Revisiting dancing flame LED candles.
Added 2017-12-31 04:47:14 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpK9beBN98s
It's a while since I had a look at a dancing flame style candle. These effects use a pulsed magnetic field to deflect a plastic flame in front of a focused LED to create a surprisingly realistic flame effect.
This is a recently purchased Premier one, and for the cost (about £3) it's a very good unit. One notable feature is that it draws about 20mA with a fresh set of alkaline cells, and considerably less as the voltage falls. It will happily run on a set of rechargeable NiMh AAA cells for a very long time.
At this price it's worth buying just for the internal module.
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For what it's worth, these are the ones I got. They look pretty much exactly like the cheapest ones in the video, but they came with a little IR remote that lets you turn them on and off from across the room, and they have a timer function to turn them on and off, etc. (Probably why they go through batteries faster, huh?) Still, we've been enjoying them. <a href="http://a.co/d1GtchX" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://a.co/d1GtchX</a>
Daddy Bearcat
2018-01-22 01:29:30 +0000 UTCOkay - I broke down and bought some of these candles, and they're really nice. They chewed through a set of non-rechargeable AAA cells in about a week at roughly 3-4 hours a day. So now I'm looking at NMh batteries and chargers. Anyone have any experience with this setup? <a href="http://a.co/aRVuP7M" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://a.co/aRVuP7M</a>
Daddy Bearcat
2018-01-22 01:27:11 +0000 UTCYeah, the price varies dramatically. A local garden place was selling them at a high price too.
Big Clive
2018-01-06 20:04:04 +0000 UTCI saw one of the Premier candles today at a garden centre I'd been dragged to by my other half. They wanted £12 for it!
2018-01-06 19:51:43 +0000 UTCThe coil is probably made from self-bonding magnet wire. Enamelled wire with a special overcoat, which adds bonding capability. It's activated by heat or solvents.
2018-01-03 00:09:16 +0000 UTCYou should definitly try isopropyl on hotglue, sooo many people don't know that trick and it works brilliantly :)
Daniel Rotskas
2018-01-02 18:49:30 +0000 UTCManchester (insert locale of your choice) spanner = hammer. If brute force and ignorance doesn't work..... get a bigger hammer.
Malcolm J Bannister
2018-01-02 11:25:40 +0000 UTCMe too and I suspect we weren't the only ones.
2017-12-31 18:59:04 +0000 UTCMy father, a telephone engineer, was using brute force and ignorance in the '70s (and probably earlier) so I suspect it's a fairly common term or at least used to be. I get a warm, fuzzy reminder of my youth when Clive says it but then Clive always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. ☺
2017-12-31 18:58:36 +0000 UTCJust shows how off I was. I though the one on the right looked the most expensive! Haha.
Paul Carey
2017-12-31 13:56:16 +0000 UTC"Brute force and Ignorance" I dub thee a "Big Cliveism" Right up there with the "slip joint pliers of scientific inquiry" Happy New Year, everybody! I'm off to do the "all 4 games hack" on a Tiny Arcade Space Invaders! Woo hoo!
Michael Thompson
2017-12-31 11:43:32 +0000 UTC
