A pumpkin light from the local supermarket, which is shoprite in ramsey on the isle of man. I'm guessing that this might be part of the stock of the sainsbury's, which they stock a lot of the a lot of their brands that they have are from a big supermarket chain. The uk called sainsbury's, but anyway i noticed that i was expecting this to just be a click on click off white light, but i noticed the leds don't look as though they're phosphor based so either they're a different color or they might even be flickering. I'm secretly hoping they're gon na be flickering leds.

Let us open it and put this stuff out the way right, so this comes off as they usually do in that style. Let's get some aaa cells into it. Poundland triple-a cells, classy uh, note that i put them in the correct way around that'd be good. If i just completely destroyed it in one go it's very.

These things are all cheap and nasty, it's just the nature of them, but but that is it. What's it going to be all right? Okay, it's different to what i was expecting. It is actually just a a color changing light. I'm almost disappointed.

I thought it was going to be flickering leds, but it is just sequencing right. Tell you what let's investigate it further. Let's open it up, so i shall pop the batteries out. So is that going to be a blob or is it going to be something more meaningful? Is this glued in where's, my spudger? Where is my spudger? There's the spudger, the everlasting spudger.

I shouldn't say that i'm probably tempting fate let's get round here. Are there any screws? For a start? No, there are no screws. I have a really bad habit of uh, just basically uh forcing things out without checking for screws. First, i think that a side of this is actually glued with a feel of it.

Oh, this isn't good because of its glued uh. It may not come out too easily. It's already split the case. That's all right! I'm not really bothered.

I got this to investigate. Are you sure there are no screws in this? You know what it's like. Sometimes i get it so far, yeah it's glued and then uh. You realize that there was a screw and it's far too late and everything is destroyed.

Oh, it's not a terribly exciting circuit board that is really well glued in. I hate it when they do that they used to screw them in and they also had friction fit ones. Uh, there's really not a lot to see. There's the click on click off switch.

Now what i didn't realize there right, let's put the let's put this and see if you can set a specific color. I thought that was just click on off switch. Let me just zoom down here so so you can see more of what's going on right, where's, the clicky button. Log click.

No, let's just click on click off. I thought it was going to do fancy things, but apparently not okay, that's reasonable enough! It's not it's! Not reasonable, i wanted more features. So what do we actually have here say what give me a second uh i'll i'll? Do you a doodle of what's on this, but really it's not going to take too long, because all i can see is one resistor which maybe to limit the current through the leds or it may be to set the speed of the thing right. Tell you what one moment please and continue there i told you: it wasn't going to be very complicated.

It's basically speaking the batteries. Let's put that at plus 4.5 volts 4.5 volts 0 volts. It's got the blob. It's got the three leds connected direct to the blob.

It could well actually be one of those generics of rgb color changing led chips. The chip you'd normally find inside it. But in this case it's got a 24k resistor and my guess is that 24k resistor internally is connected across an inverting buffer and they potentially have a capacitor here and then the resistor folding back, so that, if that's a schmidt trigger it's sudden uh transition from positive High to low it means that the the current flowing through this resistor determines how long it takes to charge and discharge the internal capacitor. So changing this resistor will change the speed of the oscillator, which will then be divided down and do all this stuff and to test that.

I have connected a variable resistor on those two connections for that original resistor, which was 24k and if i turn it down. So that's the quite annoyingly fast speed. Let's bring this back into the shot a little bit here and if i turn it down to say one mega, you can actually start seeing the pulse of modulation. Frequency come in because changing the frequency i'm not really seeing much.

Flicker here, but loading that speed down will lower the everything it will lower the pulse of modulation frequency and it will lower the actual the speed at which it steps through the pattern - and, conversely, is this going to be too much? That's uh, if you put it right up to full, if you basically short, lowers it. It goes at super high speed which doesn't look too bad in a way, but it is continuously variable and uh, so it does have hackability to a degree but uh. As i say, it would have been quite nice just to have a cluster of flickering leds in that instead of the color changing. But i guess it's what you want to me putting out the pumpkin.

The pumpkin is inherently orange, so uh sort of yellow, flickering leds would actually look quite good in the pumpkin. But it's interesting enough. It's not a terribly expensive thing. It's a wee gimmicky! It's based on oh hold on.

Let's see if i can get one of the originals of what it's based on one moment please here we go an original ozram dot it light, and this is the predecessor to all these little stick on. Dollar store push lights, this one it was not a dollar. Let's put the batteries into it. No, this is what happens if you make that resistor position open circuit, it's not you're, seeing it flash because of the rolling shutter effect and the the interference the shutter speed, but in reality this is like super low speed, uh positive modulation.

Now because i've taken the resistor across and if i just put my fingers across these terminals and squeeze it will change the speed at which it does the uh. Does this pattern chase? But anyway, i digress. Let's whip the batteries out and stick them into the original order, dot and see if it still works, because this is one of the first led on lights. It was quite radical at times designer and expensive.

Oh it feels quite loose. Will it work uh, no yeah, that that's a an old and effective type of light? That's for another video, though another day, uh right! Okay! That will be why this was knocking about then, okay, so uh, that is what's inside the uh pound. Well, not poundland! Uh. The sainsburys and shoprite halloween light it's little rgb color changing one um, it's fine, it's absolutely fine as a novelty light.

Just as i say not what i was expecting. The flickering would have been interesting. The temptation is to butcher something and make it do that, but in the meantime that was it, it's not bad.