Anti-insect LED lamp. (non zapping) 

You are supposed to use the lamp to bludgeon them to death

+Bob Hickman - They definitely will not see it coming.

angrydachshund ,

That's how it zaps the mosquitoes.

Or exciting week, when the landlord can't find the fuse box and I had to hack power from the kitchen into my room with 6 extension cords. The device with the faulty capacitor turned into arc tube, three one room rental apartments without power._

jesus that's bad

I mean, if it actually works (and continues to work without lighting on fire) then wouldn't using a third the power mean the guy that made it actually did a better job than he was supposed to?

>I have some failed LEDs that he might not like. But dark emitting diodes are awesome :( well the name is anyway.

I guess if the LED is half exploded and an insect lands between them to complete the circuit.

~Jabun The Wanderer Its an advertising problem really, legit 9W LED lights are bright enough for bigger rooms than 3W ones so you might buy one thinking its enough for your kitchen when infact its only bright enough for a small toilet :/

beards don't repel them, although it does lessen the chance of your face being eaten..

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Shadi2, you igniting bottle rockets or eat too many beans :) whoooshshshhh

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NOOOOOO! Clive's titles are fine! Although i did find "(non zapping)" part almost slightly wrong, given that Clive got close to getting zapped himself.

My dad was all about these "bug lights" throughout the 90s too

The idea was to use them for outdoor lighting, like porch lights and backdoor lights to keep them from congregating around your doorways and lighting fixtures

+mipmipmipmipmip used to be good inside a garage where the door would be open while one works on projects, too

wait! I thought the yellow bulbs provided light that DIDN'T attract insects?

Yeah, "bug lights" are based on the (dubious?) idea that certain wavelengths of light are invisible to insects, and therefore bugs wouldn't be attracted to a lamp equipped with a bug light as opposed to one equipped with an ordinary wide-spectrum bulb.

creative maths, take intoi account that most awesome power facturd

I don't know why, but this is funnier than it aught to be.

the 6 watts powers the pure chinesium which dissipates the mosqitos, the light is just so you can almost see this happening

i thought you couldnt speak chinese D:

fredlllll I can't, but I can do Chinese maths

zh84 you are old.

that's racist, luke

zh84 Did you use the time machine again?

Yellowish green. Our vision peaks around 577 - 492 nm, which averages to 534.5nm. That is neon green, which is slightly yellowish green.

Richard Smith damn, I see you everywhere

Clive'll have to make sure that he swears an odd number of times per video.

Barrybados©. doesnt every second like terminate the first one making it useless to vote two times?

He only swears once : ) .

So what's your statistic, how many videos contain odd vs. even number of swears?

nice reference

SuicideNeil rectumfryer

positron underVolt so everything that was attracted could kill you?.

i also see no snow, it must also repel winter.

jort93z More precisely, I think they want you to only place it out of reach with the heatsink facing upwards for maximum dissipation (and thus light shining downwards).

Sounds like they repel them by being less interesting than other nearby light sources.

HDF acctually. Not wood.

Yes! HPS reminds me of street lights and seas of green budding happily under an artificial sun...

That's what the 2 x 75 ohm resistors are for - to limit inrush current. The math says it would draw a peak of about 10 amps for a couple of dozen microseconds. In reality, it would probably be less because for such a short rise time the inductance of the wires would be important, and I don't have a value for that.

Emoshichi Yatou LEDs love the cold, hath heat. Perfect in a refrigerator, useless in an oven (in kitchens).

to a point sure but where i live its usually toooo cold winters can reach as far as -45C/-49F and most household versions only have reliable temp of -20c/-4F that's what im mainly referring to over all unless i find like really extreme temp/industrial based ones may require fixture changes to tolerate it like the streetlights here i don't feel comfortable paying such things specially household ones unsure is reliable in such extremes. that's mainly what im meaning of aha

Pay back your loans.

I have no loans. In fact, quite some few people owe me. Now that your silly bottom decided to get nasty, get educated on the situation and the game that is played on you and get back to me. By the way, I have lived in Scotland for 6 years and most of the people are not as rude. As such get ready for the following; Maybe that food you are eating has gotten beyond your stomach down to your fat ass and back up via your oversized belly into your funny head. Get educated and get back to me, I promise I will stand at your height and beyond. ;)

He didn't even have it on very much and there were seemingly no insects inside!

That's why it is orange.

Spikey DaPikey Let me guess.. You're from Australia.

The Sunny UK mate! ;)

I think they'll congregate round any source of heat and light.

tin2001 they also see infra red. uv is used for most lunar seeking insects because you get infra red for free with waist heat. co2 is much more attractive to mosquitoes though infra red is how they see where to bite. may blind them or just be bad.

Bug zapper lights use UV to attract insects, including mosquitoes. Since those work very well, you are very wrong. In my experience, bug zappers are best used where there is not a long distance surrounding line of sight, because you end up with more mosquitoes in your vicinity than without. Even though they end up in the zapper, they often have lunch first. I had a bug zapper mounted high on a deck at the top of a hill. I stopped using it when I realized I could easily see the light at night driving down a street a couple of blocks away. I had much fewer moths and mosquitoes after that. They work great in a more confined area, though. Also, CO2 may help them home in once they are in the near vicinity but it's much less detectable from a distance than a light. It also gets carried away quickly by breezes, which again is not an issue with light. Those CO2-based mosquito traps are very effective when used properly, but as with the zappers you have to use the right tool for the conditions.

then why do they rush to get into the house with a small light on? yet cant go out again with a big open door (such as flies and bees!)

watch again he said insects are more attracted to the UV spectrum.

Re-read Mosquitoes Use Vision to Associate Odor Plumes with Thermal Targets, I'm guessing your talking about the guy on in the comment section on youtube telling me his experience is better than a scientific write up. I'll stay very wrong thank you. The human race is so boned.

Some of the filament type LED bulbs are quite orangey... or 'golden white' in marketing speak. I've got one as a bedside reading light cos I think I read that less blue light before going to sleep is supposed to cause your brain to relax (or something) - it's quite a nice bedside light tho.

Any LED lamp like this is going to have 100Hz flicker, I wouldn't have thought that would be good for soothing eye strain. Having said that, this one doesn't look bad at all for flicker, maybe because it is so low power. For my eyes, I find the old incandescent 20-30W tungsten lamp to be pretty good. That's just a personal thing though :)

+Hugh Haddow It sounds like what happens when you use a low load on an electronic halogen transformer.

Thanks for your quick response Clive, you are a gentleman sir. I thought since my meter indicated 13.5 Vac and 12Vdc it was a simple (potted) transformer.. The result of too little knowledge and too much stupidity. Bugger - a new power supply then. Great channel please keep going.

Also comes in green, to attract them.

SilentS I love how it's "the Irish" you never get "the blacks" or "the Korean" but always "the Irish"

Because it's referring to a nationality. The Irish, the Koreans, the Americans, the Russians, the Belgians, the Italians......

alpha Pennsylvania wouldn't those be sic and couk lights?

Lee Atkins Eneloop battery disassembly, if I remember correctly.

The Google one does it on-the-fly.

Mac Donalds and on iOS, not just android.

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