I had a few requests to get one of these and take it to bits, so here it is.
It's a fairly high power 60W (50W) light with three panels that can be aimed independently to light specific areas of a space. It's described as being an industrial high-bay style lamp but has a lot of other uses.
The temperatures I measured were lower than expected. The back of the heatsink remained at a touchable temperature at around 45C at the centre and quickly diffusing the heat through the generous and stylish heatsink. Of more concern was the circuitry temperature with the back of the PCB measuring 80C when I removed the cover and then dropping a bit when there was airflow.
It suggests that an extra strategically drilled hole or two in the top could allow better airflow through the driver section. The large foam pad that holds the PCB in place also presses right against the back of one of the drivers, including what could be a track area intended to dissipate heat - so it may accelerate the failure of the middle driver.
You can get these lights from banggood and on eBay. Here's a generic eBay search link:-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=e27+led+deformable&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
Not sure I'd recommend the plastic version for heat dissipation reasons.
Target price is around $25 shipped. Make sure you get the right voltage version if there are options. You may also get colour temperature options.
I've had a few reports of people getting shocks from metal housings on LED lamps and tubes. There's very little clearance and no grounding in many of these devices so it's inevitable that some will become live either through manufacturing flaws, shipping damage or failure. I always recommend that if you are installing new lamps with the power on, you make sure there is no easy current path to ground through your body. If in doubt, turn the power off or wear a glove on the hand you are using to put lamps in.
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It's a fairly high power 60W (50W) light with three panels that can be aimed independently to light specific areas of a space. It's described as being an industrial high-bay style lamp but has a lot of other uses.
The temperatures I measured were lower than expected. The back of the heatsink remained at a touchable temperature at around 45C at the centre and quickly diffusing the heat through the generous and stylish heatsink. Of more concern was the circuitry temperature with the back of the PCB measuring 80C when I removed the cover and then dropping a bit when there was airflow.
It suggests that an extra strategically drilled hole or two in the top could allow better airflow through the driver section. The large foam pad that holds the PCB in place also presses right against the back of one of the drivers, including what could be a track area intended to dissipate heat - so it may accelerate the failure of the middle driver.
You can get these lights from banggood and on eBay. Here's a generic eBay search link:-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=e27+led+deformable&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
Not sure I'd recommend the plastic version for heat dissipation reasons.
Target price is around $25 shipped. Make sure you get the right voltage version if there are options. You may also get colour temperature options.
I've had a few reports of people getting shocks from metal housings on LED lamps and tubes. There's very little clearance and no grounding in many of these devices so it's inevitable that some will become live either through manufacturing flaws, shipping damage or failure. I always recommend that if you are installing new lamps with the power on, you make sure there is no easy current path to ground through your body. If in doubt, turn the power off or wear a glove on the hand you are using to put lamps in.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
This comment has absolutely zero to do this this product in particular, but it does have to do with "Hi-Lumen" LED lights…
I had bought some cheap chinese 10,000 lumen C.O.B. LED bulbs for my garage from my local hardware store. They were VERY bright, a little on the cold side for my taste, but otherwise i was happy with them. The packaging stated "2 year warranty", so I thought, ok, these should last a while… WRONG!
It was literally about 3 weeks after the 2 year mark, and on one of them, many individual LEDs started going out, a couple per day. A few days later on the second bulb, a few whole aluminium strip sections went out within a period of hours of each other, and then it started to smoke, buzz loudly, pop with flames ejecting out of the vent slots, and then went dark…. THREE WEEKS after the 2 year warranty was up.. 😒
I took both bulbs apart, one the power supply was cooked, and the other one had many LEDs out on the various sections of it. I managed to make one good bulb out of all the parts, screwed it back into the socket, and it lit. Within another two weeks the remaining bodged together bulb started rapidly losing individual LEDs, and went out with a bang again.
I totally gave up on that brand of lights. I cant believe that they have them SO engineered to fail like that SO close to the end of the warranty period. 😡 The things weren't exacrly cheap either. Just a few bucks cheaper than some of the other brands of better quality bulbs.
I ended up purchasing a different well known brand that have a 5-Year warranty, and I've had NO issues with them for going on 3 years now, and the quality of light they produce is MUCH better than the other ones that failed. Better color temp., way better C.R.I, and so far longer life.
We'll see if these ones fail a few weeks after the 5-year warranty period.. 🤔
But somehow, i think they'll last longer than that..
The warranty period stated on tje box IS a pretty good indicator of the quality of the product. With Hi-Lumen LED bulbs, your money is better spent not buying the "el-cheapo" bulbs.
"The perfect amount of thermal paste" is very noticeable by its absence here.
Taras Kulakov (CrazyRussianHacker and others) reviewed a few of these and he was very impressed with them.
They survived his testing so they are quite robust.
Came back to this one as I was about to pick up something similar for a dark old shed/outhouse. There's absolutely tons of white plastic ones on amazon and ebay now, cant see any metal ones at all now. No idea how good they are, some look like it's far too much weight for a b22 fitting though!
now there are white plastic garage lamps that are really cheap; i wonder what those are like inside!
Hey Clive, how many volts goes to each panel?
Love it! Good looking
What would be some good hacks for this type of light to improve longevity? Extra vent holes in the body. More thermal compound or thermal pads for the led boards. Then maybe ditch the foam block in the housing in exchange for peelable silicone on the corners? I was thinking hot glue at first but then realised that was highly likely to just melt off, not sure if the silicone would work but it's worth a shot.
Hey, Clive how difficult would it be to flip the mountains so that instead of failing mounting it could be tried as a lamp bulb set? My apartment only has one ceiling mount for lighting, not in my workshop only the living room. I mainly am a Transformers fan, and I need a bright room light for working on my props and Figurine stuff.
We have it it Canada, from 86v to 240v but how do you suggest for each panel to be powered individually??
It says robot, it should deploy itself once you plug it in. Otherwise it just LED lights even if you can change the direction of the lights.
I'm pretty sure you're joking about the transformers comparison, but that is clearly an autobot symbol in the center