I like the fact that, when new, the poundland lights only fill half the box. Makes it far easier to repack them after Christmas, ready for next year without learning the ancient Chinese art of 'cram packing'
@elviswjr6 жыл бұрын
In America I think there's some unwritten rule that all Christmas lights must be crammed tightly into the box. I have never seen a set of Christmas lights that didn't fill the entire box and it's almost impossible to fit them back in. In fact we usually just wrap them up and put them all in a box together. Of course, it's also a scientific fact that no matter how neatly you pack them, they will be tangled when you take them out the next year.
@standishgeezer6 жыл бұрын
So true that last sentence :-)
@Aristo126 жыл бұрын
Poundland is improving their products just because they know BigClive is watching them. ^^
@MariaEngstrom6 жыл бұрын
Is no worries my friend, magnificent Chinese fashionable decorative light adopts new innovating feature saving expense of fuse. Is no need any fuse of any kind, fashionable decorative light itself are fuse 100% on every place. If disaster with faulty electrics or ungainly customer, innovative and high quality wire will be warm and disconnect so no burning down cottage or dwelling and no injure children and pet.
@dashcamandy22426 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! It's almost like you typed that directly from a set of Chinglish instructions. BRAVO!
@Youtupe696 жыл бұрын
thats scarily accurate. straight from aliexpress
@YouTubeSupportTeams6 жыл бұрын
whats an ungainly customer?
@autoair46376 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! fluent chinglish.
@28YorkshireRose125 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, I too speak Chinglish. We communicate via elephant conductor of maasage until mouse sanely enters viewing field and lustrate the pachyderm. Using conductor you provided with is safe in use unless entered forcefully when becomes harmful to person with screwdriver or spudger. Person so entering at own peril will discharge all life sign before rigour mortice ensues. No guarantee or return accepted for cadaver of any kind. This does not affect your statutory rights! (What the hell are "your statutory rights" anyway?)
@KarlBaron6 жыл бұрын
When do we get the video of you shorting out the cheap chinesey set to set it alight (presumably somewhere safe outdoors with a fire extinguisher and dead mans cut-off switch)
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
I'm very tempted to take it outside and do that....
@DanielHeppner6 жыл бұрын
Please do!
@carlovani55486 жыл бұрын
Fire extinguisher? Dead man's switch? Why not add a pink tutu for good measure. I want to see them in a completely dried christmas tree. But yeah outside.
@smlunchen77896 жыл бұрын
Maybe not completely shorted, but a 2kw heater will probably do. ^_^
@morenoandrea51256 жыл бұрын
well i think that it's normal............ more or less, more less than more but...
@elviswjr6 жыл бұрын
I live in the US and it seems that European Christmas lights are made a lot different from the ones we have. I would love to see you do a teardown of American LED Christmas lights and compare them to European ones.
@davecounsell67806 жыл бұрын
I have a theory about the big boxes for fairy lights, it's to ensure you can put them back in the box at the end of Christmas. 😀
@stuartarnold94446 жыл бұрын
Shops don't like stuff in small packages as it's not as visually dramatic on the shelves. Also small packages are easier to slip into a pocket and walk out without paying.
@PongoXBongo6 жыл бұрын
Also, the manufacturers likely use the same boxes for different numbers of lights.
@anononomous6 жыл бұрын
I find that even though they only take up half the box when new I still can't get he bastards to fit back in once they've been used.
@PongoXBongo6 жыл бұрын
Why even bother putting them back in the original box? Just loop them around your forearm like the extension cable they're plugged into. It's just a rope with some lights on it. ;)
@Imakeelectronicchaos Жыл бұрын
Yeah, once they are unraveled from that neat factory wrapping I think when you cool it your own way it’s impossible to put back in the box so I think that’s why now they have sized up the boxes a bit!
@mikeselectricstuff6 жыл бұрын
3 strands of copper, or copper-coated aluminium. Either way chances are it's so thin it would act as a fuse instead of catching fire
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
I may have to test this. (Outdoors.)
@dashcamandy22426 жыл бұрын
I bet the strands would snap under the slightest tug, much like most headphone cords.
@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC6 жыл бұрын
I've found that many of these ebay electrical items have plated steel wire in them. I have only rarely found one with aluminum wire. All the cheap meter test leads and alligator jumpers I've ever found were steel. This means that you can identify crap leads with a magnet.
@pileofstuff6 жыл бұрын
I was fully expecting a smoke test on the cheapie
@kokoronotomoni6 жыл бұрын
I wonder what would happen if someone uses that chinese one as a extension cord for a kettle or waterheater.
@frinkemon6 жыл бұрын
My son received a shock from some of those nasty cheap lights used to decorate handrail on stairs for a party.. So yeah, lots of kids running their hands up and down them pulled some LEDs off and the pokey out wires were quite nasty.. Plus they were plugged into a power supply with one of those illegal 3-pin plugs with no fuse. Im afraid I had to unplug it and pull the plug off (because yeah, the wire was so crap it just broke) and then I explained to the manager how he should not use them.
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
Good move.
@twocvbloke6 жыл бұрын
A socket on the end? Ooh, handy, I can plug a 3KW electric heater on that end to keep the tree really warm... :P
@Dingbat2176 жыл бұрын
Who else wants to see Clive short out the Chinese lights and capture it on video! :-)
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
It may well happen. But outdoors.
@russellwillmott56376 жыл бұрын
Be kind to it, just a nice kettle or fan heater. Do it outside of course because PVC smoke makes you cough.
@sdavies456 жыл бұрын
Me!
@andysworkshopuk6 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom yes please do it. I'm beginning to think the pie dish is being used to actually cook pies!
@ManualMaestro6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Clive. I've been stressed with finals and watching you examine lights is very relaxing.
@MrMakeDo6 жыл бұрын
My favourite bit is watching Big Clive’s thumbnail gradually healing with each video.
@LettuceAttak6 жыл бұрын
“They’re worth it because they are dangerous” Oh Big Clive... this is why we love you
@timsjourney6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your humor while describing poor or bad products.
@gordonlawrence47496 жыл бұрын
"they are worthy getting because they are dangerous". Just one of the many reasons I love this channel.
@michaelayers80686 жыл бұрын
can you do a bit of destructive testing by plugging a high amperage device into the female connector on the end of the srand
@jamesjrovira6 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that Clive is always so quick to swap the leads in a multimeter back to their "normal" position after measuring current, yet just tosses the ebay set of lights on the floor with the shorting plug still in! It would be interesting to see a high drain appliance (electric heater or kettle perhaps) plugged into the socket at the end of that set, in the name of science, of course.
@q12x3 жыл бұрын
i really like how you have these little tricks to find the color value of resistors. Very good !
@FlyingShotsman6 жыл бұрын
For this year's bigclivedotcom Christmas special, a 3kW fairy light meltdown extravaganza!
@crocellian29726 жыл бұрын
Thank you. The safety culture you exude is great. But, you are still fun. Perfect.
@100SteveB6 жыл бұрын
Another great video, Clive. And once again you show just how crap and dangerous stuff sold on eBay can be. The scary thing is that 75% of the population will be clueless when it comes to the safety aspect of things like this. I wonder how many kids this Christmas will be messing around with Christmas trees that have these type of lights on them? I reckon this video should be played on all UK tv channels during the run up to Christmas!
@iPelaaja16 жыл бұрын
My close-by Poundland closed, so now I have to walk over an hour to visit one, but after watching this video Im gonna go get probably two of these sets next Friday, just cause they seem very nice.
@OAleathaO6 жыл бұрын
7:08 - "There's so many things wrong these...that's what makes them so appealing." Such a great quote. ;)
@NamiNuitsuki6 жыл бұрын
I should be working on a project, but I'm just sitting here watching a video on a topic I have no clue about. I think I'm addicted to these videos....
@MINERAL-1156 жыл бұрын
You've just reminded me of how fucking terrifying AC voltage is. I touched one of the 'live metal studs' - the sharp solder piercings - on one of these when helping a friend set up lights years ago and had somehow managed to push it out of my mind.
@teacfan10806 жыл бұрын
When he was talking about the cheap Chineezy unsafe lights and the dangers to pets, my mind drifted to that one particular scene in "Christmas Vacation" about a cat who decided to dine on Christmas light cords.
@dashcamandy22426 жыл бұрын
I watched a video of Julian Illet's recently, he discovered with the Changzhou Yutai power supplies if you overload them just a smidge, the voltage drops off rather quickly (I believe it was his video on those stake-in-the-ground, project-colored-lights-on-your-house things). I'm quite impressed with the build quality on their power supplies, they had someone that actually cared in their Engineering department.
@fluffycritter6 жыл бұрын
I have to actually appreciate the major feat of engineering that went into making such gossamer-thin mains leads.
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
And stripping and soldering them.
@TrasteIAm6 жыл бұрын
16:50 - LOL, epic sound bite there Big Clive!
@andysworkshopuk6 жыл бұрын
Cheers for the heads-up Clive. I've got five 10m sets of those dodgy ebay strings in our (child and pet free) house except mine came with a UK plug fitted with real mains cord between it and the box. The rest of the string is the same though. After watching this I've gone around and changed all the fuses from 13A to 1A and told the wife to only use the low duty-cycle effects. The othe risks I can cope with - I'm not in the habit of chewing cables or pulling on the bulbs. I think I'll replace the lot next year though.
@MrPoe6 жыл бұрын
Hey Clive, can you make a short circuit at the Mains cable from the cheap eBay one and Plug it in? I think its interresting to See what happens with these flimsy little kables... Also I Want to See flames!
@1998raphael6 жыл бұрын
I have the cheap chinese ones. You can solder a bridge between Collector and Emitter of the two Transistors so it stays on even when another mode is set. (Collector and Emitter are the outer two legs)
@ExillNetworks6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Clive. We can always trust you to show us what too look for in quality and what to look our for in cheap electronics. :-)
@bikingnutcase06 жыл бұрын
That’s very reassuring to see that those low-voltage power supplies are properly designed. I have two of those on some slightly different sets that came from a garden centre (around £15 a set) with 200 LED’s apiece. They’re in the loft above my bedroom on a time-switch running lights out the front of the house.
@badthesolguy40576 жыл бұрын
Inspired by Clive, I started disassembling and analyzing things more often and, ironically enough, I found and disembodied the same chinese fairy lights. We've come full circle
@worroSfOretsevraH6 жыл бұрын
Clive, could you do a teardown/comparision of an RC battery pack which has a fairly high C rating and a standard lithium cell? Would be really interesting to see the constructional differences.
@darrannewman71136 жыл бұрын
Cheers Clive, i have a couple of set's of the "cheapy " lights which i bought about 5 years ago. I was not impressed with the plug and lack of fuse, but they work well and have done since , both sets are stuffed in (4') clear plastic tubes ( a bit like multi coloured light sabers) hung near the front door and plugged in a dedicated extention with a 3A fuse. They stay cool and as they are xmas use they only come in use 3 weeks of the year. But those PL ones do look good and maybe after xmas i might try and bag a bargan and buy some .
@shreyaskul6 жыл бұрын
Clive, you can get that adhesive to loosen if you put some drops of gasoline (Petrol) near the seam of the cap...
@schregen6 жыл бұрын
Hi Clive! Love your videos, keep em coming, gonna watch them, thank you, bye, take care 🤣
@Tyler-ph8bh6 жыл бұрын
On my house I run 15 sets of lights at Christmas all bought from B&M or poundstrecher after watching this I’ve decided to buy the cheap unfused lights because I feel the arcs and sparks coming from them will give a better show then they go
@Tyler-ph8bh6 жыл бұрын
Do
@Tyler-ph8bh6 жыл бұрын
May even install some spurs so I don’t have to use a multiway adapter for the maximum 32a of explosions
@dopiaza20066 жыл бұрын
Love the nod to ElectroBOOM... FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!
@jksmellie6 жыл бұрын
Hrm, so do I spend $5 on good Poundland tat, or save $1.50 and kill myself? Choices, choices!
@juncusbufonius6 жыл бұрын
so tempted to suggest tat. ;-)
@terry9876546 жыл бұрын
£1.50 ones will be more entertaining though than the boring £5 ones that dont do much. lol
@MikeeVee6 жыл бұрын
If you unplug it, it forgets it's setting... unplugs it and plugs it back in... it's still on the user selected setting.... lol, sods law at work there.
@michaeltempsch52826 жыл бұрын
Mikee Vee A.k.a. demo curse...
@martinziefle16476 жыл бұрын
You can also buy similar lights with some special effects. My set did not have soldered joints at the connections from the cables to the control box, instead they horrible were crimped.Someday it decidet to arc betwent the cores of the mains input, melted the wire and finaly got shorted. It had also mutch thicker wires, maybe this was the problem, the crimp connectors are desiged for this thin wires, so not all of the cores from my thick wires where fitted in.
@SimoWill756 жыл бұрын
I haven't bought mains powered fairy lights for many years. Australia has ~14 hours of sun per day around Christmas period, so solar fairy lights work very well. A few of mine die around midnight but most are still running at sunrise.
@paulgascoigne53436 жыл бұрын
"Ooh pretty. You have candles on your tree this year. How traditional" "thanks.. Wait, what!?"
@zenbudhism3 жыл бұрын
I used to test power supplies with the ten ohm resistor as a fuse. Putting on a short after the bridge. Many fail the electrical separation test afterwards between 240v and the output.
@GeneraleRus6 жыл бұрын
This video made me glad i finally decided to throw the old micro-incadescent fairy lights with dinky thin wires and switched to LED with the step down transformer
@tobiasmills96476 жыл бұрын
I like how the poundland power supply housing is just a cheap USB plug. Although I'm quite disappointed that you never blew up the eBay ones. Although I bet you could plug the eBay lights into an audio source to flash in line with your festive tunes.
@jeremyclayton-travis19916 жыл бұрын
I brought a set of the green cable lights from ebay. They have the same cheap plastic cover power supply as the clear cable set you showed except the cover was well and truly glued shut. The first set I brought would not stay on a fixed mode setting and kept cycling through the options setting and as I have MS and my brain can't cope with flashing lights, I brought a second set with worked for one Christmas. This year when I brought them out the red LED's stopped working.
@JessHull6 жыл бұрын
I love LEDS for tons of things. But for Fairy lights I prefer the old style ones, the CRI is so pleasant. The Technology Connections channel did a nice video on them....
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
You can get golden white ones here, and if they have a simple static supply they are flash/flicker free.
@flightisallright6 жыл бұрын
These Christmas lights gonna great yes
@GreatSageSunWukong6 жыл бұрын
I got some lovely lights in flying tiger for £5, they are fairly short i had to get two sets to cover the tree, and they are battery powered 3 AAs but they are cemented into solid plastic cubes and cylinders, coloured purpley pink, dark lilac and light blue, they are the best fairy lights ever. They lookk just as lovely turned off as thry do on
@tiger125066 жыл бұрын
I busted out laughing when you identified those sloppy symbols as "mass-produced LEDs"
@88ariesk6 жыл бұрын
I like getting these light strands after the holidays for my projects. it's still the cheapest way to get LED's where I live.
@phils46346 жыл бұрын
The cheaper Chinese ones are probably made with copper-plate aluminium conductors. Tried to solder a break in something like this ages ago - and found that the "copper" wire was VERY difficult to join, although I was able to bodge the joint after some effort.
@andrewchen62266 жыл бұрын
I've recently had a christmas led light power supply fail. I opened up the power supply (with much difficulty), and I found that the pins of the transformer were supposed to be held in contact with the windings by the plastic (no solder or anything). What had happened was bits of plastic around the pins broke off (presumable due to the power supply being dropped a few times), so the pins were no longer held in place. Also I noticed pads came off the pcb when I wiggled the transformer. Interestingly enough, although the power supply was of poor quality overall, it did have good separation, which I'm guessing is necessary to meet the local safety requirements (I bought the lights in NZ).
@aleksiesko8856 жыл бұрын
When i was younger i ordered a set of those ''same'' chinese led lights, i didnt notice that they were of the 110v variant. so i plugged them in and they lit up.. and bursted into flames shortly after :D
@rollatorwieltje6 жыл бұрын
I used to have one of those Chinese sets, until it nearly set our house on fire. One of the mains wires came off and shorted across the other contacts, causing some spectacular arcing and smoke effects. Not particularly funny when it happens near something flammable. Luckily I could pull the plug before it became a problem. It didn't trip the 16A breaker either, probably because the mains wire had such a high resistance. I think it was copper cladded steel or aluminium or something, not even pure copper wire.
@tahirsutube6 жыл бұрын
My god there's some dangerous crap on ebay!!! Don't think i'll be buying them some how. Well done Poundland and Clive of course!!!
@madbstard16 жыл бұрын
On the Poundland set.....What is the little block on the cable - between the PSU and the start of the LEDs?
@spikeydapikey14836 жыл бұрын
Looks like a cable connection to me.
@madbstard16 жыл бұрын
Spikey DaPikey was wondering if it was going to be something as stupidly simple as that lol. Looks like 2 wires and 4/5 out so prob is just a connector. Have to get a set or two of them.....if they sell them here.
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
It is just a splice box to allow whatever power supply is chosen to be connected to a standard string.
@crocellian29726 жыл бұрын
Don’t worry about dumb questions. Many, many people have the same one but are afraid to ask. Keep them coming.
@madbstard16 жыл бұрын
There's no such thing as a stupid question. My science teacher once told me that. Mind you, the next class she hit me for asking too many questions :D Seriously though, I'm on a really crap internet connection and have to view YT on very low quality so I couldn't really see what that thing was. But going to get a couple of sets of these lights shortly. House is going to be visible from the ISS......all thanks to the stuff Clive reviews (which I then buy) lol
@hrnekbezucha6 жыл бұрын
There are nice usb ones, just three wires with surface-mount LEDs with a hot snot over them. I like them a lot
@Seegalgalguntijak6 жыл бұрын
Clive, why don't you try combusting such a set of chinese lights with that shorted plug? Of course only in a safe environment (outdoors, on concrete or so) and with a means of turning off the power remotely, like on a long extension cord? I bet this would be a fun video to watch!
@Autunite6 жыл бұрын
Another fairy light video! I absolutely love them, been comparing a lot of cheap and expensive strings myself. Mainly to find what fairy light string that has the best warm white color. A lot of them are either green-ish or 4000K white, or they're 2200k pink/redish that looks okay, but not perfect. The best one I've found so far is from this Swedish hardware store called Jula, it has a lovely warm color, 180 lights across 18m and every other LED twinkles/flickers randomly and discrete in three brightness settings, ~25%, 75% and 100%. The price of it was $22 and it has a 24VDC switchmode supply without any twinkle controller, so it's always set to twinkle. Good thing about that PSU is that the light doesn't have mains flicker like the others that run on 24VAC. I'd love to have a string like this with static lights too. What's your experience on this, Clive? Is it because of cost issues they mostly keep to the awful colors? I mean, even expensive strings doesn't do well in the color reproduction.
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
In the UK they are selling golden white sets which have a very deep tungsten colour. The cheap sets are often best described as off-white and often very random.
@Autunite6 жыл бұрын
That's nice to hear, I'll check around to see if there might be some on eBay. A local hardware store here has strings in "copper" color which I've decorated the house with, they're quite warm in the color and lean a tad bit towards pink, but by distance they look better.
@AdamBluntTech6 жыл бұрын
Them poundland lights are not half bad. We got a set on our tree this year and they are actually nicer than the previous sets we have had which cost 4x as much in terms of colour quality and ofc value.
@piotr5e36 жыл бұрын
Clive: Forgets the shorted cable connected to the lights and starts fidgeting with the controller. Me: Please don't plug it in, please don't plug it in, please don't plug it in.
@hrnekbezucha6 жыл бұрын
_".. And it starts melting and possibly combusting. But it gets worse."_ I'm listening
@Travelinmatt19766 жыл бұрын
I thought for sure you were going to forget that shorted plug and plug in that set, don't forget it's there!
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
I almost did....
@HuntersMoon786 жыл бұрын
I got a set of those £5 Poundland lights, they are nice and the power supply runs super cool
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
The Jutai supplies are awesome. Mass produced for one single purpose - running long strings of LEDs. The design has been optimised to the hilt for safety and cool running.
@TheHavoc096 жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that your entire house will smell like phthalates the entire month of Xmas. Have around 7 of these but stopped using them and bought proper CE marked ones this year.
@spikeydapikey14836 жыл бұрын
Poundland for the win! I'd even trust that power supply that's chewed up if the end was potted with epoxy to seal it.
@raymondmucklow37936 жыл бұрын
Spikey DaPikey you know Clive will do that.
@alasdairclark42136 жыл бұрын
The DeathDapters often have an annoying fuse in them. If you want to breach even more safety laws they will plug into the narrow type of extension lead (like your white one) upside down - i.e. the earth pin being the only pin in the socket. You have then opened the L+N shutters to allow you to plug in your europlug directly, whilst bypassing the DeathDapter and therefore getting rid of another pesky layer of safety
@alasdairclark42136 жыл бұрын
Although in fairness most sockets allow you to put a europlug in if you push a bit harder and simply snap off the shutters anyway
@semifavorableuncircle69526 жыл бұрын
Plug some significant, like 500W, load into the euro socket on the end. That would give a really good result.
@stuartmcconnachie6 жыл бұрын
Something exploded? Where’s the video Clive!
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
It was a skidmark from the "Super gay rainbow exploding USB power supply game"
@stuartmcconnachie6 жыл бұрын
bigclivedotcom Ah, quite some time ago. Call me childish, but always good when stuff explodes. You should so overload the Chinese Fairy Lights. ;)
@zdenekbrezovsky83736 жыл бұрын
I have some of these cheap ebay fairy lights on my house, but I have connected them over a 50VA isolation transformer, so I think that nothing bad can happen.
@peteraustin40776 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Clive, but I have a question, when you find these dangerous products on sale do you ever report them to the relevant bodies?
@andym75136 жыл бұрын
I would love to see the Chinese lights on an IR camera. Especially with a short. Maybe you can make a destructive test of those.
@t0nito6 жыл бұрын
I have the same type of christmas lights I bought at a hardware store they are very nice lights very vivid colours, being in Portugal our power supply plug has the European standard plug of course, but they're the same, too bad they don't flash though.
@gavinsteven21576 жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd ever see Poundland and cheap eBay in the same sentence
@thany36 жыл бұрын
But what if you're in a country that's doesn't have shops like poundland, and instead charge €30 for the exact same set, simply because people think that's around what a set like that should cost? In other words, which set from ebay would you recommend if that's the only viable option for cheap sets?
@stuartarnold94446 жыл бұрын
Depends on how much you value your safety. £30 for a set of 144 fairy lights that should last you quite a few years and doesn't electrocute you sounds a reasonable deal.
@PhillyNonSequitur6 жыл бұрын
"That's because something exploded on it. Excellent!" 😅 Could that thin wire be speaker wire? We did some work on a house and discovered someone had run speaker wire through the wall from the light switch to the ceiling lamp. Yikes! We had to check the wiring throughout the rest of the house.
@BerndFelsche6 жыл бұрын
*The cable is the fuse.* Did you try to plug the mains plug into the daisy-chain socket for perpetual lighting? ;-)
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
I toyed with doing a spoof over-unity video like that.
@ArmadaAsesino6 жыл бұрын
Fairy lights here in Australia too.
@peteasmr29525 жыл бұрын
Are all UK fairy lights DC? How did the incandescent mini lights work I've seen pics where theirs only one wire. All holiday lights in the US led or incan have at least 3 wires for the ones that connect togeather and the 2 wire string that has no end. We have solar lights that are very similar to the UK lights wire and blub. But our standard mini leds don't seem to be DC they also flicker except for special 2 phase Philips brand. They use the standard A type non polorized plug as the incan sets use. I haven't seen any kind of dc convertor. Could I buy some UK sets online and use a sep up transformer would the 60hz hurt the incan sets. Thanks for the vid mate have a great day.
@atzkey6 жыл бұрын
Items like these occupying only a half of the box is a good thing, because you could never stuff it back as well as specially trained children did at the factories. This way you could re-use the original packaging for storage.
@rtesimpson6 жыл бұрын
Well done poundland...winner of the fairy light wars...
@charlieb95026 жыл бұрын
I have seen another novel use for solar powered fairy lights. I was driving around my home town and happened to pass one of the graveyards and saw alot of fairy lights on the flowers on the graves. And it actually looked nice. Or am I really freaking weird?
@Bodragon6 жыл бұрын
(1:04) - "They're actually worth getting just because they're dangerous..." Hello! Hello? HELLO-OH?? SHIT!
@KrzysztofC-16 жыл бұрын
I have exact same ones on my tree now, both of them. Resistors on the chinese one become worryingly hot leaving black burnt mark on the sleeve, hope they won't light up my tree... They survived last Christmas, will see how they do this time.
@djmorgan57086 жыл бұрын
I'm gutted our store don't do the battery operated thin copper wire lights with the tiny leds on them. I have several sets in fancy clear wine bottles and they look great on the mantelpiece.
@woberegger6 жыл бұрын
Very entertaining 😀. Nollaig Chridheil, Mr. Mitchell!
@jasinere356 жыл бұрын
clive you can actually buy the proper adaptor that turns 2 pin to 3 pin & that the 2 pin plug sits inside the 3 pin they also have a fuse too
@weirdscix6 жыл бұрын
Talking of dangerous there seems to be a lack of pink and shitty lately lol
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
Maybe I should show you my Xmas lights for this year........
@PongoXBongo6 жыл бұрын
Do they make full RGB fairy lights? Like those programmable tapes, but with the added safety/durability of strings/ropes.
@bigclivedotcom6 жыл бұрын
Yes they do. Some use proprietary data protocols, but others are based on standard WS2812B style LEDs.
@juncusbufonius6 жыл бұрын
As ever wonderful. I'm off to poundland.
@28YorkshireRose125 жыл бұрын
Hi Clive. I'm just wondering here, wouldn't there be a case here for using a plug in RCD at the socket, and running all these lights via the RCD, via a fused 'power strip'?
@bigclivedotcom5 жыл бұрын
There's an awkward issue there. Most RCDs in common use are designed to detect a simple AC leakage fault and can be defeated by DC leakage, which is potentially what happens with strings of lights like these that use rectified AC to power the LEDs.
@Thriller_Author6 жыл бұрын
I was hoping you'd short the end of the Ebay lights and plug them in...
@gordonprentice70906 жыл бұрын
Think it would be safer to use a shaver adaptor as the have 3amp fuses in them.
@someguy27416 жыл бұрын
But Clive! The Chineseum lights are both CE and IP44 rated! Therefore they comply with all safety regulations!
@peterjensen68446 жыл бұрын
I mean, you're almost required to short the ebay ones and plug them in! Come on, man!