The light actually attracts the micro organisms and plankton, the fish are attracted to their food source, and fisherman's bait also green would be better as it penetrates the water better, it is why the Taiwanese fishermen use them a lot.
Oh, thanks for the info! I just commented that I have never seen that kind of a light / technique used for fishing (in Finland). I know that very powerful lights are use for catching squids - if memory serves correctly. But I have used fluorescent tubing when tying some salmon flies. Though I don't know if that helped at all 🤷🏻♂️😂. (I got about the same amount than with non glowing flies, but the sample size was too small.)
@@tkermi , counter-intuitively, it is generally considered best to use brightly colored lures on bright sunny days and darker colored lures on darker days.
@@goodun2974 Yes, I know about this quite a lot actually 🙂. I have been actively sport fishing since I was 10 (over 26 years) and fly-fishing for over 20 years. I was trained by a professional fly-fisher / fly designer with good success in fly-fishing world championships. I also helped in local sports fishing shops and toured with them to trade shows in other countries as well - great times 😌. Though nowhere near as successful as my teacher also I have taken part in fly-fishing national championships and designed many now reasonably popular fly models. The application for those partially fluorescent flies was pitch black waters (autumn nighttime Baltic Sea salmon fishing in rapids from 5m / 16ft depth). When it comes to salmon fishing in rivers overall the basic "rules" doesn't really apply and there's also a lot of regional and seasonal differences.
I've used these and their ancestors all the way back to "incandescent car headlamp in a styrofoam doughnut attached to a car battery" The idea is more.. indirect. The light brings in plankton, insects, fish fry, krill, etc. That later brings in juvenile baitfish, which eventually brings in regular baitfish, which may bring in fish. It often takes several hours to see full grown baitfish/fish. Sometimes it brings in game fish quite well, sometimes it does not. It truly depends on the season, moonlight, and a million other fishy factors. For an "family" fishing night for several people to sit in one place, it's quite fun. I'd say its no more advantageous than having a boat or a modern fishing pole. It still requires knowledge in order to place the light so that it works for you. They also prevent you from moving much, as if you are not anchored you will quickly outrun your krill.
You never cease to amaze me how you find all the doodads that you do, Clive. 7:44 These special "floating buck" regulators confound a lot of beginners when they see the schematic. For starters, there is no "ground referencing" to the switching network. Weirder yet is how a (triangular) current waveform through an inductor can be maintained even when the voltage across the inductor flips in polarity, making it look like current is flowing "in the wrong direction." If the inductor behaved like a resistor, positive current would always flow from + to -, never - to +. However, an inductor will pass a current in this one direction regardless of the voltage across it! Behavior like this is what confuses many about inductors, but it is key to understanding how ANY switching regulator works. Inductors are at the heart of any switcher. Study them, students! I'm tempted to walk through the two phases of this buck, but it would be another long, wordy comment, and I don't want to again bog down Clive's comments section with it.
I have two of these in my koi pond running from a 12V garden lighting transformer. They are a lot cheaper than lights sold by the koi dealers or swimming pool suppliers - a lot cheaper! They have been underwater now for 16 months and haven't leaked yet and have been run for a few hours three or four times a week. They are very buoyant and just float on the surface so as I wanted them about a foot underwater I stuck them on to the end of plastic pipes which are clipped to the side of the pond. They work really well and the fish totally ignore the light.
We use green or blue bio-luminescent lures to attract Ling Cod when we go ice fishing here in Canada. I also found that if you play music on the ice, it attracts fish to the area.
Alright, i see it now. A rouge fishing boat stranded on Clive's house and he's slowly taking it to bits like the world's most careful electronic lamprey.
In response to 00:09:25 comments, putting the current sense resistors in series with the LED and Inductor pair allows them to sense current even when the Mosfet is in the off state. Some regulator chips use a fixed frequency and simply turn off when the current reaches a particular preset level. In contrast, the UM1350 chip will regulate to +-15% of the set current and adjust the frequency and duty cycle to maintain this specific ripple current. Page 6 of the data sheet I found illustrates this fairly well. The trade off with this strategy is the chip must operate at full input source voltage (minus the bridge rectifier drop) while some of the LED "mains" lamps you have disassembled do not. P.S. I do enjoy watching these videos on my lunch hour; great work bigclive!
We used to dip shrimp from the water by suspending a gas lantern over the surface at night. The shrimp were attracted to the light and we'd scoop them up with a small net. In about an hour we could collect several pounds of shrimp.
We used to use tiny glow sticks on our rod tips while fishing in the dark. They seemed to attract more snapping turtles than fish though. Pulling up a snapping turtle that is 2 feet across in the pitch black is exhilarating to say the least.
Here in Canada (a) Fishing after sundown is illegal, and (b) using a light attractant is also Illegal, and doing either cna result in a HUGE fine (up to $20,000) and possible loss of your fishing vessel (DFO can legally seize your boat)
F..king cruel is what is... They don't survive that. Breaks thier jaw, neck, legs and sholders, from grabbing logs and rocks, etc. I'm sure get the picture !!!
@@snakezdewiggle6084 Not sure where that came from, but it wasn't what we WANTED to catch. Perhaps you misunderstood me. Our prey was river catfish or anything else that happen to eat at night and had scales. The turtles just served to waste our time and scare the ever-loving SH*T out of us. I'm sure one or more we caught twice in one night. Some would cut the line when the pulling was hard, but that's littering a waterway. We just grabbed the hooks (carefully) and sent them on their way with a bite to eat.
@@snakezdewiggle6084 I'm guessing your user name indicates a reptile hobby? Trust me, my friend, I get physically sick to my stomach to see an animal in pain. If I thought for a second back then that I was causing harm to that turtle, I'd have given up fishing for good - which I did when I was about 20. I have chinchillas now because they live a long time. I detest seeing an animal die and I've had a fair number of pets. I'm also not a hypocrite because I eat meat, fish, eggs, and cheese. I know where my meat comes from and I'm under no illusion that it's always humane. I could never hunt though. Cannot take an animal. That said, I'll butcher it and eat it if you put it down. I'm a conundrum.
That is a hole in the center isn't it? Clive why didn't you just find a wood screw and tighten that into the hole and get a good grip to pull out with?
I've never been an angler, but years ago I found that my aquarium fish would manically chase a red laser pointer around the tank and thought that it would make a good lure.
There are Angler fish that have a protrusion from the head a bit like a fishing rod, the tip can glow (bioluminescence) which attracts fish. also, fishing lures flash because thay are shiny, which also is attractive to fish.
@@demef758 Made comment on the video. A norwegian company basically sells this, but it's expensive as hell and I don't like that the product is glued shut making the whole thing disposable as opposed to letting you replace the battery. Here is the product in question: www.skittfiske.no/sovik/215505/s%C3%B8vik-deepligth
Longtime viewer first time caller long time fisher. Its quite uncommon to use anything but green for a fish attracting light. It actually doesn't attract fish directly but attracts micro organisms which attracts baitfish which in turn attracts larger fish. Its effective but not really considered unsportsmanlike. Usually used when using bait rather than lures
Lamps of this shape were, long ago, sold as early "corn" style general LED bulbs, having many LEDs - typically 50-100. The lowest part on the white plastic body of the lamp was holding E14 metal screw, while the one above it was meant for fitting the E27 one. Top of the transparent cap had several holes for cooling. The only difference was in a driver, as it was for 230V AC, if I remember well, it was the capacitive dropper. The "corn" bulb I have flickers a lot - that is, a strong stroboscopic effect is noticeable in an otherwise perfectly normal lamp. In my opinion, "corn" bulbs principal design flaw was underestimated cooling requirements for such a crowded lamp, so perhaps they were even deliberately made to supply LEDs with power for a fraction of the time, to keep overall temperature at the reasonable level.
Here at the lake we have a light out on the dock by the water, but not in the water. On the outside of the light is a wire that spins around like a weed wacker, knocking the bugs out of the air that are attracted to the light. Then the fish come and eat the bugs. They are now trained to always come to this area because there are always bugs to eat.
I went sea fishing in Taiwan on a typical tourist charter boat and during daylight hours I noticed all these large lightbulb globes (looked like HID style bulbs but massive) hanging up above the boat. When nightfall fell I was very surprised that not only did these lights all get fired up (with a slightly worrying humming sound) which was honestly blinding…. But after a short while the crew started chucking them all overboard and letting them sink down. I didn’t take long for fish and squid to start coming up from the deep. And the rate at which everyone was hooking fish doubled. An amazing yet slightly worrying (as an electrician!) experience. In short… lights definitely helped catch more fish
You must understand Clive that 90% of us that go fishing always leave that fish back unharmed(apart for the it been scared for a few minuets or so more that its going to be eating by a bigger fish, & yes i do believe fish can think & have memory's too. its been proven that goldfish do "NOT" have a 5 second memory but can remember up to a year and more) enough me going off on one. to answer your question Clive, NO it's not cheating to use any advantage when hunting or fishing. P.S. cool video by the way, & i love this thing, : )
Stuff like this, supposedly wettable, I use silicone sealant and high grade electrical tape to seal them myself before ever sinking them. Might even put the whole thing in my own sealed container made from a canning jar.
Sounds like something you might consider, using a small watch battery with a low power LED on a fishing lure that sits in the water under a bobber. Would be interesting to see if it attracted fish. Fish can be very curious.
that shipping issue is why i use the location settings and i only want to see items that are in the united states. for you it is the uk so you should have a similar filter. make sure that the item is in your country and not being shipped overseas.
I think I know where this idea originates… I’v used UV fishing lights and seen them used for the past 35 years. Low level UV probably around 400 nm. (There’s also a Styrofoam enclosed car headlamp… that sits on top of the water. Sounds like that could get sketchy pretty quick. And would be a huge attractant for bugs!) The only type I have experience with… Are long fluorescent UV bulbs. That mount to the side of a bass boat. I don’t know how well they attract fish, but the UV lights help to see what you’re doing when night fishing, especially for smallmouth bass. And Without attracting big hornets and other stinging creatures. Because when you’re fishing out of a boat at night, there are all types of hornets, snakes, and all other type of creatures in the trees. And they are attracted to any bright light. And will come straight for your boat. I’ve been held hostage many times in my own boat from copperheads, water moccasins, and other venomous snakes. I still have an expensive set of fluorescent tube type UV lights. That were mounted to my bass boat. probably 390nm if I had to guess. They were purchased about 35 years ago, and put on my fancy tournament boat at the time. I believe they were about $750 for a set of four back then. They were not cheap. But nothing in the sport of tournament fishing is. This was long before LEDs… And many night fisherman used them. There was a shield between you and the light, so your eyes did not become fatigued with the low level UV. It shined towards the bank and towards the water. Add an angle so that it could not be reflected to you. It would light up the monofilament or braided fishing line very bright, you could even see it when casting 50 yards from the boat. It was also wonderful for “charging“ your glow in the dark fishing lures. Since it was low level UV light… It would charge up the glow in the dark lures in just a few seconds. And they would continue to glow very brightly, like they had been charged in direct sunlight. Smallmouth bass fishing is pretty tough, they’re exceptionally hard to catch in great number or size. And it’s a lot of fun!
These would be useful to lure in more stream viewers even tho there are at least 1,300 - 1,600 every Sat evening. A few of these and you could grab 2,500 - 3,000.
I've had something similar happen too, got sent a bunch of crappy effect lights which were of no vallue to me. Its a really cheeky scam and Chinnese sellers almost always pretent that they are in the right and all will be well. That’s just not how we do trade in the modern western world.
Always check local fishing rules and regulations. Some places prohibit fishing with lights, sometimes just with light above water, sometimes below, sometimes for specific species.
I remember the cork you recieved a while a go and was wondering if this thing actually ever arrived. Every once in a while I'd stop and ask "did Clive ever get the LED fish lure?". Glad this question has been answered.
Ohh that chip has an analog input (0-2.5V = max brightness) to set the dimming. Throw a ADXL335 accelerometer (Y or X output) fed to a 1/2 divider into the ADJ pin on the UM1305 + battery pack and tie-wrap it to your wheel on your bike and it will glow brighter based on your wheel speed.
I received a similar device as a gift many, many years ago. It used a small incandescent flashlight bulb powered by a pair of AA batteries at the other end of the wire. Not being very sporting and if I recall correctly not legal to use for fishing. Nevertheless I took it out to the end of a dock on the local lake one evening and dropped it in. Lying on the dock peering down into the water I soon saw a couple large fish swim up to it to see what it was all about, so the basic idea does work.
If I recall the Angler Fish uses illuminated cells to attract its prey in. I am guessing it is the same principle, luring the food source which lures in the fish.
I've friends who have used various light bulb lures over the years to attract prawns to catch hand nets in as they move in or out of rivers to the sea.
Yes, this should work. The Wolastoqey (Indigenous peoples in North America) were noted as fishing for salmon by hanging a torch off the front of their canoes and spearing the fish when they came up to investigate.
Interesting that the freewheeling current is passed through the current sensing circuit as well. These switch mode current source chips are very sorted these days.
I have an idea that might help with reverse engineering the traces on opaque boards. I think you have an IR camera, right? If so, heat the trace(s) you're intersted in a bit with a stab of the soldering iron, then take a picture with the IR camera. Hopefully the trace(s) will stand out well against the surrounding board. (I don't have an IR camera to test.) Might not work if the trace is connected to a power/ground plane, or for more than 2 layer boards. (I doubt I'm the first to think of this, but it just popped in my head when you mentioned the white boards are difficult to reverse engineer. Let me know if it works.)
Don't know if the resolution of the FLIR cams are all that good. I think the max is somewhere round the 640X480 or maybe 720 for the very expensive version, like what would be used for thermal imaging of power transmission systems. YMMV
@@FuriousTesla117 If you can get close enough, 640x480 should be pretty good. Think how much detail you can get on an ancient VGA screen. I think traces other than ultra-thin ones would probably be easy enough to pick out. 👍🤔
"big ham-fisted Clive" i'm not sure if you're referring to how not careful you can be with your hands sometimes, or an experience you had recently with someone called "Big Ham"... Either way, I support it.
so long as the colour is not "RED"(because fish can't see the colour red! 'plus many other animals it turns out') you can use any colour of light. its just that the fish are attracted to light were they know they will have a better chance of seeing/finding food. so you put this light into the water and then have baited hook beside it where the chances of it been taken will be increased massively.. PLUS in different water colours, and clarity's, different colour lights would work better.. so that's why you can get different variety of the colour and hue's of light in my opinion. but don't take that to the bank (apart from the colour red part, & the rest about it attracting fish into where you baited hook is that is) its just that it make sense to me more than any other i can think of.. ; ) P.S. iv never used one by the way! but i do have little 5mm diameter 1 inch long glow sticks(the type you crack and shake like people at rave's & nightclubs use) that you attach to your float with little elastic bands so you can see your float at night. but never went out night fishing.. was soo tempted to crack one & see glow : ) but i was able to resist... BUT GOD WAS IT HARD!!! : (
Fishing with lights might be illegal in some areas. I've seen the old school versions...a small sealed beam headlight in a styrofoam float, or automotive marker lights in plastic tubes. Never tried one, though.
Great video Clive, your Glaswegian today reminded me of oor wully for some reason, you don’t happen to sit on an upside down bucket when you record these do you? Excellent inspiration for us Scottish electricians during a tough time. My Wully, your Wully- a’boadies Wully! Translation: My Willy your Willy - my maws no got a Willy. Intended meaning- my William, your William he’s everybody’s William!
I seriously do not get why so many TH-camrs apologize for loud sounds to people who wear headphones. Sometimes I use speakers, sometimes I use phones. Occasional loud sounds just aren't a problem either way. Maybe I just don't understand what it's like to be so fragile...
I just wonder if a few flashing small LED lights inside a thin plastic tube, (rhythmic flashing) would attract fresh water fish with a treble hook on the end ? It wouldn't need much battery power to run that for a few hours. Even one at sea might work on the end of a line!
I had the same thing with getting tracking for a useless 'gift' package (Controller Wrap.) I immediately reported them to ebay, and gave them 2 weeks before filling for a refund which I got. They even falsified the 'gift' package contents to match the listing. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these places send out those junk packages seeing if someone notices and complains they didn't get the product. If they do, then they send out the product for real. If noone does then they send out no real product and keep the money for it. Or if you toss out the package and 'gift' product not thinking about it you can't prove they scammed you so again they keep the money as you can't get a refund. For me the product did finally come. Albeit 3 months late. But I already got a refund. Based on the time it took it was likely sent out only after I said something. Not like how they claimed which was it was on it's way already.
The Ministry for fishing in my area prohibits any glowing or lights for fishing lures. This might be good for a decorative pond light for hiding under a rock or maybe attracting insects considering the colour of the LED. Looked these up on EBay. It seems the Green or Blue LED ones are the most sought after for about $15-$20
I don't think Heat would be a big issue with this, despite the density of the package, it is designed to be underwater, and the thermal mass of a even small container of water would keep this fairly cool without issue.
Some big fishing boats (seen on TV/TH-cam!) have huge floodlights pointing at the water for the same effect AFAIK... Not sure if it's legal everywhere though...
Well, not exactly a gift. They stuff random trash in the envelope, hoping that the customer won't bother to demand the item they actually ordered (or will have forgotten about it by the time the package arrives), so they can get away with the money.
Probably more useful than this for most fishermen, there are fishing floats ---- also known as bobbers ---- for supporting your bait a few feet below the surface of the water, which have a battery and an LED in them so that you can see a fish pull the bobber under when you're fishing at night. They use a button or coin battery to power the LED.
Distracted ramblings of an old tech... I know little about fish, however living in an ancient cottage in the middle of nowhere for nearly 30 years surrounded by fields I have found that some hornets are very attracted to light. They will crowd around my outside light next to my door and when I switch it off they will go to the kitchen window and start flying into it, they make quite a solid donk sound as they hit the glass. If they get in the house I just put the outside light on and turn off the inside lights leaving the door open and they quickly go outside and donk the light. There haven't been many this year, and not many rats either, however this year the moles have been at their worst for the whole time I've been here, I think it is the dampness making for soft ground. I wonder if rats and moles are like Great White sharks & Orcas, when orcas are about, sharks disappear for hundreds of miles, if an Orca see's a great white it will probably kill it (I saw it filmed and the Orca just rams the side of the shark at great speed. Rats are tough critters and out here the best we can hope for is to control them, compared to moles their tunnels are shallow and short but it is all relative. Moles though excavate tonnes of soil, they are immensely strong, when a cat I had years ago brought one in at 2.00am it just dropped it in the corner by the door, me - feeling kind - with a large coal shovel tried to lob it out the door into the garden. The mole hit the shovel with such force that the shovel rang like a bell for a few seconds, it was so angry it was furious, mind you between me and the cat dragging out of a forming hill, I don't bame it! Do rats disappear when moles come? The moles are everywhere, all 7 of my neighbours here are affected, even the molehills have molehills! Moles are smaller but I think stronger and much better underground, I think a mole could destroy a rat homestead, here in the summer they are in underground tunnels usually. In winter they try to get into lofts and other warmer places, I don't know where the moles go! I don't think either - particularly the moles - like lights or are attracted to them, so lure traps won't work!
If it's only to be used for a pool party (The light being submerged in relatively fresh, although chlorinated water for only a few hours and that's it) I think it will be fine, even though I still haven't started playing the video. But if you use it for its intended purpose I'm pretty sure the waterproofing will fail soon or later, or the temperature changes will make condensation appear inside the sealed enclosure, or the UVs from the sun will degrade the plastic of the light or cable and last but not least, some LEDs or the driver or both will fail after only a few days of fishing, with the light output ultimately reducing or the whole light flashing away like a beacon of some sort 😂😂 (Fun fact: I've actually seen LED streetlights blinking at full intensity in quite a wide street (Or I should say avenue) in Milan a few years ago. I don't think such a big city will use chinese supplies from eBay but still the drivers in each of the incriminated fixtures must have failed one way or another). FYI I've seen LED streetlights from the prestigious Italian light manufacturer Iguzzini (The Archilede model, first generation, not the "HP" one) in use in a smaller city close to Milan and they were all working fine, but I don't know who was the manufacturer of the blinky-blinky ones in Milan.
@@chrisa2735-h3z Yep, same for me (Plus the orange light they emit happens to be less harsh on the circadian rythm if you're unfortunate enough to have the light shining through your bedroom window at night and no way to shade it, ie it's summer and closing the window and shutters will make the room too hot to get a good sleep) The orange light emitted by high pressure lamps is also quite close to a sunset regarding the wavelength.
I’ve been looking for a video on how Clive takes the images of the boards and also what printer he uses - now I’m going to ask for help and if it doesn’t exist - how about a video about how you do it , tips and traps. Thanks
Looking at the video - we seem to have both near-UV and cyan light - is there any indication that there are multiple chips in this packages? Or are they using a near-UV chip to activate a light coating of cyan phosphor, so both the UV and the blue light is released? That strikes me as a good device to make a fish lure out of, but can't think of enough other uses for them to make production of the LED components viable - apart from fake germicidal products!
Just thinking about all those LEDs in that small capsule, and heat issue. Surely, there shouldn't an issue? The whole thing is water cooled! Assuming you're meant to plop it straight into the pond/river etc? Those LEDs look much like the ones in my new insect killer lamp.
I have never seen that kind of a light / technique used for fishing. I know that's use for squids and some ocean fishes. But I have used fluorescent tubing when tying some salmon flies. Though I don't know if that helped at all 🤷🏻♂️😂.
I just noticed the Kink Palculator says SISSY SQUAD on it. I think I don't want to know. As far as using electronics to get fish I saw on the TV many years a go a group of fishermen who rigged up a waterproof speaker, hooked it to their 8 track player and played music underwater. They claimed the music brought the fish in. I seem to remember them saying bluegrass music worked the best. I suspect they had a limited number of 8 tracks to choose from.
I searched these out on ebay and on amazon thanks to this video. Oddly, on amazon they say 12v/24v/AC/DC. After seeing how bright these are, I'm thinking a pair of these with some 3D printed custom brackets would make decent area lighting on my tractor. Maybe not enough to be proper headlights, but certainly enough to avoid those 'oh sh!t' moments. These could be overly handy for tons of situations! When I go broke, I'm blaming Clive. 😂😂
"That cork is gift" - I want gift :-) So I'll not pull on the inductor - I'll heave the supply wires instead. Nice one BHF Clive! :-) That's not an inductor, It's a dismantling, pulling thingywhatsitt.
Fishing with Chips? As I recall, fishing with the aid of a weighted Thunderflash both avoided lugging all the other 'fishing' paraphernalia about and skipped the waiting for (guaranteed) supper.
You have no idea how right on time this video is lol I don't have a fishing pole, but I have an upcoming project that needs the guts of this thing... Just about perfect ready made for what I'm after 😉 Edit: if I can't find it, link? 😁
A fan blowing across the generator seems to diffuse and more evenly use the ozone produced. Without the fan, I get the bleach smell. With a fan, it's more fresh laundry and thunderstorm.
The most important decision when you are going out fishing with your buddies is what you will be drinking. Sometimes you catch some fish, but that is incidental...
That reminds me of the old Geezinslaw Brothers gag line. "If you go fishing, always take two Baptists with you. Because if you take only one Baptist, he'll drink all the beer." (That line was thrown out in front of a bunch of Baptists, I should add.)
This LED lure is effective in luring curious viewers.
I dont mind that but I do hope we dont get deep fried in batter later 👍🤣
Assuming it doesn't work worth a damn, it's good for catching suckers too.
I was curious if it gonna zap em lmfao
Are fish attracted to UV light ?
Fishing lights will work but not on all species or in all locations. They don’t tell you this in the advertisement.
LEDs are how Clive lures his audience in, so this is a propos.
Indeed. The fake-UVC ones are the best-the blue glow that doesn't melt your skin is comforting.
Technically, Clive IS a tetrapod, which is a type of fish, as are his audience, so it makes sense!
LEDs and ozone generators.
Question is what colour LED's attract Clive?
@@NMY556L UV LEDs, of course.
The light actually attracts the micro organisms and plankton, the fish are attracted to their food source, and fisherman's bait also green would be better as it penetrates the water better, it is why the Taiwanese fishermen use them a lot.
500nm travels furthest in water so that blue should work quite nicely. Green is second best.
Oh, thanks for the info! I just commented that I have never seen that kind of a light / technique used for fishing (in Finland). I know that very powerful lights are use for catching squids - if memory serves correctly.
But I have used fluorescent tubing when tying some salmon flies. Though I don't know if that helped at all 🤷🏻♂️😂. (I got about the same amount than with non glowing flies, but the sample size was too small.)
@@tkermi , counter-intuitively, it is generally considered best to use brightly colored lures on bright sunny days and darker colored lures on darker days.
@@goodun2974 Yes, I know about this quite a lot actually 🙂. I have been actively sport fishing since I was 10 (over 26 years) and fly-fishing for over 20 years. I was trained by a professional fly-fisher / fly designer with good success in fly-fishing world championships. I also helped in local sports fishing shops and toured with them to trade shows in other countries as well - great times 😌.
Though nowhere near as successful as my teacher also I have taken part in fly-fishing national championships and designed many now reasonably popular fly models.
The application for those partially fluorescent flies was pitch black waters (autumn nighttime Baltic Sea salmon fishing in rapids from 5m / 16ft depth). When it comes to salmon fishing in rivers overall the basic "rules" doesn't really apply and there's also a lot of regional and seasonal differences.
I've used these and their ancestors all the way back to "incandescent car headlamp in a styrofoam doughnut attached to a car battery"
The idea is more.. indirect. The light brings in plankton, insects, fish fry, krill, etc. That later brings in juvenile baitfish, which eventually brings in regular baitfish, which may bring in fish. It often takes several hours to see full grown baitfish/fish. Sometimes it brings in game fish quite well, sometimes it does not. It truly depends on the season, moonlight, and a million other fishy factors. For an "family" fishing night for several people to sit in one place, it's quite fun. I'd say its no more advantageous than having a boat or a modern fishing pole. It still requires knowledge in order to place the light so that it works for you. They also prevent you from moving much, as if you are not anchored you will quickly outrun your krill.
Yeah true but just to add:- there are no insects in the sea.
@@DefinitelyNotaCyberCat There are numerous aquatic insects in freshwater habitats. Source: Trout fly fisherman.
Lamps work wonders on the west coast of the US. Usually use a gas lamp set near the water line of a jetty. Brings in quite a few black sea bass.
@@mattfleming86 Not to seem weird, but the sea isn't a "freshwater habitat." You got any salt-water insects, for my edification, please?
Yes I think in the UK it's not seen as being 'gamely'. Supposed to imitate the moon I assume.
The bridge rectifier is in case a beered up fisherman hooks it up to his trolling motor battery backwards.
I wish more products included bridge rectifiers because shit happens.
@@railgap Tell that to DC-AC mains voltage inverter manufacturers
They could just have put a blocking diode instead to prevent damage. Less voltage drop and cheaper
You never cease to amaze me how you find all the doodads that you do, Clive. 7:44 These special "floating buck" regulators confound a lot of beginners when they see the schematic. For starters, there is no "ground referencing" to the switching network. Weirder yet is how a (triangular) current waveform through an inductor can be maintained even when the voltage across the inductor flips in polarity, making it look like current is flowing "in the wrong direction." If the inductor behaved like a resistor, positive current would always flow from + to -, never - to +. However, an inductor will pass a current in this one direction regardless of the voltage across it! Behavior like this is what confuses many about inductors, but it is key to understanding how ANY switching regulator works. Inductors are at the heart of any switcher. Study them, students! I'm tempted to walk through the two phases of this buck, but it would be another long, wordy comment, and I don't want to again bog down Clive's comments section with it.
I have two of these in my koi pond running from a 12V garden lighting transformer. They are a lot cheaper than lights sold by the koi dealers or swimming pool suppliers - a lot cheaper!
They have been underwater now for 16 months and haven't leaked yet and have been run for a few hours three or four times a week. They are very buoyant and just float on the surface so as I wanted them about a foot underwater I stuck them on to the end of plastic pipes which are clipped to the side of the pond.
They work really well and the fish totally ignore the light.
"They work really well and the fish totally ignore the light." So much for the "lure" part of this presentation!
We use green or blue bio-luminescent lures to attract Ling Cod when we go ice fishing here in Canada. I also found that if you play music on the ice, it attracts fish to the area.
Alright, i see it now. A rouge fishing boat stranded on Clive's house and he's slowly taking it to bits like the world's most careful electronic lamprey.
Why would it be red?
@@patricksweetman3285 I think he meant rogue. Blame auto-correct!
In response to 00:09:25 comments, putting the current sense resistors in series with the LED and Inductor pair allows them to sense current even when the Mosfet is in the off state. Some regulator chips use a fixed frequency and simply turn off when the current reaches a particular preset level. In contrast, the UM1350 chip will regulate to +-15% of the set current and adjust the frequency and duty cycle to maintain this specific ripple current. Page 6 of the data sheet I found illustrates this fairly well.
The trade off with this strategy is the chip must operate at full input source voltage (minus the bridge rectifier drop) while some of the LED "mains" lamps you have disassembled do not.
P.S. I do enjoy watching these videos on my lunch hour; great work bigclive!
We used to dip shrimp from the water by suspending a gas lantern over the surface at night. The shrimp were attracted to the light and we'd scoop them up with a small net. In about an hour we could collect several pounds of shrimp.
Squids too
Bubba gump
We used to use tiny glow sticks on our rod tips while fishing in the dark. They seemed to attract more snapping turtles than fish though. Pulling up a snapping turtle that is 2 feet across in the pitch black is exhilarating to say the least.
Yes they put up an incredible fight for the size.
Here in Canada (a) Fishing after sundown is illegal, and (b) using a light attractant is also Illegal, and doing either cna result in a HUGE fine (up to $20,000) and possible loss of your fishing vessel (DFO can legally seize your boat)
F..king cruel is what is... They don't survive that. Breaks thier jaw, neck, legs and sholders, from grabbing logs and rocks, etc. I'm sure get the picture !!!
@@snakezdewiggle6084 Not sure where that came from, but it wasn't what we WANTED to catch. Perhaps you misunderstood me. Our prey was river catfish or anything else that happen to eat at night and had scales. The turtles just served to waste our time and scare the ever-loving SH*T out of us. I'm sure one or more we caught twice in one night. Some would cut the line when the pulling was hard, but that's littering a waterway. We just grabbed the hooks (carefully) and sent them on their way with a bite to eat.
@@snakezdewiggle6084 I'm guessing your user name indicates a reptile hobby? Trust me, my friend, I get physically sick to my stomach to see an animal in pain. If I thought for a second back then that I was causing harm to that turtle, I'd have given up fishing for good - which I did when I was about 20. I have chinchillas now because they live a long time. I detest seeing an animal die and I've had a fair number of pets. I'm also not a hypocrite because I eat meat, fish, eggs, and cheese. I know where my meat comes from and I'm under no illusion that it's always humane. I could never hunt though. Cannot take an animal. That said, I'll butcher it and eat it if you put it down. I'm a conundrum.
That is a hole in the center isn't it? Clive why didn't you just find a wood screw and tighten that into the hole and get a good grip to pull out with?
I've never been an angler, but years ago I found that my aquarium fish would manically chase a red laser pointer around the tank and thought that it would make a good lure.
When you stand up, you stand at an angle. !
@@snakezdewiggle6084 😃
There are Angler fish that have a protrusion from the head a bit like a fishing rod, the tip can glow (bioluminescence) which attracts fish.
also, fishing lures flash because thay are shiny, which also is attractive to fish.
Doesn't that make a good argument for a small flasher circuit to randomly fire the LEDs?
@@demef758 Made comment on the video. A norwegian company basically sells this, but it's expensive as hell and I don't like that the product is glued shut making the whole thing disposable as opposed to letting you replace the battery. Here is the product in question: www.skittfiske.no/sovik/215505/s%C3%B8vik-deepligth
Longtime viewer first time caller long time fisher. Its quite uncommon to use anything but green for a fish attracting light. It actually doesn't attract fish directly but attracts micro organisms which attracts baitfish which in turn attracts larger fish. Its effective but not really considered unsportsmanlike. Usually used when using bait rather than lures
A U/V cork for use in "certain" areas.
Lamps of this shape were, long ago, sold as early "corn" style general LED bulbs, having many LEDs - typically 50-100. The lowest part on the white plastic body of the lamp was holding E14 metal screw, while the one above it was meant for fitting the E27 one. Top of the transparent cap had several holes for cooling. The only difference was in a driver, as it was for 230V AC, if I remember well, it was the capacitive dropper. The "corn" bulb I have flickers a lot - that is, a strong stroboscopic effect is noticeable in an otherwise perfectly normal lamp. In my opinion, "corn" bulbs principal design flaw was underestimated cooling requirements for such a crowded lamp, so perhaps they were even deliberately made to supply LEDs with power for a fraction of the time, to keep overall temperature at the reasonable level.
Poor Clive... It seems some of your viewers don't take these posts entirely seriously.
Thanks as always!
Here at the lake we have a light out on the dock by the water, but not in the water. On the outside of the light is a wire that spins around like a weed wacker, knocking the bugs out of the air that are attracted to the light. Then the fish come and eat the bugs. They are now trained to always come to this area because there are always bugs to eat.
I went sea fishing in Taiwan on a typical tourist charter boat and during daylight hours I noticed all these large lightbulb globes (looked like HID style bulbs but massive) hanging up above the boat. When nightfall fell I was very surprised that not only did these lights all get fired up (with a slightly worrying humming sound) which was honestly blinding…. But after a short while the crew started chucking them all overboard and letting them sink down. I didn’t take long for fish and squid to start coming up from the deep. And the rate at which everyone was hooking fish doubled. An amazing yet slightly worrying (as an electrician!) experience. In short… lights definitely helped catch more fish
They use 2kW metal halide lamps.
You must understand Clive that 90% of us that go fishing always leave that fish back unharmed(apart for the it been scared for a few minuets or so more that its going to be eating by a bigger fish, & yes i do believe fish can think & have memory's too. its been proven that goldfish do "NOT" have a 5 second memory but can remember up to a year and more) enough me going off on one. to answer your question Clive, NO it's not cheating to use any advantage when hunting or fishing. P.S. cool video by the way, & i love this thing, : )
These work great for striped bass at night at Lake Powell (Utah and Arizona - it's a big lake).
Stuff like this, supposedly wettable, I use silicone sealant and high grade electrical tape to seal them myself before ever sinking them. Might even put the whole thing in my own sealed container made from a canning jar.
Sounds like something you might consider, using a small watch battery with a low power LED on a fishing lure that sits in the water under a bobber. Would be interesting to see if it attracted fish. Fish can be very curious.
that shipping issue is why i use the location settings and i only want to see items that are in the united states.
for you it is the uk so you should have a similar filter.
make sure that the item is in your country and not being shipped overseas.
I think I know where this idea originates…
I’v used UV fishing lights and seen them used for the past 35 years. Low level UV probably around 400 nm.
(There’s also a Styrofoam enclosed car headlamp… that sits on top of the water. Sounds like that could get sketchy pretty quick. And would be a huge attractant for bugs!)
The only type I have experience with… Are long fluorescent UV bulbs. That mount to the side of a bass boat.
I don’t know how well they attract fish, but the UV lights help to see what you’re doing when night fishing, especially for smallmouth bass.
And Without attracting big hornets and other stinging creatures. Because when you’re fishing out of a boat at night, there are all types of hornets, snakes, and all other type of creatures in the trees. And they are attracted to any bright light. And will come straight for your boat. I’ve been held hostage many times in my own boat from copperheads, water moccasins, and other venomous snakes.
I still have an expensive set of fluorescent tube type UV lights. That were mounted to my bass boat. probably 390nm if I had to guess. They were purchased about 35 years ago, and put on my fancy tournament boat at the time.
I believe they were about $750 for a set of four back then. They were not cheap. But nothing in the sport of tournament fishing is. This was long before LEDs… And many night fisherman used them. There was a shield between you and the light, so your eyes did not become fatigued with the low level UV. It shined towards the bank and towards the water. Add an angle so that it could not be reflected to you.
It would light up the monofilament or braided fishing line very bright, you could even see it when casting 50 yards from the boat. It was also wonderful for “charging“ your glow in the dark fishing lures. Since it was low level UV light… It would charge up the glow in the dark lures in just a few seconds. And they would continue to glow very brightly, like they had been charged in direct sunlight.
Smallmouth bass fishing is pretty tough, they’re exceptionally hard to catch in great number or size. And it’s a lot of fun!
These would be useful to lure in more stream viewers even tho there are at least 1,300 - 1,600 every Sat evening. A few of these and you could grab 2,500 - 3,000.
Really impressed by the print quality you get .
Now there's an idea, you and Ralfy go fishing. Might make an interesting outside video.
Yeah, I've heard the cork thing is basically so they can provide a tracking number to eBay...
I've had something similar happen too, got sent a bunch of crappy effect lights which were of no vallue to me. Its a really cheeky scam and Chinnese sellers almost always pretent that they are in the right and all will be well. That’s just not how we do trade in the modern western world.
Always check local fishing rules and regulations. Some places prohibit fishing with lights, sometimes just with light above water, sometimes below, sometimes for specific species.
Bow fishing off boats at night is popular in the US, usually spotlights hanging off the side of the boat that attract the fish.
I remember the cork you recieved a while a go and was wondering if this thing actually ever arrived. Every once in a while I'd stop and ask "did Clive ever get the LED fish lure?". Glad this question has been answered.
What was the name of the cork video?
@@SkrovnoCZ It's called "Mystery corks, PCBs and fixing a dead lamp."
@@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus oh thanks. I was searching for this video but I couldn't find it.
Ohh that chip has an analog input (0-2.5V = max brightness) to set the dimming. Throw a ADXL335 accelerometer (Y or X output) fed to a 1/2 divider into the ADJ pin on the UM1305 + battery pack and tie-wrap it to your wheel on your bike and it will glow brighter based on your wheel speed.
Clive managed to break everything on the regulation board. Good job Clive!😀
I received a similar device as a gift many, many years ago. It used a small incandescent flashlight bulb powered by a pair of AA batteries at the other end of the wire. Not being very sporting and if I recall correctly not legal to use for fishing. Nevertheless I took it out to the end of a dock on the local lake one evening and dropped it in. Lying on the dock peering down into the water I soon saw a couple large fish swim up to it to see what it was all about, so the basic idea does work.
If I recall the Angler Fish uses illuminated cells to attract its prey in. I am guessing it is the same principle, luring the food source which lures in the fish.
Can you show us the cork? Maybe tear down?
I've friends who have used various light bulb lures over the years to attract prawns to catch hand nets in as they move in or out of rivers to the sea.
Yes, this should work. The Wolastoqey (Indigenous peoples in North America) were noted as fishing for salmon by hanging a torch off the front of their canoes and spearing the fish when they came up to investigate.
In a hoarse, breathy whisper: "Don't follow the lights!" :p
Interesting that the freewheeling current is passed through the current sensing circuit as well. These switch mode current source chips are very sorted these days.
I think they do that to keep the pin count down.
Clive you should make this a slow fade light and place it into one of your 3d printed crystals.
I haven't used exatly these but i have used floting fish lights and they do work fish have learned that light equals bugs/food.
And Big Clive said,,,,
LET THERE BE LIGHT...
And they all ate fish...
I've used the light for flounder gigging. Doesn't attract them. Only used to see the flounder laying on the bottom so you can "gig" them.
I have an idea that might help with reverse engineering the traces on opaque boards.
I think you have an IR camera, right?
If so, heat the trace(s) you're intersted in a bit with a stab of the soldering iron, then take a picture with the IR camera.
Hopefully the trace(s) will stand out well against the surrounding board. (I don't have an IR camera to test.)
Might not work if the trace is connected to a power/ground plane, or for more than 2 layer boards.
(I doubt I'm the first to think of this, but it just popped in my head when you mentioned the white boards are difficult to reverse engineer. Let me know if it works.)
Don't know if the resolution of the FLIR cams are all that good. I think the max is somewhere round the 640X480 or maybe 720 for the very expensive version, like what would be used for thermal imaging of power transmission systems. YMMV
@@FuriousTesla117 If you can get close enough, 640x480 should be pretty good.
Think how much detail you can get on an ancient VGA screen.
I think traces other than ultra-thin ones would probably be easy enough to pick out. 👍🤔
"big ham-fisted Clive" i'm not sure if you're referring to how not careful you can be with your hands sometimes, or an experience you had recently with someone called "Big Ham"... Either way, I support it.
My goldfish Bob keeps telling me to "turn off the bloody lights, i'm naked here!"
Anybody remember when the worktop Clive uses was new, no marks at all, just a nice uniform brown, look at it now 👋🏻
so long as the colour is not "RED"(because fish can't see the colour red! 'plus many other animals it turns out') you can use any colour of light. its just that the fish are attracted to light were they know they will have a better chance of seeing/finding food. so you put this light into the water and then have baited hook beside it where the chances of it been taken will be increased massively.. PLUS in different water colours, and clarity's, different colour lights would work better.. so that's why you can get different variety of the colour and hue's of light in my opinion. but don't take that to the bank (apart from the colour red part, & the rest about it attracting fish into where you baited hook is that is) its just that it make sense to me more than any other i can think of.. ; )
P.S. iv never used one by the way! but i do have little 5mm diameter 1 inch long glow sticks(the type you crack and shake like people at rave's & nightclubs use) that you attach to your float with little elastic bands so you can see your float at night. but never went out night fishing.. was soo tempted to crack one & see glow : ) but i was able to resist... BUT GOD WAS IT HARD!!! : (
Fishing with lights might be illegal in some areas. I've seen the old school versions...a small sealed beam headlight in a styrofoam float, or automotive marker lights in plastic tubes. Never tried one, though.
Great video Clive, your Glaswegian today reminded me of oor wully for some reason, you don’t happen to sit on an upside down bucket when you record these do you?
Excellent inspiration for us Scottish electricians during a tough time.
My Wully, your Wully- a’boadies Wully!
Translation:
My Willy your Willy - my maws no got a Willy.
Intended meaning- my William, your William he’s everybody’s William!
never try any other color but green did best getting fish attention in water
i have few bigger one work well but draw 10 amp super brightfull
I seriously do not get why so many TH-camrs apologize for loud sounds to people who wear headphones. Sometimes I use speakers, sometimes I use phones. Occasional loud sounds just aren't a problem either way. Maybe I just don't understand what it's like to be so fragile...
the older I get the less I am bothered by loud sounds it is more that I am bothered by low sounds as in what did he say?
@@unclefrogy743 Roger that.
Sorry...
ROGER THAT!
That's a pretty neat gadget, Clive. I'm not sure why but I have this strange desire to order one.
Thanks a bunch for this video.
It could also be used as a decorative low voltage garden light.
I just wonder if a few flashing small LED lights inside a thin plastic tube, (rhythmic flashing) would attract fresh water fish with a treble hook on the end ? It wouldn't need much battery power to run that for a few hours. Even one at sea might work on the end of a line!
I had the same thing with getting tracking for a useless 'gift' package (Controller Wrap.) I immediately reported them to ebay, and gave them 2 weeks before filling for a refund which I got.
They even falsified the 'gift' package contents to match the listing.
Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these places send out those junk packages seeing if someone notices and complains they didn't get the product.
If they do, then they send out the product for real. If noone does then they send out no real product and keep the money for it.
Or if you toss out the package and 'gift' product not thinking about it you can't prove they scammed you so again they keep the money as you can't get a refund.
For me the product did finally come. Albeit 3 months late. But I already got a refund. Based on the time it took it was likely sent out only after I said something.
Not like how they claimed which was it was on it's way already.
The Ministry for fishing in my area prohibits any glowing or lights for fishing lures. This might be good for a decorative pond light for hiding under a rock or maybe attracting insects considering the colour of the LED. Looked these up on EBay. It seems the Green or Blue LED ones are the most sought after for about $15-$20
I don't think Heat would be a big issue with this, despite the density of the package, it is designed to be underwater, and the thermal mass of a even small container of water would keep this fairly cool without issue.
So, do we now have to say that Clive is a master at baiting us?
Many years ago I've read that fishing at night with a light is forbidden. At least in some countries likeFrance.
Why
@@Amanullah-dx5uy because fishes are attracted by light, so it's unfair you'd fish a lot more with a light.
It's a bit like hunting with a bazooka, except that bazooka destroys everything :)
@@unperrier5998 oh I see thx
"No jellyfish in the lake"
>> That sounds expected
"...at the moment"
>> Not expected.
Saltwater lake filled from the sea.
Looks like it's ultraviolet? I could use one with a 365nm range for attracting insects.
Some big fishing boats (seen on TV/TH-cam!) have huge floodlights pointing at the water for the same effect AFAIK... Not sure if it's legal everywhere though...
They sent you a cork as a "gift"?
You gotta be kidding me
I want to see a cork teardown.
Well, not exactly a gift. They stuff random trash in the envelope, hoping that the customer won't bother to demand the item they actually ordered (or will have forgotten about it by the time the package arrives), so they can get away with the money.
The schematic would be fascinating. :-)
corks are actually pretty useful to anglers.
K-MART was known for their flashing blue light special to attract shoppers. I guess we fall for the same tricks as fish?
I built one of these many years ago from a project in the magazine EPE (IIRC - it was the front cover feature!). It was so effective it was stolen!
Probably more useful than this for most fishermen, there are fishing floats ---- also known as bobbers ---- for supporting your bait a few feet below the surface of the water, which have a battery and an LED in them so that you can see a fish pull the bobber under when you're fishing at night. They use a button or coin battery to power the LED.
Distracted ramblings of an old tech...
I know little about fish, however living in an ancient cottage in the middle of nowhere for nearly 30 years surrounded by fields I have found that some hornets are very attracted to light. They will crowd around my outside light next to my door and when I switch it off they will go to the kitchen window and start flying into it, they make quite a solid donk sound as they hit the glass. If they get in the house I just put the outside light on and turn off the inside lights leaving the door open and they quickly go outside and donk the light.
There haven't been many this year, and not many rats either, however this year the moles have been at their worst for the whole time I've been here, I think it is the dampness making for soft ground. I wonder if rats and moles are like Great White sharks & Orcas, when orcas are about, sharks disappear for hundreds of miles, if an Orca see's a great white it will probably kill it (I saw it filmed and the Orca just rams the side of the shark at great speed.
Rats are tough critters and out here the best we can hope for is to control them, compared to moles their tunnels are shallow and short but it is all relative. Moles though excavate tonnes of soil, they are immensely strong, when a cat I had years ago brought one in at 2.00am it just dropped it in the corner by the door, me - feeling kind - with a large coal shovel tried to lob it out the door into the garden. The mole hit the shovel with such force that the shovel rang like a bell for a few seconds, it was so angry it was furious, mind you between me and the cat dragging out of a forming hill, I don't bame it!
Do rats disappear when moles come? The moles are everywhere, all 7 of my neighbours here are affected, even the molehills have molehills! Moles are smaller but I think stronger and much better underground, I think a mole could destroy a rat homestead, here in the summer they are in underground tunnels usually. In winter they try to get into lofts and other warmer places, I don't know where the moles go! I don't think either - particularly the moles - like lights or are attracted to them, so lure traps won't work!
If it's only to be used for a pool party (The light being submerged in relatively fresh, although chlorinated water for only a few hours and that's it) I think it will be fine, even though I still haven't started playing the video.
But if you use it for its intended purpose I'm pretty sure the waterproofing will fail soon or later, or the temperature changes will make condensation appear inside the sealed enclosure, or the UVs from the sun will degrade the plastic of the light or cable and last but not least, some LEDs or the driver or both will fail after only a few days of fishing, with the light output ultimately reducing or the whole light flashing away like a beacon of some sort 😂😂
(Fun fact: I've actually seen LED streetlights blinking at full intensity in quite a wide street (Or I should say avenue) in Milan a few years ago.
I don't think such a big city will use chinese supplies from eBay but still the drivers in each of the incriminated fixtures must have failed one way or another).
FYI I've seen LED streetlights from the prestigious Italian light manufacturer Iguzzini (The Archilede model, first generation, not the "HP" one) in use in a smaller city close to Milan and they were all working fine, but I don't know who was the manufacturer of the blinky-blinky ones in Milan.
One reason why I still love high-pressure sodium Street lights!
@@chrisa2735-h3z Yep, same for me
(Plus the orange light they emit happens to be less harsh on the circadian rythm if you're unfortunate enough to have the light shining through your bedroom window at night and no way to shade it, ie it's summer and closing the window and shutters will make the room too hot to get a good sleep)
The orange light emitted by high pressure lamps is also quite close to a sunset regarding the wavelength.
I’ve been looking for a video on how Clive takes the images of the boards and also what printer he uses - now I’m going to ask for help and if it doesn’t exist - how about a video about how you do it , tips and traps. Thanks
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Clive has covered this in the past, but the video was not titled as such, so unless you watch all his videos "I have" You may not find it.
Thanks I found it Tupperware
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It is illegal to use light while fishing where I live in Canada.
Does it sink in water? Doesn't seem that heavy and probably just floats.
Illegal in my AO, except for netting smelts or certain baitfish.
Looking at the video - we seem to have both near-UV and cyan light - is there any indication that there are multiple chips in this packages? Or are they using a near-UV chip to activate a light coating of cyan phosphor, so both the UV and the blue light is released? That strikes me as a good device to make a fish lure out of, but can't think of enough other uses for them to make production of the LED components viable - apart from fake germicidal products!
Just a deep blue single colour.
It lured us here rightly enough, but now it looks like a fish out of water.
Just thinking about all those LEDs in that small capsule, and heat issue. Surely, there shouldn't an issue? The whole thing is water cooled! Assuming you're meant to plop it straight into the pond/river etc?
Those LEDs look much like the ones in my new insect killer lamp.
What I learned today: fish come in different styles.
Why do you need a bright light when the sun shines brightly out thyne arse? You beautiful man you.
I have never seen that kind of a light / technique used for fishing. I know that's use for squids and some ocean fishes. But I have used fluorescent tubing when tying some salmon flies. Though I don't know if that helped at all 🤷🏻♂️😂.
I just noticed the Kink Palculator says SISSY SQUAD on it.
I think I don't want to know.
As far as using electronics to get fish I saw on the TV many years a go a group of fishermen who rigged up a waterproof speaker, hooked it to their 8 track player and played music underwater.
They claimed the music brought the fish in.
I seem to remember them saying bluegrass music worked the best.
I suspect they had a limited number of 8 tracks to choose from.
The sissy squad was randomly added by a coworker. It said "sassy squad" before.
@@bigclivedotcom Good to know.
I searched these out on ebay and on amazon thanks to this video. Oddly, on amazon they say 12v/24v/AC/DC. After seeing how bright these are, I'm thinking a pair of these with some 3D printed custom brackets would make decent area lighting on my tractor. Maybe not enough to be proper headlights, but certainly enough to avoid those 'oh sh!t' moments. These could be overly handy for tons of situations! When I go broke, I'm blaming Clive. 😂😂
Fishing with puny LEDs at 12V? That's crazy. All you need is a couple of stripped wires and high voltage source.
Thanks again for another wonderful video man.
I am watching the video and wondering when the ozone modification is coming up...
Whoever assembled that never thought about future repairs.
"That cork is gift" - I want gift :-)
So I'll not pull on the inductor - I'll heave the supply wires instead. Nice one BHF Clive! :-) That's not an inductor, It's a dismantling, pulling thingywhatsitt.
I am surprised you did not put a screw in the center hole to remove the board ? instead of destroying it.
nice light tho Clive would look nice with a new shade like the crystal one and you could use them out doors on walls and patios.
Where do the sticks of dynamite attach for percussive lake fishing?
You bundle them around the blue light with cable ties, so the fish get nice and close before detonation.
Great video! Super interesting, 👍
Fishing with Chips?
As I recall, fishing with the aid of a weighted Thunderflash both avoided lugging all the other 'fishing' paraphernalia about and skipped the waiting for (guaranteed) supper.
I prefer it when you take more care and don't wreck the thing you are analysing.
Most stuff gets rebuilt after the video. This one could get re-cased.
You have no idea how right on time this video is lol
I don't have a fishing pole, but I have an upcoming project that needs the guts of this thing... Just about perfect ready made for what I'm after 😉
Edit: if I can't find it, link? 😁
Clive... of course it won't work for jelly fish! Blue is for jam fish! Especially blueberry jam!
We have used lights to attract smelt, that's the only time you can use a light for fishing
I do know lights are used to catch squid but they use high pressure sodium lights above the water.
Since your the expert on ozone devices, does ozone rise, fall or does it need a blower over it?
It will diffuse in the air. It may be slightly heavier than air, but a fan for diffusing is useful.
A fan blowing across the generator seems to diffuse and more evenly use the ozone produced. Without the fan, I get the bleach smell. With a fan, it's more fresh laundry and thunderstorm.
The most important decision when you are going out fishing with your buddies is what you will be drinking. Sometimes you catch some fish, but that is incidental...
Neanderthal. ..
That reminds me of the old Geezinslaw Brothers gag line. "If you go fishing, always take two Baptists with you. Because if you take only one Baptist, he'll drink all the beer." (That line was thrown out in front of a bunch of Baptists, I should add.)
@@demef758 It's true! ;-)