This is quite a neat light. It's a battery powered (3 x AAA) puck that has a waterproof seal between the two halves when screwed together. It has a remote control to set the colour or effects.
It's pretty good, although the current draw is quite high at full white for AAA cells, and if putting into storage I recommend removing the cells as the standby current is almost half a milliamp.
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It's pretty good, although the current draw is quite high at full white for AAA cells, and if putting into storage I recommend removing the cells as the standby current is almost half a milliamp.
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I bought many for a fun project and I run them off 5 Volt supply and no troubles, it also like a LiPo batteries and a small charge circuit, they seemed to be for a party favor and you put them in a punch bowl or in a water vase with the flowers or a bowl with ice for effets . Ex. a wedding party
Can you tell us about the cost and where its avaibilty.
i brought 2 separate ones from b&m wanting it for the colours in my room, it worked for 3 days and only the red green and blue work now. the white is an orange colour and it doesn’t strobe. i have switched the batteries around and checked the controller battery’s and i can’t see anything wrong with it??
I had to come back to this video.
Bought one of these today from B&M for my mum as a late mothers day present.
It worked fine at first then later the remote stopped working.
Took it out and the inside is all corroded and rusty, bearly six hours of being submerged!
I remembered Clive reviewing it so thought I'd mention my experience with it.
I know this video is quite old but i really wondering which chip is it on this cheap rgb-lamps. I tried hard to find out, searched for supplier, searched for documentation, for similar chips. nothing. The whole market is flodded with hundrets of variations of these lamps, controllers who ALL use the same remote, but you can't find out, which chip they are using.
We bought a good load of exact these led in the video for some events and there was one with a fried chip. After I saw how easy the whole layout was, i thought about why i cant do some custom designs with it. the only thing i need to know what kind of chip this it to buy a reel of it somewhere. And maybe i can fix this single broken one, since i only have to switch the chip.
Maybe someone has an idea?
mine all 30, each remember what setting was last used
Bought this, tested it and it broke within about 5 minutes of being on, slowly dulled down and then never worked again.
Why do these commonly switch on the negative?
The main problem with these lights is that no matter how tightly or carefully you close them up, at least some degree of water ingress occurs. It may be fine if you leave the back off to dry out after use, but one of ours has a badly stained panel because the water ingress was contaminated by something inside the unit.
I have been given 2 of these.
In Australia you can maybe get them from "The Reject Shop", "Cheap as Chips" or another "$2 shop".
Looks like 2 solders popped out