Since Poundland started doing modest length strings of LEDs in cold white, I've been secretly hoping they'd do them in warm white and other colours. There's no warm white yet, but they've just brought out orange, green and purple ones for Halloween. And so far they seem to be really good.
sometimes i go to the dollar tree and buy one of these just so that i can use the 3v battery pack for other electronics stuff because buying it from dollar tree is cheaper than buying it on amazon
also another pro is that you get a free strip of led lights!
Re the bad soldered joint, do you think that once we leave the E(vil) U(nion) that we can revert to proper solder, sensible weights and measures, a civilised currency and proper wiring colours?
Bought one of each this year and had to touch up the switches on two out of three, , and blobbed some hot glue in where the wire enters to act as strain relief. No resistors in mine though.
Sorry I'm new to the whole electronics world. Are you just using some kind of external power supply to adjust voltage and power the lights? If so, what's it called?
You're ripping off of Ashens.
they also do red ones, but on the picture they look really similar to the orange… 😉
I got hold of a green set which didn't work. No series resistor on the set I got. A closer examination showed that there was pretty much a dead short across the battery leads when it was powered on. So there may be some QC issues…
I like to power my LED strings/projects with old cellphone batteries. The packs cant take the current demand of a cellphone but running LED projects is no problem. I usually get another 1-2 years out of the pack before they just wont take a charge. Running time for the pack, between recharging, seems to be around 2 months +- depending on current demand of the project, I have converted several headlamps that normally run on the 3.6v battery packs, over to a LED array with using the 'recycled' cell batteries as power
I have very little understanding of what you're talking about in your videos, but I always find them entertaining and your voice fairly relaxing.
Back before I even knew about Chinese ebay led Christmas lights (Last Year lol) I bought several strings of 100 from Wal-Mart and paid like $20 a string, NONE of them made it to Christmas day either, each string developed a failure where half the string would light. IO could not return them because "I opened them up and plugged them in"
So yeah, last year my back end was sore after that experience..
Nice video – makes me want a Poundland near by for those purple LEDs!
I wonder if the "lead-free solder" legislation had nothing to do with "poisoning" and everything to do with decreasing useful life of electronic equipment: coupled with tiny SMD connections, equipment is virtually a guaranteed to fail.
Even if unintended, this is certainly the consequence.
Show off! Really though, I'm always impressed at the things you know, whether it's expected voltages, resistance values, you always seem to be able to pull that information from memory. I love all your reviews. I appreciate someone who loves gadgets and then takes them apart. Glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work.
haha, I was in Poundland on Tuesday and had a look at the halloween lights, just to see what Big Clive videos would be coming up… and here it is.
Just got back from Dollar Tree & they don't have any of those! Did see some incandescent fairy (as you call 'em) lights in orange & purple, but no LED strings. Typical LED flickering candles, etc.
I got some red ones out of this line too. I'm hoping they come out with some nice Christmas LED decorations using them.
Did you know, the reason why green led's and green lasers appear brighter is because our eyes are most sensitive to the color green?
Awesome video! You know, as always =D Really nice brightness on the green, but the purple and and orange was very nice as well =D I hope Clas Ohlson here in Sweden will pick something similar up, I guess they're like Poundland in the UK. Well, maybe you would know, are they similar? =P