This was just a spontaneous fix of an irksome slimline fluorescent fitting that I decided to convert to a lower intensity light with some LED strip.
My use of the current regulated supply isn't ideal since it means that if sections of LEDs fail the current through the remaining ones will increase. It was just hard finding a tiny 12V supply that would fit inside the slim casing.
If I'd had thicker wire to hand I'd have used it. But the stuff I used is more than capable of surviving a fault current that will take out the 3A fuse in the plug. (Continuous rating 2A.)
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My use of the current regulated supply isn't ideal since it means that if sections of LEDs fail the current through the remaining ones will increase. It was just hard finding a tiny 12V supply that would fit inside the slim casing.
If I'd had thicker wire to hand I'd have used it. But the stuff I used is more than capable of surviving a fault current that will take out the 3A fuse in the plug. (Continuous rating 2A.)
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.
just came across this inspiring repurposing of old tech (which I'll have to do to my old T8 light bars)…
🤔I'm wondering why you didn't just put the driver right by the switch so you don't need so many long wire runs.
PS: love the long form filled with your insights 😉
I think if someone is silly enough to go around licking circuit boards the fact as to whether or not the solder has lead in it is immaterial.
I've heard YouTubers say they have a clean bench for filming and then their actual bench, lol
I want a robot arm that always cleans my messy bench.
I have a Fluke fom the 90s
Finger test, thats good….😆😆😆😆 A long time ago a friend of mine dismantle a charger of some sort and I pointed out as he was andling do board quite confortably, if ther was no current when e burst in pain. He shorted a 400v capacitor with one finger…
Hundreds of pounds of electrical equipment, and nothing relaxes, or settles the mind as 'Safe Finger' 😂
I'd be interested to see what possible uses you could find for the LEDs and other components found in LED TVs. I always see so many being thrown away Clive.
Are you sure about the lead in soldering fumes? Another youtuber who fixes old televisions (shango066) had record levels of lead in his system when he did a blood test. That's why he wears gloves now, but it has to be the fumes mostly. Why not get a suction device?
Thanks for this, very useful.
I thought fluke was government standard. Same standards year after year. Don't mean the best in some circumstances.
No mine whole house was cluttered with project junk. I went too faarr the other way. Mental disease perhaps.