This guy can do more with an exacto knife and a screwdriver than most people can do with an entire hardware store.

"this is diode gone wild & also i have also gone wild while drawing this schematic"- i almost died laughing !! 😂😂

" i hope for another kind of circuit". Careful what u wish for 😜😜. 10/10

OMG. That schematic They really took it seriously for a lamp

This arrangement is called buck-boost, the predecessor of a well-known isolated flyback converter.

I really, really love your teardowns!! Your hard work is very appreciative!

This is a current contolled buck regulator. The internal high voltage switch is between pins 5/6 and 7/8. The current is sensed by the 2 ohm resistor connected between pin 8 and pin 1. The average input voltage is sensed by the network in the bottom left of the diagram (WTF?) and fed (under the chip) to pin 2. The chip regulates the output current to be proportional to the voltage on pin 2. So when used with a triac type dimmer the output current and hence brightness is controlled by the dimmer.

The excavation goes on. Priceless! What a complicated circuit for a led lamp.

My friend you are very patient and professional.

I admire your persistence and perseverance. Above all you do this with tons of humor. I laughed my butts off watching this one. I am like you've met your match! But guess what you figured it out as usual.

Excellent analysis. Thank's for your job.

Binge watching. Enjoying your videos. 👍

Love your expressions, hysterical!!

Wild schematic, love it!

very complicated for so little money ,,,,,,incredible.............

really interesting video. one can tell you put in alot of work for this. bigups buddy

I thought you would test if it's really dimmable & how much it flickers when dimmed.

0:46 And it was then that DiodeGoneWild understood the meaning of "be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it".

I agree, he's gone to length to unravel what's inside.. I'm a power electronics engineer and yet it stuns me they packed so much inside this Sub $2 part. Most of the 120V US bulbs don't have such complexity. They just have a few parts and the LED stack. I'll add more notes later. Good Work, Mister.

Well done amazing effort . I would really like if you did a video to teach how to draw circuits from simple to progressively harder

You are Brave Man.

hahaha , we all gone wild following this schematic! :D thanks mate!

nice job man

I just can't get over how you were able to draw something so insanely complicated! And all of this for just $2.50? Seems impossible.

I think a lot of the circuit is about keeping the power factor close to 1 so it can work with standard dimmers.

I freakin like this channel

Nice video

this is just crazy man

Brilliant! Thank you for your service! (And of cause its not easy for the producer to make some profit from it, too many parts, and a lot of them seem to be totally outdated for this purpose. Maybe thats why they totally covered whats in the socket? *gg*)

The potting compound helps to spread out the heat and so should make the bulb last longer. These are inexpensive disposable products ... not intended to be serviceable at all.

The BP3216 is a TRIAC dimmable LED driver IC. It basically changes the voltage in the LED based on the input mains voltage.

1:13 Him:lidl My subtitles: legal

You know what, since it's potted into selastic, i just remembered something. I was at a home improvement store to renew caulking around the bathtub, so i was standing there at a shelf of caulking removal compound - a chemical that releases silicone and acrylic caulking so you can clean it off. While i was there, a salesperson casually strolls by and says "Hey you don't have to buy this - just get get a solvent named 'turpentine substitute', it works exactly the same, and it's about 1/5th the price", and i was like "wow, huge thanks!". I have no idea what they got out of this - perhaps caulking remover was a brand name item, while turpentine substitute is store brand, so that's something they actually make money on. Maybe it was a store chain that was shutting down so they could re-sell brand name stuff to a bulk supplier but not the store brand stuff. Maybe the guy was already let go of with a 3 month notice so what are they gonna do, fire him twice? Maybe he just liked me. It was quite a while back, like a decade or so. I never ended up renewing the caulking though as i had to move for a job, so i don't know whether that's true or how well it works, but it's very, very plausible. Probably beats picking out hardened selastic by hand. Also i'll never pick off and scrape off hot melt glue ever again, just spray or dab some isopropanol around the glue joint or the edges of the blob and it comes right off, works great!

incredible with so many electronic parts. How do you manage to sell so cheaply? Thenk You for the Video

The way this LED was made is to make sure you will find it difficult or impossible to repair, so instead, you go and buy a new one. This is what is called: *_Planned Obsolescence._*

The jungle of madness haha

dimmable led bulb, but this can be very sensitive to voltage spikes and it need the Surge protector. This have also sensitivity to demand side management signals in power line - you can see the small blinking as vibration for sec. ( in czech republic HDO signals)

Wow, somebody crammed all this into that... and then somehow they even got this assembled - soldered through hole components without SMD on both sides falling off... probably lots of glue under SMD components too. Manual placement of lots of components. Somebody goes through all this effort for such a cheap device... I commend you for attempt at tracing it out, but to complete it, SMD desoldering would be necessary.

I just love the "invisible" flickering, as it hurts my head...

Oh. Man. How you do it. I never have a patience to complete the drawing.

thanks

Hi DiodeGoneWild, how does your DIY watt meter work? This very useful measuring for DIY jobs. Can you explain me how did you make it? Thanks for your reply.

I love what you do. It brings back memories when I would teardown electronics and make schematics. Now I rather watch somebody else do it. Electronic porn!

díky za tvůj čas a respekt že ses do toho schema vůbec pouštěl :o

The excavation goes on🤗👌😂

8:05 Look at the lower-left of the video. Something says "WTF?"

Try tearing down a LIFX color bulb or a Phillips hue color. I’ve seen part of the LIFX one and it’s filled with the resin as well.

‘Then the insanity begins’ A normal day for me

It's an import bulb by OWIM GmbH DE in Neckarsulm for LIDL

8:01 LOOL !

👍👍👍 but you forgot to check if it's dimmable..🤔

@diodegonewild Inverting voltage makes boost/buck regulator in one possible with single inductor.

omg.. you have a nice reverseEngineering background.. this is not an easy task.. nice job.. almost died laughing too. :) btw next time try to use some white erasing liquid.

How you measure the power consumption by the DMM

man i love your accent

saudações do Brasil + like. é muita eletrônica pra uma simples lâmpada LED. muito bom. sucesso.

Dismantled one of these myself in the UK (A Philips one) and that was 'potted' in resin as well. The most likely reason i could think of was the manufacturer not wanting it reverse-engineered. I see from the waveform that they are simply chopping the sinewave rather than doing anything clever with it. Looks like we haven't fully solved dimming LED's fed from the mains yet. In the Philips lamp the resin was like putty, and impossible to remove without destroying components and losing all the details.

Could you add bulbs playlist?:)

Hi there! I like your videos, because your teardown videos are very useful. You measured the bulb of performance with basic DMM. I guess your yellow DMM is 830b or similar one. How did you do it? Thanks for your reply.

can you do a tear down video of cfl lamp??

In Schematic there is WTF ? Very left side.. But u hv done great work by drawing it. Tremendous

To draw the schematic better check the connections with your meter!

Hi Diodes - From - UKsuperrascal - As a Englishman, I think it is a complement that you have spent the time and effort to learn to speak english and is much appreciated by me, So to all the People that mock or moan about your accent go and get a life, You try to learn Diodes language, How many of you empty teapots will bother? - For more old english name calling Click my Thumbnail and leave a comment on my latest youtube video if you dare. - BRILL VID AGAIN BY DIODES GONE WILD - But you did not show the light powered through a dimmer switch - ? or was that the click bait -- LOL

"big jungle of madness", but thank you for all the work you put into the video. In theory you can unsolder the components and with continuity tester reverse engineer the crappy design.

You are funny! 😂

Which is the reason why in the video we can see the light blinking continuously and not always a steady light. And how to solve this problem?

Best video so far hahaha

What a shame you didn’t try to dim it before taking it to bits … (chip application sheet specifically mentions it being compliant with Triac dimming anyway).

5:50 It's heat-conducting silicone polymer

in this video you have the voice of one who had been drinking a little🤪

you are very funny, thanks

How can anyone IC switch 400V? Even if it can, the closely spaced dimension between the pins do not allow it. Are you sure the ferrite bit is a inductor? Or a transformer?

Super video ale mluvíš trochu divně :D jako nechci tě "hejtovat" ale mě přišlo že si nějakej rusák nebo něco takovýho ale pak sem viděl czk a bylo to jasný :D jinak super video

The topology is inverted Buck.

How apropos to the name of your channel.

3:31 Note the negative light projection! 8:55-9:06 Chaotic board tracks as an anti-reverse-engineering tool?

I need to dim an LED tube with the input downsteped input of 120v 50hz... cant this be done flicker free?

it when electronics are potted in resin. It makes it so hard to do anything with it.

Lidl market has Lidl prices 😁

Need bigger fire extinguisher for that one lol.

Look at the datasheet of bp3216 from bpsemi.com.cn it's a triac compatible led driver...

Your carrier is “KAKTUS” .....

the flicker went away without the cap. Odd.

You should have checked the datasheet of that chip, it has half your schematic on it.

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Diode do you own a 3d printer?

Can you make a simple circuit using led strip?

I am amazed by how much of electronic waste goes with this LEd lights when they die . Its a hell of a way to boil a Light ..

:) proč mluvíš s indickým přízvukem? xD

Maybe its a three layer board?

that black stuff isn't resin......it's silicon,if you take your time, it comes off pretty easily.

The accent is similar to the Chynese water torture.

try to tare down an expensive led bulb from phillips : Philips | MASTERLED 60 | 230 V | 7 W | 30-40 W it will amaze you !

Light belb

Aren't all lights flicker based tho?

From wath country are you your country have lidl too

And Euros??

So do LED LIGHTS WORK WITH DC OR AC?

' in here america is a AC 120 V

čech ? tak to sme skoro susedia :D