This project is a simple fixed-colour garden feature-light designed to add a splash of colour to foliage.
You can now buy me a coffee at https://www.patreon.com/bigclive
This garden feature is rated PEGI 18 and contains one use of strong language.
I like this result. It's a modification to a Poundland aluminium torch / flashlight that uses it to power a single 1W LED via a couple of resistors. It's intended to provide low level colourful illumination of a garden feature for around 10 hours or more continuously on a set of three AA NiMh (Nickel Metal Hydride) rechargeable cells rated around 2000mAh. (Or a set of alkaline cells.)
Perfect for one-night garden or other rural events.
Yes I screwed up, but on this channel we don't edit out the bad bits. You get to see everything. In this case I had soldered the pads of a 1W LED bead onto a star mounting plate and the solder had not flowed under the pad. I was trying a new way to fix the LEDs on the PCBs and it turns out that it wasn't ideal.

14 thoughts on “Make a cordless garden feature light. may contain profanity.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ogie jii says:

    I checked, none of my lights or parts contain profanity, will it still work for this?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars channelsixtysix066 says:

    I've got to admit, Clive. I watch it for the profanity. 😊

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roger Hargreaves says:

    Nice one Clive, you even made Leylandii look amazing!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars joseph says:

    You always make soldering look easy.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eric Willis says:

    BRILLIANT 🍀🍀🍀

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BedsitBob says:

    That "plant stick" looks like a lolly stick to me.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kevin says:

    Your brother has Leylandii, so environmental vandalism. Best thing to light them with is petrol ! ( Do NOT do this in an urban area – Leylandii are a tube of foliage around a column of very resinous wood, so they act like a chimney and the flames go rather higher than you might expect) 😉

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shaun Clarke says:

    Who else watched this video just for the profanity? ✋

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars NIGHTOWL 1963 says:

    Thank you for your videos because I learn so much. Just subscribed and hit the bell. Off to watch more of your content.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Hart says:

    I save the excess when I shorten cable ties for mixing glues and applying it!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jimbob says:

    just use glue gun and heat it up by hand. that way you can decide how liquidy it will be. I only ever use the gun when i need the glue to fill a cavity from a pinhole.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kenn Mossman says:

    screw it down a few times………………….well, yes

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kenn Mossman says:

    …….and see where I'm poking it which would be quite good………………………………….well, yes

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jlucasound says:

    She Smurfed Me Right out in the Smurfin' Parking Lot!! I was Blue afterwards, she Smurfed so Hard.
    The Music we listened to was Hard Rock. (No sexual Reference).

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