he should have gotten three of them for the beard club... i would have loved to see them all take turns on the queen... LOLS... Now i want to see a Presidential version...
@@InconsistentManner we could have a Donald Trump version here in the US. I don't think it would offend, since so many of Our citizens are already licking his Arse so fervently . . .
I love the episodes you do about Poundland items because that's where I work. And learning what you often teach really gives me good insight that my own company wouldn't. The batteries for example. And as for why the zinc batteries are still sold, until there is regulation against selling them we will always sell them. Why? They are within the top 150 selling products across the entire company. We make a buck-load off them
I remember when Zinc batteries were substantially cheaper than Alkalines, so they were good for things like IR remote controls and thermostats without spending a lot of money.
"They really do light the balls very well" Big Clive, 2018
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You licking the Queen reminds me of a very juvenile kids joke, Why do they put the queen's head on stamp's? Answer if they put her bottom no one would lick them. Tree lights in the fifties they use to clip candles to to Xmas trees and house fires were common.
Here in Canada, we have a $2.00 coin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie#/media/File:Toonie.2012.design.reverse.png with a polar bear on the tail side, and the Queen's head on the head side. The joke we had when we were kids was that the Queen had a bare (bear) ass.
The reason cheap zinc-carbon cells leak when spent or old is because the zinc casing of the cell is also the electrode. As the cell delivers current, the zinc metal is consumed from within (converted to zinc chloride), so the casing becomes thinner until a weak point is formed and the electrolyte leaks out. The "heavy duty" types have an extra layer of steel surrounding the zinc casing, which doesn't get consumed and therefore reduces the risk of leakage. However, the steel layer can rust from the outside, so the heavy duty cells can still leak eventually - it just takes longer. The main reason why zinc-carbon cells still exist is because they are extremely cheap to make. Plus of course they are relatively safe even when they do leak, since the electrolyte is ammonium chloride or zinc chloride, or a mixture of both. Alkaline batteries use potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the electrolyte, which is much more corrosive and hence far more dangerous if it leaks out. If it is a slow leak and exposed to the air, then the KOH absorbs carbon dioxide to form potassium carbonate, which has a tendency to form fluffy white crystals around the leakage site.
PLAESE GIVE ME VODKA BOBLES NOW! THANKS. WHERE TO BAY THIS? I MAIGHT TO BUY THIS IN TIME BECOUZE WE HAVE A CHRISTMASS IN 6-7-8 JANUARY AFTER THE HAPY NEW YEAR HOLYDAIS. THANKS. WHERE TO BUY?
I feel like if we were to get a tour of your house, it would be lit entirely by plugin led chains and long tube lights sticking out of regular light sockets.
I've not seen battery powered Christmas lights, except in antique shops. They were used on farms in western Canada before widespread rural electrification, which occurred, I believe, in the 1950's.
Yeha, battery powered things are sold at dollar stores and pound shops around the world. Stop by your local Dollarama if your still in Canada these days and check out what battery powered lights they have in the Christmas decoration isles.
Its the LED revolution, you can toss these lights anywhere and they'll last a long time without having to run extension cords. My mom dots them around the whole house over the holidays, the outside ones even have timers built in and waterproof battery compartments.
Your vid was preceding by the brilliant Aldi Christmas ad, Kevin the carrot where parsnip is 'kicked right in the nuts!' Surprised they haven't banned that one, given the Iceland urangatan controversy!
This site has cured me of my increasing soldering inferiority complex and now feel liberated with Lead....good old Lead, I disowned you once when you served me well, but it's now goodbye to all those crappy pretenders.
Each Kodak alkaline battery has about three times the life of the zinc battery of the same size. If you go to the web site you can download the datasheet for each type of Kodak battery. They state the capacity with a common load and consider them flat at 0.8V. And many Alkaline batteries are inferior to zinc at low load, so powering a clock for example makes them flat sooner than the zinc. If I put a Kodak alkaline battery in the clock in my bathroom it will last about three to four months, but one of the zinc batteries lasts over a year. Put them in my torch and it's a different story of course, with the alkaline lasting about three times as long.
if alkaline batteries are only lasting that long on a low load, they are bad! we use alkalines in our clocks and usually get over a year of use...but it does vary widely....
@@beware_the_moose Only if it's an ingredient that can cause harm or health defects in large amounts. Or that's how it is here in the states. the Food and Drug Administration was created just for that reason.
Even Phil the Greek doesn't lick the Queen with that much fervour. After this video those Queenie lollies are going to have to be moved to the adult section of Poundland.
"I'm going to have to lick the queen's face, I'm afraid. . .". . . Gotta be the quote of the year!!! I just might have to use that next time a buddy asks "what's up??"
Interesting that Kodak is now into batteries while they missed out on the massive digital photography growth. I love the led bubble lights. The Queen lollie is very cool. Great video. Merry X-mas Clive.
I actually saw the recommendation for this vid a few days ago. Didn't look to see who's vid, because it was obviously Ashen's. Went looking there today to watch it, and was puzzled as hell as to where it went! Came here on my normal cruise thru the channels and "Ahhhh!, there it is!"
Based on your recommendation, I popped into Poundland and procured some Twin Peaks chocolate. Astonishingly, they do a white chocolate version also. Both are absolutely excellent! Every bit as good as chocolate named after a model of a certain mobile phone and white chocolate advertised by a bespectacled cowboy clad youth! YUMMY!!
Licking the Queen's face... glad it wasn't flavoured of mothballs and old linen... (of note, Clive, you seemed to take some sort of perverted satisfaction in doing so) :P
twin peaks are great, always pick up a block when im passing a pound shop. i learned fairly recently, that supposedly the way to get a piece is to press the end piece towards the rest of the block in order to easily break it off! anywho; a very interesting video thanks much.
Hi Clive. How about taking the zinc batteries apply a load and run them till the juice flows out. I'm sure this will involve some stopping and starting or even some stop motion work, but it would be interesting to see at what point the goo comes out.
regarding the first set of LEDs could it be that they used uv LEDs under the red/yellow converters where the uv LEDs would have a higher voltage drop than the blue/green ones?
Clive, please do a test on the pink lights: As I understand it, most pink LEDs tend to fade to white after some hours of use. Could you power them up until Christmas to see if they stay pink?
I have some CVS (A pharmacy in the US) Alkaline Batteries in a Maglite flashlight that supposedly *EXPIRED in 2004.* I used to use them in a CD player boombox before that. They still work fine and I changed the bulb to LED like 5 years ago. I wonder who actually made them?
Hi Clive, Thanks for all the vid's You make it fun and so interesting. I have a couple of LED bulbs I would like to send you for a postmortem, I believe they are called "Cob" bulbs. How do I send you them and where? Thanks!!
Hi Clive . Something you might like to check out . My daughter bought a few sets of the Poundland fairy lights . (Identical 50 x sets as these in the your vid). She is someone who uses fairy lights all the time not just Christmas . Also she runs them all the time and leaves them on pretty much. She's noticed these lights shut themselves off automatically after around 6 hours if you leave them on . (To switch them back on you've got to switch them off and on again) . A bit irritating for people who like to leave them on al the time! Thought you might like to check that out see if yours do it / how it's done?
Question for the Clive-ster: I just added a string of LED christmas lights to a pre-existing setup on my porch. (Two actually, but only one of them is chained to another.) The setup goes like this... One 20ft strip of 100x colored LEDs, that a separate 10ft strip of 50x white LEDs are chained to the end of. (By chained, I just mean, plugged into the socket on the end of the strip.) Just the first half of white LED strip is dim. Now, I could maybe answer my question without asking if I were to be so foolish as to spend the time I'm taking writing this comment to, instead, run an extension cord out to the white LEDs, connect them directly to the mains, and see if they all lit at equal brightness. But where's the fun in that? Now, the 10 ft strip of white LEDs is clearly made of two 5ft strips that are joined within an inline plastic cap at the factory. The same appears to be true of the 20 ft strip of colored LEDs, except (again, I can't be bothered to actually look or anything) if I remember right, they were split in half as well -- not at the 25 LED / 5 ft mark, but at the 10ft / 50 LED mark. So, noting that I'm in America and this is 110-120V service, my guesses are as follows: Since these are AC, LED string lights in 3-wire strings... The AC is delivered to the end of the string, and it's female socket first, then returns through the LEDs? The various sections of each string that have been joined are operating in parallel, within the larger series? And the reason the first half of the last string in the line (of just 2 strings in the circuit) is only putting out half-brightness is: It's receiving the current last, after the AC goes to the far end; and the resistive load used on the colored LEDs - operating at half the wattage per LED of the whites - doesn't leave enough juice for the last parallel string in the series to light at full-intensity? Either that logic chain makes some degree of sense, or you can see now why I asked. In both cases, I'm very confused.
My granpa had a set of tungsten lights and he always replaced any broken bulbs with different coloured ones and some clear ones as well. They were quite nice.
Bit of rambling here but I have these pair of cheapy cornershop earphones I got for £2.50 and I was wearing them listening to music and there was a static noise before they gave me a quite large eclectic shock right in my ear. I’m guessing it was a faulty cable?
Were you charging the phone at the time? Was it a cheap charger? If so then stop using it immediately and buy a new good quality charger. There have been several fatalities from cheap chargers causing electrocution via earphones. You can buy safe chargers from prominent shops like ASDA or IKEA in the UK and Walmart in America. They have to comply with higher electrical standards. I don't actually recommend ever using earphones while a phone is charging from a plug-in USB charger. A battery power bank is OK though.
14:00 disturbing part.. specially the plplplplpl sound while doing so :D As for the Zinc batteries, wasn't that a old clip of you where you tested a bunch, they just use them words still nowadays despite they been replaced by far superior materials to be used in batteries? But the last light u tested, cant you just link a bunch of them together? Though if u link 2 of the 10 or 8-lights, would you either up the voltage or the amp?
I had a set of the purplish ball lamps that lit a pumpkin up wonderfully I like the led heritage lamps too thanks for sharing! Enjoy the Toblerone alike
Ah, the joys of Her Maj getting some tongue action and the sound of Clive's mastication in the background... Could it possibly get any more festive? :D
We used a cheapy set from ebay as part of a illuminated prop for a show I was doing. They had some form of resistor in them and one of the units decided to overheat and actually melted the plastic battery compartment.
The real advantage of Zinc cells are that poundland gets more profit per cell than any other brand. Quite sad really as they are only good for clocks and remotes.
@@buddyclem7328 true i forgot about them. To be fair i live in a flat so they are always running on live. Most of our smoke detectors run on a 9V battery don't they? Not AA or AAA cells.
Anything that uses an ultra low draw, and sits a lot. Remotes, smoke detectors (The ones I've taken apart actually specify battery part numbers, and they're all 'super heavy duty'), _not_ radios, clocks are okay, but alkaline are fine as well in clocks. I use them in single LED christmas style hanging 'things', where the batteries will be thrown away after they are taken down. I also use the 9v in my multi-meters, where they tend to last two to three years with no problems. I think I have one at least 5 years old with the original 9v.
@@tbelding for alot of clocks the slightly higher voltage in these cells makes them run slightly faster until they reach 1.5 to 1.4 volts. This would be more evident in leds as they start off super bright then to their normal brightness and down.
The problem with zinc chloride batteries is that the anode is also the container for all the chemicals that make the battery go. As you discharge one, the container slowly gets eaten away. I think the only reason they’re sold is that they are dirt cheap to produce.
Oh man! I've seen those little tungsten-like ones, thinking they actually were tungsten, seen they're battery powered made me laugh and paid no more attention to them. Didn't realise they would never light up with 3 AA
That is a *really* nice little Stanley two-notch knife!!! Could you tell me what it is? Perhaps 'Amtech'? I use a Swan-Morton 'Supatool' retractable to fulfil my electronic-stabbing needs and the quality is very good--plus the warm feeling it gives that I'm keeping at least three men and a dog in work within the 'British' steel industry. Still, there is always room in anyone's toolkit for another sharp thing. As many sharp things as possible in fact.
..... I have a silly question, If you placed a cap on the common Anode (or) Cathode of the HOPI's segment displays would it reduce the flicker (on camera) and introduce a smooth (Multiplex update) transition ? ? ? ? (As you can't adjust cam frame rate (easily) I assume).
I agree, zinc doesn't belong in batteries anymore. I could see still using them in TV remotes, because as even the packaging says "for low-drain devices". And that's the only thing I can think of that I'd use them for. That said, from an estictic POV, I can see the purpose of "cold white" for Christmas/fairy lights.
Those tiny lid retaining screws are horrible. Other boxes have "spring clips" that are simply moulded in the plastic. Cheaper and better, so why don't they all?
I'd like to see the aftermath of the insides of Barry's grilled cheese toaster Clive, possible video idea or not? I love your videos and swear by your advice. Also I'd love to see a retest of poundlands batteries too my fusiomax endurance are not lasting as long as they used to keep up with the great content!
It looks like the green and blue LEDs are actual green and blue chips, but the red and yellow are actually UV LEDs, with red and yellow phosphor. The oldest and cheapest colour (red) is now too expensive.
Ah yes zinc batteries, I have many fond memories of fishing them out of the pool of nasty brown liquid that they inevitably create in whatever container you use to store them.
Hi, with regard to the zinc batteries Vs alkaline batteries, Zinc batteries are much budget friendly, as we can get more number of batteries for a lesser price. Secondly, zinc batteries, by the virtue of their lower price are useful for low current applications like kid's toys and wall clocks, where purchasing alkaline BATTERIES may not be cost effective. Last but not the least, they can be provided as complementary batteries when we purchase some appliances like small flashlights, toys, etc.
Oh, did you have to show the Twin Peaks? I've been craving that stuff since I was last in Poundland in Durham (couldn't find any bars in there, new store so unfamiliar layout!), I love that chocolate!!! :( Still, I can visit Poundland in a couple weeks' time, so not all is lost... :P
14:57 -- Our local supermarket sells orange juice that contains "sodium hexametaphosphate" -- which inspires great confidence in the integrity of the product.
I wasn't paying attention and thought this was an Ashens video, was thinking its a bit early for the Christmas special isn't it mate? But then it was Clive and was like oh boy, taking a look at some cheap Christmas lights!
Great to see the Twin Peaks finally back. Yes, I don't bother with the Zinc batteries, and the Sony ones really leak in a nasty way, causing huge damage.
I bought the 50 lightset yesterday - the ones that look like tungsten ( they also sell them in clear warm white) but i discovered they actually have a timer built in - after 6 hours they switch off automatically - though there is nothing written on box about the timer . The timer setting is just the ON position..... Could you take them apart and look at the chip inside ?
Video coming soon.... I've got a set on time-test. There's no crystal for accurate timing. So I'm guessing it's not going to be accurate. A previous experiment with writing code for a PIC processor relying on the internal oscillator showed wild variation with declining battery voltage and temperature.
Interesting that I just watched a 16 minute video on stuff you can get at a store that doesn't even exist here in the US.
Was be because you wanted to see the queen lolly thing? That's why I watched it, and I'll never get to buy one either.
guess their like our Dollar stores here in the US.
Dollar stores sell the same kind of landfill as Poundland.
@@uK8cvPAq nah Poundland is decent stuff in small packages. poundworld has the landfill.
I've also got decent stuff in my small package.
13:20 "It looks a bit fleshy, but then the Queen is predominantly made of flesh." Not if you ask David Icke, poor chap.
he should have gotten three of them for the beard club... i would have loved to see them all take turns on the queen... LOLS... Now i want to see a Presidential version...
Lizard flesh is still flesh.
@@InconsistentManner Anyone who made it would probably get a visit from the Secret Service.
@@23Scadu Scaly cold blooded lizardish flesh. (According to David Icke, poor chap).
@@InconsistentManner we could have a Donald Trump version here in the US.
I don't think it would offend, since so many of Our citizens are already licking his Arse so fervently . . .
If we see a hairy electrician hanging from the ramparts of Edinburgh castle next August we will know why.
It'd be too funny if the queen actually finds Clive and licks his face in return 😂
He's going to get a visit from a couple of furry hat wearing fellows soon.
I'd have loved it if the Queen's pinky flesh was just the surface, and underneath there was a lizard lolly.
"Mmmm, your majesty. Bluhluhluhp". This will have me laughing 'til the new year.
I love the episodes you do about Poundland items because that's where I work. And learning what you often teach really gives me good insight that my own company wouldn't. The batteries for example.
And as for why the zinc batteries are still sold, until there is regulation against selling them we will always sell them. Why? They are within the top 150 selling products across the entire company. We make a buck-load off them
Anyone else like to just listen to Clive's videos while studying cause his voice is just so relaxing?
"super" "heavy" "duty" I don't think any of those words have ever applied to zinc-carbon batteries
They were coined when they replaced the earlier and even crappier battery technology.
ChayD Is there a point on the load/time curves where they approach Alkaline, with or without factoring in the price and natural resource availability?
Whst was the earlier, crappier battery technology? Cant get much crappier than zinc.
@@simontay4851 The newer, 'super heavy duty', zinc *chloride* batteries replaced the old zinc *carbon* batteries.
"Ever" and "Ready" also sound like poor modifiers.
I remember when Zinc batteries were substantially cheaper than Alkalines, so they were good for things like IR remote controls and thermostats without spending a lot of money.
Zinc batteries are a cheap source of zinc and carbon rods.
And all this time people have been stupidly digging zinc out of the ground :)
Ooh, they come with inanimate carbon rods? Sign me up!
Perfect, I've been looking for some of these to make batteries.
What are zinc and carbon rods good for _besides_ batteries?
@@buddyclem7328 carbon rods are good for galvanic as an example
"They really do light the balls very well"
Big Clive, 2018
You licking the Queen reminds me of a very juvenile kids joke, Why do they put the queen's head on stamp's? Answer if they put her bottom no one would lick them. Tree lights in the fifties they use to clip candles to to Xmas trees and house fires were common.
I didn’t think they’d use candles that long.
LOL Cheeky Devil :)
Here in Canada, we have a $2.00 coin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie#/media/File:Toonie.2012.design.reverse.png with a polar bear on the tail side, and the Queen's head on the head side. The joke we had when we were kids was that the Queen had a bare (bear) ass.
The reason cheap zinc-carbon cells leak when spent or old is because the zinc casing of the cell is also the electrode. As the cell delivers current, the zinc metal is consumed from within (converted to zinc chloride), so the casing becomes thinner until a weak point is formed and the electrolyte leaks out. The "heavy duty" types have an extra layer of steel surrounding the zinc casing, which doesn't get consumed and therefore reduces the risk of leakage. However, the steel layer can rust from the outside, so the heavy duty cells can still leak eventually - it just takes longer.
The main reason why zinc-carbon cells still exist is because they are extremely cheap to make. Plus of course they are relatively safe even when they do leak, since the electrolyte is ammonium chloride or zinc chloride, or a mixture of both. Alkaline batteries use potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the electrolyte, which is much more corrosive and hence far more dangerous if it leaks out. If it is a slow leak and exposed to the air, then the KOH absorbs carbon dioxide to form potassium carbonate, which has a tendency to form fluffy white crystals around the leakage site.
Thanks Clive. I wonder if the BigClive effect will kick in and our local Poundland sells out fast?
That sounds like the Techmoan effect!
I just came for the royal blasphemy.
The liquor filled Christmas balls wouldn’t last long when uncle comes over.
im that alkie uncle
"Our little secret" Uncle likes a drink when he wrestles with me.
@@uK8cvPAq TICKLE FIGHT!
You'd like that wouldn't you?
PLAESE GIVE ME VODKA BOBLES NOW! THANKS. WHERE TO BAY THIS? I MAIGHT TO BUY THIS IN TIME BECOUZE WE HAVE A CHRISTMASS IN 6-7-8 JANUARY AFTER THE HAPY NEW YEAR HOLYDAIS. THANKS. WHERE TO BUY?
The drink looks like the old style fire extinguishers, which you threw on the fire.
I feel like if we were to get a tour of your house, it would be lit entirely by plugin led chains and long tube lights sticking out of regular light sockets.
It's full of lots of weird DIY lights.
I've not seen battery powered Christmas lights, except in antique shops. They were used on farms in western Canada before widespread rural electrification, which occurred, I believe, in the 1950's.
Yeha, battery powered things are sold at dollar stores and pound shops around the world. Stop by your local Dollarama if your still in Canada these days and check out what battery powered lights they have in the Christmas decoration isles.
Interesting! I didn’t think they existed back then and honestly thought they were a more modern idea.
Its the LED revolution, you can toss these lights anywhere and they'll last a long time without having to run extension cords. My mom dots them around the whole house over the holidays, the outside ones even have timers built in and waterproof battery compartments.
uK8cvPAq Your mom sounds Exactly like mime!
Your vid was preceding by the brilliant Aldi Christmas ad, Kevin the carrot where parsnip is 'kicked right in the nuts!' Surprised they haven't banned that one, given the Iceland urangatan controversy!
This site has cured me of my increasing soldering inferiority complex and now feel liberated with Lead....good old Lead, I disowned you once when you served me well, but it's now goodbye to all those crappy pretenders.
Each Kodak alkaline battery has about three times the life of the zinc battery of the same size. If you go to the web site you can download the datasheet for each type of Kodak battery. They state the capacity with a common load and consider them flat at 0.8V.
And many Alkaline batteries are inferior to zinc at low load, so powering a clock for example makes them flat sooner than the zinc. If I put a Kodak alkaline battery in the clock in my bathroom it will last about three to four months, but one of the zinc batteries lasts over a year. Put them in my torch and it's a different story of course, with the alkaline lasting about three times as long.
if alkaline batteries are only lasting that long on a low load, they are bad! we use alkalines in our clocks and usually get over a year of use...but it does vary widely....
@@andygozzo72 The original idea of alkaline batteries was always that they were intended to be used in high current draw equipment.
Clive was awoken at 5am by the sound of hobnail boots on the front door..
;)
The antioxidants are probably citric acid, which is also a flavor and a preservative.
marketers used to called them antioxidants, orange or citrus flavours. lol
Citric acid is not an antioxidant. Ascorbic acid is.
I'm getting increasingly annoyed with cryptic ingredients like "natural flavours". I thought it was illegal not to list all the ingredients?
@@beware_the_moose
Only if it's an ingredient that can cause harm or health defects in large amounts.
Or that's how it is here in the states.
the Food and Drug Administration was created just for that reason.
@@beware_the_moose if that was the case then KFC has been illegally selling its secret recipe for years
Even Phil the Greek doesn't lick the Queen with that much fervour. After this video those Queenie lollies are going to have to be moved to the adult section of Poundland.
"I'm going to have to lick the queen's face, I'm afraid. . .". . . Gotta be the quote of the year!!! I just might have to use that next time a buddy asks "what's up??"
Interesting that Kodak is now into batteries while they missed out on the massive digital photography growth. I love the led bubble lights. The Queen lollie is very cool. Great video. Merry X-mas Clive.
It was a completely different industry. Kodak and Polaroid are both just generic brands now.
Cool, thanks for your reply, I learnt something new today. Cheers ! @@bigclivedotcom
My brain was so expecting ashens it sort of broke for a full minute.
Me too. I thought 'where's the sofa?'
No, I was around for the 50's, and we most definately did not use candles on trees. We had strings of lights that used small Edison base bulbs.
I actually saw the recommendation for this vid a few days ago. Didn't look to see who's vid, because it was obviously Ashen's. Went looking there today to watch it, and was puzzled as hell as to where it went! Came here on my normal cruise thru the channels and "Ahhhh!, there it is!"
I was fooled by the thumbnail in my subscription box. I thought it was an Ashens christmas tat special. :)
Based on your recommendation, I popped into Poundland and procured some Twin Peaks chocolate. Astonishingly, they do a white chocolate version also. Both are absolutely excellent! Every bit as good as chocolate named after a model of a certain mobile phone and white chocolate advertised by a bespectacled cowboy clad youth! YUMMY!!
Classic Clive - "This probably will get me beheaded at some point." Your are the best Clive!
Clive how about a video on converting a set of those lights to use a USB charger.
Licking the Queen's face... glad it wasn't flavoured of mothballs and old linen... (of note, Clive, you seemed to take some sort of perverted satisfaction in doing so) :P
twin peaks are great, always pick up a block when im passing a pound shop. i learned fairly recently, that supposedly the way to get a piece is to press the end piece towards the rest of the block in order to easily break it off! anywho; a very interesting video thanks much.
Hi Clive. How about taking the zinc batteries apply a load and run them till the juice flows out. I'm sure this will involve some stopping and starting or even some stop motion work, but it would be interesting to see at what point the goo comes out.
regarding the first set of LEDs could it be that they used uv LEDs under the red/yellow converters where the uv LEDs would have a higher voltage drop than the blue/green ones?
Clive, please do a test on the pink lights: As I understand it, most pink LEDs tend to fade to white after some hours of use. Could you power them up until Christmas to see if they stay pink?
The early ones did, but these ones seem pretty stable. Then again, they are running at low current.
I have some CVS (A pharmacy in the US) Alkaline Batteries in a Maglite flashlight that supposedly *EXPIRED in 2004.* I used to use them in a CD player boombox before that. They still work fine and I changed the bulb to LED like 5 years ago. I wonder who actually made them?
Hi Clive, Thanks for all the vid's You make it fun and so interesting. I have a couple of LED bulbs I would like to send you for a postmortem, I believe they are called "Cob" bulbs. How do I send you them and where? Thanks!!
Hi Clive . Something you might like to check out . My daughter bought a few sets of the Poundland fairy lights . (Identical 50 x sets as these in the your vid). She is someone who uses fairy lights all the time not just Christmas . Also she runs them all the time and leaves them on pretty much.
She's noticed these lights shut themselves off automatically after around 6 hours if you leave them on . (To switch them back on you've got to switch them off and on again) . A bit irritating for people who like to leave them on al the time!
Thought you might like to check that out see if yours do it / how it's done?
I've just made that very video and shown how to adapt them to USB.
Question for the Clive-ster:
I just added a string of LED christmas lights to a pre-existing setup on my porch. (Two actually, but only one of them is chained to another.) The setup goes like this... One 20ft strip of 100x colored LEDs, that a separate 10ft strip of 50x white LEDs are chained to the end of. (By chained, I just mean, plugged into the socket on the end of the strip.) Just the first half of white LED strip is dim.
Now, I could maybe answer my question without asking if I were to be so foolish as to spend the time I'm taking writing this comment to, instead, run an extension cord out to the white LEDs, connect them directly to the mains, and see if they all lit at equal brightness. But where's the fun in that?
Now, the 10 ft strip of white LEDs is clearly made of two 5ft strips that are joined within an inline plastic cap at the factory. The same appears to be true of the 20 ft strip of colored LEDs, except (again, I can't be bothered to actually look or anything) if I remember right, they were split in half as well -- not at the 25 LED / 5 ft mark, but at the 10ft / 50 LED mark. So, noting that I'm in America and this is 110-120V service, my guesses are as follows: Since these are AC, LED string lights in 3-wire strings... The AC is delivered to the end of the string, and it's female socket first, then returns through the LEDs? The various sections of each string that have been joined are operating in parallel, within the larger series?
And the reason the first half of the last string in the line (of just 2 strings in the circuit) is only putting out half-brightness is: It's receiving the current last, after the AC goes to the far end; and the resistive load used on the colored LEDs - operating at half the wattage per LED of the whites - doesn't leave enough juice for the last parallel string in the series to light at full-intensity?
Either that logic chain makes some degree of sense, or you can see now why I asked.
In both cases, I'm very confused.
My granpa had a set of tungsten lights and he always replaced any broken bulbs with different coloured ones and some clear ones as well. They were quite nice.
What's the point of zinc-carbon batteries in 2018 anyway?
A source of Zinc and Carbon rods
They only make them so that alkaline battery manufacturers can say: "Works six times longer than regular zinc-carbon batteries!"
IR remote controller? Wall clocks? Low powered LED torch?
@@redwanhasan1721 put them in your head torch and don't use it for 6 months and youll have leaky batteries lol. Zinc batteries are shit
It's so cute when people say torch instead of flashlight, as if they are a serious fire hazard! 🔥🔦 ❗
Bit of rambling here but I have these pair of cheapy cornershop earphones I got for £2.50 and I was wearing them listening to music and there was a static noise before they gave me a quite large eclectic shock right in my ear.
I’m guessing it was a faulty cable?
Were you charging the phone at the time? Was it a cheap charger? If so then stop using it immediately and buy a new good quality charger. There have been several fatalities from cheap chargers causing electrocution via earphones. You can buy safe chargers from prominent shops like ASDA or IKEA in the UK and Walmart in America. They have to comply with higher electrical standards. I don't actually recommend ever using earphones while a phone is charging from a plug-in USB charger. A battery power bank is OK though.
I can’t believe you have less than 1 million subscribers it’s one of the best channels on RUclips.
Oh man, I'm so happy I found this channel especially for videos like these.
SO Toblerone didn't like Poundland's double sawtooth, but were fine with that offset single sawtooth then ? Picky...
This is the type of quality content I've been subscribed to clive to finally see.
14:00 disturbing part.. specially the plplplplpl sound while doing so :D As for the Zinc batteries, wasn't that a old clip of you where you tested a bunch, they just use them words still nowadays despite they been replaced by far superior materials to be used in batteries? But the last light u tested, cant you just link a bunch of them together? Though if u link 2 of the 10 or 8-lights, would you either up the voltage or the amp?
I had a set of the purplish ball lamps that lit a pumpkin up wonderfully
I like the led heritage lamps too thanks for sharing! Enjoy the Toblerone alike
I had some purplish balls once. It gets damned cold in Sweden in the winter. They didn't light up though.
Do bar codes stretch across the entire package commonly in the UK? You'd never see UPC codes that long in the US / Canada.
No. But some shops do use them to make scanning faster and more reliable.
Ah, the joys of Her Maj getting some tongue action and the sound of Clive's mastication in the background... Could it possibly get any more festive? :D
There was also a very odd TV series here for a season or two named Twin Peaks, complete with murder mystery, and a town that was beyond weird...
We used a cheapy set from ebay as part of a illuminated prop for a show I was doing. They had some form of resistor in them and one of the units decided to overheat and actually melted the plastic battery compartment.
I’m from Birmingham. And the only reason I watch your videos are because your voice is so satisfying
Babies prefer zinc batteries, everyone knows that.
They taste better with a few neodymium magnets to wash them down.
Well zinc is very important for a healthy immune system...and we thought babies were stupid!
BobEckert56 is it nasally or anally !
I picked up the globe lights and the £2 batteries solely on Clive's recommendation, and the lights now tastefully adorn some Christmas decorations.
"Nommhmmnom... Sorry your Majesty. Blil-il-il-ip!" LOL
I always enjoy watching videos on that tat you buy in poundland. Please never stop.
The Christmas hall seems to be getting earlier and earlier same here in the states they actually had the Christmas items out before Halloween.
That moment when you see a Poundland inspired title and find out it's not Ashens :P
The real advantage of Zinc cells are that poundland gets more profit per cell than any other brand. Quite sad really as they are only good for clocks and remotes.
And smoke detectors.
@@buddyclem7328 true i forgot about them. To be fair i live in a flat so they are always running on live. Most of our smoke detectors run on a 9V battery don't they? Not AA or AAA cells.
Anything that uses an ultra low draw, and sits a lot. Remotes, smoke detectors (The ones I've taken apart actually specify battery part numbers, and they're all 'super heavy duty'), _not_ radios, clocks are okay, but alkaline are fine as well in clocks. I use them in single LED christmas style hanging 'things', where the batteries will be thrown away after they are taken down. I also use the 9v in my multi-meters, where they tend to last two to three years with no problems. I think I have one at least 5 years old with the original 9v.
@@tbelding for alot of clocks the slightly higher voltage in these cells makes them run slightly faster until they reach 1.5 to 1.4 volts. This would be more evident in leds as they start off super bright then to their normal brightness and down.
They're not better than alkalines anywhere, but in very low current applications a good zinc chloride cell is very nearly as good as alkaline.
@Bigclivedotcom, Would it be possible for you to do a tutorial on how to convert these lights to USB powered?
The lolly part was perhaps one of the best parts of any Big Clive video of recent months...!
I think this was in my opinion, your most entertaining video to date.
The heck with 'licking'! That wasn't a star, that was a carnation - you DE-flowered Her!!
She's 92 years old. If she hasn't been "deflowered" by now...
@@BlackEpyon She has kids so its probably a safe bet she has, unless she's the Virgin Mary
I didn't expect the face insertion
It absolutely made my night
The problem with zinc chloride batteries is that the anode is also the container for all the chemicals that make the battery go. As you discharge one, the container slowly gets eaten away. I think the only reason they’re sold is that they are dirt cheap to produce.
yep, thats it...
Clive has done an Ashens video now. Brilliant. Now I demand a video where Ashens outlines the circuitry of a Pop Station.
Oh man! I've seen those little tungsten-like ones, thinking they actually were tungsten, seen they're battery powered made me laugh and paid no more attention to them. Didn't realise they would never light up with 3 AA
That is a *really* nice little Stanley two-notch knife!!! Could you tell me what it is? Perhaps 'Amtech'? I use a Swan-Morton 'Supatool' retractable to fulfil my electronic-stabbing needs and the quality is very good--plus the warm feeling it gives that I'm keeping at least three men and a dog in work within the 'British' steel industry. Still, there is always room in anyone's toolkit for another sharp thing. As many sharp things as possible in fact.
It is indeed an Amtech. I think I got it from T K Maxx.
Battery’s, why do they always do the 10+2 or variations?
Are they trying to do a service for mathematically challenged people?
"Battery's" Not just mathematically challenged are you?
..... I have a silly question, If you placed a cap on the common Anode (or) Cathode of the HOPI's segment displays would it reduce the flicker (on camera) and introduce a smooth (Multiplex update) transition ? ? ? ?
(As you can't adjust cam frame rate (easily) I assume).
It would cause screen ghosting where digits would appear superimposed on each other.
@@bigclivedotcom ...... I was thinking small value capacitance. just enough to buffer the transition of the multiplexing.
poundland lights are now 3 for £2 and 50 set battery lights for £1
I fear I went overboard when I spotted that the 50 LED sets were down to a pound. I bought loads of them.
I agree, zinc doesn't belong in batteries anymore. I could see still using them in TV remotes, because as even the packaging says "for low-drain devices". And that's the only thing I can think of that I'd use them for.
That said, from an estictic POV, I can see the purpose of "cold white" for Christmas/fairy lights.
Any Chance to see a more in depth review of the Cocktail Topper? *cough* Manx Beard Club *cough*
I was waiting for this video! Thanks a lot for the awesome content!
Oh my god Clive! I'll never unsee you licking that lolly. Wrong on so many levels. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Those tiny lid retaining screws are horrible. Other boxes have "spring clips" that are simply moulded in the plastic. Cheaper and better, so why don't they all?
Tip the coconut drink away, and jam a string of LEDs in the bauble!
sounds like good advice generally.
Wondered where that was going initially...... 😱
I wonder what flavor they’ll make King Charles III
It will be underpant flavour.
I'd like to see the aftermath of the insides of Barry's grilled cheese toaster Clive, possible video idea or not? I love your videos and swear by your advice. Also I'd love to see a retest of poundlands batteries too my fusiomax endurance are not lasting as long as they used to keep up with the great content!
It looks like the green and blue LEDs are actual green and blue chips, but the red and yellow are actually UV LEDs, with red and yellow phosphor. The oldest and cheapest colour (red) is now too expensive.
The cold white, while i share your view of it usually, actually works for the ice looking lights...
Chocolate inspired by the Wrekin and Ercall (pronounced arcul) hills? They're in Telford, Shropshire. I live a few miles away from them.
Ah yes zinc batteries, I have many fond memories of fishing them out of the pool of nasty brown liquid that they inevitably create in whatever container you use to store them.
by far the funniest thing I've seen all this past week!
Clive why are they battery units. I wonder what they are used for, only ever seen mains powered units.
Cost, safety and convenience. It means you can have lights anywhere and the LED strings will run for a very long time on a set of batteries.
Hi, with regard to the zinc batteries Vs alkaline batteries,
Zinc batteries are much budget friendly, as we can get more number of batteries for a lesser price.
Secondly, zinc batteries, by the virtue of their lower price are useful for low current applications like kid's toys and wall clocks, where purchasing alkaline BATTERIES may not be cost effective.
Last but not the least, they can be provided as complementary batteries when we purchase some appliances like small flashlights, toys, etc.
Oh, did you have to show the Twin Peaks? I've been craving that stuff since I was last in Poundland in Durham (couldn't find any bars in there, new store so unfamiliar layout!), I love that chocolate!!! :(
Still, I can visit Poundland in a couple weeks' time, so not all is lost... :P
twocvbloke The name "twin peaks" could also be interpreted in a sexually suggestive manner.
14:57 -- Our local supermarket sells orange juice that contains "sodium hexametaphosphate" -- which inspires great confidence in the integrity of the product.
Clive removed & ensconced in the tower...where he immediately sets about re-wiring the place....
@pmailkeey Since he put in hundreds of flame flickering LED lamps of course, all sourced for cheap by the government off EBAY
in the Twin Peaks chocolate, are they investigating the death of Huntley & Palmer?
I wasn't paying attention and thought this was an Ashens video, was thinking its a bit early for the Christmas special isn't it mate? But then it was Clive and was like oh boy, taking a look at some cheap Christmas lights!
You sir, made my day with this video. Very very funny!
Great to see the Twin Peaks finally back.
Yes, I don't bother with the Zinc batteries, and the Sony ones really leak in a nasty way, causing huge damage.
Clive you barsteward! I'm dieing from man-flu and you make me laugh so hard it's given me a headache...
LOVE YOU
I saw rhe thumbnail and thougt it was an ashens video;)
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I bought the 50 lightset yesterday - the ones that look like tungsten ( they also sell them in clear warm white) but i discovered they actually have a timer built in - after 6 hours they switch off automatically - though there is nothing written on box about the timer . The timer setting is just the ON position..... Could you take them apart and look at the chip inside ?
Video coming soon.... I've got a set on time-test. There's no crystal for accurate timing. So I'm guessing it's not going to be accurate. A previous experiment with writing code for a PIC processor relying on the internal oscillator showed wild variation with declining battery voltage and temperature.
Clive, we love you! Next time you are Brighton way, could you look at my Heath Robinson stage lighting whilst drinking free beer.