Another work light with weird circuitry (with schematic) 

It can even provide additional power drawn from a nearby black hole :D

Two zero ohm links in parallel is: 1 / (1 / 0 + 1 / 0) Division by zero three times! Doesn't that open up a portal to the 17th dimension or something?

@@sootikins Ah yes, the 17th dimension.The dimension when we realize that ALWAYS there is togetherness in between us and The Oneness.😏😏

@@brucepickess8097 I just thought it was a spare dimension where the Flying Spaghetti Monster stores his crates of Parmesan cheese.

😅

I thought it was a tape. Like a magnetic tape we would play music from in the 90s.

Big Clive no disassemble…

With a dash of Wall-e.

@@suzu9404 Ha Ha, I can hear Johnny 5 saying that

@@suzu9404 Johnny Five is alive.

I believe it roughly translates as "We love cripsy fried dog"

​@@MattyEngland 😂😂😂

If I squint I see the person from the Munch painting 'The Scream'...but maybe that is just me.

Yes, seal script. The characters share the same ground line as the rest of the script on the board, so that gives the orientation. The Chinese are not above making a piece of text also an illustration. Mostly, it looks to give the impression of a "chop" mark, the equivalent of a signature, in a rough way. The text is clean, but the border of the surrounding field is quite rough. Odd. Sorry, not fluent, I can look up words, but I'm decades out of practice.

It's a gorilla with abs and big ole gorilla chest, the family crest of Saint George Floyd and Ahrmed R'Aubery

Bernd my friends wife bought him one from there (your certainly right ) he said after about a couple of weeks he would no longer trust the battery on it ? could be in the middle of doing a five mi job it died ? when he needed it for loft's or dark place's at work he's a plumber e.g cold fill tank's in loft's with ball valve's Exocet.... he binned it didn't want to be stuff in a loft with one leg hanging out of the client's ceiling in the dark

Khoroshen sorry that was meant for Bernd one above yourself in the comments i will cut and paste it into the correct one oooops

I was thinking it looked like some sort of Chinese pictogram. Very interesting.

After some more research it turned out that this is the work of a Chinese artist from the 1980s who re-imagined a lot of family names in this ancient style. So it is made to look really old but actually isn’t. Nobody from the PCB manufacturing contacts recognized this as being a thing at a certain factory or something like that. Maybe just the designer having fun putting his name on it 🙂

Bernd my friends wife bought him one from there (your certainly right ) he said after about a couple of weeks he would no longer trust the battery on it ? could be in the middle of doing a five mi job it died ? when he needed it for loft's or dark place's at work he's a plumber e.g cold fill tank's in loft's with ball valve's Exocet.... he binned it didn't want to be stuff in a loft with one leg hanging out of the client's ceiling in the dark

Old laptop battery packs are a great source of the cells, and you just need to look for those of roughly equal capacity to use.

Someone get this mans' friend some 18650 cells

Be careful with which laptop battery you use. Not all of them use 18650 cells. I have a Thinkpad T420s which used a square battery. They work just like 18650s, but you will never find an off the shelf anything for them, except for universal parts that work on any cell.

I could source your friend some 18650 cells if needed...

It's fine. Many people watch my videos to help them fall asleep.

¡Si'! 😁💤😪🔦

Big Clive, the Bob Ross of electronic circuitry.

The voice that does it for me without fail is jerryrigeverything

@@hanelyp1 nah, he's circuit Jesus!

I doubt it will be that soon. To be honest, I'd rather the channel doesn't get too big so I can reply to comments like this.

I concur!

Please leave plenty in stock for the people in Ukraine that got their power grid blown up since you posted that comment.

@@jkobain me to, ... ---- ...😏

They could at least put the SOS on a different switch So that It can be super glued and never pressed again

I'm guessing it's the designer's personal mark, similar to Dave's platypus.

Are they allowed to smoke a J while working?

A pile of things now will just keep trying to draw what they want until the voltage starts to droop. I have some neat 9-36v input USB power boards with 4 USB ports on them that will happily feed 3A into each pair of sockets. (Particularly handy for driving USB powered SBCs.) Mind you, I did push one up to 5A before it finally let out the smoke. It's always handy to destructively test any hardware you intend to use. Fun, too.

@@ConstantlyDamaged Wow! 😃 🚭 😄

Please note that Apple devices didn't use to recognise non-Apple chargers without this resistor string. I haven't played much with the USB-C devices yet so not sure what they do.

I have a much better version of this light. I bought 3 of them and they are very powerful, use 18650s or AA Batteries !!!! From Amazon, not Lidl though !!!!

@@acmefixer1 Probably but also consider JLC and PCBWay manufacturing and assembling all our designs.... Your think they don't keep the designs for their own use or to sell back to us in other stuff

They are bats. There is actually a stylized character in the middle, meaning "Fortune". The character for "bat" sounds the same as that one. It's probably the logo for the company.

Yes I can see the similarity, mine though never had "hackable" printed on them.😏😏

Sure we do. I paid $12 for a nearly identical light and it came with an AA powered head lamp.

I really should explore some.

What'd you have in mind? I have their 12v and 20v drills and now their 40v mower. I'd really like to run the big mower packs on my Craftsman v20 set that has smaller batteries. if you check sixtyfiveford he does some of this though not specifically with FERREX brand the videos are rally worth watching. I am hoping to score a cordless hedge trimmer next.

@@johnpossum556 I enjoy messing about with RC stuff in particular and electronics in general. Every time I look at a power tool, any of them not just ALDI, I see motors, motor speed controllers and charging systems along with "protected" power sources. The new 40v system(s), and 8Ah batteries, open up a world of new possibilities. Don't think it will be long before ALDI introduces a 40V unit with a speed controller. Think demolition tools, whipper snipper/weed whacker/strimmer, depending on where you live, heavy duty impact devices .....

@@jameslamb4573 My 40vdc li ion Ferrex mower makes you push a button then pull back on a handle and then it does a soft start. So it must have some kind of motor controller already. Maybe you can help me as I have wanted to get into RC planes but I have two major issues: 1) I drive an Ebike and have no car so a plane has to be small or have removable wings. 2) I am a real techy but I've been disconnected from a lot of the electronic advances so doing things like loading software in top a RC plane transmitter is very intimidating to me. I am a huge fan of Peter Sripol, rctestflight, Samm Sheperd, & David Windestahl. What transmitter I should get was the question that stopped me from making the purchase. Now summer is over and the RC plane season is mostly over but I would like to still learn. I have amassed the parts for making an electric hot wire foam wing cutter. Sheperd's little flying wing is something I could carry on my bike. Any channels I should be watching? I kind of burned out on FliteTest. What transmitter do yoiu favor?

Free Rorschach Test with every circuit board, from your friends in China.

After hacking bits of the plastic case away with a Dremel, I managed to squeeze 6 x 18650s in to that type. The newer ones are a bit smaller.

@@dermotdobson2700 A bit smaller? 18650s are literally defined by their size...

@@caramelldansen2204 I'm referring to the floodlights - the modern ones, being smaller can only take 4 x 18650, the older ones with the flashlight on the end can have 6 x 18650s squeezed in.

@@johndododoe1411 Yes, Trader Joe's is a US subsidiary of Aldi Nord. However Aldi in the US is a subsidiary of Aldi Süd. The two Aldis are independent corporations. They split in 1966 when the founding brothers differed over cigarette sales. From Wikipedia: "Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Denmark, France, the Benelux countries, Portugal, Spain and Poland, while Aldi Süd operates in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, China, Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Both Aldi Nord (as Trader Joe's) and Aldi Süd (as Aldi) also operate in the United States"

In socapex you have six circuits in very close vicinity in a multicore. There are capacitive coupling effects between the cores when measured with a high impedance multimeter. Testing with a proper electrical tester would add enough load to shunt the effect. Dimmers also have high leakage when off due to the snubber networks.

Sometimes it's several hours with the tricky reverse engineering ones.

Theoretically yes.

@The Tired Horizon Do you know what make and model that is? I've searched but can only find two or four cell models. I'd be quite interested in getting one of the six cell models as an emergency backup light. Thanks 👍

@The Tired Horizon Thanks

.... I saw a happy family playing on the beach on a lovely day with no cares in the world.

Still up at 4am.

@@bigclivedotcom Wouldn't be supprised if the IoM herrald had "man causes explosions at 5am" in the headlines ;)

These LED COBS use flip chips.

They aren't "backwards from the norm" because they are normal themselves. PNP and NPN transistors are both normal devices and you'll see them everywhere.

So, you need to protect yourself when changing the battery ????????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Yes you should always handle lithium batteries safely. 😏

Thats a very interesting point. my one starts off bright and then dims down. If I switch it off and back on, it comes back bright. I wonder if I should back off the current a bit and have a more stable output?

@@kenaston4220 If it's dimming over a relatively short period (a minute or less), then it's probably a thermal effect, rather than the battery voltage dropping, so there are efficiency gains to be made by reducing the current and/or putting a better heatsink on the LEDs. Perhaps test the theory by blowing cold air from a fan over it?

search "SMD marked A20 or 1Y" and make a decision as to how it's used to give you a clue.

@@FireballXL55 ah ok it was a daft question thanks

@@xenusceptic No that is how we move on, if you don't ask we don't improve. Have a great day.

It's a good question. Mosfets are also transistors (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor). The other is a bipolar transistor. One even if there is no part number you can tell them apart by testing them (preferably out of circuit). The bipolar (NPN or PNP) will have two 0.6V diode drops when tested with a multimeter.

Partly their position, the current they will be handling and the codes on them are also able to identify most devices.

You do, but under random brands, and with random functionality.

So you well and truly sMASHed it then.😏😏

@@brucepickess8097 it went to gawd

In the UK all swans are owned by the King and, killing a swan is an act of treason. Treason is the only offence that is still punishable by death. Sadly no longer true.

@@petehiggins33 yeh I know but I can't stop them electricuting themselves an it seems a waste to let them rot knowing what killed them(not being bird flu) also it was the power line staff working to fix the lines that told me no one is allowed 5 foot near Them, makes me wonder if there're having swan mc nuggets right now

I would certainly cook it first, just to be safe.

@@kevinwingfield2007 sure who would want raw swan mc nuggets

It's just a single contact for the microcontroller.

That may be a fusible resistor or sense resistor. It may have failed because of another fault.

@@bigclivedotcom Thank you for responding and sorry to bother you again. I will try replacing that fusible resistor but how can i know what rating it might be? Can i use a multimeter to test it? It has color bands but only the outer ones are visible. It looks like the one in this image: https: // www. elprocus. com/ wp-content/ uploads/ Fusible-Resistor. jpg

@@alexm.4720 any 10-100ohm

@@Datlaai1 Thank you for responding i will try replacining it and see what happens.

I recall Space ship XL 5, but can't recall the year; '65 or '68? Good handle Richard KB.

@@kevinbean3679 it 1st aired 62, it only ran for about 37 episodes. I used to have all of them on a hard drive. Nostalgia is better than reality though.

@@FireballXL55 Thank you, so many years ago.

I had another look into mine and remembered that mine has another COB LED on the left of the unit but has only full power/dim for the two big arrays, other than that mine came with a pop-able back and slot for 2x18650 or 4xAA

Why not order from the same factory that has the old mold in storage?