My version was sold with a dichroic filter. It lets through a different color depending on the angle of the light. So you have a nice gradual mix of two different colors. I was so pleased that I ordered a small roll of the film to retrofit other led lights.
Interesting how they didn't even seen to bother passing the wire through the stand, though the capability of doing so seems to be there. xD Could make for a good sunrise alarm clock project thing. Even as an independent module to go with a regular alarm clock.
Thanks Clive. The casing alone is sooooo hackable. The different kinds of leds it can be fitted with. Plus lots of room in base for a salvaged diy tp4056 rechargeable battery pack and an old speaker magnet. Making it portable
Yeah that's a nice hackable item. I've put a capacitor dropper on such a large base. The only downside is that there is no place for a reflector so it's better to avoid filament style led arrays.
Fyi, the stem is usually hollowed out to pass the cable through it without pinching it at the rotation point. That's why the foam insert for the base is splitted. Though your base doesn't seem to have a hole for the cable to go through.
Not sure where my head is at today but I thought you meant sunset as in the later years of life and the lamp would slowly fade away the longer it was left on Moving on…looks like a nice little piece to use as a base project or even as a standard desk lamp. Surprising what can be picked up cheaply and easily customisable 👍
Clive, I came across something similar some time ago. It was utilized on a piece of equipment and had a magnetic base. It had a gooseneck on it, and was fairly well made. I plan to add it to my drill press.
Very good lamp for the price, we have a few 'One Beyond' shops in south Wales. I'll look after Christmas as I dislike crowds as I'm disabled and people often don't see slow walking people. Good post and looking forward to Yule, thanks Clive 👍
I got the same thing at a store called Princess Auto in Canada. They have a surplus section which sells crap electronics. It was about $15 Canadian. I did enjoy the deep yellow sunset filter at night when I was working on my computer.
Princess Auto's surplus section is so hit or miss like that. I feel like a lot of products like this are consistently priced about 20% more than I'd be willing to pay, but other times you get some really nice deals.
The green with the dot reminded me of the old magic eye tubes, if you could make a small stereo vu meter with maybe some battery indicator leds it might give the same effect
Ive got a huge chunk of Pink Salt with a LED stuffed inside. Reminds me of the old High Pressure Sodium lamps we used for street lighting. That looks like a good project to hack. 👍
I bought a different brand, and it showed up terribly beaten up, in a busted box. I never even knew it was suposed to include filters, but that would explain the images showing other colors on the Amazon page. Learning that just elevated my mood - see, the light works!
I believe they routinely mark all of these 3535 size footprint AL heatsink adapters. Since you can buy them in bulk separetly and they still come with Cree indication as if it signifies this type of footpring in CN market.
Thanks Big Clive for yet another interesting and delightfully hackable light source. For that price they could be used as wall lights, night lights or just about anything. It would be interesting to replace that LED with an RGB or RGBW variant and run a thin multicore cable out of it. It would then be possible to run several off an RGB controller or basic DMX decoder. To take it to, I suppose, one extreme would be to have a miniature DMX-RGB decoder in the base of each light unit so all they would need would be power and a DMX signal. They would then be individually addressable and controllable, which could make them rather useful for certain projects such as TH-cam, miniature theatre or as controllable props in regular theatre. All sorts of fun and interesting possibilities... Thinking about it, it's been quite a while since you did a video on lighting control and associated electronics. It would be interesting to know what devices and fixtures you've come across and how they work. A video, for axample, on the smallest DMX chip and how to use it. Automation can make things so much more interesting and DMX control is not so difficult these days.... Just a few thoughts you've inspired watching your videos.
Mine was a slightly rubberised version, it was supposed to be bendable every which way, it wasn't, and looked a little dishevelled because it never went back into position, the usb lead going up the central support so it never really dangled about I've seen some use a dichroic filter to change the lighting effect, mine had a little metalised film inside to provide the effect, which was very easy to lose I'm unsure how I never managed to scratch the plastic lens, subsequently it lived on the side of the bed, mostly getting in the way I have to say the one I had was significantly better at making a bi-colour gradient toward the edges
I do like those, even if they're long. It's just satisfying to follow him start to finish on something. I would try some myself but my dexterity is degrading so I live vicariously. 😊
I assume those filters with the darker spot in the middle are for shining light directly into your face for "antidepressant light bathing" in the low daylight season. The darker spot probably hides the LED's glaring hotspot in the middle when you look directly into the lamp.
Oh I have the exact same lamp, except mine has a 3 colour cob led with remote, and a curious cellophane film behind the lens that creates a pretty colour change across the projected light. Otherwise physically identical, it cost around £8 from Ali, about 2 years ago.
Sweet little unit, great find I still fill chill sauce tubs with coloured washing up liquid for my coloured lenses. The thick gel consistency allows a purple berry blob in the middle of lemon fresh.. Or a 50/50 seperated with a thin bit of card and removed once full, Projects peach up the wall and mellow yellow towards the user. Coloured Permanent markers work well to for the rainbow effect. But even I couldnt grumble about four quid.
Useful light 👍. The soldering looks like my first attempts aged 8. Shame the whole swivel assembly isn't hollow, or you could bring the wire right through the stem and exit through the base
i'm curious what happens when you would put in a round COB disc that's just big enough to keep the foam around the edge to ensure the distance to the lens. Now since the whole backside glows, the outer most leds would still shine through the lens but at such an extreme angle... Would the lamp just have a bigger illuminated circle or would it stay the same? Would the rainbow change size?
Is it just me, or does it it looks like the lamp was initially ment to run the wire trough the pipe, and end inside the base? I don't get a clear view, but i think you could probably drill a hole for a switch, add some batteries, and maybe a USB port to recharge the batteries, and turn it into a portable one... as long as the pipe is hollow.
I'm curious to know if the base is heavy enough to keep it from tipping over at the slightest bumps? Great video, you sharing your knowledge is a great experience for us.
I bought 2 of these years ago from I think ali, they are pretty cool, though I had the experience of getting 2 identical boxes but 2 different style lamps, one had a gooseneck from about 1/3 of the way from the light up and one was just solid, one had the cord inside the stem and one didn't, one had a weighted base and one didn't, nonetheless an interesting product, I had the idea of hooking them up to a smart switch with USB ports and using my alexa to turn them on, but that fell through when I couldn't find a smart switch under $40AUD and I'm not competent enough to do my own.
Great Video as always… have you looked into the One Below / Beyond PRISM LED cube clip light .. a 6 LED multi white rechargeable book light. Very bright but extremely short life … guess it’s using a Button Cell li-ion .. but only £2 .. worth a look see .. still trying to break into mine LOL
I'm really tempted to go pick one of these up later. I've got a 4x4 WS2812B PCB connected to an ESP running WLED, it's going to be interesting to see what the projection looks like from a 4x4 grid of RGB.
Got mine from Ali. It's very much _not_ what Clive got. lol - Mine is the same housing and clear bubble, but the guts are that single LED 24 button remote setup. It'll certainly get used, just not where I thought! lol
Speaking of sunset 🌆🌇 lighting, I have my string of individually addressable led lights from TCP, set down to a very pleasant and relaxing sunset orange. In the daytime I let them go bonkers in a six colour changing (RGB CYM) sequence, but at night, it's definitely got to be that sunset orange. Likewise, I have a 35W SOX lamp in the yard, which I also like a lot. There's just something about that orange glow which says "Day's over, time to settle down for the night"!
I designed a theme of lights for Qbis around the warm look. I suggested the name Autumn lights, but they went with sunset lights to make them an all year round theme. The LEDs are all red, orange and yellow for a very cosy glow. It also had the huge advantage of the use of traditional non gallium nitride LEDs for very long life.
Reminds me of the “color therapy” fad a few years back to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder. There was a push to market lamps of a specific blue meant to mimic a clear sky to people who became depressed during winter supposedly due to part of the brain not being stimulated by enough exposure to natural light. They were supposedly effective for people who basically never went outdoors too. I’ve read science fiction stories with underground extraterrestrial colonies using scheduled colored lighting schemes for the same purpose, based on the SAD concept. I don’t know how valid the concept is- I personally seem not to be affected by such things- but if your intentional mimicking of sunset lighting helps some people calm themselves after a long hard day, that’s a good thing. Not getting enough sleep seems to be becoming something of an epidemic.
Clive is there a Website where you can get them from? Im not from the UK so the only Option i can think of is Ebay. However on Ebay they cost about 15 bucks compared to the 4 quid you paid.
Although it doesn't, is it possible to route the cable down through the stem so there are no wires showing? or is the stem solid or blocked? If you can, it makes you wonder why they didn't...
I've been using a very similar product - though I think it's cheaper made and more expensive at $15 AUD - as a work lamp in my workshop! Got it at a Miniso but I might see if the discount shop has any. I was thinking of putting in a different LED because the warm white has quite bad colour accuracy and I've been painting stuff of late.
Quite correct ! stuff the base with 18650's ( in parallel ! ) no need for the concrete ! ! ( the BIG advantage of 3v7 Lithium cells is the LED's go dim at around 3 Volts so you NEVER discharge them to their wreck point ! ..... DAVE™🛑
The so called "spectral fringing" is called Chromatic Aberration. It happens because the lens begins to split the various wavelength components of light so that each component will have a different focal point. An achromatic doublet, basically a second lens in front of the first to correct the wavelength-specific focal points, is one way of reducing it!
oh god LOL ... when i joined amazon vine the first item i rated 1 star was the tripod version of this being sold for £15 but i found them on wish or ali express at under £5 each. mine had a very large amount of thermal compound splodged inside and the lens was horribly scratched on the inside and then the cheap and nasty tripod broke after a few hours ! i still have the light section stuffed in a draw never to be used again lol
I wonder how well an RGB LED would work? A diffuser would be required to mix the colours. Perhaps some translucent silicone rubber over the LED would work.
It's rather like an enlargened version of the long discontinued Ikea "Varva" USB LED mini-spotlights, but with the option of those filters, though for mine I just took the lenses out and had them clipped onto shelving, and then I lost them when rearranging stuff, may have accidentally binned them... :(
Les Pounder did a good video on removing the Installed LED & replacing it with a neopixel ring & adding a esp8266 to control the colour / brightness & animation via WLED
I have one of those! Except with mine they fed the wire through the neck to the base. And that is soo much not a Cree that I'm surprised they didn't spell it with a K.
Have you ever looked at any of the rechargeable electric hand warmers. I would be really interested to get your take on it considering heat and rechargeable batteries usually don't mix well
How consistent is the stock and selection between individual One Beyond stores? Even a lot of the major used-to-be-$1 stores here can get pretty inconsistent with what's carried at one store but not another.
I used to think they did that just to make you visit more than one store, but more likely the chain buys discontinued or closeout merchandise and they sometimes don't have enough stock to ship to all their locations.
How hot does it get? I have a torch (or flashlight as the Americans would call it) that claims to be an Ultrafire. I got it on eBay from a Chinese vendor so ... Anyway, I had a flexhose water connector under the main bathroom sink develop a leak (tiny little thing that I could have just taped up but it was about 25 years old and seemed to be going and it was easy enough to replace it). Well, that's when the drama started. I struggled to get it loose from the hot water tap under the sink due to rust. The other end connects into the wall and was OK. The space under the sink was so tight I used a shaving mirror and this torch to see what I was doing. After a long struggle, I managed to get it off. But the torch got so hot at its head. It had a COB behind a lens. The head unscrews so you can replace the battery but I can't seem to take the head itself apart. The COB is clear enough behind the lens. No branding on it. Not sure why it would get so hot. After 10 minutes it's very hot to the touch. I found that a little unusual.
Actually, this Cob would be better for my camera lamp project, Clive. Tho, I don't think we have one of those stores in Belfast to get one of these for myself.
You could glue some lead weights into the base to make it more stable... It reminds me of the old candlestick microphones... Cool for the price of admission! 👍
I would like that lamp with something like a Nichia Ultra-High CRI LED emitter in it... 👌 It would be great for electronic work. Resistor color bands wouldn't be such an eye strain.
Yup, this one is tinkerer-ready. Let's ditch the CREEnge led though. Too bad we don't have One-and-Beyond stores on the other side of the channel though 😖 .
That's absolutelty worth it for the enclosure! I bet a lot of us could make some super fun and interesting things with that. I wonder if I could get ahold of one here in the states. 🤔
Not meaning to come off at someone challenging a TH-camr to a swinging weenie contest, but I dare say our 5 Below chain is (or at least, was) working with a supplier that stepped their internal component game way up on whoever your chain's supplier was, BUT... I am experiencing a little bit of "shaft envy" with yours being neutral. I freaking HATE using any plastics for external components when making client projects or gifts, so y'all got us there!
My version was sold with a dichroic filter. It lets through a different color depending on the angle of the light. So you have a nice gradual mix of two different colors. I was so pleased that I ordered a small roll of the film to retrofit other led lights.
Let's what?
One step Beyond? - That's Madness!
Interesting how they didn't even seen to bother passing the wire through the stand, though the capability of doing so seems to be there. xD
Could make for a good sunrise alarm clock project thing. Even as an independent module to go with a regular alarm clock.
I thought that until I realised there is a pivot at the top making a lot more of a faff to assemble for £4.
Thanks Clive. The casing alone is sooooo hackable. The different kinds of leds it can be fitted with. Plus lots of room in base for a salvaged diy tp4056 rechargeable battery pack and an old speaker magnet. Making it portable
Yeah that's a nice hackable item. I've put a capacitor dropper on such a large base.
The only downside is that there is no place for a reflector so it's better to avoid filament style led arrays.
Fyi, the stem is usually hollowed out to pass the cable through it without pinching it at the rotation point. That's why the foam insert for the base is splitted. Though your base doesn't seem to have a hole for the cable to go through.
Not sure where my head is at today but I thought you meant sunset as in the later years of life and the lamp would slowly fade away the longer it was left on
Moving on…looks like a nice little piece to use as a base project or even as a standard desk lamp. Surprising what can be picked up cheaply and easily customisable 👍
Clive, I came across something similar some time ago. It was utilized on a piece of equipment and had a magnetic base. It had a gooseneck on it, and was fairly well made. I plan to add it to my drill press.
It's nice that the chromatic aberration of the cheap lens is actually an "feature" providing that artistic fringing at the edge.
Very good lamp for the price, we have a few 'One Beyond' shops in south Wales. I'll look after Christmas as I dislike crowds as I'm disabled and people often don't see slow walking people. Good post and looking forward to Yule, thanks Clive 👍
Heck, I'm not disabled but I still avoid going in stores like the plague this time of year.
I got the same thing at a store called Princess Auto in Canada. They have a surplus section which sells crap electronics. It was about $15 Canadian.
I did enjoy the deep yellow sunset filter at night when I was working on my computer.
I wonder if Canadian Tire carries this.
Jeez, they're humping you on the prices up there in Canaderp
@@davelowets That's because Canuks use Monopoly money.
Princess Auto's surplus section is so hit or miss like that. I feel like a lot of products like this are consistently priced about 20% more than I'd be willing to pay, but other times you get some really nice deals.
Same!!, small world. I like the orange red tint to be behind my back.
The green with the dot reminded me of the old magic eye tubes, if you could make a small stereo vu meter with maybe some battery indicator leds it might give the same effect
congratulations on 1 million subscribers
Car headlight lens works well to make such lamp. Slapped one on Philips Hue Iris some years ago, have short demo video how it looks.
Merry Christmas 🎄 Clive
And have a fabulous Hogmanay.i look forward to seeing more from you in 2024 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
looks nice, and it has space in the base for more electronics, maybe an auto switch off timer?
Or a PHAT lithium cell.
Ive got a huge chunk of Pink Salt with a LED stuffed inside. Reminds me of the old High Pressure Sodium lamps we used for street lighting.
That looks like a good project to hack. 👍
I bought a different brand, and it showed up terribly beaten up, in a busted box. I never even knew it was suposed to include filters, but that would explain the images showing other colors on the Amazon page. Learning that just elevated my mood - see, the light works!
Plenty in stock at Southport One Beyond!
I also picked up a little LED clip on ring light (£1) to mount around my pcb drill press.
I believe they routinely mark all of these 3535 size footprint AL heatsink adapters. Since you can buy them in bulk separetly and they still come with Cree indication as if it signifies this type of footpring in CN market.
Brilliant lamp Clive I may go shopping tomorrow thanks Clive 😊
Thanks Big Clive for yet another interesting and delightfully hackable light source. For that price they could be used as wall lights, night lights or just about anything. It would be interesting to replace that LED with an RGB or RGBW variant and run a thin multicore cable out of it. It would then be possible to run several off an RGB controller or basic DMX decoder. To take it to, I suppose, one extreme would be to have a miniature DMX-RGB decoder in the base of each light unit so all they would need would be power and a DMX signal. They would then be individually addressable and controllable, which could make them rather useful for certain projects such as TH-cam, miniature theatre or as controllable props in regular theatre. All sorts of fun and interesting possibilities...
Thinking about it, it's been quite a while since you did a video on lighting control and associated electronics. It would be interesting to know what devices and fixtures you've come across and how they work. A video, for axample, on the smallest DMX chip and how to use it. Automation can make things so much more interesting and DMX control is not so difficult these days.... Just a few thoughts you've inspired watching your videos.
It looks like you could run the wire down through the stem into the base where you have hidden your Mr Fusion power pack.
Mine was a slightly rubberised version, it was supposed to be bendable every which way, it wasn't, and looked a little dishevelled because it never went back into position, the usb lead going up the central support so it never really dangled about
I've seen some use a dichroic filter to change the lighting effect, mine had a little metalised film inside to provide the effect, which was very easy to lose I'm unsure how I never managed to scratch the plastic lens, subsequently it lived on the side of the bed, mostly getting in the way
I have to say the one I had was significantly better at making a bi-colour gradient toward the edges
At first glance, I thought you were referencing the classic Madness song, "One Step Beyond."
Not familiar with that song since I’m an Old Fart. I briefly connected it with the early 60s US TV show with the same name.
One step beyond was Madness's debut single I believe. Well over 40 years old now! @@markfergerson2145
They used to play that tune all the time during the first year of MTV in the US. I was 6, so I grew up with a healthy love of Ska.
I miss that song and vid..I had to pause this vid to watch the other one a few times ..I miss the 80s.
Great tune 🕺🏾
I have something like this but it's a family dollar version. It does work and it puts a very nice orange circle on the ceiling.
Clive can you make some follow-up videos where you hack such things?
I do like those, even if they're long. It's just satisfying to follow him start to finish on something. I would try some myself but my dexterity is degrading so I live vicariously. 😊
Nice lamp, has a lot of options available to suit the purpose with different LED's.
I assume those filters with the darker spot in the middle are for shining light directly into your face for "antidepressant light bathing" in the low daylight season. The darker spot probably hides the LED's glaring hotspot in the middle when you look directly into the lamp.
The edging is referred to as Chromatic aberration
Oh that's quite interesting Clive, may have to add one to my collection. Frankly the housing alone looks like it could be hacked for multiple uses.
Oh I have the exact same lamp, except mine has a 3 colour cob led with remote, and a curious cellophane film behind the lens that creates a pretty colour change across the projected light. Otherwise physically identical, it cost around £8 from Ali, about 2 years ago.
Search on eBay for dichroic film.
@@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger “yes”.
Sweet little unit, great find
I still fill chill sauce tubs with coloured washing up liquid for my coloured lenses.
The thick gel consistency allows a purple berry blob in the middle of lemon fresh..
Or a 50/50 seperated with a thin bit of card and removed once full,
Projects peach up the wall and mellow yellow towards the user.
Coloured Permanent markers work well to for the rainbow effect.
But even I couldnt grumble about four quid.
That is a very nice lamp...wish we had those stores here :)
Available in all good (?) Chinese landfill sites!
There's got to be something like it on eBay or maybe Amazon.
Just noticed you have 1M subscribers. Congratulations!
Useful light 👍. The soldering looks like my first attempts aged 8. Shame the whole swivel assembly isn't hollow, or you could bring the wire right through the stem and exit through the base
i'm curious what happens when you would put in a round COB disc that's just big enough to keep the foam around the edge to ensure the distance to the lens. Now since the whole backside glows, the outer most leds would still shine through the lens but at such an extreme angle... Would the lamp just have a bigger illuminated circle or would it stay the same? Would the rainbow change size?
Is it just me, or does it it looks like the lamp was initially ment to run the wire trough the pipe, and end inside the base? I don't get a clear view, but i think you could probably drill a hole for a switch, add some batteries, and maybe a USB port to recharge the batteries, and turn it into a portable one... as long as the pipe is hollow.
I'd love to pop one of those round LCD-screens into one of these, and see how that looks!
Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year yet again Clive. Hasn't the year passed quickly? I hope this year that you do get a sore bottom, 🤞👍
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I'm curious to know if the base is heavy enough to keep it from tipping over at the slightest bumps?
Great video, you sharing your knowledge is a great experience for us.
It would be easy enough to add weight to it. My first thought would be to just stick a bag on sand in the base.
The one I got falls over if you look at it wrong. Got it at the dollar general.
I bought 2 of these years ago from I think ali, they are pretty cool, though I had the experience of getting 2 identical boxes but 2 different style lamps, one had a gooseneck from about 1/3 of the way from the light up and one was just solid, one had the cord inside the stem and one didn't, one had a weighted base and one didn't, nonetheless an interesting product, I had the idea of hooking them up to a smart switch with USB ports and using my alexa to turn them on, but that fell through when I couldn't find a smart switch under $40AUD and I'm not competent enough to do my own.
USB Powered aka 5vDC if you were wondering (Back of the box says so)
Great Video as always… have you looked into the One Below / Beyond PRISM LED cube clip light .. a 6 LED multi white rechargeable book light. Very bright but extremely short life … guess it’s using a Button Cell li-ion .. but only £2 .. worth a look see .. still trying to break into mine LOL
Just what I need. Enhanced vibes.
I'm really tempted to go pick one of these up later.
I've got a 4x4 WS2812B PCB connected to an ESP running WLED, it's going to be interesting to see what the projection looks like from a 4x4 grid of RGB.
I'd be SUPER interested in following this idea.
@@midiwall Thanks, I didn't make it out for one today, hopefully tomorrow.
I'll do a simple video and reply here once it's up.
@@midiwall Picked one up today, got a few clips recorded, should have a video up soon 😁
@@welshdave5263 excellent! I found one on Ali Express, remote, taller pole, $6. Downside of course is that it'll be another week for me. 😎
Got mine from Ali. It's very much _not_ what Clive got. lol - Mine is the same housing and clear bubble, but the guts are that single LED 24 button remote setup. It'll certainly get used, just not where I thought! lol
Reminds me of the cafe table lamps you showed us.
I bet you were faster than a tiger when you saw that.
He was fast like a bear. 😂
3:05 I wonder if this is an optical illusion. If you mark out a tiny ring to separate the yellow and green I bet it would be way more distinct.
Speaking of sunset 🌆🌇 lighting, I have my string of individually addressable led lights from TCP, set down to a very pleasant and relaxing sunset orange. In the daytime I let them go bonkers in a six colour changing (RGB CYM) sequence, but at night, it's definitely got to be that sunset orange. Likewise, I have a 35W SOX lamp in the yard, which I also like a lot. There's just something about that orange glow which says "Day's over, time to settle down for the night"!
I designed a theme of lights for Qbis around the warm look. I suggested the name Autumn lights, but they went with sunset lights to make them an all year round theme. The LEDs are all red, orange and yellow for a very cosy glow. It also had the huge advantage of the use of traditional non gallium nitride LEDs for very long life.
Reminds me of the “color therapy” fad a few years back to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder. There was a push to market lamps of a specific blue meant to mimic a clear sky to people who became depressed during winter supposedly due to part of the brain not being stimulated by enough exposure to natural light. They were supposedly effective for people who basically never went outdoors too.
I’ve read science fiction stories with underground extraterrestrial colonies using scheduled colored lighting schemes for the same purpose, based on the SAD concept.
I don’t know how valid the concept is- I personally seem not to be affected by such things- but if your intentional mimicking of sunset lighting helps some people calm themselves after a long hard day, that’s a good thing. Not getting enough sleep seems to be becoming something of an epidemic.
The dots are maybe for reduced brightness when the lights pointed at your face? but why for only the green ones
With the black dot, it looks like an eye!
Clive is there a Website where you can get them from? Im not from the UK so the only Option i can think of is Ebay. However on Ebay they cost about 15 bucks compared to the 4 quid you paid.
I'd expect Temu to have some.
Although it doesn't, is it possible to route the cable down through the stem so there are no wires showing? or is the stem solid or blocked?
If you can, it makes you wonder why they didn't...
Looks like the ball joint is in the way.
I think the green with a dark patch is for if you record a green screen for socials ect
I've been using a very similar product - though I think it's cheaper made and more expensive at $15 AUD - as a work lamp in my workshop! Got it at a Miniso but I might see if the discount shop has any. I was thinking of putting in a different LED because the warm white has quite bad colour accuracy and I've been painting stuff of late.
You can get high CRI (Color Rendering Index) LEDs, but beware of eBay ones claiming to be so. A cold white LED might work better.
The thread in the top looks like a standard tripod mount thread too so could be used for mounting other things.
Would love to see you actually do the hack Clive. Love the lamp though.
Quite correct ! stuff the base with 18650's ( in parallel ! ) no need for the concrete ! ! ( the BIG advantage of 3v7 Lithium cells is the LED's go dim at around 3 Volts so you NEVER discharge them to their wreck point ! ..... DAVE™🛑
The so called "spectral fringing" is called Chromatic Aberration.
It happens because the lens begins to split the various wavelength components of light so that each component will have a different focal point.
An achromatic doublet, basically a second lens in front of the first to correct the wavelength-specific focal points, is one way of reducing it!
Looks like this was designed to run the cables internally through the fittings.
oh god LOL ... when i joined amazon vine the first item i rated 1 star was the tripod version of this being sold for £15 but i found them on wish or ali express at under £5 each.
mine had a very large amount of thermal compound splodged inside and the lens was horribly scratched on the inside and then the cheap and nasty tripod broke after a few hours !
i still have the light section stuffed in a draw never to be used again lol
Spher-o-chroma-tism,
or Chromatic Abrration to We Mere Mortals.😆
Yeah I could do with a couple, as in-fill lamps over the bench
Nice find Clive 👍
I wonder how well an RGB LED would work? A diffuser would be required to mix the colours. Perhaps some translucent silicone rubber over the LED would work.
Purer colors, and more efficient.
It's rather like an enlargened version of the long discontinued Ikea "Varva" USB LED mini-spotlights, but with the option of those filters, though for mine I just took the lenses out and had them clipped onto shelving, and then I lost them when rearranging stuff, may have accidentally binned them... :(
Hmm, not bad at all, in fact I'd be tempted to use it as-is, then modify it if anything failed in it. Excellent product from OneBelow again!
There are at least two versions of the astronaut nebula lamp you featured, a more expensive unit with the laser class 1 warning labels.
Why don't you post that under the video about the astronaut lamp? 🤔
How is it powered? I guess usb 5v? because i think i saw a power bank on the table. But not the pink onee 🤨
USB.
Les Pounder did a good video on removing the Installed LED & replacing it with a neopixel ring & adding a esp8266 to control the colour / brightness & animation via WLED
do you have the link?
I have one of those! Except with mine they fed the wire through the neck to the base. And that is soo much not a Cree that I'm surprised they didn't spell it with a K.
Have you ever looked at any of the rechargeable electric hand warmers. I would be really interested to get your take on it considering heat and rechargeable batteries usually don't mix well
I have looked at them in the past.
The only downfall I can think of is vertical stability with the lack of weight in the base.
You could print a gobo and project an image on the walll with it.
Is the enclosure deep enough to house an ESP32-cam? it would be interesting to take a picture through that bullseye😂
How consistent is the stock and selection between individual One Beyond stores? Even a lot of the major used-to-be-$1 stores here can get pretty inconsistent with what's carried at one store but not another.
I've only been to one branch.
I used to think they did that just to make you visit more than one store, but more likely the chain buys discontinued or closeout merchandise and they sometimes don't have enough stock to ship to all their locations.
A question about Cree. How do you know if you have a genuine Cree LED/module?
I'm not sure how to identify clones versus the real thing.
Many uses for that light
How hot does it get? I have a torch (or flashlight as the Americans would call it) that claims to be an Ultrafire. I got it on eBay from a Chinese vendor so ...
Anyway, I had a flexhose water connector under the main bathroom sink develop a leak (tiny little thing that I could have just taped up but it was about 25 years old and seemed to be going and it was easy enough to replace it). Well, that's when the drama started. I struggled to get it loose from the hot water tap under the sink due to rust. The other end connects into the wall and was OK.
The space under the sink was so tight I used a shaving mirror and this torch to see what I was doing. After a long struggle, I managed to get it off.
But the torch got so hot at its head. It had a COB behind a lens. The head unscrews so you can replace the battery but I can't seem to take the head itself apart. The COB is clear enough behind the lens. No branding on it. Not sure why it would get so hot. After 10 minutes it's very hot to the touch. I found that a little unusual.
It stays fairly cool.
Instead of a dot in the middle, can you make a Bat Signal?
The characteristic spectral phenomenon seems to strongly resemble chromatic aberration from uneven lens distortion
The green with the black dot looks like the magic eye from tech of old! 😂
Actually, this Cob would be better for my camera lamp project, Clive. Tho, I don't think we have one of those stores in Belfast to get one of these for myself.
I wonder if B&M have them, they might have a local branch.
You could glue some lead weights into the base to make it more stable... It reminds me of the old candlestick microphones... Cool for the price of admission! 👍
Is the SMD resistor capable of dissipating 400mW? It looks a bit small to me.
i found 2 at my dollar store ...thay are grate and cant beat the price
I would like that lamp with something like a Nichia Ultra-High CRI LED emitter in it... 👌
It would be great for electronic work. Resistor color bands wouldn't be such an eye strain.
Yup, this one is tinkerer-ready. Let's ditch the CREEnge led though. Too bad we don't have One-and-Beyond stores on the other side of the channel though 😖 .
That's absolutelty worth it for the enclosure! I bet a lot of us could make some super fun and interesting things with that. I wonder if I could get ahold of one here in the states. 🤔
Search "sunset light". 🙄
The first thing I thought of was 'It would make a nice microphone'. LOL.
@@frankowalker4662 Or a "pop screen" for an existing mic🎙️!
@@whitesapphire5865 Yeah.
@@frankowalker4662 Oh yeah! Could probably fit a nice condenser capsule in there! haha
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I don't have a One beyond near me. I shall have to order online somewhere.
It would be nice to have dichroic filters as opposed to these simple gel filters.
It's a £4 lamp...
You can buy dichroic film on eBay.
You didn't comment on the wire going out a hole in the dome, rather than down the tube. Even the foam insert has a channel for the wire!
What's that green light circle on your wall?
It's a sunset lamp.
Ah yes of course! I knew it reminded me of something!
Technically, sunsets can be green, briefly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
@@yadt Interesting
When you said it was about 4 pounds I thought, "Dang, that's heavy for such a small lamp!"
Yup! Here in the U.S. I've snapped up more than a few of those at a chain named "5 Below."
Not so sure about the metaphysical claims, tho lol
Not meaning to come off at someone challenging a TH-camr to a swinging weenie contest, but I dare say our 5 Below chain is (or at least, was) working with a supplier that stepped their internal component game way up on whoever your chain's supplier was, BUT... I am experiencing a little bit of "shaft envy" with yours being neutral. I freaking HATE using any plastics for external components when making client projects or gifts, so y'all got us there!
the green one is for Aving a Bit O the Irish! 😀☘
Colour fringe is called chromatic aberration in optical physics.
I'm gonna make a mini eye of Sauron for my Hornby Shire
This would be ideal to repurpose this lamp with an ir led for use with night vision cameras. Perfect for keeping tabs on pets at night.
THE EDGE EFFECT IS NOTED AS CHROMATIC ABERRATION and an optical bad word but pretty
Just looked on Amazon and they are all over there for $22 - 24.00. Bit more than the $5.00 it would be in the UK.
Planet themed filters would be nice