Air "freshener" hack gone wrong
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2021
- I may or may not have had a slight incident involving LEDs and 240V.
I quite enjoy just randomly modifying things for no particular reason at all. It's very therapeutic to do something with no real purpose. That's what I was doing here, until I inadvertently added some excitement.
When I smooshed the LEDs in to make way for the bottle, a solder spike pierced the other conductor. It was a one in a thousand chance with quite a few variables.
The reassuring crack was an LED demonstrating their excellent abilities to break high current faults in a controlled manner.
When I replaced the LEDs I cropped them down in size to leave room for the wire.
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How to explain our eWaste problem:
"Cheaper to buy a new device over buying refill"
You can buy the "essences" very cheap and refill the refill bottles by prying off the wick then putting it back.
You pry on the plastic cap, not the wick itself.
Yup. Device is a loss leader for the ink, blades, refills: check. Resistor under-rated or otherwise designed to fail early: probably. New software doesn't "support" last year's hardware: working on that now?
@@idjtoal That would be Windows 11 you are talking about. I get why they are trying to push for people to use computers that are more secure, but they shouldn’t exclude the people who don’t have the proper hardware completely. Educate people to know what new hardware they should buy next when they upgrade…
@@ColinTimmins have you ever considered that "security" is a selling point? I mean whether it is actually a threat or not in the real world.
*_"I probably made it dangerous now.. Oh, good!"_*
*- Big Clive, 2021*
Makes a litteral stink bomb
Next video is Big Clive puts out a house fire.
@@ehiebert1297 After distilling a gallon of meths. because priorities
So basically Will Osman crossed with Electroboom AvE and Bob Ross.
"I shouldn't say that in case it all goes horribly wrong"
Big Clive does foreshadowing. Also, it's totally what we were all expecting.
"I've probably made it dangerous now. Oh, good."
One of the English words that seems to be applicable here is "dodgy"
So when the fire brigade turn up to a house fire, they will know which one is Clive's as it's got a pleasant smell. Then they will say 'one moment please' as they unload their equipment.
My favourite 'one moment please' are the ones on the livestreams, because that's not how live broadcasts work Clive, and I think you know it!
Also "Things worthy of note..." as the firemen list their hozes and nozzles and weigh up which would be the best way of dealing with the fire. I note that in Clives case, "best" may include not only the fastest method, but most efficient (least water, hoses etc used), most visually spectacular, and any number of alternative scenarios.
This is my favorite comment! I think I thought the same or similar thing while Clive was modding the freshener.
What a nice thought! I wonder if they have LED's in their hoses, Clive can probably install some while they put out the fire, in colors.
"By air freshener, I mean they pollute the air." Honest advertising.
Does it _actually_ pollute the air though, or is that just figuratively for all the lovely, horrible synthetic smells they spread?
Edit: Wow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132316304334#:~:text=Even%20so%2Dcalled%20green%20and,can%20emit%20hazardous%20air%20pollutants.&text=From%20a%20health%20perspective%2C%20air,infant%20illness%2C%20and%20breathing%20difficulties.
>> However, despite the intent, air fresheners can emit and generate a range of potentially hazardous air pollutants that can impair air quality. Even so-called green and organic air fresheners can emit hazardous air pollutants. Air freshener ingredients are largely unknown and undisclosed, owing to regulatory protections on consumer product ingredients and on fragrance formulations. In studies, fewer than ten percent of all volatile ingredients are typically disclosed on air freshener labels or material safety data sheets. From an indoor air quality perspective, air fresheners have been indicated as a primary source of volatile organic compounds within buildings. From a health perspective, air fresheners have been associated with adverse effects, such as migraine headaches, asthma attacks, mucosal symptoms, infant illness, and breathing difficulties. This article investigates the seeming paradox that products designed to improve the indoor environment can pose unintended and unknown risks. It examines the science, health, and policy perspectives, and provides recommendations and research directions.
@@lillywho Snap! Well researched.
@@lillywho simply put, don't buy air fresheners, buy plants :)
yep, fill the air with nauseating stink 😉
Aint that the truth.
It's a corollary of Murphy's Law: if you put all the screws in before testing, it will fail.
Or it only works with the screws out.
This is reason, why I don't put last screw in before final tests.. 😂
I think there's an opposite effect: The failure gremlins are attracted by fear, and if you put all the screws in before testing it shows them you're not afraid, so they stay away (usually).
Oh thank G. I thought it was just me !!
Or in my case. Lose one screw put in just a little longer screw. Which shorted the device. Lots of magic blue smoke.
I love the noise-emitting diode, the one-shot pop rectifier. You are my hero.
noise-emitting diode, ROTFL :D i will remember that!
Sooo... you could put a mild chorine smelling "air freshener" in the bottle, put some LEDs that look suspiciously like UV-C light in the back and sell on eBay as "anti covid air purifier". Bonus points for adding an ioniser in the top too.
You can get some seriously nasty results from putting chlorine based bleach through an ioniser. I'm not sure I would even want to be in the same town.
DEADLY in fact
It's MUSTARD GAS Jr.
No joke Jr.
Use a Melaleuca, Eucalyptus or Citronella smell and sell it in any Byron Bay or Bondi "boutique" shop and you've got yourself an empire.
Say it uses elderberries and essential oils and you hit a specific target market
Just make a million of them in some Chinese sweatshop, sell for 99,95 a piece and pocket the 95 profits per unit. Writing the advertising material and user guide might take a hangover or two.
In the words of Photonicinduction.... "I popped it!"
Man, you beat me to it!
@@thewatchworks1372 hehe, not a very big pop, though 😁
Nice seeing he is back on TH-cam
@@andygozzo72 It made me jump!
It's funny I was just hearing that phrase in my mind. One moment please.....click.....I popped it!
I love Clive's reaction at 10:44, when the LEDs *_did_* blow out.
Dieded!
“Hand. Uhuh uhuh! Right ok it did” *PRESS (repeat)
If you keep pressing 10:44 at the right times, you can make a hip-hop banger! 🤗
I was hoping for an explosion and flames as we would have had from ElectroBoom... :-)
Clive you're the Bob Ross of electronic hacks.
Just with more innuendo 😄
I know that feeling of slight panic, plugging something in to hear a pop, sizzling, arcing, or smoking.
Finally, something i can reverse engineer by myself
Your not alone.
Loving the sound effect your high-voltage surprise makes
Can't beat a bit of component roulette; bring back the resistor game :-)
I think we should call it "Bear Roulette" :)
One-use only limited edition magic smoke aroma freshener.
With fresh resistor aroma.
Not really, you can order spare LEDs for these units, for multiple uses and hours of fun. 👍
@@bigclivedotcom Ah, the smell of a burnt electrical component!
.........this comment made me remember that EXACT smell of the plastic of leds that went pop
Needs a selenium rectifier for that toxic stench...
I once tried to blow up a whole line of LED's by making a gigantic strip of them between two copper busbars--it was like fireworks and popcorn combined.
"... against the manufacturer's instructions"
It says right there, in the one-page printed insert: "Do not modify the unit by adding LEDs with their exposed leads touching the mains input plug."
Or in the original language: "LEDs affix uncover lead neighbor high pressure plug not permitted"
As a kid I often added holes and LEDs to a lot of my electronic possessions. I liked indicators for things you wouldn't usually know about. Like a head direction indicator on a cd player', or an led in the volume dial of an amplifier that didn't already have one, or a mains supply indicator on equipment that had a mains power switch that would light when plugged in but switched off, or LEDs in the red fire buttons of computer joysticks... I could go on 😃
I did that also! It was fun back then, swapping the boring red LED for my first ever blue one, which cost 5 pounds then, about 30 pounds today! And then later blowing it up! You live and learn my friend :D I also started putting neons across mains fuses so they would light up if the fuse died, only problem is you still have 240v flowing through the circuit, not enough to kill you, but it will give you a bit of a zap, LOL
@@stawmy Yes! I remember my first blue LED too. £5 from Maplin in its own packet lol
@@ANTandTEC Yep i think that was the same one, i got everything from Tandy, which went bankrupt but became RS components. I was sad to hear that the Maplin UK stores went broke :( But Henry's of Edgeware road, London, was where i spent my pocket money as a teenager in the '80s.....ETA forget Henry's now, the staff there dont know the difference between a resistor and an iPhone.....
"I've probably made it dangerous now. Oh good."
😁😄😆👍
The perfect epitaph for Big Clive's headstone! 😂😂😂
Great going
LED's make great fuses
Time to change my coffee stained shirt
For v2, i suggest adding an ioniser pointing upwards so you can add organics and immediately remove them again 😁
"...just because I quite like modifying stuff" - a man after my own heart!
I don't know why but "Sloppy loose connections" sounds like a trademark.
"That was the name of the band I was in." 😉
If I'm not sure what will happen, I usually power a device up on an extension lead and observe proceedings from a safe distance. 😁
Try a UPS and a microwave with a golf ball of the old type. I recommend doing it in the middle of a fallow field and standing 100m away at least. There are some grenades that do less of a bang.
You and me both
Where's the fun in that?
But you are not Big Clive, who seems determined to set his beard on fire.
I find using my kettle as a ballast is a great idea
I have been waiting since this channel began for an accidental bang!
I'm still waiting for the audible discharge of a filter capacitor when he touches it and goes "nyehhh it's discharged"
I love it after years of watching I finally seen a Clive project go bang! excellent!
Finally a circuit diagram I understand 😂
Splendid, splendid! We hate it when that hapens. At least the fresh LEDs worked out. Those stale LEDs should be checked for expired dates. 👍
Over the years, I've found that *transistors* also make good fuses. Thanks for the video!
fastest thing on 3 legs!
good = expensive, i'd rather lose a cheaper piece of silicon than a power tranny haha
Voltage regulators on Arduino clone Nanos too. I was driving a RGB addressable LED string from the 5v pin. When I set them all to white there was a pop and smoke. I was amazed that the Arduino still worked afterwards when back powered with 5v to the pin, just the regulator had died.
they make good inverse fuses, going short and causing chain reaction blow ups! had this problem a lot in certain portable colour tvs in the 90s, resistor in psu went high, psu ran away with itself, going overvoltage, popped the switching mosfet short, then blew out several other components
Always love when things go pop! Great video (: you should do a full RGB airfreshener next
How about an air freshener supercomputer?
yeah, the one with the mini fan inside
Awww,
'He popped ittt....'
Said in a PhotonicInduction voice
😂✅👌🏼💙
Nice, been a while since you started an electrical fire on the work bench.
Fantastic flickering fused freshener. Awesome!
You could sell it as one of those 'energy saving' plugs that also smell nice.
'That'll make it dangerous. Oh good!' - Lol!
Haha, love the way you jumped when that LED popped, I didnt know they did 250v LED's straight into mains.
10:43, the sound every engineer makes upon testing their very latest creation, back to the drawing board!
Great LED color mix, Cherenkov would be proud ;)
Short and blew an LED right of the bat. True Clive stuff! I like it!
Very good! Any fail you can walk away from teaches you something important.
But for how long -- and at what cost?
Awwwhhh, (with a pouty face)🥺 I like it when the sparks shoot out😞
Especially when a burke home owner is always looking over my shoulder and getting in the way, had one when troubleshooting a consumer unit moved a lead sparks shot out, he screamed like a girl and ran away😊 makes me feel all fuzzy inside.
Happy memories of working with a less talented coworker in a church when the pastor turned up and told us that he was terrified of electricity. At that point my coworker dropped the earth into the main incoming live with a massive bang and shower of sparks, and the pastor suddenly disappeared.
Looks beautiful
Love seeing things go bang.
Hey there from Phoenix, Arizona USA! Love the random customization videos!
Well, I'm also not much of an air freshener guy. But I like the idea of using the heating resistor as a current limiting resistor for the LEDs. You don't need any additional parts (except the LEDs of course), you almost get a unity power factor and the (almost) 2.4 W dropped over the resistor isn't a power loss since the heat isn't actually unwanted.
10:44 I have a new ringtone
Have to admit he only skipped maybe a half beat before carrying on like nothing happened.
Just love your amazing modifications!
You and Ralph should collaborate more, it's hilarious.
Yeah put whiskey or vodka in the bottle and see what happens.🤣
As soon as you described the circuit I knew the LED's would pop! You put them right across the mains. They're Light Emitting Diodes, not silicon rectifier diodes. Most likely they'd have popped too. This reminds me of the time I discharged a 500 volt phito-flash capacitor by shorting it with pliers. No boom, a BANG.
Awesome and exciting as usual. 😉👍🏻
Personally, I always insulate any bare wires that carry mains potential with spaghetti tubing, heat shrink, or just a piece of insulation stripped from another wire, specifically to avoid such scenarios. Especially since the LEDs can again move every time you insert or remove the bottle. Electrical tape, silicone, or even hot glue if you can't insulate because you need to solder.
Classic Clive. Excellent.
Clive. It's been a while since there's been a bang, that may have been a small one but it was a bang.
Thank you. 👍☺️
Excellent video 👍👍
I love this channel, clives humour is brilliant 🤩
"Every component in a circuit can be a fuse if you use it wrong enough."
-The Devil in the Circuit
Nice to see its all sensibly fused for when it goes short mmmm smoke lovely. Bet the scent is flammable. Mmmm even more smoke and fire. Nice to come back to your home to find it in a pile of ashes.
"I probably made this dangerous now... Oh good." exactly why I love watching your vids. That and I learn stuff like how to modify my cheap dollar store led yard lights... Which I have and love em now lol
I wish I could give this two thumbs up, just for the pop alone!
Excellent
Finally a video with some action! :) Long time since the last one.
It is a very beautiful modification and as always in spite of being very careful it still blew off. It's just the led wants to blow itself off. Very nice.
That resistor would get SO GROSS after a while. Just from the fumes collecting.
I'd think that's the last place they could settle
It won't. Since the resistor is the hottest thing around, the aroma oils will not condense onto it.
@@vincentrobinette1507 Have you ever looked at the hot end of a 3d printer? It gets gross, due to non volatile sticky compounds settling out. Same kind of concept for the resistor
@@GadgetBoy True, but in the 3-D printer, the filament is in direct contact with the heated nozzle. In this case, the resistor doesn't make direct contact with the liquid.
@@GadgetBoy it’s not the same at all. 3D printer has molten plastic extruding out of it. This is never in contact with its ‘fuel’ (referring to the smelly oil)
“By air freshener... I mean, polluter” 🤣👌🏻
It was "broken," and now you "fixed it." Good job.
Wow Clive you are human after all! Neat idea!
“Dangerous! Oh good!” Fabulous
Lol. Love it. 230v directly across the led.
Clive, I am so sorry I got a laugh at your expense! Replayed from 10:44 at 1/4 speed. "It did goooo baaaang!"
Plus Clive sounds super drunk at that speed... lol
@@TheCodeDaemon I play most vids at 1.5X but Clive sounds so pished at 0.3X.
@@arunwalker yeah that is because a pissed (and down diseased) brain works at like 0,5 to 0,25 the normal speed.
This is also the reason why you shouldn't drive pissed. You basically hit the tree before your slow ass brain realizes it jumped in front of the car.
Those wire wound resistors years ago were made by IRH in Australia, very common in 5 Watt upward, I still have many new ones I haven't yet used.
"Air polluters" is what these semi toxic artificial industrial scents burn to stink up the room, before drying out and catching fire. Lol
Nice effect.
Would you mind doing a drawing showing the voltage and lumens of the LEDs? They're each turning on at roughly 30 Hz, is that right? I'm surprised the flickering is so pronounced.
50Hz alternation. 60 on a 60Hz supply.
Blue and green seems like a nice combination. I'm thinking of modifying the fan in my room, as it has a base that would seem spacious enough to put some leds in.
Clive, I really think we need t o see a video of how some common components fail when given too much power. It has an educational aspect as some people could use the video to use their ears and know what component has failed in a device without opening it up.
"It banged and LEDs dieded" - yeah I just have to watch this!
A Big Clive video that actually goes horribly wrong? Excellent!
3:12 That's common construction for 5W wire-wound ceramic bricks; I suppose that's the most economical way to construct these devices. Last I checked, back when I was building guitar amps from old TV oscillator tubes, their cost at volume wasn't terribly more than 3W metal oxide resistors.
And other sizes / power ratings of ceramic power resistors, such as (some) 3W, 7W and 10W.
Clive! I got a jump too! Came out great though!!
Exploding LEDs are no joke! Once when I was a teenager, mucking around with breadboards, I accidentally connected an LED directly across a 7805-based power supply by carelessly brushing a wire against another wire. The lens instantly bounced off of my glasses. If I hadn't been wearing glasses, it might have been not so good.
Well done with the end result Clive, you've elevated it to a $2 air freshener.
Careless whiskers, definition by BigClive
Definitely a bit of a George Michael going on there :)
Should've known better than to hack the thing
and waste a couple of LEDs you had
They're never gonna light again
the magic smoke is go.. ne ...ne ...ne
Good Friday morning to you sir from Wellington Somerset in the UK
Love the trippy blue green reminds me of coming off a strong alcoholic beverage
And I was wondering, what may go wrong.. Before You closed case, I looked suspicious to input connections and these wires, didn't see anything unusual.. Probably, short happened, when You pushed LED's back..
Cool modification for air pollutator with special effects before! 😂👍
Thanks, Clive, for the entertainment! 🤓🤓😂😂
We had an air freshener in our country that used a similar system with a ceramic resister but instead of a bottle, it heated scented pads. I was talking to a fireman who said they were responsible for a notable amount of house fires! Eventually, they were taken off the market, I've always been wary of them.
Nothing more satisfying than a "pop".
We do like a good skid mark, I remember plugging in something I was testing and had one hack of a bang from under my folde, and all the power tripped. Found out I plugged ina mains lead and not the item I was testing. 🤣 2x👍
BANG !!!
Love it 😂😂
Absolutely brilliant entertainment thank you sir 👍🏻
Introducing Bang the newest Smokey scent from Modification Plugins. House fire not included but may be a side effect.
I've powered a parallel chain of PTH, long hat LED's with a chonky capacitor meant for airplanes (weighted 5 kg, had around 80v and stupid massive capacity) and used a much lower resistance resistor than i was expecting (color bands were icky and i was never good at reading them in the first place)
End result was a LEDhead shotgun that had classmates ducking under their desks in terror.
Would do it again, teacher laughed so hard he got his abs back and gave me free access to the lab.
Big Clive's "Night Light & Air Freshener" will be all the rage next Christmas and Fourth of July
First line of the thumbnail reminded me of that Ricky Martin song. Haven't thought of that thing in at least ten years. Thanks for that.
So pretty. They totally should make them with LEDs!
i love your nonchalant attitude towards things that explode as you plug them in! hahahaha
experience and understanding go a long way, could literally feel the nervousness when he heard it though!
Wow... they have definitely cheaped out on these now... i took an air wick one apart and it did actually have a custom molded ceramic heater block. This looks like a standard 3W cement box power resistor :o
That's so nice looking! I may have to take a stab at making my own 😊
I have same screwdriver, even the same colour ! and when in use you end up unscrewing the cap on the back and I noticed that you have found this flaw to .....cheers.
actually quite nice touch 😊
but those things give me bad headaches 😖
You need to do a Photonic Induction ! " I ain't having it ! Big Clive popped it ! I want more power "
I jumped when you plugged it in 🤣