Poundworld vs Poundland LED flashlight showdown. 

The world would be so boring without people like Big Clive. He's like the guy everyone likes to hang around with.

Button cell batteries are quite pricey, annoys me when theyre in cheap electronics, usually the battery is 4x the price of the thing you're putting it in

We need more Poundworld vs Poundland videos

straps are perfect size for the next visit to those peskily darker corners of my local bathhouse.

Ah but Clive, you missed the most interesting part! How on earth do they get three "states" out of a single mechanical push switch? That's worthy of a teardown in itself!

I think this is an excellent SAFETY video about the batteries. I, at 58 years of age, did not know the dangers of the button cell batteries. Well done and thank you. Cheers.

big Clive you're a legend

1:37 - It's a cocklight, Clive, we all know it.

Bigclive, please do more videos like this. I really like this comparison. It also makes me wish that our Dollar tree equivalent sold stuff like this.

I see, you're loving your high-vis jacket :P

When's the fleshlight showdown.

0:06 "The Pound Industry" I didn't know that was allowed on RU-vid.

1:40 What other "bodily appendages" might you be talking about?

I have been watching u for a year and I can't think of a singles bad video thank thanks for all your amazing content

In business reviews of PoundLand, they said PoundLand typically marks-up the price of the merchandise delivered to the store by 18%. With the recent (Fall 2016) decrease in the value of the pound by 17% (roughly USD1.22 for 1 GBP), it doesn't look good for future Chinese Tat at PoundLand.

Thank you for going through the trouble of presenting this wearing a radioactive sweater.

An excellent flashlight! We need more of these videos :)

The poundworld torch looks like it's a chinese knockoff of a chinese knockoff. Guess you'll get more bang for your pound at poundland than poundworld.

May I offer my opinion? Thanks... I don't think this video represents a showdown between the two pound stores at all, but rather 2 different but similar Chinese imports.

I love your videos Clive, but my eyes keep being drawn to the exceeding bright yellow cuffs when they appear. :)

It's always fun to ask a Poundland/Poundworld assistant how much these items cost.

It would be interesting to measure the current to see if they exceed the LED ratings. I had a big (3 D cell) torch LED go very dim after a couple years use.

you should convert it to li-ion and usb charger

Horrah for poundland! - I don't have a poundworld near me in Kendal, Cumbria, so the conclusion of this teardown is welcome!

I recently purchased from dollar tree a led torch similar to the pound land one. But it didn't come with a magnet or wrist strap and there was no top led just the 3 side ones. It's modes are also different. It goes flashing - on - off. Oh and no cover for replacing the button cells your self, not that I think any one would.

my addiction summed up, thank you big clive.

Clive, whats the story with the switch / board on these? I have the germ of an idea.

I have a Ring branded torch that looks very similar to the Poundland one, probably the non-knockoff version as it was certainly more than a pound. Internals look the same although strangely it takes 4 AAA batteries instead of 3. I've had it for a few years but the high output LED started flickering recently, very annoying, probably the switch so I'd watch out for that.

Could you fit the Poundworld switch cover to the Poundland torch? That would avoid the plastic cut-out "button" failing at an inconvenient moment!

Hey, Clive, i've stumlbed upon some new types of power LEDs modules that you might want to check out. They're made with the aluminum PCB, and have much less plastic on them than the older type. I've ordered myself a 20W one and was pleasantly surprised to see it illuminate perfectly evenly.

Forget the light, I would buy it and just take out the button cells. I don't think you could buy 4 button cells for that little normally. Which, as you say, also makes it pointless to try to replace them when they eventually die out if you used them on the light.

is the one with the button cells maybe marketed for emergencies? Can the button cells stay in the device for longer periods of time until in an emergency situations it's needed? Could be good to have in the car, if it breaks at night and you need to have a quick light for a rather short period of time. How long do you think the button cells would last in storage and for how long would they provide power to the LEDs?

Assuming them button cells are LR44s, would one of them 6v "4LR44" batteries fit in there in place of the button cells? Just a random thought on replacing the batteries... :)

It's interesting that they seem to be using an actual three-way switch--I would have thought a tactile button and a little blob would be cheaper than a switch with a bunch of fiddly bits inside.

I have a Rolson one exactly like this, except it has a larger magnet on the back and takes 4 AAA batteries. Plus it has an extra click where it turns on both of the lights at once. Also 36 LEDs on the side.

The showdown we didn't need but deserved.

Its also a matter of the zinc casing on the batteries. Zinc ions are rather strong Lewis acids and are strong enough to cause potential chemical burns to the inside of the digestive track.

The switches are interesting. Maybe they have a spring loaded cam to move through the 3 or 4 states?

they are definitely from alibaba, ordered through alibaba and possibly made by the same company/supplier with prossible customization options

You're doing Trading Standards job for them now lol

You'd be surprised how long button batteries last to power LEDs. King Blade iLites use 3 LR44 batteries and last dozens of hours, although they're not super bright I guess.

My winner, without a doubt, is Sams 99p, their LED Zoom torch has a round LED chip, hard to judge the size because of the lens, and focusing that really does work. Runs on 3xAAA in a fat cylinder holder - conversion to Li-ion would be difficult, as the case is plastic and the holder brings the rear connection to the front in a tip and ring contact arrangement. It too has a "non-wrist" strap. Not kidding, this is prodigiously bright, you would not want to look into the beam.

I assume that Poundworld & Poundland the UK versions of what Dollar General, Dollar Tree, & Family Dollar are here in the US?

cool foxy has one but the battery cover was missing on the pound world one on mine

I wonder if you can replace the button cell batteries with one of those Car Remote batteries. Some of them use the batteries that look like you left a AAA battery in the dryer and it shrunk :) I've been converting stuff like that flashlight into USB power. It adds having to carry a USB Battery pack but I have so many of those small ones that only put out 1 amp if you're lucky. They are perfect for little USB powered projects.

So would you say PoundLand took PoundWorld down to Pound Town?

Nice idea to compare like for like. Any other items you can do this with? Could be a little mini series :)

I bought a Poundland LED torch a couple of years ago and once I got it home and tried it, most of the LEDs burnt out within a minute or so so no Poundland LED torches for me ever again.

Cracking little torch the one from Poundland.... got one for emergency use in the leccy cupboard at mums, and another at my flat, for when I am working on my Fruit Machines. Especially when I am working on my bandits, the main 12-way lamp matrix, gives just enough light in the smallest package, to get in to places, where my main clip-on inspection lamp from Ikea can not get to.

The Poundworld light is identical to the ones they sell at Dollar Tree in the USA.

The button cells are commonly AG1, AG3, AG4 or AG5 if small button cells. Larger button cells are AG13. You can buy these button cells in packs at some shops, or on eBay (I got 100 AG4 cells for about £4 for watches and clocks etc). AAA batteries are much more common though, and have a higher capacity.

(Commenting at 1:35) As far as I know, you're calling them by their opposite store. I've only seen the button cell one in Poundland. I've not seen the other.

I wonder about this current limiting resistor, is it wasting a lot of energy like may be halve of total battery power or is it negligible like below five percent?

Some years ago, I picked up an inexpensive rechargeable "power fail" and opened to see why the battery life was so short. Button NiCad rechargeables! That was immediately resolved, as there was plenty of room for AA NiCads. Then later upgraded with and LED instead of an incandescent. It's now a quite decent light ;-)

5:55 video length on an electronics video? Timers away!

You've got a Pound World, Pound Land now all you need is Pound City!

ill have to pick one up next time i go to pound town.

Those button-cell flashlights are usually trashed when the first set of batteries runs flat. I doubt anybody would replace the batteries. Low capacity, high cost. Such flashlight is only good when kept for emergency. But usually it is just a sudden buy or a stupid gift :). I have tens and tens of those because people just don't know what gift to buy for me :D. I tend to salvage the button cells for better use and trash the flashlight :D

Last time I was this early I had to sleep on the couch!

How does the Poundworld one know whether to turn on the 3 LEDs on the side or the one in the front, when there's only a "clicky" type of button that was pressed? It must somehow remember its last state, but then it can't, because there is no chip - which would need to get its power continuously from the batteries anyways, but the switch interrupts that...?

I'm surprised there's no mode to have both lights on (top and side) on either one of them.

Have you seen the new PoundWorld LED Bulbs?

You didn't compare the actual light output from them...!

If you are using this as an 'emergency' torch only then the Poundworld version with the lithium buttons would be better, as lithium cells have a much longer shelf life (10 years+) and low self-discharge, so will more likely to still be usable long-term (unless you use lithium AAA's in the other torch)

Big up the trusty Poundland one ;)

With so many torches using 3aaa, I don't understand why aaa batteries are not sold in packs of 3.

It would be nice if available in the states

many small devices use these horrible AAAs, any interest in some sort of conversion?

The Poundland torch effectively costs £2. A pound for the torch and a pound for a pack of AAA cells (which includes a gazillion refills). Wonder if Ashens has tried eating batteries yet.

Maybe you should retrofit your jewel thief circuit into the poundworld one, so it works with a single AAA

can someone send me a link for those toggle switches from the flashlights?

There's talk of banning those button cells for most applications in Australia, it's because of the ease with which small children & household pets can swallow them & the massive damage they can do if they corrode in someone or something's gut.

You say those button cells can kill kids, but wouldn't they also kill an adult?

It's like Ashens all over again!

I think Clive should be sponsored by I SDeasamo due to the serious spudger action in his videos, and they should do a super spudger called a 'Clive'

No competition at all. The flashlight on the right won by a mile. Mo bigger is always mo betterer. OK maybe not always, but certainly in a case like this more is more.

clive, what is that switch in the flashlight called as?

I thought some kind of chip would be involved. Quite interesting mechanical switches instead then :I

I was looking at getting one of those Poundland lights just a few days ago

can you do a pound land vs pound world mains LED bulbs Showdown please

those small alkaline button cells tend to leak, since they banned the old mercury cells, small cells apart from lithium are terrible and leak after about a year

4:10 - "These are alot harder to swallow...I've not tried swallowing one of them." BigClive's next video? Nahh...just kidding.

Clive, any possibility I could send you some stuff to tear down? I work at Harbor Freight and they have coupons for free stuff all the time. They have a fly swatter, a 27-LED worklight and a multimeter, off the top of my head (as far as electronics go). I'd love for you to tear them down and make a video about their construction. Particularly the fly swatter and the multimeter. The light actually works quite well, it has 24 LEDS on the front and 3 on the top. I can't remember the value of the resistor for the top LEDs, but I know that the one for the front ones is only 1.5Ω (brown green gold). They run on 3 AAA batteries (I've only ever seen zinc-carbon type in them), so 4.5v (it's not exactly that, I know) and a 1.5Ω resistor, that would be 3A! I know that's limited by the battery's internal resistance and all that, but 1.5Ω still seems super low to me. Unfortunately I don't have any lights that I haven't already taken apart and modified, so I can't test how much current the 24 LEDs are actually drawing, but I'd still love to send them to you for you to take apart!

im proud to have the same name as you clive :D

I thought there were EU rules about mechanical restraints of battery holders with this kind of small coin cell

Even if you did have button cells, it would cost more to replace them than to replace the whole product.

I still like Poundworld's LED flashlight because of its simple design, and it's the only version that we have in Russia.

Do they teach electronics in school?

"not tried swallowing that one" so does that mean Clive has tried to swallow a button cell lol

How many button cells does it take to kill child for sure?

how about poundtown?

1:43 A LED torch around your Pemis? Just in case. Hmmm.

I just hacked my Ikea led 3 cell aa solar rechargeable desk lamp which never really worked to charge the 3 cells ever. so I decided to solder a usb cable direct to the credit board and run it of any power bank , this worked but now I am worried because it was not designed to run off 5 v and much higher current , the led heats up and I measured the current , it is draining the power bank way faster than the capability of the power bank @ 2 amps and the voltage is dropping to 3.7 . I am guessing I need to add a limiting resister .

i remember swallowing a button battery when i was a kid, didnt do me any damage thankfully :)

When you said button cells are bad for children you for =got pets too.. I always have to watch the cats when batteries are out. Most times I put them into a screw top pill bottle to keep the batteries away from the cats.

In the US it's DollarTree vs Dollar General.

On live leak there is a trending video of a woman swallowing a stick of butter, aaa batteries wouldn't be an issue. :p

What happens if an adult eats a button cell?

They get stuck in the throat then though electrolysis creates carbonic acid and burns internal.

4:11 I can’t get passed wasting the capacity and possible redundancy of a fourth battery by using a spacer. I got a cheap flashlight(sorry torch) that can run on all four batteries or just two, why would they use a spacer!?🤯