A pleasant waste of time.
Added 2019-12-14 00:33:19 +0000 UTCSometimes I get the urge to test a theory at the wrong time. I could have tested this on a string of 10 lights, but decided to try it out on a set of 200 instead.
This is just a short video of a personal project. I doubt it will get released for general viewing.
Maybe if it works and protects the LEDs I'll make a proper video, but it's so time consuming to do that I'm not sure other would choose to try it.
It makes me realise the amount of work that must be involved in the resin potting of all the lights on municipal LED strings.
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I use the glue lined heatshrink whenever possible; it's good but how much ooze depends on finished shrink ratio; so I love your trick of dobbing a bit of hotmelt first. Cheers!
Mike Page
2019-12-15 22:36:24 +0000 UTCThe more of a hammering they get the better.
Big Clive
2019-12-15 15:54:31 +0000 UTCGiven the current weather conditions here, I think those led's will have a fair old trying time!!! It's hammering down here in N Wales!!
Mike Hughes
2019-12-15 15:33:30 +0000 UTCIf it had been the full 200 LEDs it would have been a very long story. There was the time a guy attacked all our stuff with a hammer, including smashing the sockets around the monument and then trying to smash the glass of the nativity scene. He got accosted by the police and then tried to hit them with the hammer too, with didn't work out in his favour.
Big Clive
2019-12-14 23:09:26 +0000 UTCWhilst repetitively shrinking the sleeving, it would have been a great opportunity to tell a Big Clive Christmas story. It could have begun something like: "Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin. Once upon a time, I was up in a cherry picker installing Christmas lights, when..."
2019-12-14 19:13:53 +0000 UTCI don't think it gets hot enough here to do that, even in the summer. The main issue I've had with it in the past is delamination from plastics with temperature change, resulting in an air and moisture path into connections.
Big Clive
2019-12-14 18:01:33 +0000 UTCI've had trouble with hot melt outside in the summer. It drips out from the heat. It's probably ok there in the winter out of the sun though.
Nani Isobel
2019-12-14 06:46:56 +0000 UTCWell then I don't feel bad about winding and testing a joule thief transformer just before I saw this posted! The CFL bulb over my bench died, so I cut it open, grabbed the ferrite and wrapped it with some wire from a core scavenged from a junked Allen Bradley contactor. Lately when I find the smaller random ferrites I wrap 'em, test 'em and then they get popped into a bag for later application. Winding coils is very relaxing and may result in little emergency lighting kits for loved ones, and maybe a couple of folks I only just like. I have copied so many of your techniques, Clive. If I could buy you a round I'd buy you two. :D
Michael Thompson
2019-12-14 01:16:57 +0000 UTCmegadeath and metallica, what else?
Michael Gilchrest
2019-12-14 01:08:11 +0000 UTC
