I like the "watch it or skip if you don't want to" approach. :) Definitely not too long!

Clive, If someone asks me to describe you as short as possible, I will just call you the Bob Ross of electronics.

My immediate reaction to your cluttered bench comment was that I'd feel right at home! I watched a shop tour of a machinist that must have had $50,000 of drawer storage for tools & material, all organized and labeled. I was jealous, but realized I get satisfaction from making things, not organizing them.

You know... to Me you're the Bob Ross of Electronics on this site. No excessive editing, no pointless additions like video effects. Just You, your tools and the stuff you show, build and/or explain. The stuff that really matters. :] Always a pleasure to watch. AND educational too.

35 minutes of relaxation and enjoyment. Great after a long day at work. I would never dream of skipping through your videos.

I’m a watcher, not a skipper!

'If your bench is cluttered, it's fine... it means you're being productive' *This* is the positivity I needed today, thankyou so much 😊❤

Expensive tools are the fastest evolving of things on the Earth, as they develop legs as soon as you put them down.

Never to long, I could and have watched ya all day before when not feeling good or Ill. I also like the choice. Not sure I'd ever skip ahead tho I might miss something. I have 2 rolls of that exact tape. You know the anchor light on a boat it's the white light at the stern. Well I wanted to light up the boat so I put 2 stripes of the 12v led rope on the anchor light pole facing twords the bow of the boat so it would light up the walkway, on a switch of course so as not to blind anyone when not needed. My next project with the rope will be to run the led rope tucked under the storage rails on the sides of the boat. Cheers sir.

Don't ever change Clive. You're great!

“This wasn’t actually planned, it’s just what’s gonna happen.” You’ve got many gems, Clive, but this is my new favorite.

I post this most times Clive mentions lead based solder. When a hobbyist uses lead based solder for his projects, a couple gram per year, no one bats an eye and no one will get hurt by it. But if every industry uses tons and tons and tons of lead in their solder each year and most of those electronics end up non-recycled in landfills or recycled by people without proper protection in developing nations, that is an issue. I'm glad it is the way it is, with the moneyed interests having to spend a bit more to keep the environment clean and people more healthy and the hobbyist being able to use the leaded solder for ease of use in small quantiites. :)

Cool practical mod. And no your videos are not too long. I'd rather see you do the entire job then skip forward over bits. More learnin' that way.

Hey man. You post it, I'll watch it. Don't care what the subject or length.

Not long at all and the 'off the cuff' dialog works.. As you stated some of us just want to chill and relax and watch projects.. It helps me ignore the ones my wife wants done, lmao! :) Always a treat Clive!

"Modifying an old light with LED tape/How a compact fluorescent driver works" I love how interesting you can make the most simple projects seem. You ARE the Bob Ross of electronics...

Definitely not too long, love these type of 'dismantling' vids, seeing this has got me thinking, a few years ago I bought two 13 watt under cabinet fluorescent fittings from Lidl, the ones with the swivelling diffuser. Although physically they are well made, extruded aluminium body with glass diffuser, the first fitting only lasted about 9 months, the second one died after only 4 months! I've taken one apart & found that a tiny (and probably underrated) surface mount resistor had burnt out. This vid has given me an idea for a modification!

I approve of your soldering technique at 24:20. Now take out the good lighting, make it freezing cold (iron sometimes gets stuck to the colder joint), put yourself on a noisy and vibrating aircraft that's bouncing around and you'll be doing my job.

I personally prefer the long form non edited videos. I understand that shorter videos do attract more folks (as all of us lot still watch them) but there is something satisfying about seeing every step even when I know what happens in the cuts.

I've learned MORE IN 2 1/2 HOURS from YOU than I've EVER LEARNED in 2 years of High School Electronics !!! YOU ROCK!!!

Never too long, when it gets less interesting in video, it makes for it in audio, whilst I'm taking care of something else. Perfect for multitaskers, and I could listen to your voice for days without getting bored

I too am a watcher not a skipper. I like the longer videos and watching you work with LED's is the BEST. It's amazing to watch you solder things together as your dexterity is incredible. GREAT VIDEO!!!

I don't mind the longer videos Clive. I find your videos very relaxing to watch and learn from.

It's actually very refreshing to see you build/modify (or bodge together) something rather than destroy poundland items (not that I mind your teardowns). This video is appropriately long, didn't skip a second.

Your videos are never too long, Clive! I love watching you work on these projects. I don't understand why anyone would complain about a video being too long. They can always SKIP. Is that SO difficult? It reminds me of people who complain about TV being a "brain drain". I ask them: ''Do you know where the OFF switch is? Have you heard of changing the channel?" Please keep your videos coming. I have leared a lot from you. I love playing with LED strips - have some things I have made and I power the strip with a 9-volt battery. Works well and lasts a good long time for my purposes. The waterproof LED strips are often a pain to get the plastic "diffuser" off though -- but they do tend to look better. Thanks for the video!

Clive, your videos are NEVER too long! They're always relaxing, interesting and amusing.

One of the (many) great things about your videos is the lack of skipping/editing and only necessary minor cuts. Great format, great content. Thanks.

I re-watched many of your videos over the years and I still usually watch the Full-Length no matter how long. Doing projects is always a little bit of a fun trial and half the fun - for me - is enjoying the whole thing. Sometimes you get other things going in your head the second time around or more importantly, sometimes come back for a detail or two you remember a year later for clarification. Cheers and thanks again Big-Clive

Love watching your project videos, sometimes I wish they were a little longer, they are so relaxing, fun to watch and informative.

Effin great Clive. Make em as long as you like!

Definitely not too long. It reminds me exactly how I work myself. Especially forgetting to put the sleeve, or plug top on first, before soldering or connecting wires. Keep making many more videos, thanks.

Absolutely not too long. I keep watching you because I get the feeling of sitting in your workshop with a dram and shooting the shit. I've done it often enough in real life and it's so nice.

This was a nice project. I'd like to see more stuff like this.

I vote for long videos, even when you make a mistake we learn something!

Just got to the part where you say about people just relaxing and enjoying the long video, so I checked and ive spent nearly 30 minutes just doing that! Your voice is captivating yet soulful and soothing

I have never understood the obsession a lot of youtube people have with short videos. I didn't come here to watch as little video as I possibly can. Ill watch pretty much as much as you post. Its great to watch over your shoulder and learn. Thanks again for all the great videos!

I love the longer videos!

I have used those outside LEDs before, and like them, but they just didn't stay stuck. I started putting Marine GOOP on them to hold them down. Never had another one come loose.

I prefer the longer videos when you build/mod stuff. It's interesting to see your way of 'solving problems'.

This is a brilliant idea to "upcycle" older fixtures, especially since you can retain the original look and mounting of the fixtures while reaping the efficiency/longevity benefits of LED lighting. I'll be doing this "eventually" to some extremely basic 4' and 2' single tube fluorescent fixtures my father used for house lighting when he built our house in '75. Buying drivers and LED tape is significantly cheaper than 5 replacement ballasts, plus 3 x 4' tubes, plus 2 x 2' bulbs! Actually, I bought enough LED tape, remote-dimmable drivers, and power supplies to retrofit all those fixtures for ONE THIRD the cost of repairing/replacing the old fixtures, while having one extra dimmable driver and power supply on hand for backup.

Your videos are always the perfect length! I recommend watching from 0:00 to 35:31.

Woke up to the upload, quite a relaxing way to have breakfast.

Big Clive is the Bob Ross of electronics. Please continue to make your happy circuits.

Your videos are never too long. I think the main reason for that is that you continually chatter away as well as do exactly the sort of projects that we love. Keep on being you, bigclive!

I find that if my workspace gets too cluttered then I stop doing projects all together because there's no space and i'm overwhelmed. Cleaning my workspaces almost always results in a project occurring.

I have clearly been watching too many of your videos--I have begun remote problem solving!!! As soon as you started to consider measuring the current I mentally determined 'right, de-solder the +12V lead and reach for the cheap automotive meter with the crocodile clips...'

I was engrossed in the video I didn't realize is spent 35 mins watching you wire a desk lamp! Brilliant video Clive! You are intelligent and hilarious!

I replaced an old tube with LED strip stuck straight to the underside of the cabinet. The 12v wiring was exposed but tidy behind the valance. The mains wiring was properly protected of course. I won't go into more details, the significant datum is that after about six months I thought it was looking dim and by 8 months it was definitely dimmer than new. The LEs had basically gone brown with heat. YOUR installation looks a lot neater, and here's hoping that using the existing mounting will be enough of a heat sink! Meantime after looking at a few options for mounting a new strip on an ally strip, I got lazy and just put in a Philips Mini-Pentura unit.

Friday night comfort viewing with a beer. Never too long.

great video Clive, these are my favourite types of your videos, and id rather your videos be longer lol

I don't understand the things you talk about or care too much about what you're doing but watching these videos seems almost like a podcast and it amazes me hearing all these fancy words and knowing you have so much knowledge and to top it all off you strangly have a beautiful calming voice. I have no idea what happens in any of your videos but I love them.

Videos arent too long Clive. If anyone is like me we watch while working on our projects. You keep us company.

Nice conversion Clive. Enjoyed watching the video.

Not too long. I love when you show us everything!

I must say I do this all the time. Usually, I modify the lamps to work off 12v batteries. Just fitted a 12v LED modified square lamp in a stable so my daughter can see her horse this winter. Keep up the great videos. P.S. my bench is a total mess, I have about a dozen projects ongoing...

hehe speaking of being engrossed in your work to make time go quick, I was at work one night, super into what we were working on, changing out a robotic part on a machine, suddenly the next shift came up to us and was like yo, its 45 minutes past end of shift what you guys doing? I enjoyed my job back then. I still work for the same company but the job has changed so much, they have taken away things I liked one by one to the point the paycheck is the only thing left. And they are starting to mess with that. 18 years here and never punched a time clock once, now they are installing them to nickle and dime us on a minute late here 20 seconds will probably turn to a whole minute pay dock... anyway, love your videos, so relaxing to listen to your voice.

If it ain't broke, fix it til it is!

*A tidy bench is the sign of a sociopath, avoid them at all costs.*

Any length you like Clive. It's always a treat to watch and hear your electronic ruminations.

Longer the better, can always add a story or two, I like hearing about things you have fixed in the past.

I like the longer format, personally.

Haha the _finger test_ always has me laughing 😆

you didnt offend me, you just relieved me that my floor, my bench, my bed and my desk all have projects in various states!

Okay! I like the longer videos without cutting. We get the mistakes, comments, and parts I am sure you would like left out! Really these modification and repair videos are the best. Good job Clive!

I like your not-pausing and the videos are not too long

26:40 "Looks a bit wrinkly but that's alright it's fine".. i've heard that before

A good step by step . A true short armed deep pocketed Scotsman love the comment about the scrap bits of wire. The audio connector is so true. Regards.

You could be making all these words up, I know nothing about electrical things but your voice is so relaxing and soothing I nod off to sleep. Thank you from an insomniac. X

Clive, I love it. More of the same, please!

No video of yours is too long, Clive. In fact, the longer the better! Haha. :P

Never too long! Only discovered you the other day (although remember Fanny Flambeau from a few years back!) and it's relaxing, entertaining and informative, loving the length of the videos. People can always skip but I do love the stories and explanations and no jump-cuts.

Fabulous and thank you BigClive. I actually watched this one again and got a few new tips. A lot of us say "No way, not too long" and I agree. There's something very therapeutic about taking it from start to finish. There's something about your delivery. It's calming, peaceful and informative. We feel like we are "chilling" with a friend. I'm sure there are drinking games with your videos as well. :-D I'm in my later 50s. My dad was a calibration engineer for Stewart Warner in Chicago and I remember being probably half my 2 meters, hanging out with him in the basement as he whizzed together stuff with electronics or in his dark room rocking trays of his photographic hoby. I guess this brings me back there. Transistors were "amazing" then and LEDs were dim but cool. We made a digital clock from scratch once with an IC the size of your thumb. Good times. Thanks man.

Big Clive for the next dr who👍 if only Poundland did a sonic screwdriver🤣

'Reflector' looks more like a diffuser.

It's the 'train of thought' kind of thing that makes this kind of video golden. Longer videos=Better videos.

You can never have too much juicy lead-based goodness. Your videos are as long as they need be, always informative and flannel-free.....so pretty much spot on. 453K subscribers can't be wrong.

Clive, bigger, wafflier and un-cut, is certainly my preference.

I really like these long videos

I like when you can hear me yelling at you through the internet, not to drill and to run the wires up the end cap like that. ;). I enjoyed the length of the video thanks.

I like the long uncut videos Clive. I also like listening to the stories that you tell while soldering. Best way to fall asleep and than watch the missed part again next day.

Very nice video and for sure not too long!

13:27 . . . When screwdriver discharge fails, finger test succeeds!!

No, not too long. You show complete projects, end to end along with any issues, problems or mistakes which is always useful for some people to see, also the commentary is always interesting. As people have said, you can sit and watch end to end, or skip and jump around . I often have your videos running in the background just listening and looking up at the interesting points.

Little tip i like to do when using tape LED strip - run the heat gun over the tape side for a few seconds to get the tape soft and hot. Makes for much stronger contact.

Clive, the Fluke meters still are made in the USA... I have two of the Fluke 87-V and one Fluke 789, on the rear of them all is "made in USA"... I believe Fluke is in Seattle, WA. Regarding forgetting a part during assemble of a connector... how about a 61 pin Cannon plug with 20 and 22 AWG wires (all white) assembled in the confines of a fighter jet cockpit, which was completed over two work shifts, only to realize the Cannon plug backshell was forgotten before the wires were installed! I was on the third shift and had to dismantle, so it could be started again from the beginning, with the wires passing through the backshell. Mistakes happen!!

"Amply Rated" that is a current joke.

My John Fluke model 23 (SN:41850128) with grey protective case is still going strong too. Ol' Trusty! 35 mins of your meditative voice Clive, nothing beats it 😊

Not sure how others find it but I have no problem with the video length, I quite enjoy the talking and soldering. Thanks for the videos.

I kind of borrowed my fluke when I got made redundant !

perfect for that mid-afternoon nap.. the new bob ross of the internets

Your voice is melodic, especially the word "theoretically". Yogi Berra said “In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is.” Nice practice!

Keep them long, Clive. If people want to rush through, they can. But I personally like watching you do your thing at your own speed. It reminds me of being a wee lad and following my dad all over the shop asking no end of questions of him.

You can consider your self a fan of clive only when you pause the video few seconds from the start and like it, otherwise you're just a regular user lol

I prefer the uncut videos.

Dude, you are the Bob Ross of this genre. Never too long. Come home from work and just relax to your videos.

I don't think they are to long. I really enjoy watching you work.

I’ve got a big pile of those lights in lengths up to about 4’ long which I rescued from a shop that was being refitted. I was thinking of putting led pixel tape in them, and making an Arduino controller for them. As so often happens, other projects keep getting in the way.

Isn't it heating at the end when it is continuously in "starting mode" with current through the emitter on both sides (closed starter) as opposed to "normal mode" with a voltage difference only between the ends of the lamp, current flowing from one emitter to the other, not heating the emitter (open starter)?

Not to long.For beginners and intermediates.It’s just the right amount of learning. Thanks for the great videos.P.S.YOU DA MAN!

I didn't know the frame rate slowed down in lower light. A gem. Knowledge is where you find it.