50 Watt or not?

Great Video Thank You Big Clive

Indeed, looks like Clive tried probing YouTube with a spudger - I open my web browser this morning and a pop-up appears saying BigClive is live, so I click for curiosity and get a "This livestream has ended" screen, so figure I just missed it. A few minutes later while Googling something, I get another pop-up saying BigClive is live and yet again get the same livestream has ended page. After arriving at work ~9am, my phone bleeps to say, ... BigClive is live. I touch it and only get the replay screen for earlier stream. So far no further notifications...

Seán Byrne

Did you guys hear? Clive broke the YouTubes! It was stellar.

Michael Thompson

I have never heard the term "flip-chip" before, it was interesting to search eBay with that term. My first hit was a $40,000 machine for producing said chips. I was going to order a few of the chips in this video but became intrigued with something labeled 70 watt flip chip array with dimmer. The remote was a standard little thing but the receiver was just a small whip of wire with a narrow section of circuitry molded in. I had to order a couple for my work bench. As always clive many thanks for the videos and the things I stumble across because of your videos! The array is quite large and should provide even lighting with just a couple above my bench.

Jim

I wonder if they're just implying that the 20W driver is for the 5 by 10 arrays often rated at 50W. It would certainly make them last longer. If the drivers I've ordered are actually 50W they will be used with 10 by 10 100W LED arrays.

Big Clive

I've not really made a dedicated video about bench tools. I really should have a full set of proper drivers to hand. It's a bit naughty to chew up screw heads with the nearest random driver.

Big Clive

I noticed the LED driver is rated for 24-36VDC output at 600mA (+/-5%), and then it says 10 <chinese character="">5<chinese character="">50W. Wouldn't that make it 12 - 14 Watts?</chinese></chinese>

Mike Bird

Tried to email with a link to my vid on these, thought it might be useful, keeps getting blocked by Google. If you want to see, its on my YouTube channel, just search for my name.

The Tinkering Shed

I was wondering about the power rating and the power factor. Do you think they are rating the about 20 W as 50 W to compensate for the power factor? In other words you'd have to rate the lamp as higher power than it is to estimate the power supply requirements. Or it could be they are just cheating. They didn't even ground it.

Nani Isobel

Its funny how UK based companies are expected to sell products that are as advertised and that comply with UK safety regs but when it comes to UK based sellers on eBay they generally get away with it. I wonder if one day the authorities will tackle this like they have over sellers not paying taxes due.

John Russell

Anyone else notice the chinglish colour labeling on the driver output "Brown" and "Brue" 😂 Top quality.

I put some new bench lights in a couple of weeks ago, they were £9 each from B&Q, had to add smoothing to eliminate the flicker but the result was good (I think!). They are 17.5w each and use side mounted tape behind a diffused panel, the output is very diffused, don't know about CRI though.

The Tinkering Shed

Thanks for the video. I will wait till the new COB is more mainstream before buying a flood light.

Hub Rijcks

Clive as I listen to your Philips screwdriver skidding out on those screw heads it made me think about tools and what drives your choices. I drank the name brand tool kool aid years ago, but do like the high quality. Have you ever made a video about bench tools?

Michael Thompson

Great stuff as always Clive! So enjoyable

Michael Thompson

Better manufacturing process = lower manufacturing errors = cheaper production costs = cheaper parts = better quality products

That's them in the video above the bench. I'll be using standard LEDs in the 50W version to try it on the other bench that allows larger objects to be filmed.

Big Clive

What happened to your special high CRI lights?

Mark Trombley

Do I sense a fraction of quality creeping into these generic Chinese floodlights??? Surely not!

Mike Wynne