"Maybe it all happened after I'd had my fill of cider and was walking home with a kebab." That's how i've chosen to spend my 20s, so hopefully I grow up to be even half the bear Clive is
ive recently removed 3 osram circolux, fitted in 1965, and still worked with original tubes...one was the bathroom light, and i remember as a kid we left it on all night, goodness knows how many insane hours and power ons, on it, and it still worked fine
pietzeekoe Seen him out of his tights on Es & Buckfast. His PVC trousers was generating about 220mAmps as he was spinning on his head on the Arches Dance Floor!!! Mad for it!!
Don't worry folks, it was just big burly men getting a break from their family lives. They went there to do bible readings, and to make little wicker baskets and bake cakes for charity auctions. All the while drinking tea and talking about gas prices.
Hello Big Clive; SPQr: I've noticed you have increasingly been referring to "apparent power" vs "real power" and I agree the electricity companies likely will restructure their metering and charging system to extract ever-more money from an unsuspecting public, most of whom would have little knowledge of practical changes they could make to mitigate such usage (e.g.: switching to 240v LEDs rather than incurring extra power usage in the transformer units for 12v halogens etc). Now I could drone on until the internet crashes out of sheer boredom, about the differences but I'm inclined to ramble and become overly technical. I concede you have a far clearer and concise manner of delivery so, could you at some point, for the public at large, and not we Sparks, explain the differences between Apparent (S), True (P) and Reactive (Q) power - how they can be monitored by the Big Brother electricity suppliers and what steps folk can make to best alter the usage the meter 'sees' by making minor changes around the home. Thank you. Kindest regards, Big John
Isn't The Arches an everyday story of country folk? Perhaps Burly describes a hefty farm worker. Anyway, I'm off to that lovely club in town called Swingers, in the hope of hearing some 1940s American jazz music.
Googled about Burly, wasn't disappointed :) Clubs getting raided by the police was a semi-regular thing in the 90's in Manchester - drugs and weapons mostly. I don't remember it ever happening in the Village though. The police didn't on the whole, want to know about anything going on behind at least slightly closed doors.
Clive, have you purchased any LED Halloween fairy lights from Poundland this year? All LEDs are gallium nitride - even the red sets! Lovely red phosphor, the orange are now a peachy orange phosphor too!
grew up with table lamps that had the circular fluorescent tubes, i always liked how they'd ping and buzz softly. kinda kept me company late at night when reading and whatnot
There's still a GE "CircleLine" fluorescent circle tube in the laundry room ceiling light here. Thing must be 30 to 40 years old. When it is on, it wipes out any LW or MW radio in the house.
It's "Circline" and still made by Philips and others. My magnifier work lamps use them. Not better or worse than ordinary straight fluorescent lamps, just round. 4 pins, as if you took a regular F20 lamp and bent it into a circle. It's actually quite nice for a close-work light as it doesn't cast any sharp shadows. There are some microscopes that use a miniature CFL version of this for stage lighting.
In the US, the most common brand of such is the GE Circlite brand since most were made under the GE name. I never had any issues with them wiping out radio reception (I still use them, especially in the magnifier lamps at my electronics workbench) - in fact, as an amateur radio operator, they would not exist anywhere in my house if they were significantly impacting radio reception. If you are experiencing radio reception issues I would consider unplugging the bulb and cleaning the pins as any arcing in the connector will generate broadband RFI. It’s also worth double checking that the base is fully screwed in if it has an Edison base as sometimes years of vibration will work the bulb loose.
My elderly neighbor had a chrome circle fluorescent in his kitchen for decades... It gave off a horrid tone of grayish green white and I always wanted it to burn out so it'd get updated with a better tube, but now that he's gone and the family remodeled the house I miss looking at it.
I had to pause for a while after Clive said it's pressed in firmly now we have to get it off. Childish I know but can't help it today. Another device I can't recall ever seeing anywhere else too.
Yes you could run the circuit on Batteries for example with a LDH-45A-350 dimmed to around 10-20%. But the 60V would still hurt if you touched both wires with sensitive body parts. You could also just buy a proper LED driver (Meanwell has good ones) and run it on mains power.
You touch on very important subject at the beginning. We can correct the power factor with a capacitive bank. What is your take on that? We are getting the new smart meters here in the US. The solution I am aiming for are home made lithium powered lamps with solar chargers to cut down on the electric bill. Any way how would you go about correcting the power factor on these led lamps?
The capacitor approach doesn't work with electronic supplies because the current waveform is not sinusoidal. It requires specialist electronics to create a good power factor in each power supply.
It's an idea from mikeselectricstuff (ruclips.net/video/Lie771fzBaw/видео.html ). For the lenses you can just search for "ZnSe lens" on amazon or ebay. The holder is a 3D print of a model from thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com/thing:407201 ). If you use the thingiverse holder, make sure that you buy a 20mm diameter lens. As for the focal length, I use a 50.8mm and a 101.6mm lens at work. The 50.8mm is nice for closeups as seen in this video, the 101.6mm is better to get an overview over larger PCBs. Just remember, that the focal length is also the distance you have to keep between the lens and the PCB, so a 25.4mm lens might give you great magnification, but you'd almost have to press the camera into the board to get it in focus.
Russian roulette with capacitors! Would it be possible to build a circuit where a micro controller chooses one of 6 capacitors to charge and then you have to choose one to touch? Only a very small capacitor so it just makes you jump but I think that would be a great dinking game 😂
Brabham Freaman haha exactly! 😊 Mind you that said I have a morbid fascination with capacitors. I once told Clive about it and apparently he is the same. I got quite a zap from a kettle plug once after I unplugged it and I immediately touched it again to see if it would happen again! ( it did ) Since then when I unplug an appliance I can’t help myself And touch the plug pins.
All you need is a class X capacitor (suitable for connecting across the mains), a double pole double throw switch and a pair of electrodes. Connect the capacitor across the switch common pins, the electrodes to the output 1 pins and the mains to the output 2 pins. Switch the capacitor to the mains position and put your tongue across the electrodes. Flip the switch! (A break before make action switch is essential). How loud you scream is proportional to what part of the mains cycle it was when you flipped the switch.
If the power companies start charging for apparent instead of real power wouldn't that just push people to buy whole house power factor correction units? Or are those terribly expensive on the domestic scale? Do PFC units need to be replaced regularly?
If power factor becomes a huge issue I can see it pushing the whole house DC lighting bus system forwards. That way all the lighting could be run from a central power factor corrected 24V supply.
bigclivedotcom That would not be such a bad idea as then centralized emergency lighting would be absolutely trivial to implement throughout the average house, so no being suddenly plunged into darkness unexpectedly in a power outage. As it is, I have a number of emergency light fixtures distributed throughout my house as my sense of balance is purely visual, so losing light after dark is dangerous since I will also lose my sense of balance within seconds. Though my suspicion is that they might opt for a 48V bus (at least in the US) as such is still treated as “low voltage” wiring and the higher voltage would reduce the percentage of power lost to voltage drop while allowing for a lighter wire gauge while still being reasonable for many LED light fixtures since 14-16 LEDs in series would work well at such voltage. If we could globally agree on a common DC voltage for the lighting bus then we would greatly simplify the manufacture and sale of light fixtures and bulbs since they would all operate on a single common voltage. It could also pay dividends for those of us in amateur radio by possibly reducing the RFI generated by modern lighting fixtures as that is becoming a real problem with some of the LED bulbs on the market today. I even have an older LED floodlight that wipes out everything all the way up into the VHF realm and beyond (talk about “broadband” noise generator!) - it has a largely well designed switchmode, yet they opted to cut corners by leaving out suppression capacitors and ferrites despite having done everything else perfectly!
I've sort of wondered why that hasn't happened already - especially since (at least over here) it would become a much less-regulated system at under 60v.
I have a GE Circline lamp from the early '80s, which I bought new-old-stock in box a few years ago. It's particularly interesting because it's made for a three-way lamp, although it only has two settings. Unfortunately, it needs a new tube (it's a permanent ballast, renewable tube model), & I have no idea where to find one. Basically I bought it because it's a good example of the use of radioactive material in household applications ― in this case, promethium, which has of course completely decayed over the course of 30+ years ― but it was nice to use in my three-way floor lamp.
I purchased a LUXO maglamp based upon their old metal shell design. It was only available in N.America, so the fluoro and its driver circuit ran on 110vac. Since I'm in Australia, it presented a problem. I didn't want to use a stepdown transformer. So I found a beautifully made LED T9 circular luminaire that dropped straight in. I used WAGO connectors to wire it in and it works a treat. I doubt very much if that circular luminaire is available now. So Burley was your Studio 54, Clive. 😆
Clive, you ever review any bike lights? I just got a "Nestling Solarstorm" 3 led headlight run by 4 18650 batts very affordably. But 2 reasons I bring it up. First they have a power on light that has parasitic effect. This could be cured. Secondly my last unit very much like this design had a very poor strain relief entering the headlamp part. I actually fixed it and conformally coated it with 99 cent HF epoxy. Dragged it through a lake to make sure it worked.
Clive you worked in stage lighting right? Can you drop some names of groups that you did work for? Also what do you think about The Corries? It's too bad they are gone because I really enjoyed there music. Bill Smith left early on then Roy passed on.
perhaps stupid because i did not think about it long enough, but could you improve power factor by adding chokes on mains wires going in ? 50Hz is no high frequency for a inductive-resistor but would it work? Or would you arrive at the point where the power changes from cap to inductor and the load would get less power. Really need to look up power factor correction cuircuits.
Interesting that when you put it on the lower powered supply, it looks like the outer ring is cool white, but the inner bulb is warm white? Maybe an attempt to strike a balance between the two in the same lamp, though biased towards cool as there's 64 of those and only 16 warm?
I was looking at some fluorescent Circline lights (the glass dish with a round fluoro tube on the outer edge) in the clearance place near me, was rather amused to see them still being sold... :D And councils hate it when people enjoy themselves, they'd rather we just shut up, stayed quiet and handed over our cash to them as "tax"... :P
Clive, I need to know about this Christoph fellow and his lenses for thermal imaging. How does the lens help and how do you attach it and to what imager. I've got an old hacked E4 (to E8 capabilities)
Mine is also an E4 hacked to E8. I think it was Mike at mikeselectricstuff who came up with the idea for the add-on lenses and it was so popular that some Chinese sellers supplied them preattached to the 3D printed holder. It was also Mike who cracked the E4 firmware. His videos showing his explorations are great.
God, we're so lucky to have E4's - $3000 features in an $800 imager... I have one final question. After I "updated" mine to the E8 feature set, I no longer have the FLIR logo on the bottom left, it's just gone. Yeah I can see more of the field but there are some cases where I want the flir logo in an image. - - Did you have that issue, Clive? If so, how'd you fix?
@@BlackWolf42- I hadn't noticed that. There were a couple of scripts floating about to modify the configuration file. One may have replaced or removed the logo.
I remember Alien Wars! There used to be one in the basement of Londons Trocadero centre too (Back when that used to be open) and it was presumably similar to the Glasgow one. :-) Did Glasgow also have multiple routes through the attraction to keep guests on their toes? ;-) I know the sort of club ye mean as well, and sadly they all get a lot of inappropriate press. Very strange how none of the "pretty crowd" clubs get the same negative treatment, mind you... :-/
Hi Big, love the videos. I have an old Sony amplifier “Digital Audio/Video Control Center” (Sony model # str-k650p). I had been using up until a few weeks ago when it just audibly flickered out. The thing “sounds” (clicking noise) like it turns on but is super dimly lit. I took the cover off(unscrewed) and I can put my finger on the part that goes click click click when I turn on and off. That component that makes and generates a minute vibration, has a copper coil thing. I’d love to send it in, because it is so retro. I am not interested in paying for shipping 😗. Keep up the good work holmes.
If I request my power supplier to turn off the smart functionality of my smart meter and make it 'dumb'. Will they still be able to bill me for apparent power consumed? Is there any hope for those saddled with a smart meter?
The club was shut for 6 weeks, the report is found easily on the net.. I say no more ;) Anyway, I remember we had one of those circular fluorescent lamps when I was a kid, it was in the kitchen. I always wonder if they still make the fitting as I still see the lamps in some off road local electrical shops :) We also had one of those horrid circular heater/light things in the bathroom :D
Capacitor across the mains supply, turn the mains off then stick your tongue across the capacitor to find out at which point in the mains cycle it was turned off.
Re: Wire colors: The power supply Clive hacks in is completely backwards, isn't it? In US terminology, DC positive is red and negative is black. For AC IIRC, is hot ("live") = white, neutral = black, ground ("earth")=green. Charitably, I think whoever put that together knew which colors should go where and soldered it with the PCB upside-down, and ran out of black wire when they got to the side where the colors matter to prevent blowing out the diodes, I .E, both wire on the AC side the same color can be excused in certain cases, but at least make the negative black on the DC side (cars, for example, have multiple wire colors, so you can tell which wire is the positive for which circuit, but the negative is always black.) . Murphy's Law in action. (Murphy did not say "If it can go wrong, it will." He said ""If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will." or "If it can happen, it will happen." That's partially why anything where polarity matters is keyed so the connector only goes in one way nowadays, because one of the techs working for Captain Edward Murphy plugged some sensors in the wrong way 'round, causing the experiment to be a waste of time because the sensors didn't output useful numbers. The aphorism was later expanded, and the modern phrasing of it was first used by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1908, around 40 years before Murphy said the thing, who wrote "if anything can go wrong, it WILL go wrong" in reference to any first public performance of a particular magic trick. Maskelyne's point was that no first performance goes well because the universe is biased against you. Murphy's point was that the apes doing the actual work can't be trusted to match wire colors. But together, as the unofficial 4th Law of Thermodynamics, they're known more for Murphy, and haven't been proven wrong yet. (see a Soyuz or two that nosed into the ground because its sensors were plugged in the wrong way around, or the related aphorism "Those who try to build idiot-proof systems always underestimate the persistence and ingenuity of idiots." (Anonymous, but Heinlein said something similar)
I’ve wedged things (flat screwdrivers) in the clips to keep them bent back while I went and did the others around the thing im taking apart otherwise it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to get the thing apart without breaking the clips off I had to do that cleaning out a dryer one time which needed to be dismantled the lint was so bad inside it had the most 😖😖😖🤬 little cover on it which was hiding screws it took a TON of screwdrivers to hold the clips back to slide the cover off without breaking it I got it apart cleaned it out a TON of lint came out some had burn marks on it I put it back together stubborn cover and all and it worked a million times better afterwards
Never went to Burly, sounds fun though, reminds me of a similar one from the 90's under the arches in Leeds, also another i visited in Manchester that was underground, long since closed, but i'm told it was just bricked up & left as an underground nightclub/time capsule, i think an office block is on top of it now, i was trying to find it a couple of years ago, but Manchester isn't the place it was in the 90's.
Back again with ASMR and electronics! Keep up with the content! Though I'm not an electrical engineer of some sort but I learned alot of things in your channel.
They are an add-on lens for the Flir E4 thermal imaging camera that uses a 3D printed mount to attach longwave infrared compatible lenses to the front to allow close-up thermal images.
@@zeryl06 We have a local community utility ( "City Utilities" a monopoly) but the info about the new meters is out there. They have been easing people into them. Just a few blocks at a time. Keep the uproar from being heard. Everyone I know that hasn't got one yet thinks I'm imagining things, just looking for a conspiracy. The ones who have one don't know what they can do.There are class actions in some municipalities. Mostly out East.
In the mid-late 90s Friday nights were Slam nights. DJs Stewart McMillan and Orde Meikle were the residents, but frequently they played host to the big name DJs of the time. Laurent Garnier, Ritchie Hawtin and Andy Weatherall were regular visitors and proclaimed the Arches to be one of the best clubs in the world. The sound system was fantastic, the sort where you could feel the bass resonating in your nostrils, trouser legs, chest. Lovely clean sound that emphasized the style of music that was played there. Next to Pillbox in Edinburgh (Calton Studios, ran until late 2001 I think) the Arches was my best clubbing experience by far.
I could imagine hitting the club with Big Clive. "Oh! Those are interesting lights, i wonder how they work.. Just a minute, going to pause the party, while i take this to bits"
Big Clive, the line voltage was about 245 in your video. It'd only take a small increase to exceed the ratings. Plus, capacitors are happiest with a bit of derating.
I've been wondering ever since I saw the little flag on your site, but with the talk of that event, now I'm pretty sure we're playing for the same team. ;)
Hi Clive, have you got some new audio kit doing a kind of auto-blanking thing at all? I'm listening on headphones and noticing the usual background buzz is being muted when you're not speaking or discharging spicy caps... I suppose it's matter of opinion and others may disagree, but I find the constant cutting in/out of the background noise somewhat annoying. (more noticeable in fact than if there was no cut off and one could just hear the iron switching in the background.)
Hi Clive How do I send you this woeful power supply for you to do a breakdown of it? I would love to hear what you think of the cut and shut job they did, im sure this unit is cut out of another product and whacked into these little wall power supply units. Even the sticker says 6A and the one they stuck it over says 4A wtf
The repackaging of power supplies is a really common thing. They usually involve quite a chunky box with a loose module inside that has wires chopped and new ones tacked on. The good news is that they are often really good quality supplies. I tend to downrate any power supply from eBay by 50% as standard.
I hear that This one however has an LED tacked on that was laying over a hard link and 4 bare cut wires 2 from the dc side and 2 direct from the 240 mains just chopped off and uncovered. The supply just pulses under load Btw Big Fan love your awesome channel sir, I just wish you was my teacher in collage I might of taken more notice ha ha
re colour codes for input and output on random ebay stuff, I got a few 5V 2.5A switching supplies a while ago, the dirt cheap kind that are re-purposed from other things, good quality but obviously chopped out of some other product with the ends of wires still soldered into the board, and they had the 230VAC input on black and red wires and 5VDC output on blue and brown o_0
Those things are quite intriguing because of the way they are sometimes hacked to get a different voltage or to patch in the input and output wires. Some of them are very good quality supplies.
Hey, I still have an operating circular fluorescent lamp in my basement laundry room. Are you trying to say I'd find it difficult to locate a replacement if it ever died? I should check for a date somewhere. I know I have had it in service at least 20 years myself, no telling when the previous homeowners installed it.
that would be so cool in my grandaughters bedroom but i cant find that design online anywhere plenty of regular circular ones but not with a lamp in the middle
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the US (or at least my state), the power companies would have to get regulatory approval to switch to billing by apparent power.
They would include it in the small print of a "new improved" contract, knowing that people wouldn't wade through the ream of paper they got sent. Same way the banks gradually reduced interest on current accounts to zero.
@@bigclivedotcom Again, at least in my area, they'd have to get government approval to make that kind of change. Because they're a monopoly, power companies (among others) are regulated as to what they can or can't do. That doesn't mean they won't try to sneak it though, but it's not as easy as you're suggesting.
No. That was much earlier. It was the Polo Lounge. Which still exists, but is nothing like it used to be. In its original form it was like a nightclub in the luxury boardroom of a bank.
Nothing to do with the video, but I'm possibly moving to Glasgow to work as a Software Engineer. I'm from the US (Mom was born in UK, so dual citizenship) and would like to know a bit about the city from someone who knows it well.
It's basically the real life Gotham City. Really characterful and absolutely buzzing at the weekends. But also quite dangerous at nights due to Scotland's corrupt legal system that seems to promote crime for profit. You'll love it though.
It's no more dangerous than most places. The people are friendly (you will always get the assh*les) and there are good places and bad. The west end is the upper market side.
Glasgow is great, something for every one, from wee auld men's pubs to full on dance clubs and every thing in between. Just take the same precautions you would in any big city ang enjoy.
I thought you had really f--ked up for a second there. You did mention the strange color coding, but I didn't catch all of that so I was wondering if you connected it backwards. Apparently, not though. They could have made the DC wires red and black with the AC wires blue or brown. That would have been so much less confusing.
Yay, another non isolated power supply! And if that middle cap pops out like that, then this should be treated as "for inside an enclosure only" so as to avoid getting shocked... Nice video anyway :) Might get one myself, looks like a decent light :)
Been once to a club night at the Arches run by a guy I knew from outdoor techno parties at Blackford quarry, Bangin night. Also a sound tech mate of mine who used to have a recording studio in one of the sections, did all band recording at night while the trains where off. And another guy I knew ran his lighting company in another part, I did a lighting gig for him on Arron. Typical councils probably want it sold off and gentrified.
Think you'r right about the smart meters, think the accidently did this on mine after first change, monthly bill was about £120/month, actual not estimated, suddenly went to £330/month, no usage change. They did apologise & reduce to £110/month, we shall see how long that lasts
Don't forget that capacitive (leading) power factors will cancel out against any inductive (lagging) power factor devices on the same parallel circuit. The maths involved is a wee bit scary, with j's all over the place, but the upshot it's probably not going to be as bad as you think. You can correct a bad lagging P.F. with parallel capacitance; a capacitive dropper will tend to do this for you. Actually you could have a device attached to your consumer unit that just measures the P.F. continuously and switches banks of capacitors in and out of circuit to try to keep it as near as possible to 1 at all times.
That doesn't work with modern electronic loads. The current waveform is non sinusoidal and peaks at the centre of the sinewave. It requires pretty much another switchmode power supply before the main one to spread the load across the sinewave as a series of pulses.
bigclivedotcom Ah, yes, it will only begin to draw current once the mains voltage exceeds the voltage to which the smoothing capacitor is already charged. You could certainly do dynamic P.F. correction, though; it would just need something a bit fancier than just capacitors, relays and a simple microcontroller. You would have to be able to do something like charge capacitors in parallel and discharge them in series to get the required voltage. I have got Solar panels on my roof, and they feed into the supply by means of a synchronous inverter, which matches its output exactly to the mains waveform so it is always behaving as a power source as long as the Sun is shining. More complex than my original idea, then, but there must come a turnover point where it's cheaper to fix your own P.F. than pay for the imaginary power.
how do, love the videos. have you ever thought about dismantling one of the Chinese 12v diesel heaters available on ebay/AliExpress? after looking into getting one, and the bad press along with the good it would be interesting to see if there are any 'obvious' gremlins that scream out at you? are they really deathtraps just waiting to burn down a camper or actually really good value? Keep 'em coming!!
@@bigclivedotcom you can pick up a 2kw, 3kw or even 5kw heat output 'planar'chinese copy on ebay for around the £130/£150 mark!! There is a forum on facebook dedicated to the set up and trouble shooting of these cheap and cheerful units with varying success!!
The fuse in the Fluke is an industrial one and absolutely required to stop the meter exploding forcibly if accidentally applied across live busbars while set to the current range. The fuse is definitely cheaper than the Fluke meter, but more expensive than the cheaper hobby meters.
BC - I thought Fluke's claim to fame was they had moved to Littelfuse PTC devices, the ones with the "You'll never need to replace this fuse ever" advertising campaign (early 1980's, ads run in many trade journals)??
Anyone remember Bowlers in Manchester? The only nightclub i'd ever seen with its own indoor funfair, dodgems & everything, also i once went to the Hacienda & bumped in to half the cast of Red Dwarf...God i feel old...
That stupid color code is used here in the USA in RV's for some reason. Really threw me when they told me that as we hooked up the 12 volt system to a house battery on my first new rig! Then I noticed it every time I worked on my motor home, I always meter the connections to see if some one has screwed them around. Normally in every other system I have ever worked on, white is + and black - unless, of course there is black and red, then, of course red is indeed +.
I could have sworn that I took my Hillman Hunter to a welding guy who worked in one of those railway arches in 1981. Am I confusing railway arches in my old age?
24 Watts would drive an actual fluorescent bulb of that size... have they managed to build an LED light with no efficiency gain at all? For a future tear-down, you might want to have a look at the "UFO detector" sold on Amazon. Bunch of LEDs inside, along with a bit more circuitry than needed to make them flash convincingly.
It's come to a point where I watch these videos for the content and the random topics. Nice video :D
@@RasmusJohanson Yeh, dittto. But it's only a couple of em that are that personable. BC is definaly one of them!
Came for the light, Stayed for the night club talk
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Clive can you possibly do an in-depth video on the smart meter and apparent power thing
"Maybe it all happened after I'd had my fill of cider and was walking home with a kebab."
That's how i've chosen to spend my 20s, so hopefully I grow up to be even half the bear Clive is
ive recently removed 3 osram circolux, fitted in 1965, and still worked with original tubes...one was the bathroom light, and i remember as a kid we left it on all night, goodness knows how many insane hours and power ons, on it, and it still worked fine
Anyone else imagining Clive with glow sticks and a whistle?
pietzeekoe Seen him out of his tights on Es & Buckfast. His PVC trousers was generating about 220mAmps as he was spinning on his head on the Arches Dance Floor!!! Mad for it!!
ahahah
Very nice warm red color
It looks like a Nintendo Wii steering wheel.
I feel like at least half the audience doesn’t even know that there’s a whole other level of meaning in your nightclub stories :D
It keeps them safe from the harsh reality of the dark underworld.
I'd travel.....⚡
As someone famous once wrote, "Ignorance is Bliss"...
Oh I can get that level im just deliberately sticking my fingers in ears and going nah nah nah :)
Don't worry folks, it was just big burly men getting a break from their family lives. They went there to do bible readings, and to make little wicker baskets and bake cakes for charity auctions. All the while drinking tea and talking about gas prices.
Hello Big Clive;
SPQr:
I've noticed you have increasingly been referring to "apparent power" vs "real power" and I agree the electricity companies likely will restructure their metering and charging system to extract ever-more money from an unsuspecting public, most of whom would have little knowledge of practical changes they could make to mitigate such usage (e.g.: switching to 240v LEDs rather than incurring extra power usage in the transformer units for 12v halogens etc).
Now I could drone on until the internet crashes out of sheer boredom, about the differences but I'm inclined to ramble and become overly technical. I concede you have a far clearer and concise manner of delivery so, could you at some point, for the public at large, and not we Sparks, explain the differences between Apparent (S), True (P) and Reactive (Q) power - how they can be monitored by the Big Brother electricity suppliers and what steps folk can make to best alter the usage the meter 'sees' by making minor changes around the home. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Big John
Forewarned is forearmed, a good not to technical guide to when the cash-hungry power companies flick the switch.
ahhh mate!! THANK YOU Big John....Big Al the dockers pal ⚡
May I second this request! =3
Third this request 👍🏻
what if i just put a big inductor between the meter and the rest of the house?
Isn't The Arches an everyday story of country folk? Perhaps Burly describes a hefty farm worker. Anyway, I'm off to that lovely club in town called Swingers, in the hope of hearing some 1940s American jazz music.
I really like this style of story-telling-while-adapting-stuff videos
Googled about Burly, wasn't disappointed :)
Clubs getting raided by the police was a semi-regular thing in the 90's in Manchester - drugs and weapons mostly. I don't remember it ever happening in the Village though. The police didn't on the whole, want to know about anything going on behind at least slightly closed doors.
Also googled. Also highly not disappointed :-)
Without googling, I'm picturing a huge number of bears, as far as the eye can see.
"Let's try getting it off, which is what actually happened at Burley come to think of it"
Haha :D
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Haha!
Clive, have you purchased any LED Halloween fairy lights from Poundland this year? All LEDs are gallium nitride - even the red sets! Lovely red phosphor, the orange are now a peachy orange phosphor too!
grew up with table lamps that had the circular fluorescent tubes, i always liked how they'd ping and buzz softly. kinda kept me company late at night when reading and whatnot
There's still a GE "CircleLine" fluorescent circle tube in the laundry room ceiling light here. Thing must be 30 to 40 years old. When it is on, it wipes out any LW or MW radio in the house.
It's "Circline" and still made by Philips and others. My magnifier work lamps use them. Not better or worse than ordinary straight fluorescent lamps, just round. 4 pins, as if you took a regular F20 lamp and bent it into a circle. It's actually quite nice for a close-work light as it doesn't cast any sharp shadows. There are some microscopes that use a miniature CFL version of this for stage lighting.
I could see a magnifier light being a great application for this type of light.
In the US, the most common brand of such is the GE Circlite brand since most were made under the GE name. I never had any issues with them wiping out radio reception (I still use them, especially in the magnifier lamps at my electronics workbench) - in fact, as an amateur radio operator, they would not exist anywhere in my house if they were significantly impacting radio reception. If you are experiencing radio reception issues I would consider unplugging the bulb and cleaning the pins as any arcing in the connector will generate broadband RFI. It’s also worth double checking that the base is fully screwed in if it has an Edison base as sometimes years of vibration will work the bulb loose.
My elderly neighbor had a chrome circle fluorescent in his kitchen for decades... It gave off a horrid tone of grayish green white and I always wanted it to burn out so it'd get updated with a better tube, but now that he's gone and the family remodeled the house I miss looking at it.
Circline? I recall a GE Circolux in 1982 UK.
I had to pause for a while after Clive said it's pressed in firmly now we have to get it off. Childish I know but can't help it today. Another device I can't recall ever seeing anywhere else too.
Could the center board now be removed and the outside used around a macro camera lens for example?
It could, but you'd have to keep in mind that with the existing supply the LEDs are referenced to the mains supply and pose a shock risk
That would brighten up your day.
bigclivedotcom may be you can hack that to run on batteries.
Yes you could run the circuit on Batteries for example with a LDH-45A-350 dimmed to around 10-20%.
But the 60V would still hurt if you touched both wires with sensitive body parts.
You could also just buy a proper LED driver (Meanwell has good ones) and run it on mains power.
How are you going to be touching any sensitive body parts to it? It's on a macro lens.... ooohhhhhhh... Now i understand how!
"Kissing the pope's ring". I spit out my chocolate milk!
All Catholic priests are trained to Kiss Rings. Is what they do
They 'do' altar bois.
You touch on very important subject at the beginning. We can correct the power factor with a capacitive bank. What is your take on that? We are getting the new smart meters here in the US. The solution I am aiming for are home made lithium powered lamps with solar chargers to cut down on the electric bill. Any way how would you go about correcting the power factor on these led lamps?
The capacitor approach doesn't work with electronic supplies because the current waveform is not sinusoidal. It requires specialist electronics to create a good power factor in each power supply.
hello, I noticed that you have decent video quality even in low light. Which camera do you use? tnx
A Moto G6 phone.
"I'm gonna blame Glasgow Council." You could blame the Catholic Church. Everyone else does. - A former Scottish Catholic school boy.
More people should, honestly.
Catholics are wonderful hate group. I could just feel the hate in the catholic school.
In fairness they seem to hate them selves as much as they hate everyone else :D
I reckon the EU.
zh84 hope you are not sexually assaulted when you were a school boy.
What lens is referenced around 8:40? Could use a closeup lens for the E4 at work (the FOV sucks for circuit boards)
It's an idea from mikeselectricstuff (ruclips.net/video/Lie771fzBaw/видео.html ). For the lenses you can just search for "ZnSe lens" on amazon or ebay. The holder is a 3D print of a model from thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com/thing:407201 ).
If you use the thingiverse holder, make sure that you buy a 20mm diameter lens. As for the focal length, I use a 50.8mm and a 101.6mm lens at work. The 50.8mm is nice for closeups as seen in this video, the 101.6mm is better to get an overview over larger PCBs. Just remember, that the focal length is also the distance you have to keep between the lens and the PCB, so a 25.4mm lens might give you great magnification, but you'd almost have to press the camera into the board to get it in focus.
"Oh-ho, spicy!"
Russian roulette with capacitors!
Would it be possible to build a circuit where a micro controller chooses one of 6 capacitors to charge and then you have to choose one to touch?
Only a very small capacitor so it just makes you jump but I think that would be a great dinking game 😂
Well, it would *have* to be a drinking game, right? Because no one would play that while sober.
Brabham Freaman haha exactly! 😊
Mind you that said I have a morbid fascination with capacitors. I once told Clive about it and apparently he is the same.
I got quite a zap from a kettle plug once after I unplugged it and I immediately touched it again to see if it would happen again! ( it did )
Since then when I unplug an appliance I can’t help myself And touch the plug pins.
Wow you're kinky
@@mavos1211 where you live, is it 240v or 120v?
All you need is a class X capacitor (suitable for connecting across the mains), a double pole double throw switch and a pair of electrodes. Connect the capacitor across the switch common pins, the electrodes to the output
1 pins and the mains to the output 2 pins. Switch the capacitor to the mains position and put your tongue across the electrodes. Flip the switch! (A break before make action switch is essential). How loud you scream is proportional to what part of the mains cycle it was when you flipped the switch.
If the power companies start charging for apparent instead of real power wouldn't that just push people to buy whole house power factor correction units? Or are those terribly expensive on the domestic scale? Do PFC units need to be replaced regularly?
These days power factor correction is best done in each power supply.
Do you think manufactures will start advertising their power factor on products, or should government demand products be labeled.
If power factor becomes a huge issue I can see it pushing the whole house DC lighting bus system forwards. That way all the lighting could be run from a central power factor corrected 24V supply.
bigclivedotcom That would not be such a bad idea as then centralized emergency lighting would be absolutely trivial to implement throughout the average house, so no being suddenly plunged into darkness unexpectedly in a power outage. As it is, I have a number of emergency light fixtures distributed throughout my house as my sense of balance is purely visual, so losing light after dark is dangerous since I will also lose my sense of balance within seconds.
Though my suspicion is that they might opt for a 48V bus (at least in the US) as such is still treated as “low voltage” wiring and the higher voltage would reduce the percentage of power lost to voltage drop while allowing for a lighter wire gauge while still being reasonable for many LED light fixtures since 14-16 LEDs in series would work well at such voltage.
If we could globally agree on a common DC voltage for the lighting bus then we would greatly simplify the manufacture and sale of light fixtures and bulbs since they would all operate on a single common voltage. It could also pay dividends for those of us in amateur radio by possibly reducing the RFI generated by modern lighting fixtures as that is becoming a real problem with some of the LED bulbs on the market today. I even have an older LED floodlight that wipes out everything all the way up into the VHF realm and beyond (talk about “broadband” noise generator!) - it has a largely well designed switchmode, yet they opted to cut corners by leaving out suppression capacitors and ferrites despite having done everything else perfectly!
I've sort of wondered why that hasn't happened already - especially since (at least over here) it would become a much less-regulated system at under 60v.
I have a GE Circline lamp from the early '80s, which I bought new-old-stock in box a few years ago. It's particularly interesting because it's made for a three-way lamp, although it only has two settings. Unfortunately, it needs a new tube (it's a permanent ballast, renewable tube model), & I have no idea where to find one. Basically I bought it because it's a good example of the use of radioactive material in household applications ― in this case, promethium, which has of course completely decayed over the course of 30+ years ― but it was nice to use in my three-way floor lamp.
The USA colour code is black = phase and white = neutral.
Probably why the power supply uses those colours
Except it's for the DC output and the two reds are the AC. That's what makes it odd.
The two red wires are being used for AC though. Also DC is typically red and black. Seems more like they just grabbed what ever colors they had.
I purchased a LUXO maglamp based upon their old metal shell design. It was only available in N.America, so the fluoro and its driver circuit ran on 110vac. Since I'm in Australia, it presented a problem. I didn't want to use a stepdown transformer. So I found a beautifully made LED T9 circular luminaire that dropped straight in. I used WAGO connectors to wire it in and it works a treat. I doubt very much if that circular luminaire is available now. So Burley was your Studio 54, Clive. 😆
Clive, you ever review any bike lights? I just got a "Nestling Solarstorm" 3 led headlight run by 4 18650 batts very affordably. But 2 reasons I bring it up. First they have a power on light that has parasitic effect. This could be cured. Secondly my last unit very much like this design had a very poor strain relief entering the headlamp part. I actually fixed it and conformally coated it with 99 cent HF epoxy. Dragged it through a lake to make sure it worked.
Could you please do a video on apparent power and how it is going to effect us?
Clive you worked in stage lighting right? Can you drop some names of groups that you did work for? Also what do you think about The Corries? It's too bad they are gone because I really enjoyed there music. Bill Smith left early on then Roy passed on.
perhaps stupid because i did not think about it long enough,
but could you improve power factor by adding chokes on mains wires going in ?
50Hz is no high frequency for a inductive-resistor but would it work?
Or would you arrive at the point where the power changes from cap to inductor and the load would get less power.
Really need to look up power factor correction cuircuits.
Interesting that when you put it on the lower powered supply, it looks like the outer ring is cool white, but the inner bulb is warm white? Maybe an attempt to strike a balance between the two in the same lamp, though biased towards cool as there's 64 of those and only 16 warm?
HA, I blew a HRC meter fuse mere seconds before this video was posted...
"Trap for young players!" - EEVBlog
We've all blown meter fuses. It's so easy when you're young, but less frequent as you get older.
I just use a 5A BS1362 fuse in my meter. They are sand filled and HRC. Dont use glass fuses, they can explode.
Actually hadn't blown one in eons as I'm normally vigilant... but learned long ago to keep a couple of spares on hand. Cool videos, Thanks!
*laughs in aluminium foil*
Electronics and a look into the social history of Scotland in the last century. Excellent video Clive.
I was looking at some fluorescent Circline lights (the glass dish with a round fluoro tube on the outer edge) in the clearance place near me, was rather amused to see them still being sold... :D
And councils hate it when people enjoy themselves, they'd rather we just shut up, stayed quiet and handed over our cash to them as "tax"... :P
I really like all your videos and the hard work and effort you are putting into your channel
Clive, I need to know about this Christoph fellow and his lenses for thermal imaging. How does the lens help and how do you attach it and to what imager. I've got an old hacked E4 (to E8 capabilities)
Probably has better charity
Mine is also an E4 hacked to E8. I think it was Mike at mikeselectricstuff who came up with the idea for the add-on lenses and it was so popular that some Chinese sellers supplied them preattached to the 3D printed holder. It was also Mike who cracked the E4 firmware. His videos showing his explorations are great.
@@bigclivedotcom cool
God, we're so lucky to have E4's - $3000 features in an $800 imager... I have one final question. After I "updated" mine to the E8 feature set, I no longer have the FLIR logo on the bottom left, it's just gone. Yeah I can see more of the field but there are some cases where I want the flir logo in an image. - - Did you have that issue, Clive? If so, how'd you fix?
@@BlackWolf42- I hadn't noticed that. There were a couple of scripts floating about to modify the configuration file. One may have replaced or removed the logo.
I remember Alien Wars! There used to be one in the basement of Londons Trocadero centre too (Back when that used to be open) and it was presumably similar to the Glasgow one. :-)
Did Glasgow also have multiple routes through the attraction to keep guests on their toes? ;-)
I know the sort of club ye mean as well, and sadly they all get a lot of inappropriate press. Very strange how none of the "pretty crowd" clubs get the same negative treatment, mind you... :-/
Hi Big, love the videos. I have an old Sony amplifier “Digital Audio/Video Control Center” (Sony model # str-k650p). I had been using up until a few weeks ago when it just audibly flickered out. The thing “sounds” (clicking noise) like it turns on but is super dimly lit. I took the cover off(unscrewed) and I can put my finger on the part that goes click click click when I turn on and off. That component that makes and generates a minute vibration, has a copper coil thing. I’d love to send it in, because it is so retro. I am not interested in paying for shipping 😗. Keep up the good work holmes.
Good production,love the nightclub stories and the family values quip!
If I request my power supplier to turn off the smart functionality of my smart meter and make it 'dumb'. Will they still be able to bill me for apparent power consumed? Is there any hope for those saddled with a smart meter?
The club was shut for 6 weeks, the report is found easily on the net.. I say no more ;) Anyway, I remember we had one of those circular fluorescent lamps when I was a kid, it was in the kitchen. I always wonder if they still make the fitting as I still see the lamps in some off road local electrical shops :) We also had one of those horrid circular heater/light things in the bathroom :D
Russian roulette with capacitors - it might become a sport!
Capacitor across the mains supply, turn the mains off then stick your tongue across the capacitor to find out at which point in the mains cycle it was turned off.
A momment please! ahahah
One thing i recently found out is that all square backlit image boards are lit by circline TL which is really damn cool
Re: Wire colors: The power supply Clive hacks in is completely backwards, isn't it? In US terminology, DC positive is red and negative is black. For AC IIRC, is hot ("live") = white, neutral = black, ground ("earth")=green. Charitably, I think whoever put that together knew which colors should go where and soldered it with the PCB upside-down, and ran out of black wire when they got to the side where the colors matter to prevent blowing out the diodes, I .E, both wire on the AC side the same color can be excused in certain cases, but at least make the negative black on the DC side (cars, for example, have multiple wire colors, so you can tell which wire is the positive for which circuit, but the negative is always black.)
. Murphy's Law in action. (Murphy did not say "If it can go wrong, it will." He said ""If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will." or "If it can happen, it will happen." That's partially why anything where polarity matters is keyed so the connector only goes in one way nowadays, because one of the techs working for Captain Edward Murphy plugged some sensors in the wrong way 'round, causing the experiment to be a waste of time because the sensors didn't output useful numbers. The aphorism was later expanded, and the modern phrasing of it was first used by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1908, around 40 years before Murphy said the thing, who wrote "if anything can go wrong, it WILL go wrong" in reference to any first public performance of a particular magic trick.
Maskelyne's point was that no first performance goes well because the universe is biased against you. Murphy's point was that the apes doing the actual work can't be trusted to match wire colors. But together, as the unofficial 4th Law of Thermodynamics, they're known more for Murphy, and haven't been proven wrong yet. (see a Soyuz or two that nosed into the ground because its sensors were plugged in the wrong way around, or the related aphorism "Those who try to build idiot-proof systems always underestimate the persistence and ingenuity of idiots." (Anonymous, but Heinlein said something similar)
I had to rewind several times just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the story about the club.
Gadgetboy me too, I thought sleep deprivation was getting to me
"And when the police raided, they did arrest one person, who it turned out was a lawyer"
Must have been a Criminal Attorney.
A lawyer? I thought he said a liar. Lol. That's far funnier actually.
I’ve wedged things (flat screwdrivers) in the clips to keep them bent back while I went and did the others around the thing im taking apart otherwise it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to get the thing apart without breaking the clips off
I had to do that cleaning out a dryer one time which needed to be dismantled the lint was so bad inside it had the most 😖😖😖🤬 little cover on it which was hiding screws it took a TON of screwdrivers to hold the clips back to slide the cover off without breaking it
I got it apart cleaned it out a TON of lint came out some had burn marks on it I put it back together stubborn cover and all and it worked a million times better afterwards
Loved the Circolux lamps. Had them in an office I worked in, gave superb light.
Haven't thought about the arches in a while, do you remember the sub club Clive.
What can be done in a domestic situation to improve power factor, is there a plug in gizmo to sort it out?
No. It's very complex nopw and requires extra circuitry in every switchmode supply. It adds a complete new failure layer.
In the u.s. some companies already do charge for apparent power. First energy in Pennsylvania is one
Never went to Burly, sounds fun though, reminds me of a similar one from the 90's under the arches in Leeds, also another i visited in Manchester that was underground, long since closed, but i'm told it was just bricked up & left as an underground nightclub/time capsule, i think an office block is on top of it now, i was trying to find it a couple of years ago, but Manchester isn't the place it was in the 90's.
Back again with ASMR and electronics! Keep up with the content! Though I'm not an electrical engineer of some sort but I learned alot of things in your channel.
I missed the episode about Christoph's IR camera lenses... What are they?
They are an add-on lens for the Flir E4 thermal imaging camera that uses a 3D printed mount to attach longwave infrared compatible lenses to the front to allow close-up thermal images.
Is that the poundland screwdriver? Quality bit of kit.
We just got the new meters here in Springfield, Missouri. GIANT jump in kWhs billed.
Please don't tell me you are on ameren? This frightens me if so. Howdy from Stl tho!
@@zeryl06 We have a local community utility ( "City Utilities" a monopoly) but the info about the new meters is out there. They have been easing people into them. Just a few blocks at a time. Keep the uproar from being heard. Everyone I know that hasn't got one yet thinks I'm imagining things, just looking for a conspiracy. The ones who have one don't know what they can do.There are class actions in some municipalities. Mostly out East.
It looks a bit llike the space station from space patrol called Galaspere. Where can I get one?
Miss the Arches. Used to go regularly on the Friday nights there.
Sounds like a place I would have liked to have visited at least once.
ok
In the mid-late 90s Friday nights were Slam nights. DJs Stewart McMillan and Orde Meikle were the residents, but frequently they played host to the big name DJs of the time. Laurent Garnier, Ritchie Hawtin and Andy Weatherall were regular visitors and proclaimed the Arches to be one of the best clubs in the world.
The sound system was fantastic, the sort where you could feel the bass resonating in your nostrils, trouser legs, chest. Lovely clean sound that emphasized the style of music that was played there.
Next to Pillbox in Edinburgh (Calton Studios, ran until late 2001 I think) the Arches was my best clubbing experience by far.
wow thats cool, wonder how they would be for photography
I could imagine hitting the club with Big Clive. "Oh! Those are interesting lights, i wonder how they work.. Just a minute, going to pause the party, while i take this to bits"
A 250VAC dropping capacitor is a bit dodgy for UK line voltage.
It's 250V AC as opposed to DC which gives it a much higher DC rating.
Big Clive, the line voltage was about 245 in your video. It'd only take a small increase to exceed the ratings. Plus, capacitors are happiest with a bit of derating.
Против Глобал, Good point. I didn't figure it'd work that way. But, a quick simulation showed that you're right.
Nice video, but why it's blown up ? if the capacitor isn't connected it shouldn't blow.
I've been wondering ever since I saw the little flag on your site, but with the talk of that event, now I'm pretty sure we're playing for the same team. ;)
Hi Clive, have you got some new audio kit doing a kind of auto-blanking thing at all? I'm listening on headphones and noticing the usual background buzz is being muted when you're not speaking or discharging spicy caps... I suppose it's matter of opinion and others may disagree, but I find the constant cutting in/out of the background noise somewhat annoying. (more noticeable in fact than if there was no cut off and one could just hear the iron switching in the background.)
Not complaining by the way, just an observation ;)
My new phone seems to have a noise gate when it's recording that does have that effect. I don't think I can disable it.
Hi Clive
How do I send you this woeful power supply for you to do a breakdown of it?
I would love to hear what you think of the cut and shut job they did, im sure this unit is cut out of another product and whacked into these little wall power supply units.
Even the sticker says 6A and the one they stuck it over says 4A wtf
The repackaging of power supplies is a really common thing. They usually involve quite a chunky box with a loose module inside that has wires chopped and new ones tacked on. The good news is that they are often really good quality supplies. I tend to downrate any power supply from eBay by 50% as standard.
I hear that
This one however has an LED tacked on that was laying over a hard link and 4 bare cut wires 2 from the dc side and 2 direct from the 240 mains just chopped off and uncovered. The supply just pulses under load
Btw Big Fan love your awesome channel sir, I just wish you was my teacher in collage I might of taken more notice ha ha
When it didn't work as you expected it to I thought you'd shorted something with the snips around the 14:50 mark. Glad it wasn't anything like that.
re colour codes for input and output on random ebay stuff, I got a few 5V 2.5A switching supplies a while ago, the dirt cheap kind that are re-purposed from other things, good quality but obviously chopped out of some other product with the ends of wires still soldered into the board, and they had the 230VAC input on black and red wires and 5VDC output on blue and brown o_0
Those things are quite intriguing because of the way they are sometimes hacked to get a different voltage or to patch in the input and output wires. Some of them are very good quality supplies.
Hey, I still have an operating circular fluorescent lamp in my basement laundry room. Are you trying to say I'd find it difficult to locate a replacement if it ever died?
I should check for a date somewhere. I know I have had it in service at least 20 years myself, no telling when the previous homeowners installed it.
I think you can still get tubes for the circular fittings.
Yeah, my bedroom fan uses the circular florescent lights, and you can easily get them online.
Andrew Delashaw Most magnifier lamps also make use of such bulbs as well, so they are still quite common.
that would be so cool in my grandaughters bedroom but i cant find that design online anywhere plenty of regular circular ones but not with a lamp in the middle
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the US (or at least my state), the power companies would have to get regulatory approval to switch to billing by apparent power.
They would include it in the small print of a "new improved" contract, knowing that people wouldn't wade through the ream of paper they got sent. Same way the banks gradually reduced interest on current accounts to zero.
@@bigclivedotcom Again, at least in my area, they'd have to get government approval to make that kind of change. Because they're a monopoly, power companies (among others) are regulated as to what they can or can't do. That doesn't mean they won't try to sneak it though, but it's not as easy as you're suggesting.
Any idea where we could buy one of these from? Thanks
Is that the club you went to wearing a blue LED in the days when blue LEDs were very expensive and rare?
No. That was much earlier. It was the Polo Lounge. Which still exists, but is nothing like it used to be. In its original form it was like a nightclub in the luxury boardroom of a bank.
Best comment of the day "im going to blame Glasgow council " just because it didnt work
Nothing to do with the video, but I'm possibly moving to Glasgow to work as a Software Engineer. I'm from the US (Mom was born in UK, so dual citizenship) and would like to know a bit about the city from someone who knows it well.
It's basically the real life Gotham City. Really characterful and absolutely buzzing at the weekends. But also quite dangerous at nights due to Scotland's corrupt legal system that seems to promote crime for profit. You'll love it though.
Also, teenage gangs with knifes in some areas.
It's no more dangerous than most places. The people are friendly (you will always get the assh*les) and there are good places and bad. The west end is the upper market side.
Glasgow is great, something for every one, from wee auld men's pubs to full on dance clubs and every thing in between. Just take the same precautions you would in any big city ang enjoy.
Glasgow is full of skyscrapers? :D
White and Black for household voltage in the US is Neutral for white, Hot for black. That is indeed confusing on the wiring.
Sounds like XXL under the arches at Blackfriars, although somehow that actually has a darkroom and is still open ..
Big Clive I can't thank you enough. I've been trying to find out the name of that song for ages.
I thought you had really f--ked up for a second there. You did mention the strange color coding, but I didn't catch all of that so I was wondering if you connected it backwards. Apparently, not though. They could have made the DC wires red and black with the AC wires blue or brown. That would have been so much less confusing.
If that capacitor had zapped you, you would have had a bit of an electroboom style moment, lol.
Yay, another non isolated power supply! And if that middle cap pops out like that, then this should be treated as "for inside an enclosure only" so as to avoid getting shocked...
Nice video anyway :) Might get one myself, looks like a decent light :)
Been once to a club night at the Arches run by a guy I knew from outdoor techno parties at Blackford quarry, Bangin night. Also a sound tech mate of mine who used to have a recording studio in one of the sections, did all band recording at night while the trains where off. And another guy I knew ran his lighting company in another part, I did a lighting gig for him on Arron. Typical councils probably want it sold off and gentrified.
Think you'r right about the smart meters, think the accidently did this on mine after first change, monthly bill was about £120/month, actual not estimated, suddenly went to £330/month, no usage change. They did apologise & reduce to £110/month, we shall see how long that lasts
Don't forget that capacitive (leading) power factors will cancel out against any inductive (lagging) power factor devices on the same parallel circuit. The maths involved is a wee bit scary, with j's all over the place, but the upshot it's probably not going to be as bad as you think. You can correct a bad lagging P.F. with parallel capacitance; a capacitive dropper will tend to do this for you.
Actually you could have a device attached to your consumer unit that just measures the P.F. continuously and switches banks of capacitors in and out of circuit to try to keep it as near as possible to 1 at all times.
That doesn't work with modern electronic loads. The current waveform is non sinusoidal and peaks at the centre of the sinewave. It requires pretty much another switchmode power supply before the main one to spread the load across the sinewave as a series of pulses.
bigclivedotcom Ah, yes, it will only begin to draw current once the mains voltage exceeds the voltage to which the smoothing capacitor is already charged.
You could certainly do dynamic P.F. correction, though; it would just need something a bit fancier than just capacitors, relays and a simple microcontroller. You would have to be able to do something like charge capacitors in parallel and discharge them in series to get the required voltage.
I have got Solar panels on my roof, and they feed into the supply by means of a synchronous inverter, which matches its output exactly to the mains waveform so it is always behaving as a power source as long as the Sun is shining.
More complex than my original idea, then, but there must come a turnover point where it's cheaper to fix your own P.F. than pay for the imaginary power.
how do, love the videos. have you ever thought about dismantling one of the Chinese 12v diesel heaters available on ebay/AliExpress? after looking into getting one, and the bad press along with the good it would be interesting to see if there are any 'obvious' gremlins that scream out at you? are they really deathtraps just waiting to burn down a camper or actually really good value? Keep 'em coming!!
I was looking at them on banggood recently. At about £300 they seem so much cheaper than the main brands that something must have been compromised on.
@@bigclivedotcom you can pick up a 2kw, 3kw or even 5kw heat output 'planar'chinese copy on ebay for around the £130/£150 mark!! There is a forum on facebook dedicated to the set up and trouble shooting of these cheap and cheerful units with varying success!!
Scottish power: Would I like a smart meter for Christmas? No, I think I'll stick with my dumb one.
DJ Buck Regulator aka Big Clive returns to BURLY on Friday nights. Tinning the leads until 4AM.
Curious if the meter fuse costs so much that a new meter is maybe cheaper, why even have a fuse at all?
The fuse in the Fluke is an industrial one and absolutely required to stop the meter exploding forcibly if accidentally applied across live busbars while set to the current range. The fuse is definitely cheaper than the Fluke meter, but more expensive than the cheaper hobby meters.
Why not just use a standard UK BS1362 plug fuse. They are ceramic, sand filled and HRC. Use a 5A one if a 10A is not available. Dont use 13A.
@@simontay4851 that's what I'm trying to figure out. Why not just stick a different fuse in it?
BC - I thought Fluke's claim to fame was they had moved to Littelfuse PTC devices, the ones with the "You'll never need to replace this fuse ever" advertising campaign (early 1980's, ads run in many trade journals)??
Why does that Edison base have a cap?
I guess just to protect it during shipping. It does seem odd.
Very odd, especially in today's extreme cost cutting with such goods. Usually you see a piece of vynil tube or some cardboard tube.
So is that the meter you are going to use from now on
About to open a tab to google "burly nightclub scotland"...
Thinking...
Opens an incognito window to google "burly nightclub scotland"
We had our meter replaced a while ago here in Melbourne Australia and our power bill definitely went up
"Blown the ass out of it"... now that reminds me of a club night in Glasgow. 😜
That demands to be turned into a persistence of vision display!
Anyone remember Bowlers in Manchester? The only nightclub i'd ever seen with its own indoor funfair, dodgems & everything, also i once went to the Hacienda & bumped in to half the cast of Red Dwarf...God i feel old...
That stupid color code is used here in the USA in RV's for some reason. Really threw me when they told me that as we hooked up the 12 volt system to a house battery on my first new rig! Then I noticed it every time I worked on my motor home, I always meter the connections to see if some one has screwed them around. Normally in every other system I have ever worked on, white is + and black - unless, of course there is black and red, then, of course red is indeed +.
I could have sworn that I took my Hillman Hunter to a welding guy who worked in one of those railway arches in 1981. Am I confusing railway arches in my old age?
There were lots of garages in railway arches in Glasgow.
24 Watts would drive an actual fluorescent bulb of that size... have they managed to build an LED light with no efficiency gain at all?
For a future tear-down, you might want to have a look at the "UFO detector" sold on Amazon. Bunch of LEDs inside, along with a bit more circuitry than needed to make them flash convincingly.