Inside an LED "Circolux" lookalike?
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- There's a very strong similarity between this LED lamp and the traditional compact circular fluorescent tubes. Particularly OSRAM's Circolux units that had an electronic ballast in the central area and a large diameter circular fluorescent tube.
I mentioned a nightclub event called BURLY that I attended in Glasgow until it got raided by the police and shut down. I'm guessing vested interests were involved, since the media implications that the club was a cesspit of depraved lust were not even remotely what I experienced actually attending the event.
Here's a balanced article:-
www.residentadvisor.net/featu...
And a sensationalistic "clickbait" tabloid article:-
www.heraldscotland.com/news/1...
At no point in my attendance at that club did I see anything that resembles what the police reported. The vast majority of the attendees were there for beer, cider, loud dance music and a good atmosphere. Maybe it all happened after I'd had my fill of cider and was walking home with a kebab.
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Came for the light, Stayed for the night club talk
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UwU
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Haha
It's come to a point where I watch these videos for the content and the random topics. Nice video :D
@@RasmusJohanson Yeh, dittto. But it's only a couple of em that are that personable. BC is definaly one of them!
Clive can you possibly do an in-depth video on the smart meter and apparent power thing
It looks like a Nintendo Wii steering wheel.
"Maybe it all happened after I'd had my fill of cider and was walking home with a kebab."
That's how i've chosen to spend my 20s, so hopefully I grow up to be even half the bear Clive is
ive recently removed 3 osram circolux, fitted in 1965, and still worked with original tubes...one was the bathroom light, and i remember as a kid we left it on all night, goodness knows how many insane hours and power ons, on it, and it still worked fine
Isn't The Arches an everyday story of country folk? Perhaps Burly describes a hefty farm worker. Anyway, I'm off to that lovely club in town called Swingers, in the hope of hearing some 1940s American jazz music.
Anyone else imagining Clive with glow sticks and a whistle?
pietzeekoe Seen him out of his tights on Es & Buckfast. His PVC trousers was generating about 220mAmps as he was spinning on his head on the Arches Dance Floor!!! Mad for it!!
ahahah
Very nice warm red color
I had to pause for a while after Clive said it's pressed in firmly now we have to get it off. Childish I know but can't help it today. Another device I can't recall ever seeing anywhere else too.
I really like this style of story-telling-while-adapting-stuff videos
Remember that long germicidal lamp you showed us before? Well I bought a 4-way-holder to replicate my workplace conditions.
Googled about Burly, wasn't disappointed :)
Clubs getting raided by the police was a semi-regular thing in the 90's in Manchester - drugs and weapons mostly. I don't remember it ever happening in the Village though. The police didn't on the whole, want to know about anything going on behind at least slightly closed doors.
Also googled. Also highly not disappointed :-)
Without googling, I'm picturing a huge number of bears, as far as the eye can see.
grew up with table lamps that had the circular fluorescent tubes, i always liked how they'd ping and buzz softly. kinda kept me company late at night when reading and whatnot
I feel like at least half the audience doesn’t even know that there’s a whole other level of meaning in your nightclub stories :D
It keeps them safe from the harsh reality of the dark underworld.
I'd travel.....⚡
As someone famous once wrote, "Ignorance is Bliss"...
Oh I can get that level im just deliberately sticking my fingers in ears and going nah nah nah :)
Don't worry folks, it was just big burly men getting a break from their family lives. They went there to do bible readings, and to make little wicker baskets and bake cakes for charity auctions. All the while drinking tea and talking about gas prices.
"Oh-ho, spicy!"
I purchased a LUXO maglamp based upon their old metal shell design. It was only available in N.America, so the fluoro and its driver circuit ran on 110vac. Since I'm in Australia, it presented a problem. I didn't want to use a stepdown transformer. So I found a beautifully made LED T9 circular luminaire that dropped straight in. I used WAGO connectors to wire it in and it works a treat. I doubt very much if that circular luminaire is available now. So Burley was your Studio 54, Clive. 😆
I really like all your videos and the hard work and effort you are putting into your channel
Did anyone else picture bigclivedotcom dancing around to Crystal Waters with a glow stick in one hand and a cider in the other?!
Good production,love the nightclub stories and the family values quip!
Russian roulette with capacitors!
Would it be possible to build a circuit where a micro controller chooses one of 6 capacitors to charge and then you have to choose one to touch?
Only a very small capacitor so it just makes you jump but I think that would be a great dinking game 😂
Well, it would *have* to be a drinking game, right? Because no one would play that while sober.
Brabham Freaman haha exactly! 😊
Mind you that said I have a morbid fascination with capacitors. I once told Clive about it and apparently he is the same.
I got quite a zap from a kettle plug once after I unplugged it and I immediately touched it again to see if it would happen again! ( it did )
Since then when I unplug an appliance I can’t help myself And touch the plug pins.
Wow you're kinky
@@mavos1211 where you live, is it 240v or 120v?
All you need is a class X capacitor (suitable for connecting across the mains), a double pole double throw switch and a pair of electrodes. Connect the capacitor across the switch common pins, the electrodes to the output
1 pins and the mains to the output 2 pins. Switch the capacitor to the mains position and put your tongue across the electrodes. Flip the switch! (A break before make action switch is essential). How loud you scream is proportional to what part of the mains cycle it was when you flipped the switch.
Electronics and a look into the social history of Scotland in the last century. Excellent video Clive.
Hello Big Clive;
SPQr:
I've noticed you have increasingly been referring to "apparent power" vs "real power" and I agree the electricity companies likely will restructure their metering and charging system to extract ever-more money from an unsuspecting public, most of whom would have little knowledge of practical changes they could make to mitigate such usage (e.g.: switching to 240v LEDs rather than incurring extra power usage in the transformer units for 12v halogens etc).
Now I could drone on until the internet crashes out of sheer boredom, about the differences but I'm inclined to ramble and become overly technical. I concede you have a far clearer and concise manner of delivery so, could you at some point, for the public at large, and not we Sparks, explain the differences between Apparent (S), True (P) and Reactive (Q) power - how they can be monitored by the Big Brother electricity suppliers and what steps folk can make to best alter the usage the meter 'sees' by making minor changes around the home. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Big John
Forewarned is forearmed, a good not to technical guide to when the cash-hungry power companies flick the switch.
ahhh mate!! THANK YOU Big John....Big Al the dockers pal ⚡
May I second this request! =3
Third this request 👍🏻
what if i just put a big inductor between the meter and the rest of the house?
Hi Big, love the videos. I have an old Sony amplifier “Digital Audio/Video Control Center” (Sony model # str-k650p). I had been using up until a few weeks ago when it just audibly flickered out. The thing “sounds” (clicking noise) like it turns on but is super dimly lit. I took the cover off(unscrewed) and I can put my finger on the part that goes click click click when I turn on and off. That component that makes and generates a minute vibration, has a copper coil thing. I’d love to send it in, because it is so retro. I am not interested in paying for shipping 😗. Keep up the good work holmes.
There's still a GE "CircleLine" fluorescent circle tube in the laundry room ceiling light here. Thing must be 30 to 40 years old. When it is on, it wipes out any LW or MW radio in the house.
It's "Circline" and still made by Philips and others. My magnifier work lamps use them. Not better or worse than ordinary straight fluorescent lamps, just round. 4 pins, as if you took a regular F20 lamp and bent it into a circle. It's actually quite nice for a close-work light as it doesn't cast any sharp shadows. There are some microscopes that use a miniature CFL version of this for stage lighting.
I could see a magnifier light being a great application for this type of light.
In the US, the most common brand of such is the GE Circlite brand since most were made under the GE name. I never had any issues with them wiping out radio reception (I still use them, especially in the magnifier lamps at my electronics workbench) - in fact, as an amateur radio operator, they would not exist anywhere in my house if they were significantly impacting radio reception. If you are experiencing radio reception issues I would consider unplugging the bulb and cleaning the pins as any arcing in the connector will generate broadband RFI. It’s also worth double checking that the base is fully screwed in if it has an Edison base as sometimes years of vibration will work the bulb loose.
My elderly neighbor had a chrome circle fluorescent in his kitchen for decades... It gave off a horrid tone of grayish green white and I always wanted it to burn out so it'd get updated with a better tube, but now that he's gone and the family remodeled the house I miss looking at it.
Circline? I recall a GE Circolux in 1982 UK.
Loved the Circolux lamps. Had them in an office I worked in, gave superb light.
"Kissing the pope's ring". I spit out my chocolate milk!
All Catholic priests are trained to Kiss Rings. Is what they do
They 'do' altar bois.
I was looking at some fluorescent Circline lights (the glass dish with a round fluoro tube on the outer edge) in the clearance place near me, was rather amused to see them still being sold... :D
And councils hate it when people enjoy themselves, they'd rather we just shut up, stayed quiet and handed over our cash to them as "tax"... :P
"Let's try getting it off, which is what actually happened at Burley come to think of it"
Haha :D
LOL!!
Haha!
I've been wondering ever since I saw the little flag on your site, but with the talk of that event, now I'm pretty sure we're playing for the same team. ;)
"I'm gonna blame Glasgow Council." You could blame the Catholic Church. Everyone else does. - A former Scottish Catholic school boy.
More people should, honestly.
Catholics are wonderful hate group. I could just feel the hate in the catholic school.
In fairness they seem to hate them selves as much as they hate everyone else :D
I reckon the EU.
zh84 hope you are not sexually assaulted when you were a school boy.
Clive, have you purchased any LED Halloween fairy lights from Poundland this year? All LEDs are gallium nitride - even the red sets! Lovely red phosphor, the orange are now a peachy orange phosphor too!
Back again with ASMR and electronics! Keep up with the content! Though I'm not an electrical engineer of some sort but I learned alot of things in your channel.
One thing i recently found out is that all square backlit image boards are lit by circline TL which is really damn cool
I have a GE Circline lamp from the early '80s, which I bought new-old-stock in box a few years ago. It's particularly interesting because it's made for a three-way lamp, although it only has two settings. Unfortunately, it needs a new tube (it's a permanent ballast, renewable tube model), & I have no idea where to find one. Basically I bought it because it's a good example of the use of radioactive material in household applications ― in this case, promethium, which has of course completely decayed over the course of 30+ years ― but it was nice to use in my three-way floor lamp.
When it didn't work as you expected it to I thought you'd shorted something with the snips around the 14:50 mark. Glad it wasn't anything like that.
HA, I blew a HRC meter fuse mere seconds before this video was posted...
"Trap for young players!" - EEVBlog
We've all blown meter fuses. It's so easy when you're young, but less frequent as you get older.
I just use a 5A BS1362 fuse in my meter. They are sand filled and HRC. Dont use glass fuses, they can explode.
Actually hadn't blown one in eons as I'm normally vigilant... but learned long ago to keep a couple of spares on hand. Cool videos, Thanks!
*laughs in aluminium foil*
Very intriguing Clive cool lamp
Russian roulette with capacitors - it might become a sport!
Capacitor across the mains supply, turn the mains off then stick your tongue across the capacitor to find out at which point in the mains cycle it was turned off.
A momment please! ahahah
I had to rewind several times just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the story about the club.
Gadgetboy me too, I thought sleep deprivation was getting to me
Re: Wire colors: The power supply Clive hacks in is completely backwards, isn't it? In US terminology, DC positive is red and negative is black. For AC IIRC, is hot ("live") = white, neutral = black, ground ("earth")=green. Charitably, I think whoever put that together knew which colors should go where and soldered it with the PCB upside-down, and ran out of black wire when they got to the side where the colors matter to prevent blowing out the diodes, I .E, both wire on the AC side the same color can be excused in certain cases, but at least make the negative black on the DC side (cars, for example, have multiple wire colors, so you can tell which wire is the positive for which circuit, but the negative is always black.)
. Murphy's Law in action. (Murphy did not say "If it can go wrong, it will." He said ""If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will." or "If it can happen, it will happen." That's partially why anything where polarity matters is keyed so the connector only goes in one way nowadays, because one of the techs working for Captain Edward Murphy plugged some sensors in the wrong way 'round, causing the experiment to be a waste of time because the sensors didn't output useful numbers. The aphorism was later expanded, and the modern phrasing of it was first used by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1908, around 40 years before Murphy said the thing, who wrote "if anything can go wrong, it WILL go wrong" in reference to any first public performance of a particular magic trick.
Maskelyne's point was that no first performance goes well because the universe is biased against you. Murphy's point was that the apes doing the actual work can't be trusted to match wire colors. But together, as the unofficial 4th Law of Thermodynamics, they're known more for Murphy, and haven't been proven wrong yet. (see a Soyuz or two that nosed into the ground because its sensors were plugged in the wrong way around, or the related aphorism "Those who try to build idiot-proof systems always underestimate the persistence and ingenuity of idiots." (Anonymous, but Heinlein said something similar)
If you scaled up the outer PCBs of this design and embedded them in a translucent epoxy using a mould, you'd have a very fetching disco toilet seat. Always lit, cleared for landing!
The USA colour code is black = phase and white = neutral.
Probably why the power supply uses those colours
Except it's for the DC output and the two reds are the AC. That's what makes it odd.
The two red wires are being used for AC though. Also DC is typically red and black. Seems more like they just grabbed what ever colors they had.
"And when the police raided, they did arrest one person, who it turned out was a lawyer"
Must have been a Criminal Attorney.
A lawyer? I thought he said a liar. Lol. That's far funnier actually.
“...industrial meters with inappropriate fuses in them...”
*looks sheepishly at my 10A 1000V DMM with a 15A 600V fuse in it*
Yeah, good enough.
If that capacitor had zapped you, you would have had a bit of an electroboom style moment, lol.
DJ Buck Regulator aka Big Clive returns to BURLY on Friday nights. Tinning the leads until 4AM.
Interesting video, I did actually think it was a steering wheel to a computer.
Good night Clive.
That demands to be turned into a persistence of vision display!
Yay, another non isolated power supply! And if that middle cap pops out like that, then this should be treated as "for inside an enclosure only" so as to avoid getting shocked...
Nice video anyway :) Might get one myself, looks like a decent light :)
Big Clive I can't thank you enough. I've been trying to find out the name of that song for ages.
I remember Alien Wars! There used to be one in the basement of Londons Trocadero centre too (Back when that used to be open) and it was presumably similar to the Glasgow one. :-)
Did Glasgow also have multiple routes through the attraction to keep guests on their toes? ;-)
I know the sort of club ye mean as well, and sadly they all get a lot of inappropriate press. Very strange how none of the "pretty crowd" clubs get the same negative treatment, mind you... :-/
This is great at 1:22 am binge watching big Clive and eating tostitos corn chips with blazing hot picante dip. Love it 😸
Miss the Arches. Used to go regularly on the Friday nights there.
Sounds like a place I would have liked to have visited at least once.
ok
In the mid-late 90s Friday nights were Slam nights. DJs Stewart McMillan and Orde Meikle were the residents, but frequently they played host to the big name DJs of the time. Laurent Garnier, Ritchie Hawtin and Andy Weatherall were regular visitors and proclaimed the Arches to be one of the best clubs in the world.
The sound system was fantastic, the sort where you could feel the bass resonating in your nostrils, trouser legs, chest. Lovely clean sound that emphasized the style of music that was played there.
Next to Pillbox in Edinburgh (Calton Studios, ran until late 2001 I think) the Arches was my best clubbing experience by far.
Russian roulette with capacitors !. Last year I stripped apart an old PC PSU that was in my workshop (needed parts from it). It had been on the shelf for approx. 5 to 6 months. Took the case off and thought, ummm, I will just give those a jab with a screwdriver, just in case. So I did... Bam !!!. Christ, they had a full charge. Just as well I did that or I might not be here now.
I'm sure there are a lot of UK/US idiosyncrasies causing confusion here, but damn does that LED PSU pinout throw me. I would've expected something like black for ground, red for 3v, red for-- Oh damnit, EE types just love to screw up AC/DC stuff no matter what side of the pond they're on.
Best comment of the day "im going to blame Glasgow council " just because it didnt work
I’ve wedged things (flat screwdrivers) in the clips to keep them bent back while I went and did the others around the thing im taking apart otherwise it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to get the thing apart without breaking the clips off
I had to do that cleaning out a dryer one time which needed to be dismantled the lint was so bad inside it had the most 😖😖😖🤬 little cover on it which was hiding screws it took a TON of screwdrivers to hold the clips back to slide the cover off without breaking it
I got it apart cleaned it out a TON of lint came out some had burn marks on it I put it back together stubborn cover and all and it worked a million times better afterwards
Love the night club stories
Scottish power: Would I like a smart meter for Christmas? No, I think I'll stick with my dumb one.
What lens is referenced around 8:40? Could use a closeup lens for the E4 at work (the FOV sucks for circuit boards)
It's an idea from mikeselectricstuff (th-cam.com/video/Lie771fzBaw/w-d-xo.html ). For the lenses you can just search for "ZnSe lens" on amazon or ebay. The holder is a 3D print of a model from thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com/thing:407201 ).
If you use the thingiverse holder, make sure that you buy a 20mm diameter lens. As for the focal length, I use a 50.8mm and a 101.6mm lens at work. The 50.8mm is nice for closeups as seen in this video, the 101.6mm is better to get an overview over larger PCBs. Just remember, that the focal length is also the distance you have to keep between the lens and the PCB, so a 25.4mm lens might give you great magnification, but you'd almost have to press the camera into the board to get it in focus.
Never went to Burly, sounds fun though, reminds me of a similar one from the 90's under the arches in Leeds, also another i visited in Manchester that was underground, long since closed, but i'm told it was just bricked up & left as an underground nightclub/time capsule, i think an office block is on top of it now, i was trying to find it a couple of years ago, but Manchester isn't the place it was in the 90's.
All the times I've seen you touch a capacitor and not once have you been zapped, how 😂
Luck and judgement.
White and Black for household voltage in the US is Neutral for white, Hot for black. That is indeed confusing on the wiring.
Clive, you ever review any bike lights? I just got a "Nestling Solarstorm" 3 led headlight run by 4 18650 batts very affordably. But 2 reasons I bring it up. First they have a power on light that has parasitic effect. This could be cured. Secondly my last unit very much like this design had a very poor strain relief entering the headlamp part. I actually fixed it and conformally coated it with 99 cent HF epoxy. Dragged it through a lake to make sure it worked.
You touch on very important subject at the beginning. We can correct the power factor with a capacitive bank. What is your take on that? We are getting the new smart meters here in the US. The solution I am aiming for are home made lithium powered lamps with solar chargers to cut down on the electric bill. Any way how would you go about correcting the power factor on these led lamps?
The capacitor approach doesn't work with electronic supplies because the current waveform is not sinusoidal. It requires specialist electronics to create a good power factor in each power supply.
The club was shut for 6 weeks, the report is found easily on the net.. I say no more ;) Anyway, I remember we had one of those circular fluorescent lamps when I was a kid, it was in the kitchen. I always wonder if they still make the fitting as I still see the lamps in some off road local electrical shops :) We also had one of those horrid circular heater/light things in the bathroom :D
The cap over the es was a nice touch, totally unnessecary, but nice... I bet somewhere out there they are using the exact same plastic assembly for a kids car toy
I could imagine hitting the club with Big Clive. "Oh! Those are interesting lights, i wonder how they work.. Just a minute, going to pause the party, while i take this to bits"
Been once to a club night at the Arches run by a guy I knew from outdoor techno parties at Blackford quarry, Bangin night. Also a sound tech mate of mine who used to have a recording studio in one of the sections, did all band recording at night while the trains where off. And another guy I knew ran his lighting company in another part, I did a lighting gig for him on Arron. Typical councils probably want it sold off and gentrified.
Lawyer being the only one arrested yeah I bet he tried to tell the police what they could and couldnt do and they werent amused
Spicy and live, Clive and the Terrifying Electrified Curry.
Sounds like XXL under the arches at Blackfriars, although somehow that actually has a darkroom and is still open ..
Newspapers are written to sell more newspapers. Truth is a low priority.
Your audio circuitry picked up the RF pulse from the sudden discharge.
Thanks BC.
"Smart meters" are already pretty standard here in Canada.
Clive you worked in stage lighting right? Can you drop some names of groups that you did work for? Also what do you think about The Corries? It's too bad they are gone because I really enjoyed there music. Bill Smith left early on then Roy passed on.
hello, I noticed that you have decent video quality even in low light. Which camera do you use? tnx
A Moto G6 phone.
Could the center board now be removed and the outside used around a macro camera lens for example?
It could, but you'd have to keep in mind that with the existing supply the LEDs are referenced to the mains supply and pose a shock risk
That would brighten up your day.
bigclivedotcom may be you can hack that to run on batteries.
Yes you could run the circuit on Batteries for example with a LDH-45A-350 dimmed to around 10-20%.
But the 60V would still hurt if you touched both wires with sensitive body parts.
You could also just buy a proper LED driver (Meanwell has good ones) and run it on mains power.
How are you going to be touching any sensitive body parts to it? It's on a macro lens.... ooohhhhhhh... Now i understand how!
Could you please do a video on apparent power and how it is going to effect us?
We had our meter replaced a while ago here in Melbourne Australia and our power bill definitely went up
Just Wikipediad the arches. It’s now a food market
Love your videos. I keep trying to find a HOPI meter on eBay. The search comes up with everything but what you have. Where can I get one?
It seems to be quite a rare meter. There are modern LCD versions.
AliExpress. Just bought one - quite a few sellers there. Cost around US$50.
Burly sounded fab! Shame there wasn't anything like that around here during my late teenage years.
Teenage? I was going to clubs like this in my forties. Then again, I didn't actually embrace reality until my late thirties.
Aw! My clubbing days are long behind me (so to speak) and I'm 40 this year. The Goth scene was interesting in Newcastle in the 90's as it had a large crossover with the LGBT community, basically they lumped us freaks together and suddenly me being a bi Goth wasn't an issue.
@@MegaWayneD LGBT and goths. Sounds like Camden Town. My favourite bit of London.
That stupid color code is used here in the USA in RV's for some reason. Really threw me when they told me that as we hooked up the 12 volt system to a house battery on my first new rig! Then I noticed it every time I worked on my motor home, I always meter the connections to see if some one has screwed them around. Normally in every other system I have ever worked on, white is + and black - unless, of course there is black and red, then, of course red is indeed +.
I could have sworn that I took my Hillman Hunter to a welding guy who worked in one of those railway arches in 1981. Am I confusing railway arches in my old age?
There were lots of garages in railway arches in Glasgow.
Just because you are a conspiracy theorist doesn't mean that they are not out to screw you.
how do, love the videos. have you ever thought about dismantling one of the Chinese 12v diesel heaters available on ebay/AliExpress? after looking into getting one, and the bad press along with the good it would be interesting to see if there are any 'obvious' gremlins that scream out at you? are they really deathtraps just waiting to burn down a camper or actually really good value? Keep 'em coming!!
I was looking at them on banggood recently. At about £300 they seem so much cheaper than the main brands that something must have been compromised on.
@@bigclivedotcom you can pick up a 2kw, 3kw or even 5kw heat output 'planar'chinese copy on ebay for around the £130/£150 mark!! There is a forum on facebook dedicated to the set up and trouble shooting of these cheap and cheerful units with varying success!!
that would be so cool in my grandaughters bedroom but i cant find that design online anywhere plenty of regular circular ones but not with a lamp in the middle
Clive, I need to know about this Christoph fellow and his lenses for thermal imaging. How does the lens help and how do you attach it and to what imager. I've got an old hacked E4 (to E8 capabilities)
Probably has better charity
Mine is also an E4 hacked to E8. I think it was Mike at mikeselectricstuff who came up with the idea for the add-on lenses and it was so popular that some Chinese sellers supplied them preattached to the 3D printed holder. It was also Mike who cracked the E4 firmware. His videos showing his explorations are great.
@@bigclivedotcom cool
God, we're so lucky to have E4's - $3000 features in an $800 imager... I have one final question. After I "updated" mine to the E8 feature set, I no longer have the FLIR logo on the bottom left, it's just gone. Yeah I can see more of the field but there are some cases where I want the flir logo in an image. - - Did you have that issue, Clive? If so, how'd you fix?
@@BlackWolf42- I hadn't noticed that. There were a couple of scripts floating about to modify the configuration file. One may have replaced or removed the logo.
Interesting that when you put it on the lower powered supply, it looks like the outer ring is cool white, but the inner bulb is warm white? Maybe an attempt to strike a balance between the two in the same lamp, though biased towards cool as there's 64 of those and only 16 warm?
It looks a bit llike the space station from space patrol called Galaspere. Where can I get one?
Think you'r right about the smart meters, think the accidently did this on mine after first change, monthly bill was about £120/month, actual not estimated, suddenly went to £330/month, no usage change. They did apologise & reduce to £110/month, we shall see how long that lasts
perhaps stupid because i did not think about it long enough,
but could you improve power factor by adding chokes on mains wires going in ?
50Hz is no high frequency for a inductive-resistor but would it work?
Or would you arrive at the point where the power changes from cap to inductor and the load would get less power.
Really need to look up power factor correction cuircuits.
We just got the new meters here in Springfield, Missouri. GIANT jump in kWhs billed.
Please don't tell me you are on ameren? This frightens me if so. Howdy from Stl tho!
@@zeryl06 We have a local community utility ( "City Utilities" a monopoly) but the info about the new meters is out there. They have been easing people into them. Just a few blocks at a time. Keep the uproar from being heard. Everyone I know that hasn't got one yet thinks I'm imagining things, just looking for a conspiracy. The ones who have one don't know what they can do.There are class actions in some municipalities. Mostly out East.
Great for certain pinball backglasses!
I thought you had really f--ked up for a second there. You did mention the strange color coding, but I didn't catch all of that so I was wondering if you connected it backwards. Apparently, not though. They could have made the DC wires red and black with the AC wires blue or brown. That would have been so much less confusing.
@2:44 I guess the two uniformed police might have been hard to spot. ROFL
Hi Clive
How do I send you this woeful power supply for you to do a breakdown of it?
I would love to hear what you think of the cut and shut job they did, im sure this unit is cut out of another product and whacked into these little wall power supply units.
Even the sticker says 6A and the one they stuck it over says 4A wtf
The repackaging of power supplies is a really common thing. They usually involve quite a chunky box with a loose module inside that has wires chopped and new ones tacked on. The good news is that they are often really good quality supplies. I tend to downrate any power supply from eBay by 50% as standard.
I hear that
This one however has an LED tacked on that was laying over a hard link and 4 bare cut wires 2 from the dc side and 2 direct from the 240 mains just chopped off and uncovered. The supply just pulses under load
Btw Big Fan love your awesome channel sir, I just wish you was my teacher in collage I might of taken more notice ha ha
Any venue that is physically underground you should look on as interesting. I've had some interesting times in similar places of leisurely pursuits.
Shame on UK for picking on niche nightclubs. A contractor I once worked with had been sent to Prague and decided to spend an evening exploring the nightlife. He joined a queue outside a nightclub when a tall beautiful brunette sparked up a conversation with him. "Dave" is 5'4" tall and was slightly taken aback by her approach. Later inside the club Dave looked around for the lovely girl and eventually spotted her behind a curtain having sex with an even shorter guy who was about 5" tall. He later found out it was "Dwarf Night" at the venue. we asked him how short do you need to be to qualify as a dwarf? "Four feet ten inches" he immedialely replied!
Something tells me that Sister Boom Boom would have mightily approved of Burly. RIP Sister.
Divine would have approved too.