00:32 The LED light is obviously watercooled so that it can be brighter without overheating. To save on shipping the bulb gathers the cooling liquid out of the atmosphere. If it breaks it's like Apple usually says: It's not that the product is broken, but you have been using it the wrong way.
@@frizz6779 You are entirely wrong, buster! You don't know how these things work. The water in the bulb will neither fuze nor short circuit anything in the bulb. If it doesn't work anymore you just used it wrong and broke it - #NoRefund PS: You might want to check out a description about sarcasm... ;-)
I purchased 20 x 4' LED fluorescent light fitting substitutes for my home. after 6 months one failed. I took it back under warranty and they replaced it. then 3-4 others began to fail. I became tired of driving to the store and pulled a unit apart for an autopsy. In each there was 4 x SMD resistors that had fried. I pulled a part a working unit to see what they should have been. and checked them on my infrared camera. They were 20K, rated to only 80mw, but through poor design they were dissipating 300mw, sitting at about 70º C. Meaning that they would slowly cook and either burn out or de-solder themselves. I replaced them with 22K 1/2W regular pigtail resistors and they never failed again. When the unmodified lamps subsequently failed I could repair them and restore them to the ceiling in one third of the time it would take for me to go to the store with the receipt and haggle for a replacement. Total replacement parts cost? < 20 cents
I was thinking about that too because he doesn't just read the script of something he "believes" in (or makes it funny so ppl don't skip, which is fine too), this man made an AD!
"...my first electronic kit when I was just a wee lad!" [Cut to grainy VHS footage of Medhi as a small child touching live wires and swearing in Persian.]
holy crap I feel old now. I remember when electrocute was a tiny girl laughing at her fathers pain. now she is a tween putting stuff together without hurting herself. someone *Coughelectroboomcough* could learn from her.
I always have this comfortable feeling when I listen to Mehdi talking about energy effectiveness and developing toys for kids. DIY, science and wholesome family (looks like ElectroCUTE is really doing well) - that's the way to go.
@@ObsoleteVodka De-ionised water is an almost perfect isolator. In some high power RADAR and transmitter tubes they pump de-ionised water straight through the anodes at a voltage in the tens-of-kilovolts range.
It is infuriating! When LED lights for home application came around I was delighted, only to discover that the concept of planned obsolescence was still in effect. Which makes the whole situation even more infuriating, given the fact that cartell-planned obsolescence in traditional light bulbs was one of the first large-scale industrial scams to be found out...
no worries, the "climate change" is also a cartel and a industrial scam to keep countries from developing by denying them generating energy in cheap ways. nothing a bunch of laundered "green credits" (also invented by, drum rolls, the gas and oil companies) you bough for cheap doesn't solve
@@darkkillerultimatespeed4084 Fun fact: the ice cream machines arent actually broken. Theyre just a model thats very difficult to clean out, so they just say it's "broken"
@@darkkillerultimatespeed4084 wym? Right to repair is still not a real thing even in the EU, much less in the US, and planned obsolescence is definitely still a thing.
Of course, manufacturers just want to make better and more costly design that are less profitable and don't need to be replaced as often! ***living in the carebear world***
Your daughter has grown up so much since you first showed her on your channel, I have been watching your channel since I was 7 now I am 14, keep up the good work
"so manufacturers can improve their quality" lmao they already did, old LEDs last forever, I still have some running. They realized this error in quality so they made them die more frequently.
I got "boob lights" enclosed fixtures and they fail really frequently on me. I could try finding a bulb that can handle the heat but I think I might just deal away with the fixtures
Yo it's been so long since he's shown his daughter, it's crazy that I've watched him long enough to see her go from what seems to be toddler to pre teen, too damn wholesome!
@@samueltukua3061 started with please then insulted me ... nah mate i don't roll like that. you are a wrong un , who speaks about a mans daughter like that i bet you are on a government list ... you are suspect. i say you have map tendencies ... sue me👌
Proof of point: My grandfather has a GE lightbulb that looks like one giant circular heat sink. First ever 120V LED bulb I saw, and IT STILL WORKS to the point that it has LITERALLY OUTLASTED THE SOCKET MOUNTING! Seriously, it’s hanging out of the ceiling on hot spaghetti and looks fine for brightness. GE did not sponsor this comment.
I think you need to shock Linus again. You broke him with the last electro shock therapy. He spent 50k on GME at the top and spent 90k on a golden controller. I think he needs more of the shock therapy that you use to keep the voices away.
4:07 Mehdi when working with kilovolts : *happily shorts it with ease* *grabs the poles and gets electrocuted* Mehdi when smashing an LED : *looks away being scared even after wrapping it with a piece of cloth*
Glad I'm not the only one experiencing such a bizarrely high failure rate for LED bulbs. I bought a box of regular GE brand soft white bulbs and within a few weeks one of them started flickering. It was so slight that I wasn't sure if I was just seeing things but sure enough a few weeks later it went out completely. Later in the year I bought another box of the same bulbs and not only was one of them dead straight out of the box but for some reason they come on with a slight delay compared to the old ones, even though it's the same model of the same brand that I bought at the same hardware store just a few months earlier.
This makes me think of LED Christmas lights. They work well for a while but after some time the bulbs go dim. I did some digging one day out of curiosity and noticed a resistor installed in parallel with the lights to prevent the bulbs from completely dying when the resistor fails. In my case I suppose the resistor failed leading to a higher current draw through the resistor but not high enough to trip any breakers, kill any lights, or melt the transistor.
Thanks for the video Mehdi! I too get insanely angry when single function devices don’t perform the function they are made for. A car, I get it. Many devices all having to work in unison is complicated. But a water pipe should be able to last forever if it is designed properly. It has to do a simple job, it just needs proper manufacturing. Likewise a lightbulb should be able to function for a VERY long time, as it doesn’t have to do multiple jobs/functions.
Made me remember the cheap lights my grandpa bought, how did i know they were cheap even before they died? Life moved in 25 fps in that room, not even a rectifier in them. Has been the greatest give away every time i'm somewhere that they saved on lamps of all things
Huh. I have only ever had like 4 or 5 die, and I often buy dirt cheap ones. And the ones that died were in a ceiling fan fixture that made the LEDs flicker when the fan was on, so I attribute that mostly to an old lighting fixture that was designed for incandescent lighting.
i'll pay a heavy amount of 3$ to get the brightest one more info if you are canadian then Canadian Dollor or if you are form any else part of the world except America then good luck turning them to your currency
Engineers design parts to last. Manufacturing companies that churn out thousands of these things design parts to break after 3-6 months so you have to continually buy replacements.
Basically yeah. Engineers would love to make stuff that lasts as long as possible. But first the marketing guys come in and say "you have to make the product sexier, it doesn't matter if it isn't as good as long as it looks better than competing products!" So you lose some functionality and durability due to that. The the bean counters come in and say "these products must fail after the warranty period expires so that people buy more products!" And so you get these shitty products that might look nice but are generally just bad. It's not because the company couldn't have made a better product, it's because they don't want to. That's how you get stuff like Apple laptops that fail after a year or two due to some really dodgy design "features" that basically guarantee those laptops don't last that long. And LED lights that fail after a 1000 hours instead of 30 000 hours they could last if they were made better.
No, the companies that ask these manufactures to make it for as much profit margins as possible and the boss gets a huge sum of money. Price does not equate quality from any location, that or brand. I paid a lot for certain brands and they still die in 3-6 months. A lot of the time is is also the enclosure that the led is in.
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear j
@@AxxLAfriku I mean from the perspective of someone from the outside, it looks like you chased him down just to deliver this comment publicly. It doesn't look good for any case you're trying to make.
Funniest thing is that when I buy the cheapest ones from my local store, they don't fail, literally never had any of them fail, and they're all over my house. When I buy Phillips or other brands, they always die very shortly, and get replaced with the cheap ones. I guess the big brands led's are just overengineered and have some failure points the cheap ones don't have. But honestly I'm just lucky with that cheap brand since I've tried other cheap brands and they were terrible.
I love these subjects about light bulbs and their pros and cons. In this case, Mehdi just didn’t shoot the lamps with a 500 magnum because he’s in Canada
Big Clive explained that nicely when he reviewed those Dubai lights that philips really don't like to make because it show how they deliberately make them worst and push those leds to max so they fail quicker EDIT: well I just now saw that Mehdi mentioned Clive video.... 😅
Re: warranty: they usually require the UPC and receipt from the store you bought it from. Most people don't keep track of those and usually toss them. They're banking on that. It's an empty selling point. Listing the expected lifespan in hours is another technique to confuse the consumer, most people aren't going to do the math to estimate how many hours a bulb was on for. 10,000 hours also sounds better in an ad than 1.1 years. Re: write reviews: this one they can take a page from the mattress and appliance industries. Change the model number every year and maybe some adjustments to the hosing design or something to justify it. New model number, new listing, no one star reviews.
Rumor has it that most electric appliances (especially microwaves) short and kill themselves as soon as they realize they were delivered at Mehdi’s home address 😂
Protip: write the purchase date on the base of your LED bulbs if you can, and also keep the receipt from the retailer. That way, you know which receipt goes with which bulbs, and getting the information required for warranty is easy.
9:00 The LED "filaments" are actually a ceramic backed circuit board with a string of LEDs on them. Then a phosphor coating is wrapped around it that also acts as a diffuser for the LEDs.
Nice video, I very much agree. The main reason I switched to LED years ago is so I don't have the hassle of changing light bulbs as often! The energy savings was a bonus to me.
Vielleicht die LED-Lampen aus der Einführungszeit. Da sollten die Käufer dafür begeistert werden, die Qualität war in Ordnung und die Kühlkörper reichlich bemessen. Nachdem das Aus für die Glühbirne durchgesetzt war, gind die Qualität der LED-Lampen rapide zurück und ohne ausreichende Wärmeabfuhr sterben die LED reihenweise.
I'll admit it, I got one incandescent in my house, I use it in my desk lamp (those old ones rated for 200w+ and look like that Pixar lamp), it was manufactured in 1982 and it still runs just fine, it's like a little sun shining on your hands when you are working on stuff and it does not give me eyestrain... I bought a 5 pack of leds for 20$ and it was exactly the same thing as you, literally 6 months on they started blinking, then they died on me at dinner.
it's probably not that the R&D department didn't find anything, it's that the higher-ups didn't listen when they were told about the problem, possibly because it would have cost them more money to fix it than to just leave it.
All the R&D in these companies is about making something shaped like a working product as cheaply as possible. For example, they may have managed to save half a cent by eliminating the watertight seal and still have the lamp work for several days, good job!
6:42 I remember seeing that video about the Dubai LED lightbulbs! Lots of LED lamps fail! You alwaysclose the shop receipt and box before it fails! I bet no one ever goes to get their mobey back.
I was able to significantly prolong the cheap LED bulb life by relapsing it's LED by more durable/quality ones. New LEDs can handle more current -> operates not in max current -> lives a lot longer. Resoldering process is very easy when you use a "LED Lamp Remover Station Heating Plate" from aliexpress: 4$ :) Some of my LED bulbs are operational for about 5 years (indoor everyday use on a kitchen ~3/hours a day)
Did you notice if the cheap Amazon bulbs "popped" when you broke the glass or just shattered? I'm guessing the bulbs aren't even vacuumed out so simple condensation could be responsible for the water getting in.
There's no reason to use a vacuum in an LED bulb. There is a reason to seal the freaking things, but I guess that's too much trouble for crap manufacturers.
I have a set of those outside bulbs like you have but mine are incandescent and I've had them for years without one burning out. Outdoor and everything all year, even with Canadian winter.
My dislike is for his advertisement which doesn't include "not all items may be available in your country" So you get a dislike for trying to psychologically profile people, totally incorrectly, who leave a dislike!
3:24 as an electrical engineering student, my advice is instead of buying the ones with a warranty, get ones that are proven to work. Think outside of the box, instead of buying the same bulbs over and over (which is more polluting than just disposing of ONE pack of those cheap bulbs) I suggest you buy visually high quality LEDs.
Love this channel! This episode gave me a Michael Keaton vibe with how Electroboom will be angrily harvesting failed components and turning into some kind of Vulture-esque supervillain (or anti-hero) taking on the cheap component corporations and factories!
Maybe the manufacturers meant 10,000 hours of use while moving at 99% the speed of light 😉
🤣🤣
Yes
Yes you came again with good ideas
Im writing this down
High iq man
1:14 she's already grown up I'm about to cry
Holy. ElectroCute is so much older. In a non creepy way she’s really cute.
I know right! It's incredible
ye
Me too 😭😭
You sound like her dad
Mehdi's daughter in 20 years: Dad do you have any special childhood memories of me you can share
Mehdi: ROLL THE ADVERTISEMENTS
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how the fck did u write 11 hrs ago if it only was just posted m8 xdd im friggin stunned
are you the true first comment?
@@phantomgod9072 how is diz possible? xD yeah this is magic
@@fdm-monster if you go down in comments... there is more of these.....
00:32 The LED light is obviously watercooled so that it can be brighter without overheating. To save on shipping the bulb gathers the cooling liquid out of the atmosphere.
If it breaks it's like Apple usually says: It's not that the product is broken, but you have been using it the wrong way.
Ahaha very funny
Bro won't the water fuse the filament in the bulb ??? It's obvious the waterproof lining of bulb is removed . Stop being oversmart.
@@frizz6779 You are entirely wrong, buster! You don't know how these things work. The water in the bulb will neither fuze nor short circuit anything in the bulb. If it doesn't work anymore you just used it wrong and broke it - #NoRefund
PS: You might want to check out a description about sarcasm... ;-)
@@frizz6779 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
@@SnipCola28 thanks
1:21 Never underestimate the power of ElectroCute
Also geez she grew up so fast
Exactly what i thought compare her to oder Videos 😳
She built the pencil sharpener fast, too!
I too was also just about to start saying that
lol I just said the same thing about her growing up fast. It's crazy how it seems like she just grew overnight when you think back.
Maybe Medhi made a time machine?hmmm
I love how all the sponsors are actually good, and he does his own way of explaining it instead of the same boring stuff other TH-camrs do
TH-camrs 50 years from now:
*Before we continue with this funeral, let's talk about our sponser, NordVPN*
YEH
@@JesusChrist-xc4yb Thankfully RAID SHADOW LEGENDS is keeping me entertained during this funeral!
@Opecuted Lmao
@@mistersisterfister8269 are you talking about flash lights? flesh light sounds a little creepy....
I purchased 20 x 4' LED fluorescent light fitting substitutes for my home. after 6 months one failed. I took it back under warranty and they replaced it. then 3-4 others began to fail. I became tired of driving to the store and pulled a unit apart for an autopsy. In each there was 4 x SMD resistors that had fried. I pulled a part a working unit to see what they should have been. and checked them on my infrared camera. They were 20K, rated to only 80mw, but through poor design they were dissipating 300mw, sitting at about 70º C. Meaning that they would slowly cook and either burn out or de-solder themselves. I replaced them with 22K 1/2W regular pigtail resistors and they never failed again. When the unmodified lamps subsequently failed I could repair them and restore them to the ceiling in one third of the time it would take for me to go to the store with the receipt and haggle for a replacement. Total replacement parts cost? < 20 cents
This man Is 44/45 years old and he understands modern jokes memes and things......
What a *L E G E N D*
Early 40s actually but you’re right
he does the reddit
Rule 34-69-420
@@normalcat7296 what is the meaning of 34 😅
@@himankanborkakati8731 Rule 34 - If you can think of it, there's porn of it.
Damn.... Electrocute is all grown up now. How many decade have i been watching this channel.
0,1
i still remember when she was doing the car start up video. ohhh kids grow up fast.
yes
@@JjMn1000 yooooo archmage
I was thinking about that too because he doesn't just read the script of something he "believes" in (or makes it funny so ppl don't skip, which is fine too), this man made an AD!
Plot Of Every Episode
"Now If We Plug It In" *Explodes*
That's why I hate him
@@martinbobak3009 *love* him
And it’s funny every time
@@martinbobak3009 shut up
Oh shit he got the script before it was publicly released
"...my first electronic kit when I was just a wee lad!" [Cut to grainy VHS footage of Medhi as a small child touching live wires and swearing in Persian.]
It probably went among the lines of this, “En seme madar gahveh e besharaf bargesh man ho gereft”
😂😂
He has to be the exact same size it was described, about 2 inches tall
underrated comment
OMG VHS
And now Veritasium
's video about planned obsolescence makes his arguments so much stronger!
I just watched it yesterday! :D
And the BigClive's video about saudi led lights.
Lol i just watched it yesterday.
So true
Duuuude
Mehdi consistently starting with "Hi" is one of the best things about his channel 😂
Consistency🤣
if he didnt do that, how would I know he was greeting me?
Or like @rctestflight when he says "thanks for watching, bye" at the end.
He speak respectfull
@@wiredforstereo or like Dave2D starting every single video with "Ok..."
Seing your daughter grow up so quickly, I feel so old right now 😫
Maybe in 10 years or so we will see her take over the channel when Mehdi wants to finally retire
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The channel veterans will know 😭
i feel like last time i saw her she was a toddler 😅
@@lanthan598 I think she'll be an adult before I will. And last I checked I was probably about six years older
holy crap I feel old now. I remember when electrocute was a tiny girl laughing at her fathers pain. now she is a tween putting stuff together without hurting herself. someone *Coughelectroboomcough* could learn from her.
I guess that's just his brand of videos...it almost looks as if he is creating those shorts on purpose.
YES
@@oadka most of them he is. When he first started out he wasn't but his screw ups was what brought people to his channel.
@@oadka He almost fried to death by trying to make a Jacob's Elevator.
@@oadka 1960’s I think 😅
I always have this comfortable feeling when I listen to Mehdi talking about energy effectiveness and developing toys for kids. DIY, science and wholesome family (looks like ElectroCUTE is really doing well) - that's the way to go.
You know you're old when you saw ElectroCUTE grow up with Mehdi's videos
Yeah😭
1:56 "we just need to be careful with loose sh*t"
That's deep, man
😂
XD
i dont get it
1:56 Correction: " We just need to be careful with loose... Sh*t
That is why you need to put 3 dots
"this bulb has water in it, let's plug it in" lol
Photonicinduction did a video with a 2.500 watt projection lamp full of water.
@@albinklein7680 I miss Photon
Mehdi himself made a video years ago about water not being overly conductive unless there's a ton of salts in it.
@@jordanrobberecht7003 I hear you. I sure miss that crazy b*st*rd too! I hope he's alright.
@@ObsoleteVodka De-ionised water is an almost perfect isolator. In some high power RADAR and transmitter tubes they pump de-ionised water straight through the anodes at a voltage in the tens-of-kilovolts range.
It is infuriating! When LED lights for home application came around I was delighted, only to discover that the concept of planned obsolescence was still in effect.
Which makes the whole situation even more infuriating, given the fact that cartell-planned obsolescence in traditional light bulbs was one of the first large-scale industrial scams to be found out...
no worries, the "climate change" is also a cartel and a industrial scam to keep countries from developing by denying them generating energy in cheap ways.
nothing a bunch of laundered "green credits" (also invented by, drum rolls, the gas and oil companies) you bough for cheap doesn't solve
You can either buy the low wattage, high lumens ones (granted, pricier), or you can buy cheapo and modify them to run lower wattage.
Bro, the reputable manufacturers have stopped doing planned obsolesence ( except for apple and the company supplying Mcdonalds ice cream machines )
@@darkkillerultimatespeed4084 Fun fact: the ice cream machines arent actually broken. Theyre just a model thats very difficult to clean out, so they just say it's "broken"
@@darkkillerultimatespeed4084 wym? Right to repair is still not a real thing even in the EU, much less in the US, and planned obsolescence is definitely still a thing.
"Let's figure out what's wrong with this so manufacturers can improve their quality"
nice joke
Of course, manufacturers just want to make better and more costly design that are less profitable and don't need to be replaced as often! ***living in the carebear world***
Haha *yeah*
@@ericm8278 veritasium makes a video about this things : th-cam.com/video/j5v8D-alAKE/w-d-xo.html
Sad and true
@@SyahidanIbnMokhtar This was exactly the video I thought of too
Your daughter has grown up so much since you first showed her on your channel, I have been watching your channel since I was 7 now I am 14, keep up the good work
she really did grow up
How old is his daughter anyway?
@@hii-people2245 idk I think between 13-16
Every time i hear "And that's why-" I just think "Alright, bring out the gold confetti and the piano."
xD Me too.
Hahah yea. Random info: "confetti" means a totally different thing in italian, we call them "coraindoli", confetti a kind of candy here
@@davtech420 Does it rain food in italy?
@@davtech420 in Brazil Confetti is a brand of candies that looks like confetti!
"so manufacturers can improve their quality" lmao they already did, old LEDs last forever, I still have some running. They realized this error in quality so they made them die more frequently.
I just buy the cheap $1 bulbs... Ive only ever had one fail (a single led burned out).
a lot of the strain on lightbulbs is caused by turning in and off, keeping them on indefinitely is helping the long lifespan
@@tomseppe6406 For incandescent and fluorescent yes. Not really for diodes.
I got "boob lights" enclosed fixtures and they fail really frequently on me. I could try finding a bulb that can handle the heat but I think I might just deal away with the fixtures
@@codemiesterbeats You mean you put a product that requires passive air cooling into an oven and are supprised they die quickly?
11:56 So sincere in his "Thanks for watching". I'm the one Thankful Mehdi! You're awesome
He speak's respectful
Mehdi: **shocks himself for the 10000th time**
The voltage and current: *How dare you still live?!*
Thats the power of the RECTFIER
hope he doesnt fidn out this comment or else he is gonna get heart attack
Nanofarads, son!
Mehdi does not shock himself, he is fast recharging.
@@sreekumariv4695 he already told you current doesnt kill people its voltage
7:54
Interviewer: How many times do you want to get shocked with in 30 seconds?
Mehdi: *yes*
2:07 very unique and different sounding
This wasn't expected
"Don't believe me?"
*sparks 4 times*
"See! Completly dead!"
Hmmmm...
hmm
Hmmmm
Hmmmmmmm
Yo it's been so long since he's shown his daughter, it's crazy that I've watched him long enough to see her go from what seems to be toddler to pre teen, too damn wholesome!
sexual undertones did you vote joe btw? asking for a pal
@@vasili1207 please delete your comment, creep
@@samueltukua3061 started with please then insulted me ... nah mate i don't roll like that.
you are a wrong un , who speaks about a mans daughter like that i bet you are on a government list ... you are suspect.
i say you have map tendencies ... sue me👌
@@vasili1207 wtf
@@vasili1207
Here, bud, you dropped your tinfoil hat 🕴️ Also thanks for the word salad, but we're not hungry.
0:38 "If designers knew how to make things to last for a specific application"
Proof of point: My grandfather has a GE lightbulb that looks like one giant circular heat sink. First ever 120V LED bulb I saw, and IT STILL WORKS to the point that it has LITERALLY OUTLASTED THE SOCKET MOUNTING! Seriously, it’s hanging out of the ceiling on hot spaghetti and looks fine for brightness.
GE did not sponsor this comment.
The 10,000 hours is a concatenation of the lifespan of all the light bulbs they've ever made.
if you accelerated all of the lightbulbs to the speed of light.
or 10.000 hours for the whole string
Can't wait for his daughter to take full control of her dad's channel to take over the electronic world
yeah really .Hopefully Mehdi will see this comment
I guess he will eventually give it to her, I mean in 20 years or something old man Mehdi will want to enjoy his retirement
@@techcube7291 or at least let her run her own channel
@@FQP-7024 She actually does have her own channel. Look up "ElectroCUTE".
@@L7vanmatre I know I'm subscribed to it, but nothing has been don't in so long
My GOD! Your daughter is all so grown up!
Exactly !
Imagine living a life where you constantly think up new and interesting ways to shock yourself, and making a living doing it.
I think you need to shock Linus again. You broke him with the last electro shock therapy. He spent 50k on GME at the top and spent 90k on a golden controller. I think he needs more of the shock therapy that you use to keep the voices away.
lmaoo "keep the voices away"
You and technology connections released a light bulb episode within an hour of each other. What are the odds. Lol
What is this, a crossover episode?
You are now humming the TechConnec credits theme
They're clearly strung in parallel.
I now what I'm watching next
And both of them referenced BigClive in their videos.
The reason is for the ( usually 10♎) surge protection and also acts as a fuse.
I would open 10 of them in a day, short that part and works perfectly..
Years of you doing these videos and I never tire of the shock jokes nor the technical analysis. Keep it up!
For some reason, watching this guy getting shocked a million times still is funny to me.
4:07
Mehdi when working with kilovolts : *happily shorts it with ease*
*grabs the poles and gets electrocuted*
Mehdi when smashing an LED : *looks away being scared even after wrapping it with a piece of cloth*
Glass is his weakness
Glad I'm not the only one experiencing such a bizarrely high failure rate for LED bulbs. I bought a box of regular GE brand soft white bulbs and within a few weeks one of them started flickering. It was so slight that I wasn't sure if I was just seeing things but sure enough a few weeks later it went out completely. Later in the year I bought another box of the same bulbs and not only was one of them dead straight out of the box but for some reason they come on with a slight delay compared to the old ones, even though it's the same model of the same brand that I bought at the same hardware store just a few months earlier.
This makes me think of LED Christmas lights. They work well for a while but after some time the bulbs go dim. I did some digging one day out of curiosity and noticed a resistor installed in parallel with the lights to prevent the bulbs from completely dying when the resistor fails. In my case I suppose the resistor failed leading to a higher current draw through the resistor but not high enough to trip any breakers, kill any lights, or melt the transistor.
I've seen that with incandescent Christmas lights too, to prevent the "one goes out, they all go out!" problem.
When she took off in time-lapse mode and you stood normal idk why but that humor cracked me up. Good stuff to know about the bulbs
Holy moly, I remember when your daughter was a miniature human and now I feel old.
Lol same
She grew up in front of our eyes
Big Clive also has a video called "Crushing and hacking LED lamps" if you want to underrun your LEDs to make them last forever.
I have some GU-whatever lamps in my room. Six china LEDs dead in two months. The osram LEDs I put in three years ago are still going strong.
@@vincentguttmann2231 try the modification in bigclive's video to make the china lamps also last as long.
@@masteryoda394 Well, they're still going strong, but if they ever die, I think I will look into that.
@@vincentguttmann2231 Good man!
Good that you explain about the warranty. In my country the replacement of reputable brands with warranty happens in a matter of seconds.
this gives more jump scares in a 10 min video than any one and a half-hour long horror movie
i think youre watching the wrong movie
Which EB video has the record number of shocks?
Aww man I feel like I watched her daughter grew form the start and now she’s already like a teenager
@@mistersisterfister8269 WTF
@@mistersisterfister8269 creep 100
Thanks for the video Mehdi! I too get insanely angry when single function devices don’t perform the function they are made for.
A car, I get it. Many devices all having to work in unison is complicated. But a water pipe should be able to last forever if it is designed properly. It has to do a simple job, it just needs proper manufacturing. Likewise a lightbulb should be able to function for a VERY long time, as it doesn’t have to do multiple jobs/functions.
Made me remember the cheap lights my grandpa bought, how did i know they were cheap even before they died?
Life moved in 25 fps in that room, not even a rectifier in them. Has been the greatest give away every time i'm somewhere that they saved on lamps of all things
7:54
He did a sick beatbox for a second there
If this was reddit I would've given you an award
I loved the"unless you have extra skin to spare and blood to shed"
Wait, what, how is your daughter so old all of a sudden? **scratching head**
ikr
i was thinking the same thing.
Imagine having 2 daughter....
You are old, and now you know it.
he got a replacement
Huh. I have only ever had like 4 or 5 die, and I often buy dirt cheap ones. And the ones that died were in a ceiling fan fixture that made the LEDs flicker when the fan was on, so I attribute that mostly to an old lighting fixture that was designed for incandescent lighting.
I still have some original EarthLED bulbs from 2008/9 going - they have large heat sinks and the brightest model has a small fan built into the base.
i'll pay a heavy amount of 3$ to get the brightest one
more info if you are canadian then Canadian Dollor or if you are form any else part of the world except America then good luck turning them to your currency
Yeah modern LED bulbs are designed to fail early.
Engineers design parts to last. Manufacturing companies that churn out thousands of these things design parts to break after 3-6 months so you have to continually buy replacements.
Do manufacturers like to be super GREEDY? For 💰?
Sounds like he struck a nerve on an average Canadian engineer.
Basically yeah. Engineers would love to make stuff that lasts as long as possible. But first the marketing guys come in and say "you have to make the product sexier, it doesn't matter if it isn't as good as long as it looks better than competing products!" So you lose some functionality and durability due to that. The the bean counters come in and say "these products must fail after the warranty period expires so that people buy more products!" And so you get these shitty products that might look nice but are generally just bad. It's not because the company couldn't have made a better product, it's because they don't want to. That's how you get stuff like Apple laptops that fail after a year or two due to some really dodgy design "features" that basically guarantee those laptops don't last that long. And LED lights that fail after a 1000 hours instead of 30 000 hours they could last if they were made better.
No, the companies that ask these manufactures to make it for as much profit margins as possible and the boss gets a huge sum of money.
Price does not equate quality from any location, that or brand. I paid a lot for certain brands and they still die in 3-6 months.
A lot of the time is is also the enclosure that the led is in.
Or engineers designing down to a price point because that's all a customer is prepared to pay for an item even when it has a short useful life.
mehdi is speedrunning life but god said : "you will feel the pain of electricity"
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear j
@@AxxLAfriku I mean from the perspective of someone from the outside, it looks like you chased him down just to deliver this comment publicly. It doesn't look good for any case you're trying to make.
@@AxxLAfriku holy shit I found you again. You have issues. Keep it up you crackhead
It was not a speed run though, but meant as a speedy assembly...
@@SprinkCalSA the only self promoter I can handle
Funniest thing is that when I buy the cheapest ones from my local store, they don't fail, literally never had any of them fail, and they're all over my house.
When I buy Phillips or other brands, they always die very shortly, and get replaced with the cheap ones.
I guess the big brands led's are just overengineered and have some failure points the cheap ones don't have.
But honestly I'm just lucky with that cheap brand since I've tried other cheap brands and they were terrible.
Same here, we just get generic Walmart bulbs and they last just fine.
I run the generics I like best, and they're great too.
I was a little shocked by seeing how much electrocute has grown up
relieved to see she has her mom's eyebrows
@@SquareRootOfNegativeOne happy to see that her eyebrows were not electrocuted off
Yeah! I was going to say "wasnt she like 5 just a month ago"?
Same
I love these subjects about light bulbs and their pros and cons. In this case, Mehdi just didn’t shoot the lamps with a 500 magnum because he’s in Canada
In rural Canada gun ownership is a big thing. But he lives in the city
Big Clive explained that nicely when he reviewed those Dubai lights that philips really don't like to make because it show how they deliberately make them worst and push those leds to max so they fail quicker
EDIT: well I just now saw that Mehdi mentioned Clive video.... 😅
Re: warranty: they usually require the UPC and receipt from the store you bought it from. Most people don't keep track of those and usually toss them. They're banking on that. It's an empty selling point. Listing the expected lifespan in hours is another technique to confuse the consumer, most people aren't going to do the math to estimate how many hours a bulb was on for. 10,000 hours also sounds better in an ad than 1.1 years.
Re: write reviews: this one they can take a page from the mattress and appliance industries. Change the model number every year and maybe some adjustments to the hosing design or something to justify it. New model number, new listing, no one star reviews.
2:40 "Weaterproof". Says it all, right there.
BigCliveDotCom got a shout-out from both Electroboom and Technology Connections. On the same day! Nice!
I see you are a gentleman and a scholar.
My dear physics teacher died very young today. We used to watch your videos together. Thank you for making us laugh but also learn.
rip
"please pay shipping and handling on your 'free' led replacement bulb."
"If i push it hard enough i feel it a little bit" - Mehdi 2021
that's what she said
rule #3469420 right there
fox fyre3 lol
In my experience, loose live wires seem to attract each other into a short circuit every time. So yeah, a little bit of electric tape goes a long way.
Rumor has it that most electric appliances (especially microwaves) short and kill themselves as soon as they realize they were delivered at Mehdi’s home address 😂
Other people intros: high graphics,gaming intro,professional music....
My man : HI
Holy crap! This guy's awesome! He's like a motivational speaker and a mad scientist in one. 😁😁
That's what Dr Frankenstein was in 1931 "Its Alive!!"
Welcome aboard, recruit
First time?
Finally! Thank you so much for making this video. The race to the bottom in LED quality control has totally gotten out of hand.
8:09 was my favorite part🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:45
30.002 Volts * 0.000 Amps = 0.005 Watts
We've found a free energy device!
Rounding is a thing
Actually if there is no current flowing nothing happens because in order for something to be powered there must be current.
Protip: write the purchase date on the base of your LED bulbs if you can, and also keep the receipt from the retailer. That way, you know which receipt goes with which bulbs, and getting the information required for warranty is easy.
So I pay more, and do all this paperwork, fileing, and record keeping?
How about I just buy a better made bulb from someone else and skip all that 💩
9:00 The LED "filaments" are actually a ceramic backed circuit board with a string of LEDs on them. Then a phosphor coating is wrapped around it that also acts as a diffuser for the LEDs.
I was looking for this, thanks :D
Nice video, I very much agree. The main reason I switched to LED years ago is so I don't have the hassle of changing light bulbs as often! The energy savings was a bonus to me.
True that, all the LEDs I have, and a few CFLs I have left, have always lasted longer than any incandescent lamp we've ever had.
Vielleicht die LED-Lampen aus der Einführungszeit. Da sollten die Käufer dafür begeistert werden, die Qualität war in Ordnung und die Kühlkörper reichlich bemessen. Nachdem das Aus für die Glühbirne durchgesetzt war, gind die Qualität der LED-Lampen rapide zurück und ohne ausreichende Wärmeabfuhr sterben die LED reihenweise.
I'll admit it, I got one incandescent in my house, I use it in my desk lamp (those old ones rated for 200w+ and look like that Pixar lamp), it was manufactured in 1982 and it still runs just fine, it's like a little sun shining on your hands when you are working on stuff and it does not give me eyestrain... I bought a 5 pack of leds for 20$ and it was exactly the same thing as you, literally 6 months on they started blinking, then they died on me at dinner.
I like how Mehdi finds out way more about problems with _their product_ than these companies' actual R&D and engineering departments.
Someone who slaps a series resistor on a string and then cant even glue a lightbulb together has no R&D or engineering department.
it's probably not that the R&D department didn't find anything, it's that the higher-ups didn't listen when they were told about the problem, possibly because it would have cost them more money to fix it than to just leave it.
@@izzaaay More like they were designed not to last.
R&D is a thing. Market departments wants the R&D to design them to fail.
All the R&D in these companies is about making something shaped like a working product as cheaply as possible. For example, they may have managed to save half a cent by eliminating the watertight seal and still have the lamp work for several days, good job!
1:52 there's the boom in all of his videos that we love
It's actually added on postprocessing, you can clearly see capacitor blows up on some of these boom frames. Just telling.
@@АлексейДмитриев-ш1ф oh
6:42 I remember seeing that video about the Dubai LED lightbulbs!
Lots of LED lamps fail! You alwaysclose the shop receipt and box before it fails! I bet no one ever goes to get their mobey back.
It's been a while since the last time we saw the "electrocute"
Really cool, maybe you should build an ultra power flashlight using all the harvested leds :)
Dude you didn't even watched, you just commented instantly
@@omniyambot9876 he commented 10h before the video goes public
@@phantomgod9072 The question is, how?
@@thedogethatgames welcome to 2021 i guess
@@thedogethatgames It's called Patreon. Members get early access to videos.
First an CFL video from technology connections and now a LED video from Electroboom! thats what i call a good friday
Saw them in the notification and got happy
I was able to significantly prolong the cheap LED bulb life by relapsing it's LED by more durable/quality ones.
New LEDs can handle more current -> operates not in max current -> lives a lot longer.
Resoldering process is very easy when you use a "LED Lamp Remover Station Heating Plate" from aliexpress: 4$ :)
Some of my LED bulbs are operational for about 5 years (indoor everyday use on a kitchen ~3/hours a day)
Did you notice if the cheap Amazon bulbs "popped" when you broke the glass or just shattered? I'm guessing the bulbs aren't even vacuumed out so simple condensation could be responsible for the water getting in.
There's no reason to use a vacuum in an LED bulb. There is a reason to seal the freaking things, but I guess that's too much trouble for crap manufacturers.
0:30 water cooled led light bulb
😂😂😂
The 180 dislike are from people who couldn’t manage to assemble the KiwiCo set.
it's 327 now
It's 340 now
What about dislikes for unsafe use of electricity? He just connect with bare copper ends that can touch together easy.
No, they were those LED manufacturers
@@mrdummy_nl you really thought that was real?
His electrical engineer
Its isn't hard to figure it out all of accident is joke 😐
KiwiCo have to be the coolest sponsor on the whole internet, those project look so cool.
When you claim the warranty they just send the old light to landfill so you as a consumer aren't screwed today... but the planet is screwed tomorrow.
Lol Every time you get shocked it scares me I know it’s gonna happen but every time you get me.
But does it shock you?
@@kirkjohnson9353 gottem
11:00 EB tries pencil sharpener after daughter, and sparks fly everywhere. 😂
His name is mehdi
Nope and the way you comment it you sound like someone who will benefit from advertising stuff for others.
Made a bunch of smoke
I have a set of those outside bulbs like you have but mine are incandescent and I've had them for years without one burning out. Outdoor and everything all year, even with Canadian winter.
Electroboom's daughter has grown up a lot, wait a minute, how long have I been watching this channel?!
8 years
The 8 dislikes are just from the people that don't understand what Mehdi is explaining
no they are the lightbulb manufacturers :D
@@HassanSelim0 8 manufacturers that makes s*** products sounds about right lol
His name is Mehdi
My dislike is for his advertisement which doesn't include "not all items may be available in your country"
So you get a dislike for trying to psychologically profile people, totally incorrectly, who leave a dislike!
96 by now!
when you're trying to separate two lego blocks 7:59
When you are seperating her legs
@@bur6gerbar957🤨📸
@@bur6gerbar957💀
3:24 as an electrical engineering student, my advice is instead of buying the ones with a warranty, get ones that are proven to work. Think outside of the box, instead of buying the same bulbs over and over (which is more polluting than just disposing of ONE pack of those cheap bulbs) I suggest you buy visually high quality LEDs.
Congrats, you can rephrase exactly what was said in the video 10 seconds later, and yet still can only vomit out basic common sense
@@xSARGEx117xwow what is in your pants. Ol' mate was just talking about his passion sad somone like you gets upset at that.
Love this channel! This episode gave me a Michael Keaton vibe with how Electroboom will be angrily harvesting failed components and turning into some kind of Vulture-esque supervillain (or anti-hero) taking on the cheap component corporations and factories!