Some more variants on Poundland's fantastic solar lights for 2016, and these ones were just begging to have the original cold white LEDs replaced with a colour that matched the glass to give them a much brighter and more saturated colour. Of course, I also added the clear all-weather tape over the solar panel area to avoid water ingress around its edges.
How many milliamp hours does each tiny battery hold?
Dang that looks 110% Better!!!! I gotta do that thank you for sharing.
Really could have used some wick today.
What's done with it when it's all clogged?
dang, that is really nice their partner!!!! I put a blue led in a solar light it looks really nice thank you for sharing.
How do the forward voltages compare?
Does the crude spacer curse and swear at you? 😁
What would they look like if you gave the leds a light sanding… thus giving them a frosted bulb look?
Nice video very helpful please show us a garden tour
There is something about that blue light that has always been magical for me! I can still recall the first time my folks took us to town to look at the Christmas decorations, it must have been 1956 or perhaps a year either way. I was very young but the impression of one house on our way home, it was a small farm house near the road just outside a tiny village that was done in all blue lights, that blue glow, it just stuck in my mind as the most fantastic thing I ever saw. Still does, we do our house in all blue lights now so others can enjoy the view. I bought some blue LED lights with a standard size cover to look like the old lights, they contain blue LEDS as well, in fact this year when we put them out, half of them failed, so I went through and found that the LED closest to the resistor blew on both strings putting half of them out. I didn't have the flat top blue LEDs to replace them with so I used a bright 3mm blue LED, they seem nearly the same as the flat bulbs but a bit brighter, if you know which ones they are you can see the difference.
I like the one on the far right, any idea what that color is? Yes I'm colorblind, but it still looks 😎.
EDIT: ok he said its blue…
My favourite stake lights I use in the garden have finally started to give out after a few years. I recently fount new ones that looked identical with the same stainless steel frame and glass lens. I was wrong they look identical but are the same cheap shitty generic ones put into the frame of the light I already own. It has this really bluish tint directional led that doesn’t light up anything and what it does light up is blue and dim. This video helped so much I have replaced them with white leds which are 360’ of light instead of a directional light pointed into the ground.
Pretty good idea, the coloured glass with white light will absorb a lot of the wavelengths. But when you add the similar coloured LED then an extremely high percentage of it should make it outside of the glass because it's already within that spectrum. It created a much more intense colour, I would say it's worth it. The factories probably can't be bothered though as they make the heads of most of these solar lights very similarly and then they just modify the base for the different glass colour or even put clear ones there also.
That little battery is funny also, but I guess for England that's all you can expect to charge with the small solar panel in a day. Here in Australia we have full AAA sized batteries in these small solar garden lights.
At the same time everything comes with it's drawbacks, you can't really just walk around here in Australia for too long outside unless you want super tanned arms and face and risk skin cancer also. So there are always a drawback to everything.
Very cool you've got a good eye.
Please pronounce "COOL WHIP".
I could see BIG differences
They are such an improvement maybe the manufacturers should watch your channel Big Clive.