Irksome LED lamp teardown

WLED has it's own GUI that you can control directly or you can use MQTT or even Alexa for basic on/off brightness and colour. It works really well with home assistant. You can group several lights together by setting them all to use the same UDP port and the sync setting. I had a go at writing my own firmware using MQTT but I figured the guy who wrote WLED made something way better than I could.....so I slipped him £20 and use my time for something else now. Free app too for controlling them 😀

Cool suggestion, I must check that out - got a few ESP32-CAM boards a while back to play with, hadn't considered using those. I could write an app to control them or, better still, make them talk to each other like furbies - the possibilities are endless

Gordo

If you are putting a pixel ring in there you may as well use an esp8266 with WLED so you can also control it with wifi https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED

Far from the worst, that big globe has potential. I'm thinking a neopixel LED ring and one of those Raspberry Pi Pico boards. I wrote a library for driving neopixel from Arduino a few years back and produced this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRIjJUruVfw

Gordo

..that should read "LED should last for years subject to application of official BigClive(r) Dubai Hack(tm)"

Gordo

Built to a cost, and in the end it costs you the most...

Dustin

I just saw on B&Q's homepage that one reviewer wrote about this lamp "Not cheap but with LED should last for years." erm, not so sure about that....

"It's lit 🔥🔥" - Big Clive, 2021

Justin Urhead

I think that emoji would work well in the centre of the bulb, oriented with the mouth towards its base.

Seán Byrne

Thank you for showing us. That is how everything I do works out

Simon Deards VK3FSPD

Yes forgot to mention that the new font is super cool!

Michael Thompson

Is it possible the issue is a maximum value issue with the BP chip - could the 10 ohm value be too high for the sense resistance?

Russell Peake

I have been loving the thumbnails lately. I feel like the 😱 emoji would be appropriate, maybe with large arrow pointing at bulb. EDIT: Possible Contenders: https://imgur.com/a/Xgy1m7U

c

I love Wilko! It's what's Woolies used to be like before they got greedy and failed. People should stick to what they're good at. Ditto B&Q, although I don't think they've ever been good for much except paint.

Mike Page

So say we all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3EzRAgjo_s

Michael Thompson

Personally when it all goes awry that's when things get uniquely cool as long as nobody gets hurt. I would throw some into slow color changer LEDs under that dome it looks like it would diffuse VERY nicely. Good stuff regardless!

Michael Thompson

Tell me about it, they hate me in wikos these days!! hahahaha

Mike Hughes

Given the propensity of the Big clive way of a Capacative dropper working for me 100% of the time, i would bin the Banff and Quinn circuit in favour of our Sensei Clive.

Mike Hughes

Inspired by previous Big Clive LED lamp videos, I recently tried opening an LED bulb that had ceased to function. It was glued like this one was, with about 600x more glue than necessary. I ended up breaking the tip off my nice iFixit spudger tool, which previously had stood up to all manner of abuse without even bending. Lesson learned!

Circuitmike

Wilko are good for screws. Its amazing how much you squeeze in one of their £2.99 fill me up with anything bags

could allways try one of those cooking no sliciehand gloves.. will still hurt/bruse.. but wont slice hand open...

Scott Traynor

I always found them cheaper than Homebase, but Wickes was often the cheapest. I still have a good stock of screws as my parents kept an ironmongers shop until the early '70s, the boxes still have the old pre-decimal prices.

Back in the 90s they were perhaps good value, but cooked their goose a long time ago. Once they started charging £5 for a "packet" of 10 screws, they were done.

Mike Page

Very entertaining and informative, as usual. B & Q started up in Southampton about 50 years ago as Block & Quayle. They also own the Screwfix chain of stores, which originally started up in Yeovil, not far from the Westland Helicopter factory and Yeovil Town FC's ground.

As AvE would say " If it ain't broken, fix it till it is." I never doubted for a second that in the end, you would make it look even warmer and cosier. As for using too much unreasonable force, is there too much when it fails to comply with your wishes,screws or not ?

What a way to brighten up a boring Monday afternoon!

John Carr