micro usb port cut off and I plug the cable in ? will the light glow?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lane Sutterby says:

    Chrysler/Dodge used electroluminescent lighting in the instrument clusters of the 1962 Chrysler New Yorker and the 66-67 Charger. Arguably the coolest instrument clusters ever.

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