This reminds me of the time I blew up one of those pill bottle sized capacitors from a VCR when I was a kid. I was in the 3rd or 4th grade at the time. I put it on a small PCB with nothing else, with a wall cord (120v) and plugged it into a switched outlet. I knew what was going to happen, but I did it anyway. I didn't have the nerve to do it while mom was in the next room, so I waited until the next morning, when she was in the hallway waiting to take me to school. I flipped the switch (on the other side of the room), watched the cap blow with a loud pop and flash of smoke, hit the ceiling and fall right in the metal trash can with a loud ping. I giggled for a minute, shut off the switch, and went to school. I never told anyone about that until today, 37 years later.
Flappy Paddle i believe you are incorrect, electrons are actually buoyant like helium, so holding it upside down is the correct procedure in this case, do your research please.
Clive, your voice haunts me when I do electronics.. I'm studding level 3 Mechanical and electrical engineering and every time I think of components it's in your bloody voice! "Capacitor" "bridge rectifier" all with your accent :D
+johan mattsson It all depends what level you do it on and if you go for a stand alone electronics course. Mines both mechanical and electrical so it's much easier and less in depth as it has to cover more things over the course. But no it's not ridiculously hard as long as you're decent at maths and remembering formulae.
This just proves when you see the notation, "There are no user serviceable parts inside", that they didn't understand that users CAN install new parts.
"There might not have been enough electricity in it" Thats precisely it. The "rated voltage" on the back must have been measured in 1/2 units. I suggest trying 480v, but if it still explodes then you have to hook it up to a neon sign transformer.
I remember many, many years ago when I worked within telecoms, frightening the s**t out of newbies. We would connect "smarties" in the mains plug of whatever tool they were using. I'm sure the massive bang resulted in many pairs of soiled underwear.
“Well that just shows you how dangerous that Chinese ❤❤❤❤ is.” Thanks Clive. Dropped my wrench and had to talk to my boss about why I was laughing. Love your old videos as much as your new ones!
+CirnoTheFrosty That reminds me of how I found him; it was 3AM in a caffeine-induced MMO night with some videos in the background because game sounds get old, I stumbled upon one of his and watched like 20 in a row or something XD
I used to deliberately fry things when I was young, starting off with connecting old components across the 16V AC output from my brother's H&M train controller. I got bored with the results from that after a while, so then decided to fry things on 240V instead. I can still hear my dear old Mum shouting up to me..."Colin, what are you doing now"? I would say "nothing", and Mum would say "It doesn't smell like nothing to me!.. whatever you're doing, stop it". The resulting stink from some components was quite atrocious, and probably quite dangerous, but I lived to tell the tale. Then I almost set the house on fire one day by putting too much meths in my Mamod model steam engine burner and lighting it in my bedroom. I nearly shat myself with that one. Great stuff Clive. It takes me back to those dangerous old days of my own childhood experiments :)
Watching you solder has taught me that my soldering iron that I bought is faulty cause it doesn't get hot enough to melt the solder at 1st I thought it was me I am so out of practice but now I know for sure I need to buy a new one that actually get's hot like yours is. lol
Soldering iron elements can fail in a high resistance state that does result in insufficient heating. But also check that the iron tip is clean and not black and cruddy.
+bigclivedotcom what temp do you usually use. the temp i used to use in school doesnt seem to be hot enough with my own personal one. have to use around 800f settings to use it on boards.
+Huskiefluff Are you using lead free solder? It has a higher melting point. It may be best to ignore your irons temperature indication and nudge it up until it feels right. Is the tip of the iron clean and shiny? It has to be clean for the best thermal connection with the solder.
+bigclivedotcom yeah I don't use a sponge on my iron. one of those wire cleaners so the irons always clean. I do use lead free solder so that might be why. just worried about melting the electronics with to much heat.
lazaglider hah! Hi there! "Butthead"would definitely be more of a Photonic Induction type of engineer, but without the concern for his own safety!! :-)
+The Cat Behaviour Channel Although Clive actually knows what he is talking about and gives highly useful information, Photonic Induction is just an immature big kid messing about with some rolls of cable he stole from work claiming they are 1 billion watt power supplies!
Clive, you remind me so much of my high school electronics class - some of those guys would stick big fat electrolytics across all the bench power supplies before class and crank them to max, eagerly awaiting the simulcast of loud bangs and acrid smoke from around the shop when the main power switch was flipped on! My poor electronics teacher... Good thing this was in the 80's... after 9/11, our class probably would have gotten flagged as a terrorist group! (Not that that would have been entirely incorrect...)
+Sample Text it is all fun until one of those third world shit chargers blows in your face. Trust me, I am telling you from experience it is fun until it blows in your face.
+ivan R I actually had a cheap USB power supply detonate forcibly in my hand leaving sooty skid-marks on my hand. The delicious irony was that I had just plugged a set of pink LED fairy lights into it.
bigclivedotcom well had not yet had a usb power supply blow, but i did have a fake "unilab" oscilloscope. It was a crt and I bought it for 50 dollars, and man do I regret it. I tested it on a 555 timer driver for a demonstration of a project. When I switched that piece of shit on, oh god, I got the worst static discharge ever. OUCH!!! Everyone was rolling on their asses laughing at me. The room was full of smoke and we ad too use a fire extinguisher. Turns out some slob cracked the pcb and the flyback for the display was not grounded because the ground rail was cracked. SO moral is never fucking ever buy a 50 dollar used crt oscilloscope.
bigclivedotcom My USB power adapter makes a rather annoying buzzing noise. It's made by a reputable manufacturer, Gear4. Seeing as though you're the expert, any idea what could be causing it?
Sample Text do you know at what frequency it makes a buzzing sound? If it is 50 or 60 hertz than it is probably just a crappy transformer being overloaded. I am pretty sure that thing uses a 1cm transformer and believe me, those are crap. I it is not at those frequencies, then It could be anything. You would have to take it apart. But in either case check the transformer.
I'm seriously considering sending Clive a prototype project I'm working on just to watch him reverse it and bypass ALL safety circuits that makes it run to see if he can make it go *BANG* 🤣
In my experience, the smaller capacitors without the stress relief crimping on the top go bang the best. They also make a much, much bigger bang if you subject them to over-voltage until the dielectric catastrophically breaks down instead of simply reversing the polarity. Finally, and this is a suggestion for something you would *not* do, the larger capacitors with the pre-stressed tops can *sometimes* be reinforced by just soldering them. The last thing I would recommend really not doing is looking for old grab-bags of electrolytic capacitors before the pre-stressing was really a thing. You can find some completely sealed co-axially leaded capacitors in quite high values. You do need a lot of power to pop them though. I think I had a 0-50V, 0-30A DC supply.
theLuigiFan0007 not that I'm suggesting this, but you can explode some pretty large ones, like a 12V, 2200uF one. It sounds like a gunshot, but the explosion isn't particularly dangerous. It usually just ends up with unraveled electrode foil and a paper electrolyte. Fair warning though, the smell is much, much worse than burned FR4. I wonder if a supercapacitor could be made to explode. They're an entirely different internal construction.
htomerif As for supercaps, it depends on the kind really. If it's a small one (Under 10F) it might explode, as it's basically two capacitors in one. A really large one, lets's say, 3400F, would likely just melt and emit a load of sparks, because those use a carbon power if i'm not mistaken. With 8 of those massive ones in series, I wouldn't be surprised if it could weld at 12V. They have a capacity that gives large batteries a run for their money. They're like 3.4 billion uF or something.
I love blowing things up? the amount of LED's I "Don't Know" the voltage for and "Accidentally on purpose" just happen to "drop" it on a car battery the right way...
Old video, but a recent shock from a PSU that looks almost identical to this one - newer models swapped the screw for thin plastic latches and as I was cradling the PSU in my palm and started pulling, the case spit apart and the tips of my fingers touched the PCB. Living in an unprotected 240V country, I was lucky I switched off the extension cord prior to pulling it, so I only got a slight shock from the capacitor. ... Lesson learned - don't assume screw-less PSUs are ultrasonically welded.
+RODALCO2007 I totally agree. Amazing dexterity when holding the pcb, the solder and the iron. I often struggle even when using a 'Helping Hands' clamp. :)
+RODALCO2007 I wasn't paying attention properly until I saw your comment but now you mention it. Working the solder, pcb and keeping the cap in place all with one hand is quite the impressive feat.
I have been trying to become more adept at the Clive method of soldering, sadly my 67 year old hands have a bit of shake, the result of doing a bit to much one handed exercise in my youth, before I found a good woman who would help me with such matters, and perhaps caused by the hundreds of thousands of rounds I have put through the handguns that I have owned over my 24 years of law enforcement, and 8 years as a Soldier in the United States Army. Still, I think I am making progress, it is a rare day indeed when I burn my fingers when attempting to tin a lead, or hold the circuit board and solder in one hand while applying the heat with the soldering iron in the other. I would never have attempted this had I not watched hours and hours of Big Clive doing it himself. I do believe I have watched nearly all his recent videos, now I am enjoying the videos of old on his web page.
There are you tubers with nice, easy to listen to voices, and some with awfully strange voices. You sir make it very easy to watch your videos! Sometimes I just watch your videos to listen to you because it's calming XD
I once had an election back feed my 24 volt control power with 240 volts. So the Control board was live when i had the evaporator unit unplugged. Capasitor blew up in my hand. And I had a wee shock.
I love the way you solder, using all your fingers. I bet you're an ace with a pair of chopsticks, catching those pesky flies by their legs as they're buzzin' 'roond yur heed.
I have been binge watching your videos, I love them! You are one seriously crazy S.O.B. Believe it or not, that is a compliment, coming from me. I went to electronics school in the early '70s but got into sales and eventually into reporting so I am seriously out-of-date but I do enjoy your videos and I'm even learning a thing or two.
So, for the finale explosion...lots of orange sparks...did you perhaps put some sort of pyrotechnic in there? Take theatrical license and employ some stagecraft? ;-)
I prefer to add paste flux (Ebay's cheapest in square plastic tubs works fine for me) to every desolder braid I use, unless it's a very high value repair, in which case I use some liquid flux applied immediately before. Unless the braid is badly corroded (any dark orange/red or even verdigris colors are a very bad sign) I've never had a single problem even with braids that are over 10 years old as long as they have been kept dry and aren't visibly corroded. Unless you are prepared to add extra flux immediately before use then I think all desolder braids should be stored in extra airtight packing - small ziplock bags are perfect on a cost/benefit basis - on top of any existing packaging they arrive in. I started off using coax braid offcuts donkey's years ago so I learned the hard way that it's all about the flux and general cleanliness. Avoid the tendency to use a strong flux to compensate for corrosion or dirt though. For this reason I prepare 1m lengths of braid for very high-value jobs in advance with a wipe on both sides using paste flux then bag them up and date them. The (mild) flux paste prevents any further oxidation by keeping the air off it.
Methinks it's more a case of "Well that just shows you how dangerous that Scottish eejit gets with his Christmas light power supply" ROTFPMSL 😂😂😂😎😁 Nice one Clive!
Haha love it. You've gone a bit Mythbusters here, if it doesn't explode then it will do by the end of the video! Lol Have you tried using a solder sucker/pump? I find it easier to desolder than using wick. Love the videos, keep them coming :D
Chris Thomas It's Clive for Christ's sake! Of course he's used a solder sucker. He's only been doing this shite for 40ish years. He likes the wick better. Why the hell do idiots think that because some very clearly experienced and willing to experiment person doesn't do something the way YOU do it they must have not tried it, or maybe doesn't even know about it. Clive even states in another video (possibly in response to your dumb ass but I'm certain there are others) that he has done so (of course) and prefers the wick. God I wish people with brains would actually put them in a working gear before speaking, leaving the house....
William Thomas Ramey wow you clearly have some serious issues. I made a comment to someone I respect, hence why I follow his videos in here. But you decide you are a superior being and wanna make a spiteful comment you nasty excuse for a human! we all have different methods if working with electronics. what makes you think I have no idea what I'm doing? keep your pathetic childish comments to yourself little man
Chris Thomas Sir, you are absolutely right. I *do* have serious issues...with jackasses who throw out thoughtless comments that obviously assume ignorance on the part of highly experienced and widely knowledgeable individuals. Now certainly Clive doesn't need me to stand up for him. I just took it upon myself to try to put a clue into your head that your comment, which I assume you thought was helpful, was actually just insulting and you would realise was unnecessary at best... except for the fact you definitely made the assumption Clive (of all people) doesn't have the same experience (de)soldering in about every way possible and *additionally* assumed you might know more about the subject than him. Now if you had made such a comment to some novice it would be perfectly reasonable. Made towards someone of Clive's calibre it's just bloody arrogant, rude and pointless. I bet you aren't going to accept my premise at all, and that will just show you to be more of an arrogant jackass who thinks he is intellectually superior to about everyone...while denying you are anything of the sort. BTW, I never said, or implied, that you are at all unskilled in electrical or electronics. I expect you are quite competent. I challenge your intellectual arrogance and lack of self-insight, and that makes you foolish. Feel free to throw out more baseless, pejorative personal insults at me all you like. If you made one that had any basis in reality and honestly reflected one of my flaws about which I am sensitive you might be able to rile me up...as I did you. As it is your insults are impotent and silly. Maybe if you were more self-aware you would also be able to make proper inferences about me. Alas...LOL!
Considering my comment was made 'tongue in cheek' because I personally find soldering wick to be a frustrating headache to use, you have taken this all too seriously. Spouting big words and writing a long paragraph shooting me down in a vein attempt to make yourself seem intellectual, just shows how petty you are. Clive may have not even used a solder pump before, it doesn't matter how old he is or how much experience he has. I had worked with electronics for several years without trying the wick method until someone suggested it to me and I didn't get on with it. I pitched the solder pump method to Clive on the off chance he had only ever used one method to de-solder components. But what is hilarious is that although my comment was light-hearted and not serious, you took it upon yourself to think you are someone bigger and more intelligent than me by spouting big words and phrases, writing long paragraphs to validate yourself while trying to put me down. GROW UP LITTLE MAN! I shall remove myself from this conversation because I have more important things in my life to concern myself with than a silly debate with some random on Facebook!
Big Clive - Part Detective, part Mad Scientist, all Bear, all awesome. This is why I keep coming back - and why I'm glad Stewart Ashens recommended you!
It "dun" blew-up real good! I have as of late been enjoying your videos and your sense of humor.Big Clive keep up the good work and your wonderful sense of humor.
I used to go to a radio club when I was a child. And when our teacher-supervisor used to pop out, we used to push big diods, transistors or capacitors into power sockets on all of the desks, switch the light off and then turn the central switch for those on-desk power sockets on. It was quite entertaining.
Every time I plugged in my Job Lot, Chinese made 5V USB power supply I expected it to blow up. I used to anyway. Now I know it needs modification to do that. You are a Nut Clive and we Love You and your knowledge!! :-)
OK, It's 1:18 AM I think I woke my grand kids (Temp living with us) I laughed hard when the thing disintegrated! but when you said, Thats just how dangerous this... I laughed out loud! Before I could stop myself! Cheers! I LOVE your videos, even when they are serious! Michael Austin, Cincinnati, OHIO, USA
+Tom Risely Fine solder wick does not conduct heat too well and this makes it that much easier to work with on small jobs. As long as you are reasonably quick about it, it won't have time to heat up all that much. Tinning wires is much the same: if the wires are prepared properly with the correct tip temperature and flux for the solder being used, tinning will be done long before the wire insulation becomes too hot to hold.
+Tom Risely However, I can attest to receiving blisters on my fingertips from desoldering braid when solder is stubborn and keeps reflowing the component hole in the PCB.
I've watched some of your videos about the dodgy electrical items you can buy online, and now I see why you buy and test them. You just like to see them explode!
Years back on the rigs, when one of the Radio Officers went home on leave, we used to spend all night connecting all his spare elecrolytic capacitors to a power supply the wrong way round. The stewards and stewardesses were never very happy about having to clear all the foil and paper up that was all over the Radio Room after we had finished.
My pal from school and I "acquired" one of the bench power supply units from the physics class and we pulled apart old radios to get the capacitors from them, then we would connect them the wrong way round, to the power supply, just to make them go bang. Hours of fun.
This always occurs when the capacitor polarity is reversed. And you did. Revise 23 second and the resolder cap. Thanks for making us understand what happens when they get inverted capacitors polarity .
From personal experience: A 1000uF cap at 12V in an open frame power supply sounds like a gunshot when it's hooked in backwards and supplied with power. Also from personal experience, a 1000uf cap also produces about a foot tall cone of paper when it does finally let go.
See the frigging spark shoot out of the LED hole, before the final paroxysm. In it's own tiny way, that was what happened to Krakatau at 10:00 hours, August 27th, 1883. You're right, Clive, this Chinese muck is shocking quality.
Reminds me when I was in highschool and during break in our electronics science class we'd put old capacitors on a bench with a powersupply and blow them up. Nothing like the smell of burning popcorn to start your day off with a bang.
Abriss! Sloop! Kaput! This video brings back memories of my crazy childhood. To this day, I can't understand why destruction and torture of electronics was so fascinating to me. But yo literally give me flashbacks with your videos.
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Only Clive could go from "I once had a power supply explode in my hands" to "oh, this is a good time for the washing machine to go full tilt."
When?
3:52 onwards
My dog completely froze and looked very confused when you said 'stay' to that component... not sure he understands this TH-cam thing.
He was just loading...
My Alexa randomly activates when I'm watching Clive's videos :)
@@AlexandrKovalenko Glad I'm not the only one!
@@ctberg1 you can train your alexa to only listen to you
@@AlexandrKovalenko You should honestly get rid of that thing.
Those wires must be fuses. That made my day
I legitimately thought that was the case
yep, i have a usb power supply like that,no fuse at all in it apart from 2 thin wires to the pins 😁
5:32 - 6:08 is pure gold when taken out of context.
+Hatagashira HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You destroyed my dreams.
+Hatagashira LMAO!!!
+Hatagashira Then try to change to 8:12
Ooooh, exciting! >:D
This reminds me of the time I blew up one of those pill bottle sized capacitors from a VCR when I was a kid. I was in the 3rd or 4th grade at the time. I put it on a small PCB with nothing else, with a wall cord (120v) and plugged it into a switched outlet. I knew what was going to happen, but I did it anyway. I didn't have the nerve to do it while mom was in the next room, so I waited until the next morning, when she was in the hallway waiting to take me to school. I flipped the switch (on the other side of the room), watched the cap blow with a loud pop and flash of smoke, hit the ceiling and fall right in the metal trash can with a loud ping. I giggled for a minute, shut off the switch, and went to school. I never told anyone about that until today, 37 years later.
trickshot keng
Larry, I am proud of you. 2 Points. ;-)
That capacitor used 1% of his power
And you weren't punished?
In the 3rd or 4yh grade you put a capacitor on a board?
Holding it upside down will make all the electrons fall out btw.
Flappy Paddle wut
Flappy Paddle i believe you are incorrect, electrons are actually buoyant like helium, so holding it upside down is the correct procedure in this case, do your research please.
Nice try Nick, not falling for your bait
NO you thought he was serious? lmao, it's obviously a jojoke
Commentator are you serious? NO's comment was too...
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
- Marvin the Martian, Looney Tunes
That creature has stolen the Eludium-pew explosive space modulator!
When the cover flew off it must have blocked the microphone
I thought that was from Doctor Who, but it must have referenced that.
Awesome comment along with my Avatar
the only Marvin I know is a paranoid android, he wouldn't give a shit since he is also suffering from depression!
Clive, your voice haunts me when I do electronics.. I'm studding level 3 Mechanical and electrical engineering and every time I think of components it's in your bloody voice! "Capacitor" "bridge rectifier" all with your accent :D
+johan mattsson It all depends what level you do it on and if you go for a stand alone electronics course. Mines both mechanical and electrical so it's much easier and less in depth as it has to cover more things over the course. But no it's not ridiculously hard as long as you're decent at maths and remembering formulae.
+FRR how decent.
+FRR Just watch STV - Clives Southside Newton Mearns/Giffnock/Clarkston posh accent is rather prevalent on the Scottish news on STV.
Nah hes more gay in the voice!
Ese Callum True - very poorly paid in Scotland , Ireland and Slovakia!
Clive, you really are just a big mischievous kid ... my kind of engineer! I laughed heartily during this episode - excellent and informative video.
vagineer
@Sassy The Sasquatch I don't get it.
@@h0verman What are you two trying to say? Is it a movie reference? Are you insulting Clive?
I am going to assume it is an inside joke.
u ruined the chain bro
6:45 "oh, oh, I think my Christmas lights have stopped working!"
'make this one more exciting'
... when you hear that from a fellow engineer or scientist: RUN, you fool!
You don't want to hear that in the control room of a nuclear power plant..
This just proves when you see the notation, "There are no user serviceable parts inside", that they didn't understand that users CAN install new parts.
"There might not have been enough electricity in it" Thats precisely it. The "rated voltage" on the back must have been measured in 1/2 units. I suggest trying 480v, but if it still explodes then you have to hook it up to a neon sign transformer.
the way he said "Magic Christmas smoke" lmao
I've noticed that, the smaller the electrolytic cap, the louder the bang when you accidentally (deliberately) install it backwards.
I remember many, many years ago when I worked within telecoms, frightening the s**t out of newbies. We would connect "smarties" in the mains plug of whatever tool they were using. I'm sure the massive bang resulted in many pairs of soiled underwear.
OH, oh, oh, it's gone all black and sooty! Oh dear! XD
"I'll screw the case closed so it contains all the smouldering " the words pipe bomb come to mind lol
“Well that just shows you how dangerous that Chinese ❤❤❤❤ is.” Thanks Clive. Dropped my wrench and had to talk to my boss about why I was laughing.
Love your old videos as much as your new ones!
"Oh i think my Christmas lights stopped working"
i dam near died when i heard that
best thing about that cap being a tight fit is it blocks the vent :D
Not entirely sure why, but it's like midnight and I just binge watched like 10 of your videos...
You sir have a new subscriber.
+CirnoTheFrosty That reminds me of how I found him; it was 3AM in a caffeine-induced MMO night with some videos in the background because game sounds get old, I stumbled upon one of his and watched like 20 in a row or something XD
There's another way to find new channels?
Same,I got class,but oh well,I'll learn more watching Clive then staying awake in class
Your sarcasm is far too advanced :P
+EpicLPer That sarcasm means business.
+EpicLPer a brony!!
+BLOODYRAINBOW - SFM SOURCE FILMAKER DUDE Nobody cares.
+BLOODYRAINBOW - SFM SOURCE FILMAKER DUDE another brony D:
+EpicLPer [INSERT PINKIE/SPIKE "EXPLODING TWICE" JOKE HERE]
You let the blue smoke out. How could you. The power supply needed that smoke to work!
I used to deliberately fry things when I was young, starting off with connecting old components across the 16V AC output from my brother's H&M train controller. I got bored with the results from that after a while, so then decided to fry things on 240V instead. I can still hear my dear old Mum shouting up to me..."Colin, what are you doing now"? I would say "nothing", and Mum would say "It doesn't smell like nothing to me!.. whatever you're doing, stop it". The resulting stink from some components was quite atrocious, and probably quite dangerous, but I lived to tell the tale. Then I almost set the house on fire one day by putting too much meths in my Mamod model steam engine burner and lighting it in my bedroom. I nearly shat myself with that one. Great stuff Clive. It takes me back to those dangerous old days of my own childhood experiments :)
Oh no, all the electrons fell out!
;)
FUNNY AND ORIGINAL
+That Guy Now why'd you have to go and be that guy?
foxOmen FUNNY AND ORIGINAL
That Guy Why did you steal my name
That Guy Why did you steal your own?
Watching you solder has taught me that my soldering iron that I bought is faulty cause it doesn't get hot enough to melt the solder at 1st I thought it was me I am so out of practice but now I know for sure I need to buy a new one that actually get's hot like yours is. lol
Soldering iron elements can fail in a high resistance state that does result in insufficient heating. But also check that the iron tip is clean and not black and cruddy.
+bigclivedotcom what temp do you usually use. the temp i used to use in school doesnt seem to be hot enough with my own personal one. have to use around 800f settings to use it on boards.
+Huskiefluff Are you using lead free solder? It has a higher melting point. It may be best to ignore your irons temperature indication and nudge it up until it feels right. Is the tip of the iron clean and shiny? It has to be clean for the best thermal connection with the solder.
+bigclivedotcom yeah I don't use a sponge on my iron. one of those wire cleaners so the irons always clean. I do use lead free solder so that might be why. just worried about melting the electronics with to much heat.
+Huskiefluff Huskeh!!
Love it! Like Photonic Induction, but with slightly more finesse! :-)
+klarusboy He popped iiiit =D
Love Photonic Induction!
+The Cat Behaviour Channel Ha, small world. How is the living idiot we call Chatzi doing?
lazaglider hah! Hi there! "Butthead"would definitely be more of a Photonic Induction type of engineer, but without the concern for his own safety!! :-)
+The Cat Behaviour Channel
Although Clive actually knows what he is talking about and gives highly useful information, Photonic Induction is just an immature big kid messing about with some rolls of cable he stole from work claiming they are 1 billion watt power supplies!
I have to say never thought I'd be watching a channel such as yours... But I could not be any happier with it! Thanks for the vid!
+TrollFaceTheMan Oh god it's you.
Hopefully that is not a Negative "Oh God It's you."
*****
How do you know?
Clive, you remind me so much of my high school electronics class - some of those guys would stick big fat electrolytics across all the bench power supplies before class and crank them to max, eagerly awaiting the simulcast of loud bangs and acrid smoke from around the shop when the main power switch was flipped on! My poor electronics teacher...
Good thing this was in the 80's... after 9/11, our class probably would have gotten flagged as a terrorist group! (Not that that would have been entirely incorrect...)
Beautiful. nothing better than seeing crap electronics burn and explode!
+Sample Text it is all fun until one of those third world shit chargers blows in your face. Trust me, I am telling you from experience it is fun until it blows in your face.
+ivan R I actually had a cheap USB power supply detonate forcibly in my hand leaving sooty skid-marks on my hand. The delicious irony was that I had just plugged a set of pink LED fairy lights into it.
bigclivedotcom well had not yet had a usb power supply blow, but i did have a fake "unilab" oscilloscope. It was a crt and I bought it for 50 dollars, and man do I regret it. I tested it on a 555 timer driver for a demonstration of a project. When I switched that piece of shit on, oh god, I got the worst static discharge ever. OUCH!!! Everyone was rolling on their asses laughing at me. The room was full of smoke and we ad too use a fire extinguisher. Turns out some slob cracked the pcb and the flyback for the display was not grounded because the ground rail was cracked. SO moral is never fucking ever buy a 50 dollar used crt oscilloscope.
bigclivedotcom My USB power adapter makes a rather annoying buzzing noise. It's made by a reputable manufacturer, Gear4. Seeing as though you're the expert, any idea what could be causing it?
Sample Text do you know at what frequency it makes a buzzing sound? If it is 50 or 60 hertz than it is probably just a crappy transformer being overloaded. I am pretty sure that thing uses a 1cm transformer and believe me, those are crap. I it is not at those frequencies, then It could be anything. You would have to take it apart. But in either case check the transformer.
I'm seriously considering sending Clive a prototype project I'm working on just to watch him reverse it and bypass ALL safety circuits that makes it run to see if he can make it go *BANG* 🤣
The explosion at the end looks even better at 1/4 speed, thanks to TH-cam's new speed controls. Excellent repair work.
The audio is ducked
You put my mind at rest and make electronics seem real fun.
High visibility, self indicating fuse!
I could smell that burning PSU from here.
+James Grimwood man me too.
In my experience, the smaller capacitors without the stress relief crimping on the top go bang the best. They also make a much, much bigger bang if you subject them to over-voltage until the dielectric catastrophically breaks down instead of simply reversing the polarity.
Finally, and this is a suggestion for something you would *not* do, the larger capacitors with the pre-stressed tops can *sometimes* be reinforced by just soldering them.
The last thing I would recommend really not doing is looking for old grab-bags of electrolytic capacitors before the pre-stressing was really a thing. You can find some completely sealed co-axially leaded capacitors in quite high values. You do need a lot of power to pop them though. I think I had a 0-50V, 0-30A DC supply.
htomerif
*Sniff Sniff*
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.... PCBs.......
theLuigiFan0007 not that I'm suggesting this, but you can explode some pretty large ones, like a 12V, 2200uF one. It sounds like a gunshot, but the explosion isn't particularly dangerous. It usually just ends up with unraveled electrode foil and a paper electrolyte. Fair warning though, the smell is much, much worse than burned FR4.
I wonder if a supercapacitor could be made to explode. They're an entirely different internal construction.
htomerif
As for supercaps, it depends on the kind really. If it's a small one (Under 10F) it might explode, as it's basically two capacitors in one. A really large one, lets's say, 3400F, would likely just melt and emit a load of sparks, because those use a carbon power if i'm not mistaken.
With 8 of those massive ones in series, I wouldn't be surprised if it could weld at 12V. They have a capacity that gives large batteries a run for their money. They're like 3.4 billion uF or something.
He seems oddly excited to blow up a power supply.
Martin Soendergaard-Jensen Who doesn't get excited to blow things up?
Asyraf Fazali Tru dat
I love blowing things up? the amount of LED's I "Don't Know" the voltage for and "Accidentally on purpose" just happen to "drop" it on a car battery the right way...
And I just "accidentally" dropped a lit match on an entire matchbox.
Aren't we all?
2.2 megafart?
2.2 microfarad
hahaha
when you put them in backwards they tend to do that
That's why they smell so bad when they pop, the megafarts get out.
vs 1.8 nanofart
love the juxtaposition of extreme electronics explosion attempts with the more mundane washing your clothes .. classic :)
+lettucefire Flame retardant boilersuit (coveralls) ironically.
Old video, but a recent shock from a PSU that looks almost identical to this one - newer models swapped the screw for thin plastic latches and as I was cradling the PSU in my palm and started pulling, the case spit apart and the tips of my fingers touched the PCB. Living in an unprotected 240V country, I was lucky I switched off the extension cord prior to pulling it, so I only got a slight shock from the capacitor. ... Lesson learned - don't assume screw-less PSUs are ultrasonically welded.
Your soldering skills are amazing, especially the way you hold the circuit board.
That plug on that PSU is an American 110 Volts plug.
+RODALCO2007 I totally agree. Amazing dexterity when holding the pcb, the solder and the iron. I often struggle even when using a 'Helping Hands' clamp. :)
+oc2phish07 Me too, but somehow manage it...
+RODALCO2007 I wasn't paying attention properly until I saw your comment but now you mention it. Working the solder, pcb and keeping the cap in place all with one hand is quite the impressive feat.
+RODALCO2007 he just has a good soldering iron, get a better one, it makes a giant diffirence tbh
I have been trying to become more adept at the Clive method of soldering, sadly my 67 year old hands have a bit of shake, the result of doing a bit to much one handed exercise in my youth, before I found a good woman who would help me with such matters, and perhaps caused by the hundreds of thousands of rounds I have put through the handguns that I have owned over my 24 years of law enforcement, and 8 years as a Soldier in the United States Army. Still, I think I am making progress, it is a rare day indeed when I burn my fingers when attempting to tin a lead, or hold the circuit board and solder in one hand while applying the heat with the soldering iron in the other. I would never have attempted this had I not watched hours and hours of Big Clive doing it himself. I do believe I have watched nearly all his recent videos, now I am enjoying the videos of old on his web page.
2:40 "Let's out it in reverse. I'm sure that's normal procedure.
The smell of burnt electronic, a glass of Franken'champagne and a hole warmer. That's a delicious friday evening.
+dgedi78 Don't forgot the purple glowing high voltage sex toys, and jellied boabie buzzer.
Thank you Clive for all you do, the joy you bring me and the knowledge you you're happy to share.
Should have tried plugging 240 volts into the output. That probably would have been spectacular.
There are you tubers with nice, easy to listen to voices, and some with awfully strange voices.
You sir make it very easy to watch your videos! Sometimes I just watch your videos to listen to you because it's calming XD
I once had an election back feed my 24 volt control power with 240 volts. So the
Control board was live when i had the evaporator unit unplugged. Capasitor blew up in my hand. And I had a wee shock.
Wraith Leader Election hey? Sounds like you got Trumped!
I love the way you solder, using all your fingers. I bet you're an ace with a pair of chopsticks, catching those pesky flies by their legs as they're buzzin' 'roond yur heed.
Best ending I've ever encountered to a youtube video.
"oh dearie me" I absolutely love your little sarcastic naive statements, they really complete this video!
I have been binge watching your videos, I love them! You are one seriously crazy S.O.B. Believe it or not, that is a compliment, coming from me. I went to electronics school in the early '70s but got into sales and eventually into reporting so I am seriously out-of-date but I do enjoy your videos and I'm even learning a thing or two.
Surprised an 8yo video is showing up on home feed haha. Always a joy to see how your style stayed consistent over the years Clive!
Can you do that? Can you explode twice?
I've watched this 5 times and the end still leaves me in stitches!
I'm sure there's no harm in doing this! Famous last words XD
+Mustache OP Is that the UK equivalent of "Hold my beer and watch this"?
+Jeff DeWitt I guess
"I'm sure there is no harm in doing this, as it's quite a normal procedure" LOL
Haha! You are the only guy I know who deliberately plans to fail! xD
And ElectroBOOM.
Utkarsh Amitabh Srivastava electroboom does it merely because he likes to.
bloody love your videos clive, this one made us laugh quite a bit and had to watch it a few times. 😄
dooronron69 Split (2017)
So, for the finale explosion...lots of orange sparks...did you perhaps put some sort of pyrotechnic in there? Take theatrical license and employ some stagecraft? ;-)
No Pyro. Just a few resistors and lots of electricity. I may have made the neighbours lights dip.
bigclivedotcom Ah, metal film resistors, disassembling rapidly.
I wonder if I could achieve this result with our sissy 120V 'merican mains voltage?
+Stephen Tack put a 11R across 110Vac if its a 1/4 watt metal film it will go bang. Basically it will be dissipating about 4000 times its rated power.
I prefer to add paste flux (Ebay's cheapest in square plastic tubs works fine for me) to every desolder braid I use, unless it's a very high value repair, in which case I use some liquid flux applied immediately before.
Unless the braid is badly corroded (any dark orange/red or even verdigris colors are a very bad sign) I've never had a single problem even with braids that are over 10 years old as long as they have been kept dry and aren't visibly corroded.
Unless you are prepared to add extra flux immediately before use then I think all desolder braids should be stored in extra airtight packing - small ziplock bags are perfect on a cost/benefit basis - on top of any existing packaging they arrive in.
I started off using coax braid offcuts donkey's years ago so I learned the hard way that it's all about the flux and general cleanliness. Avoid the tendency to use a strong flux to compensate for corrosion or dirt though.
For this reason I prepare 1m lengths of braid for very high-value jobs in advance with a wipe on both sides using paste flux then bag them up and date them. The (mild) flux paste prevents any further oxidation by keeping the air off it.
So... is this like a PSU bomb tutorial of sorts?
umbaupause yes...its an undercover c4 bomb tutorial
@@udemo5695 its hardly C4, i bet its not even 2A
Methinks it's more a case of "Well that just shows you how dangerous that Scottish eejit gets with his Christmas light power supply" ROTFPMSL 😂😂😂😎😁 Nice one Clive!
Haha love it. You've gone a bit Mythbusters here, if it doesn't explode then it will do by the end of the video! Lol
Have you tried using a solder sucker/pump? I find it easier to desolder than using wick. Love the videos, keep them coming :D
Chris Thomas It's Clive for Christ's sake! Of course he's used a solder sucker. He's only been doing this shite for 40ish years. He likes the wick better. Why the hell do idiots think that because some very clearly experienced and willing to experiment person doesn't do something the way YOU do it they must have not tried it, or maybe doesn't even know about it. Clive even states in another video (possibly in response to your dumb ass but I'm certain there are others) that he has done so (of course) and prefers the wick. God I wish people with brains would actually put them in a working gear before speaking, leaving the house....
William Thomas Ramey wow you clearly have some serious issues. I made a comment to someone I respect, hence why I follow his videos in here. But you decide you are a superior being and wanna make a spiteful comment you nasty excuse for a human! we all have different methods if working with electronics. what makes you think I have no idea what I'm doing? keep your pathetic childish comments to yourself little man
Chris Thomas Sir, you are absolutely right. I *do* have serious issues...with jackasses who throw out thoughtless comments that obviously assume ignorance on the part of highly experienced and widely knowledgeable individuals. Now certainly Clive doesn't need me to stand up for him. I just took it upon myself to try to put a clue into your head that your comment, which I assume you thought was helpful, was actually just insulting and you would realise was unnecessary at best... except for the fact you definitely made the assumption Clive (of all people) doesn't have the same experience (de)soldering in about every way possible and *additionally* assumed you might know more about the subject than him. Now if you had made such a comment to some novice it would be perfectly reasonable. Made towards someone of Clive's calibre it's just bloody arrogant, rude and pointless. I bet you aren't going to accept my premise at all, and that will just show you to be more of an arrogant jackass who thinks he is intellectually superior to about everyone...while denying you are anything of the sort.
BTW, I never said, or implied, that you are at all unskilled in electrical or electronics. I expect you are quite competent. I challenge your intellectual arrogance and lack of self-insight, and that makes you foolish. Feel free to throw out more baseless, pejorative personal insults at me all you like. If you made one that had any basis in reality and honestly reflected one of my flaws about which I am sensitive you might be able to rile me up...as I did you. As it is your insults are impotent and silly. Maybe if you were more self-aware you would also be able to make proper inferences about me. Alas...LOL!
Considering my comment was made 'tongue in cheek' because I personally find soldering wick to be a frustrating headache to use, you have taken this all too seriously. Spouting big words and writing a long paragraph shooting me down in a vein attempt to make yourself seem intellectual, just shows how petty you are. Clive may have not even used a solder pump before, it doesn't matter how old he is or how much experience he has. I had worked with electronics for several years without trying the wick method until someone suggested it to me and I didn't get on with it. I pitched the solder pump method to Clive on the off chance he had only ever used one method to de-solder components. But what is hilarious is that although my comment was light-hearted and not serious, you took it upon yourself to think you are someone bigger and more intelligent than me by spouting big words and phrases, writing long paragraphs to validate yourself while trying to put me down. GROW UP LITTLE MAN! I shall remove myself from this conversation because I have more important things in my life to concern myself with than a silly debate with some random on Facebook!
Big Clive - Part Detective, part Mad Scientist, all Bear, all awesome. This is why I keep coming back - and why I'm glad Stewart Ashens recommended you!
can you put the link for the capacitor tester with the blue lcd ??
It's an older style unit. They do a newer version of the component tester that has a bigger display and shows more data.
sorry for the late reply, and thank you for the reply
What's the model of that?
www.aliexpress.com/item/Multimeters-Mega328-M328-LCR-T4-ESR-Meter-LCR-led-Transistor-Tester-Diode-Triode-Capacitance-MOS-PNP/32785141322.html?scm=1007.13438.37934.0&pvid=42e6f8d9-dca0-4684-9607-9a2e381980e9&tpp=1
takes 39 days to ship ? NO THANKS
It "dun" blew-up real good! I have as of late been enjoying your videos and your sense of humor.Big Clive keep up the good work and your wonderful sense of humor.
"microfarts" "megafarts"
lool
edit: I'm aware that he means "Farad"
+Nothy That last one looked like a megafart to me. with lots of... skid marks.
I used to go to a radio club when I was a child. And when our teacher-supervisor used to pop out, we used to push big diods, transistors or capacitors into power sockets on all of the desks, switch the light off and then turn the central switch for those on-desk power sockets on. It was quite entertaining.
you realise that your tester looks exactly like an arduino project Clive?
First edition probably was, it was certainly an open source design.
Every time I plugged in my Job Lot, Chinese made 5V USB power supply I expected it to blow up. I used to anyway.
Now I know it needs modification to do that. You are a Nut Clive and we Love You and your knowledge!! :-)
You remind me of that robot in portal 1-2 you know the one that talks to you the entire time.
Wheatley? xD
I found it very ammusing. Oh and it wasn't a disrespect, I watched lots of your videos and I like them. You are very funny.
+Elliott Hurst Glados
+bloodlust1000 This power supply just became the immediate past president of the being alive club [bad mechanical laughter].
+bloodlust1000 He meant Wheatley from Portal 2.
OK, It's 1:18 AM I think I woke my grand kids (Temp living with us) I laughed hard when the thing disintegrated! but when you said, Thats just how dangerous this... I laughed out loud! Before I could stop myself! Cheers! I LOVE your videos, even when they are serious! Michael Austin, Cincinnati, OHIO, USA
I love when u blow stuff up do more
My new favorite channel.
You're do awesome and present info in a fun way.
Thank you !!!!
You must have hands of steel to hold the wick that close the to solder!
+Tom Risely Fine solder wick does not conduct heat too well and this makes it that much easier to work with on small jobs. As long as you are reasonably quick about it, it won't have time to heat up all that much. Tinning wires is much the same: if the wires are prepared properly with the correct tip temperature and flux for the solder being used, tinning will be done long before the wire insulation becomes too hot to hold.
Teardown Dan That's awesome to know! Thanks!
+Tom Risely However, I can attest to receiving blisters on my fingertips from desoldering braid when solder is stubborn and keeps reflowing the component hole in the PCB.
Great video as always. You gave people great idea on how to dispose old power adapters.
MEGAFART
Why am I now just finding this channel. Subbed. Realized I've watched about 7 of these videos.
Clive is the kind of chaotic I thought only DND characters could be
“Oh! Oh... I think my Christmas lights have stopped working!”
Yea... I’d say....
I've watched some of your videos about the dodgy electrical items you can buy online, and now I see why you buy and test them. You just like to see them explode!
Explosions are a bonus.
When you plugged it in & turned it on, your washing machine sounded a bit like a drum roll, I was expecting a bang ;-)
Years back on the rigs, when one of the Radio Officers went home on leave, we used to spend all night connecting all his spare elecrolytic capacitors to a power supply the wrong way round. The stewards and stewardesses were never very happy about having to clear all the foil and paper up that was all over the Radio Room after we had finished.
My pal from school and I "acquired" one of the bench power supply units from the physics class and we pulled apart old radios to get the capacitors from them, then we would connect them the wrong way round, to the power supply, just to make them go bang. Hours of fun.
This always occurs when the capacitor polarity is reversed. And you did. Revise 23 second and the resolder cap. Thanks for making us understand what happens when they get inverted capacitors polarity .
Love how I can go back and watch this so many times. No matter how many times it still makes me laugh.
From personal experience: A 1000uF cap at 12V in an open frame power supply sounds like a gunshot when it's hooked in backwards and supplied with power. Also from personal experience, a 1000uf cap also produces about a foot tall cone of paper when it does finally let go.
Boom! Clap! My heart goes NO NO NO NO!
BigClive loves the smell of exploded PSUs in the morning. :)
Great video, love it.
I know hardly anything to do with electronics but I can watch these videos all day long
See the frigging spark shoot out of the LED hole, before the final paroxysm. In it's own tiny way, that was what happened to Krakatau at 10:00 hours, August 27th, 1883. You're right, Clive, this Chinese muck is shocking quality.
i cannot help but laugh out loud with the sarcasm and humour that you bring to me, whilst watching your vids, at 6am in the morning!
Endless entertainment! Glad I found your channel, I think I have watched most of the vids now.
Reminds me when I was in highschool and during break in our electronics science class we'd put old capacitors on a bench with a powersupply and blow them up. Nothing like the smell of burning popcorn to start your day off with a bang.
LOL. Memories. In school plowing up capacitors in electronics class.
There are few channels on TH-cam as entertaining as bigclive's. I love it
I've had a few of these go off with a huge bang, sounded like someone set off a banger indoors
It's amazing how electronics don't work after the magic blue smoke appears. Lol
Awesome video, sir. "oh dear, it's gone all singed, i wonder if i can repair this?" I laughed my ass off XD
Abriss! Sloop! Kaput!
This video brings back memories of my crazy childhood.
To this day, I can't understand why destruction and torture of electronics was so fascinating to me. But yo literally give me flashbacks with your videos.