Inside a 9W generic ebay T8 LED strip-light. 

+Tyler Walker I've got a GoPro and it somehow managed to fit my entire workbench in from the same height and made everything look like it was a mile away. You can retrofit CCTV lenses to the GoPro for greater "zoom", but the majority are not fitted with IR filters, so everything goes a bit "intense". The iPad is a nice lazy solution to banging up videos. Just record, use the RU-vid capture app to upload them over the excruciatingly slow Internet connection overnight, and edit the data in the morning.

rhkips Hello, i sent the following to Clive but hopefully you can answer this. Hello Clive, i just bought 1 of these i believe exact same lights but i didnt open it up yet like you did. After seeing the problems you had with the 1ft like this. I think i have to open it to make sure all connectors are crimped. The wires scare me. I want to be sure that this wont burn down my house before i connect it. Im going to use it above my kitchen sink so it will be on every night til i go to bed n when im not home. So please tell me you think it should be ok after i make sure connectors are good. Im in USA n we use 120 volts B W G usually n i will extend wires out of ceiling with at least 14-2 wire using wire nuts n electrical tape. Hope to get reply soon from you. Thank you

rhkips I forgot to ask. If i put dielectric grease on the connections will it keep the wires from corroding? Thanks again

Only half past 1 am? Wimp. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tX0lKqguw7s.html

so hardcore

@ evan wilson.... Pussy...! I was up 'til 04:30am this morning. When I turned my lights off, I realised it was daylight outside and the birds were singing. Thankfully, today is Saturday, so I could stay in bed 'til midday.

+Scott Miller I just checked. It's smaller than the laptop cloverleaf connector.

+bigclivedotcom Bummer...coulda been a solution to the aluminum wire issue.

That also lets you convert them to a colour of your choice. These channels are good for retrofitting with standard LED tape.

yeah, and also the diffuser that comes with them is good for rgb led strips with individual color leds.

Usually the LEDs. You can often tell by the appearance of a black dot (burn mark) in the LED.

It depends on the driver. You get dimmable and non dimmable versions.

Comments about a cheesy ass? Eww.

+BigGoucho I suspect he is using a different power supply - probably his test bench unit - to drive the LED tape.

+Sootikins yes, I heard him mentioning the power supply but I wondered if he had lashed together something based on alcohol-fuelled calculations lol

doesn't make sense, i haven't seen white LED's with only 1.6v of forward voltage. I bet it's like he said, 2 circuits of 24, making it 3.2v per LED which is totally standard white led voltage

Did either of y’all watch the whole video? It’s two parallel strings of 24 seriesed LEDs. One string is the odd lights, the other drives the even lights, that way when one LED shits the bed then the whole tube stays lit.

+legalizeshemp420 I record on an iPad 2 which systematically picks up on any flicker at all. It's not visible to the human eye.

I have an issue with flicker and it gives me headaches. I can't see it (well if I turn my head I sometimes can) if at 60hz so I was sure glad when 120hz TVs and Fluorescent bulbs came out and LED that are constantly on.

bigclivedotcom Hello Clive, i just bought 1 of these i believe exact same lights but i didnt open it up yet like you did. After seeing the problems you had with the 1ft like this. I think i have to open it to make sure all connectors are crimped. The wires scare me. I want to be sure that this wont burn down my house before i connect it. Im going to use it above my kitchen sink so it will be on every night til i go to bed n when im not home. So please tell me you think it should be ok after i make sure connectors are good. Im in USA n we use 120 volts B W G usually n i will extend wires out of ceiling with at least 14-2 wire using wire nuts n electrical tape. Hope to get reply soon from you. Thank you

bigclivedotcom I forgot to ask. If i put dielectric grease on the connections will it keep the wires from corroding? Thanks again

It's commonly supplied with dodgy appliances from China, but I don't know where it can be bought directly.

+line10cls My video's are best consumed with alcohol. Followed by uncontrolled purchasing of LED shit on ebay.

+bigclivedotcom (At the weekend.)

+Green Silver Sometimes these diffusers fluorescence blue under UV and age quite quickly.

+zx8401ztv There are specifically designed LEDs that emit a lot of light out of a very narrow side aperture for edge-lighting some of these panels. I've not really taken many flat panel screens to bits, so I can't say how much variation there is in the technology.

+bigclivedotcom Hmm special types, looks like ill have to hunt ebay for a possible kit/replacement. Thanks for the answer :-), i suspected that but you are into lighting more than me, the led strips you have shown us are dam bright, im quite supprised how well they work.

+zx8401ztv the CCFL tubes just throw light out in all directions, so if you can figure out a way to replace them with LEDs pointing them in about the right direction it would probably light the screen OK. However, once you've got the LEDs, the driver for them and the time it would take to make it work... If the screen isn't working at the moment either get a new CCFL screen or a new inverter (whichever one has failed)... or just see if a full LED replacement screen kit is available... I know it's possible to get complete replacement screens with LED instead of CCFL back lights for quite a few popular laptop models and they come with the driver as well (although you may have hack a few little bits of the plastic inside the screen surround to make it fit!) Also... you will lose the ability to dim the screen if you replace CCFL with LED, it will always be at full brightness, which may reduce battery life

+Mark Batchford Hmm i would use an adjustable constant current regulator to feed the leds, so setting an illumination level should not be too hard :-D Im not one for throwing away a working lcd just because the lighting is a bit naff, it died once, i threw a non ideal ccfl tube in, and it works but there is slight shadows in the bottom corners, the ccfl was shorter than the original. As clive loves leds, i was just trying to learn what type of leds would do the job, it sounds like i may raid a dead lcd for its led strip ha ha :-D

+zx8401ztv Backlight illumination in LCD panels is a bit of a science in regards to getting even illumination. But for a rough and ready low power panel for data purposes you could probably use a row of self adhesive LED strips behind it.

T5 is slimmer and neater, but for LED it's sometimes better to choose a strip with a larger heat dissipation area like the T8. (The number after the "T" being the diameter in 1/8ths of an inch.)

OMG makes sense I never thought about it like that I was thinking aesthetics like ur other video the lumen output in the t8 should be greater too right

+line10cls The big ones have a V blade.

+kenneth hellberg Well "earthed" as in brass-like tang against aluminium surface that will oxidise faster than a fart.

+bigclivedotcom lols