Pink pills and non-exploding lights. (mostly)

I've had LEDs "explode" on me before. I put too much v/i through one and it glowed orange. Turned it off. Tried again and it popped. I think it was thermal stresses not magic smoke that caused it. Overheating the LED caused parts to melt and become brittle.

CasualKitty

I recently converted a battery powered string of these lights to also accept usb power. Simple and versatile.

Michael Thompson

Love the charging cable with the Christmas lights. Unfortunately we don’t have a Poundland here in Denmark, but I found them at Flying Tiger Copenhagen. :D

Because Why-Nerd

Do these pills give the women a boner?

evilution

Anderson, have a look on Amazon for a second-hand copy of the fifth or sixth edition of "Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits" by Coughlin & Driscoll. It's a tertiary-level text but they take a very straightforward application-based approach covering use cases such as differential amplifiers and their use in instrumentation/signal transmission, audio signal generation/processing, signal buffering/impedance matching, pretty much everything that opamps are good at. All the formulae used are well-explained, and there are plenty of "classroom examples" and review questions to test your knowledge of a particular subject. Highly recommended.

Chris Talbot

I was expecting your hands to return into the shot after taking the pills for her with nail polish on :). Great video.

Mr. Clive, sir, might I suggest that the next time you decide to do a giveaway you make it one of your notepads full of official Big Clive Circuit doodles? I think that would be a neat thing to own, personally.

You can generally wire strings of lights in parallel if they are the same colour and from the same batch. As long as the forward voltages match they will all light fairly evenly. Alternatively for mixing colours you can put a resistor in series with each section and star them out from one USB plug.

Big Clive

Is there any way the Poundland USB lights can be extended - join 4 or 5....or more sets together? Have lots of them from the last few years and am running out of USB supplies to power them. Bought a load of the LED driver modules you used ages ago for the candescent to LED conversion - could these be used?

John Carr

The pills are really just vitamin pills. The ending was just a great desire to blow a fairy light into orbit.

Big Clive

Hey Clive, thanks for the videos. Because of you, I've built a bench that let's me do fun things from building circuits of my own. To shoving a resistor between two gummy bears and "surgically" running current through it in order to fuse the two bears together. Thank you, Joe. P.S. Were the pills at fault for that ending? Because it was one of my favorites.

Clive, I love the hilariously large calculator. Your videos have taught me almost everything I know and now I want to be a electrical engineer. I’m staring small with just some bins of resistors, capacitors, and other bits. Now I’m working my way up to op amps and so on. I haven’t quite figured out the op amps yet. Maybe you could make a video on those? Anyway, have a good day. -Anderson.