High voltage sodium/halide ignitor teardown
Thanks go to Lukas for sending this faulty ignitor for our exploration. Having pondered the complexities of this circuit a…
What the heck! series capacitor makes fan go turbo!
I was disassembling a fan to reverse engineer its electronic humidity control and experimentally put some capacitors in series with…
Ikea mini smahagel teardown
I opened this unit expecting it to be well built, and it didn't disappoint. It even threw in a few…
Express ikea usb review
Full length teardown video with schematic can be found here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJbxhA0E3E
Scary 1920’s high voltage thing loud electrical noises
This is pleasingly freaky. It's a 100 year old piece of electro-medical apparatus that probably predates most electrical appliances. This…
Ikea solhetta bulb teardown
This video was supposed to be about one version of the bulb/lamp, but it turned out that the box had…
Poundland eveready wifi lamp teardown – with very cool chip
I'm not sure how much more streamlining they can do to a WiFi lamp that offers tunable white and RGB…
6-circuit slip-ring teardown
This is a fairly common item on eBay. The fact it's on eBay does mean it may be a dumpster…
Surprisingly good solar flame lantern
Most of these flame emulating solar lights have used a strip of LEDs to give the flame effect, but this…
Teardown of a lurid pink glitter clam with schematic
When I saw this I just had to get one for exploration. It's a plastic clam with an illuminated pearl…