This lamp is really neat, and it's a nice combination of three different elements. The modern glass globes and bases designed for "retro" LED lamps, a typical driver chip for a single high power LED and a string of the copper wire LEDs.
I couldn't get it in my preferred warm white, but with the mod I show I can have any colour I want now.
I was hoping to provide a search link to these lamps, but I can only find one supplier on eBay at the moment. http://www.ebay.com/itm/291852830738
Banggood also have them at:-
http://www.banggood.com/E27-Star-Starry-Sky-Edison-50LED-Firework-Filament-Retro-Xmas-Decor-Light-5Color-Light-Bulb-AC85-265-p-1079455.html?admitad_uid=0534e79968b39174667cfe3a358a5675
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I couldn't get it in my preferred warm white, but with the mod I show I can have any colour I want now.
I was hoping to provide a search link to these lamps, but I can only find one supplier on eBay at the moment. http://www.ebay.com/itm/291852830738
Banggood also have them at:-
http://www.banggood.com/E27-Star-Starry-Sky-Edison-50LED-Firework-Filament-Retro-Xmas-Decor-Light-5Color-Light-Bulb-AC85-265-p-1079455.html?admitad_uid=0534e79968b39174667cfe3a358a5675
Remember to subscribe if you like stuff like this. It's what this channel is all about.
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
so do they have child labour led stuffers filling them?
So I was always told if you put diodes in parallel one ends up doing all the work and burns out… Not so with LEDs?
Oh no, these LED "wire-lights" begin to be "everywhere"!! 😒 I really starting not liking them!! 👎
(These LED "wire-lights" are cheap, hard to reuse, easily can be damaged, just looks boring…)
"I wanted to buy one…..to take it apart….let's take it to bits!!" yes!! yes!!
Whenever you have time, could you please make a 230v resistor dropper circuit for a one or three watt typical star based (single) led?
Cool mod.
You could change the colour using long, thin coloured tinsel strips and probably get the added benefit of tripling the light points or more.. Just probably an easier way to opt for a new mood to your great idea.
Clive back in the 70's a US called Tivoli Lighting made a similar lamp for use on a 24VAC or at 120VAC. They now have
an LED type that works on 120VAC. The older one had a glass globe and used incandescent lamps. The 24 v one used 6
lamps in series. They also had isle lighting for theaters. Still 24VAC and the 6 lamps were series parallel. That way if one
went out you did not loose the whole string. The lamps being incandescent and dimmable gave you a nice warm color.
These seem to be quite widely available now.
The simple thing I think serves the bigclivedotcom youtube channel most is the fact that the username is a website. It is a neat move since it has an FAQ there. I really do think however that the recent livestream would have been far better had a community member (well multiple to pick from actually) volunteered to be the moderator of the chat-window so as to redirect newcomers' FAQs in it to the webpage. Large audiences hold the average person and the average person does not RTFM (hence the phrase).
Is there Any gas filled inside the Bulb?
OK Im sure you don't accept mail from your subs but i just found those same lights in a goodwill here in the U.S. new in a box made by philips (not in a base) but they run on 3 AA for 6 hours on and 18 hours off… white and multi colors, I would love to send you one of each…
Clive, do you have Target stores in the UK? Our local stores are selling collections of large glass globes (just like yours), intended for the artistically-minded to make their own Xmas Tree Decorations. Of course these globes are also ideal for "DIY" light systems, so I'd think they'd be right up your street (especially as garden decorations).
Clive, how long do they take to get delivered?
How did you tear it down without smashing the glass? Was there any thermo-glue? Mine bulb has got something like plastic sealing, but I can't heat it up to separate glass off.