Every time I watch his videos, I watch the whole thing and walk away thinking I'm an idiot.

Glad it's not just me! Lol. 🤯😱🤪😂

😂😂scottish accent

@Dave Smith Yes, hi I've watched this video a couple of times now, and it made me think of real world application,I am thinking car interiors, underbody neons, what can I say, u can't beat a pretty set of led lights! 💟from Birmingham England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mark! Best comment ever!

Exactly what I thought! No idea what I'll use it for though! Notice they say the LED's are dimmable.

The smoke emitting ones are not as exciting

Been watching electroboom have we?

@@andysim232 as they say where there's smoke there's fire right not in that case unless you count fire that you can't see burning but just hot enough to burn something but no visible flames so you could take that either way. Hello smoke it mini ones may not be as exciting they can still come piano annoying money out this magic smoke you know the stuff that keeps it working properly AKA are you something goes wrong time to fix it and anyting going out at times can be annoying worse yet time-consuming if you don't know what went right away but if the boys on the bench in that happens I think you know what got fried problem is a lot of times when one point it goes out it's something else that killed it not always but journaling it wasn't just one single failure that would cause something like that and that's what I'm saying about the annoying part is trying to track down the rest of the trouble or the troll when you're not sure let's not very obvious but magic smoke blowing out something when it's right on the bench pretty easy to find at least the first component that will need to be replaced what someone should do is build a model of the IBM Magic Smoke injector yeah that was a guy get one turning but if someone really needs to build a model based on the image and then have like a Piezo Electric atomizer for water in there so you could actually Tabet generate smoke as part of the gag I guess you could use a vape pen or something like that but I'd rather do ultrasonic since I don't smoke or vape that's just who needs it and possible carcinogens Etc and anything else just saying it when people use those things for a special effects you're still exposing yourself to something one thing or another but then again ultrasonic mist or fog or whatever generator it's just water vapor for real loss of course you say their stuff in the air or mobiles or whatever or others so pick your poison I guess don't even get me started about the hydrogen monoxide gag that's the thing look it up and yeah it's water is all also the scare the original one was evidently started by someone in school that wanted to see just how gullible people can be and did a report trying to ban dihydrogen monoxide which of course is water H2O which works out to be no dihydrogen monoxide. And also in this he actually or she whichever was use all factual information regarding water and that kind of stuck and that's how that got started. Also I did so want to see speaking Magic Smoke when the comment somewhere I don't remember if it's as KZfaq or somewhere else but it was of an image that it was for some Electronics something around and I'd photoshopped in a smoke I do believe I'm thinking they saw what the estimate was a soldering iron in actuality what. Was the solar guard or whatever happened that tool was actually an oscilloscope probe and I just couldn't stop laughing you know I mean water for you if anyone if it was a school who would want to go to a school or class when they don't know that I'm so scope probe does not generate smoke or at least should not. I remember the first time I ever saw the Magic Smoke from inside something black was a kid I had to speak and spell note at the time was using rechargeable nicad batteries don't know if that had something to do with it but it could have since there are very large short circuit currents and of course because it kept doing yank the batteries out which is hard with that device done intentionally when I saw the smoke at story going berserk with weird sounds and stuff you better bet I rip those batteries out there. By the way I remember when the batteries would get low I don't know if that was just alkaline or if the rechargeables or both but I do remember this when the battery is got low it would go crazy sometimes it would just start looping the same word over and over and over I remember once when the battery is got low it started seeing angel angel angel angel and so on until we pulled the batteries. It was running on four C batteries so I suspect at least at that time it would have been 5 volts so far volt regulator probably 7805 I suspect what was going on is the regulator was dropping out when the batteries were almost dead considering their Nike ad that would be more likely because of the lure voltage start with. 1.2 vs 1.5 which would make a difference at least more dramatically so but that's just a theory in terms of stability of the CPU on that Thunder low voltage conditions yep.

What do you call accidentally using an infrared LED instead of a visible light LED An infuriating LED

I remember Noise Emitting Diodes…

Waiting till night time for it to get dark instead of covering the sensor! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm creased here, mainly because I could see myself doing the same.

I feel there’s an important historical stop in “pick and place” machines as the missing link between tape machine spindles and electronics distribution.

@@peterg.8245 this is much more likely as to how it became used for LED tape. The SMD LEDs probably came on those reals before being attached to the tape backing.

If the mechanism reliably winds and unwinds reels at controlled speeds, it reliably winds and unwinds reels at controlled speeds. Makes sense the electronics industry would stick with the known-working solution.

It's just easier to use off-the-shelf stuff that suits the job than to re-invent something. It's the same reason why higher wattage LEDs are designed to use CPU coolers.

I followed through with what I said and brought some.. I need to rewatch this video and make a response to it. Top man big Clive. Love your content

Mhm even toys can have surprisingly hard to find components

@@Xclub40X Lucky you, I tried all 3 Stores in Milton Keynes today, couldn't find stock at any of them..

@@oldmanonamotorbikeinbucks7604 they got them back in stock in London, got one today, maybe check your stores

Why is it showing your comment being posted a week ago when the video was only posted 36 min ago?

@@Hanimex. big clive posts videos to his supporters early. then he unprivates them for the public after a bit

@@Hanimex. Time traveler ... now back from the future :)

@@pixellexip9895 yet for some reason lots of comments from the last hours got that heart reaction thing while his supporters got none... Suspicious

I got a battery-powered one from Lidl - worked well as intended but it drinks batteries even when the leds are off. About 1 week per set of 4xAAA.

When he does it with a Russian accent I get HOT! lol

His tangents are always welcomed lol

If you keep watching it will gradually fall into place.

I think he always has amazing videos!

It’s probably the sole reason for the cost of the item is usually the electrical components

if your just after the pir , they are under £3 on ali express

That's a very good idea! Especially if you had a power bank with the solar panel built in. Quick, cobble one together right now, and get down to the patent office first thing tomorrow morning!!

@@28YorkshireRose12 Unless you're buying one the really overpriced ones with fold out panels, the power banks with built-in panels are nearly worthless, they'll have at best a 1W panel meaning it would take roughly 16 hours to fully charge a fairly small 4,000ma battery or 4 hours per 1,000ma, so it is technically good enough for this use case but I still don't think leaving batteries to bake in sunlight is ever a good idea anyway, heat just makes the cells die quicker.

If it's all right with the rest of the group, I'd rather not use my battery pack in my whatnot. Thank you.

@@interestedlen8823 - no problem, the victorians made clockwork ones.

I can vouch that these work for maybe days off w power bank

Use a can opener. Seriously.

Same here. I hate those damn things. I seriously think they are designed that way on purpose so that when crackheads open them in stores to steal stuff, they leave DNA evidence behind.

I seen a cool rotary cutting tool from worx that looks promising but I'm still using my knifes to strategically score it to open it.

@@ucitymetalhead Harbor Freight has it too.

@@racitup4114 Those are the issue. .lol

So do I, drives the wife mad!

Agree, a 16 minute power nap in the afternoon is worth hours of not nodding off later.... 👍

Those are some of my favorite mosfets for low voltage, low current stuff. They are good to keep stocked in the parts bin.

Quite possibly it was not the first that they heard that. And then stay patient, polite and accommodating, LOL

I was once behind some cheeky young kids who stood at the till asking the lady how much each item was. Everything was a pound and I couldn't help chuckling as she got more and more wound up.

Maybe in some branch the staff would beat the crap of a customer - they give you a pound (ING) for everything you buy?

@@stephenhookings1985 WTF you on about? You 12?

@@Pugwash. I remember trying to ask a staff member a question about a product and she just said "a pound!" before I even finished asking

I thought that initially. Though the LED tape looked wider than 6mm. The other possibility would be 8mm cine film.

Reels like that are used for packaging SMD components for pick-and-place machines; you can buy them by the truckload in any size you want.

It's the same type as I've got a couple of older Poundland USB strips coiled on. The plastic is very very flimsy (although mines is black, not transluscent white), so not really as rigid as you'd use with a more fragile tape. Makes sense that they'd continue using the mechanics of the old winding systems, though -- if it ain't broke, and all that....

@@nialltracey2599 exactly! was just shocked to see it again!

8mm film / Super 8 film .. hell some of them even still have film text on them. Great that something still gets used/resused in this way.

😂😂😂😂

Or on his neon frame

Or one for the door to door canvassers - F*** *ff!

Keep in mind that the LED tape supplied is only intended for 5V.

China

Economies of scale

where can i find this lmfao

@@ianbuilder cant remember it was on some amazon link of some strips on a channel

I used to work for ICM Controls, an HVAC control manufacturer. I worked on 3rd shift and occasionally got phone calls from people pissed off that their thermostats weren't working. One woman complained that her power was out, and her furnace wouldn't turn on despite the thermostat having two AA batteries and an emergency mode. (Forced air heat...) Another man in Florida called complaining that his thermostat wasn't working and that there was frost on the table in his kitchen. The temperature in Florida that night was 60°F. (Turned out to be the igniter, not the thermostat, which is what told him that the temperature in the house was 63°F)

@@MattThompsonOnGoogle I work HVAC and it always amazes me how much people will complain about their electric bill being so high in the winter when they try to heat the house to 75°F when it's 20°F outside or cool down to 60°F in the summer when it's 90+ and 87%RH and they have a 20 year old unit that hasn't been maintained since it was installed. I blame the way temperature controls are set up in cars.

@@sivalley I blame our education systems not having enough emphasis on basic physics and math. But there's no substitution for human stupidity. :)

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Trust me, you're not missing much!

@@katewolfspirit6722 I like odd cheep junk. I have dollar tree and dollar general (which basically is full price items)

@@bansheemania1692 Yeah, me too. I prefer thrift shops (we call them charity shops in the UK).

We have 5 Below here in the US. Everything is $5 or less. Then the Dollar Tree where everything is $1 or less. Of course does not include sales tax.

@@bansheemania1692 I don't count dollar general as a dollar store. It is a regular convenience store.

or about £0.21 each on Taobao...

RDB226 is available on lcsc for a few cents, funtionally equivalent

@@flipschwipp6572 love lcsc, amazing prices and everything is genuine

@@krishna34674 lcsc ?

@@lifesagamesobeawinner Its one of the sister company's of JLCPCB / Easy EDA that sell a huge range of parts from china at really good prices with really good quality control (well or china at least lol) just go to "lcsc.com"

bs612 or RDB226 can be nought from lcsc for cents

Better still it's 10 digit. Handy for microamp calculations.

@@bigclivedotcom But was it from Poundland? :D

Pound land must be the Kum & Go of the UK

My local poundland has a poor selection. I never see any of the things Clive shows .

Aldi and Lidl have both been showing "Smart" tech on their web pages. Aldi shows a couple of wifi light bulbs, online-only, BC and ES. Lidl has a wider range of kit, but you have to buy a "gateway" (Zigbee 3.0 standard) and none of the light bulbs are BC. The Aldi bulbs are explicitly wifi. Zigbee is a low data-rate "mesh" system that has been around for a long while. Poundland has some wifi lightbulbs as well, but their website shows nothing like this. Have we missed our chances?

Is Aldi’s whole middle aisle lucky dip a universal thing? I wasn’t sure if they did it outside of Australia.

@@NoobixCube it’s certainly there in Germany, where the shop started, and in every Diddlidi shop I’ve been in in the UK, so I’m pretty confident that it is universal.

RDB226 is even cheaper

He said he was back to normal after he took his Kip Which immediately put my mind to pondering what exactly qualifies as normal in his universe

@@notarookee778 I worked one job where I worked 7pm-7am night shifts and I had to stay in a truck for the whole shift. Nothing usually happened from 3am-6am and I used to lay down in the rear seat awkwardly as I'm 6'2", and get paid to sleep most nights. I would go home and have a couple beers and go to bed at 11am, and wake up at 5pm. I never actually felt better rested than when I worked there.

@@juliogonzo2718 Used to do the same when I worked nights as a porter at lhe local train station no passenger trains from 0300 till 0600.

That's only for the patron subs

If it's based on a capacitive dropper, check the capacitor value of the main capacitor.

@@bigclivedotcom Thanks, but it's battery-operated with a normal 3-pin regulator and the "regular" chip you were expecting to find in your Poundland dongle.

I have a "Mr Beams" light in the bathroom for middle of the night comfort breaks and that explains why it flashes on and off when the AA battery's are below 1 volt.......

@@Trev5 That's actually the brand of light I had self-retriggering. Except I'm feeding it from a 5v supply instead of the stock 3 D cells so I'm not sure why it was acting up. Unfortunately when troubleshooting I had a tiny resistor get lost so now it doesn't come on at all. Its regulator chip outputs 3.0v. Assuming yours uses the same, that explains why the problems start when your batteries get below 1v each.

Well yes. How else would you expect them to be? The datasheets for pyrosensors give the effective position of the sensing elements to aid the design of lenses.

He actually said 'gums', meaning it was possibly detecting him talking and moving his mouth.

Next to penetration station

@Leroy Baker 10dorra .. www.rejectshop.com.au/p/led-strip-lighting

I'm pretty sure the spindle hole in the middle is too big. My brain is trying to sift through the fog of about 35 years though so I could be wrong 😉

You get most LED tape on small reels like this these days.

bigclivedotcom I love that they are using existing Technology to accommodate new stuff!

Galerak The bigger reels had holes about the same size :)

Yes I was wondering if it would take quarter inch audio tape LOL.

Yes, the strip would need to match the power supply.

Easiest way might be to power the whole thing from an automotive USB adapter. But you would be less likely to run the battery down if you put a 5V regulator chip or an automotive USB adapter between the sensor and the LEDs.

@@jayherde0 I had to reread that a couple times for it to click how that would save power. If anybody else is having trouble making sense of that: Having the regulator/converter between the sensor and the strip means that the regulator only runs when the sensor is activated.

@@Kineth1 thanks