This is a nice sensibly designed PIR activated LED light with an internal lithium cell and micro USB charging port. With a quiescent current of about 50uA it should run for a very long time on the internal lithium cell, which can easily be upgraded with a bigger protected cell.
The packaging actually has a technical spec that compares favourably with the tests done on the unit. The unit has a keyhole mounting for hooking on a screw or nail, and a magnetic strip option with matching steel plate for attaching with double sided tape to a suitable surface.
Here's a typical eBay search link with lowest prices shown first. A typical price for this unit is $7 with a choice of cold white or warm white (described in some listings as yellow).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=12+led+rechargeable+pir&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
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The packaging actually has a technical spec that compares favourably with the tests done on the unit. The unit has a keyhole mounting for hooking on a screw or nail, and a magnetic strip option with matching steel plate for attaching with double sided tape to a suitable surface.
Here's a typical eBay search link with lowest prices shown first. A typical price for this unit is $7 with a choice of cold white or warm white (described in some listings as yellow).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=12+led+rechargeable+pir&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
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.
Would the IR sensor work through thicker polypropylene? I wonder if you could put it in a plastic food box, and use it outdoors as a security light?
Am I right in thinking that’s a years worth of standby current?
Will it hold wives DD cups?
It's just terrible that you cannot trust these companies to be honest about the battery capacity levels. I think they count on the fact that most people don't have the necessary equipment or in some cases intelligence to figure out how to verify the capacity is anywhere near what's claimed. At least this thing isn't sealed shut and intended for the landfill more quickly than necessary. And I am guessing that there are enough variations on battery shapes and sizes that you could find one with a much higher capacity and same voltage. It's a bit unfortunate that they don't provide a connector for those battery wires. But soldering irons aren't very expensive.
You could probably ''hack '' a reasonable size mobile phone battery into that.
Edit. I must learn to watch the entire video before commenting )))
Just finished watching, 2 ordered from Ebay, now to find suitable batteries. It will be useful here because all of the street lights are turned off at midnight.
Carry it and use it as a torch , perfect 🙂🙂 🇺🇦
Got a couple of these. The only downside to them is that the AUTO mode does not work on mine when charging.
I've tried to trace the board, and miserably failed to adequately follow the white traces on the white board.
But then rewatching this, it occurred to me the reason is simple: the blue / red LEDs that indicate charging / charged are so bright that they over-power the ambient light sensor. Masking the red / blue LEDs is enough to let the AUTO mode triggers appropriately.
We have several of these useful PIRs throughout our home, in particularly to illuminate our bathroom to save using the expensive high wattage lightbulbs on the ceiling. We have others fixed on a floor lintel via their magnetic clamps and illuminating dark cupboards and even under our kitchen cabinets, so we can raid the kitchen at night or around home without disturbing sleepers, but also preventing us tripping head over arse! Had them for some 3 years by now, they've saved us absolute £££s on our electricity bill, and can easily be recharged. I opened some up to discover the same as yourself, have to agree they were a wonderfully cheap purchase – at the time.
Thank you so much for tearing apart so many wonderful gadgets. My girls love your videos. We follow your channel every day, always with a mug of tea on standby. Oh, and we love your voice. So easy to listen to, often with your great humour and snark. Oh, and my bench/office is a tip, but I've no untidy mind lol! Psst! Ours are called Omeril.
I thought your middle name was Dot.
"Maitre USB port and i got this Okanagan eBay" thank you auto captions.
I just got 2 of these. The circuitry has been changed. Gone is the BISS0001. In its place are 2x 8 pin devices. One is a TP406, the other has never been printed. The new design is FAR simpler, requiring only about 10 support components total. The light panel is unchanged, retaining a resister per LED. The battery appears to still have protection. I think I see a circuit board on it but I did not take it to bits.
i hate them boards where u cant see the connections lol
Hmm, I have two of these myself, and I quite like them. Not so optimal is, that the time the LEDs are active is a bit short for my purpose. Currently, the active time is about 15 seconds, better would be 30. Is it possible to hack this device by changing the capacitors connected to pin 4 and 5 connected to the BISS001 which apparently control how long the LEDs are active?
He waved a camera around one time and I saw his shop for a ms (millisecond, not Ms).
There's one there. And then there's the time the camera fell off the shelf,
but I got dizzy and saw very little.
he has such a calming voice. this is like a asmr for me. mm tell me about the positive and negative direct currents and amplifers, resistors, flacuations , triggers and time modoules <3 <3
Bought one from Newfrog. Detection range is more than 20 feet in a hallway compared with "datasheet's" stated 10 feet. Am more than happy.
Oh excellent! I made a little "cone" of fun-tak putty around the charge-status lights (already lowered in brightness with a 5.1k resistor ), replaced the cover, and I can still see the charge status!