Poundland Pifco Penny-Pinching LED lamp. (Hack and schematic.)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- My all time favourite hackable lamp is back under a different brand. But there's a catch.... They've skimped on the LED count on the three watt one. Here's how to convert these lamps into ultra low power 24/7 ambient lights.
I almost got Electroboom's catchphrase right. It's FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER-ER-ER-ER-er-er!
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The little rectifier is rated at 0.8A and would get pretty hot if you ran it near that.
Yeah, I did mostly completely miss the resistors with the solder when I was trying to fumble inside the lamp housing. The dissipation of the resistors will be a miniscule 50mW each for the 10 LED lamp and a slightly higher 100mW each for the 5 LED lamp. That's a fraction of their power rating. I wonder what component would fail first if left on continuously for decades.
The Pifco lamps are available from Poundland in 3W and 5W ratings (get the 5W for mods) and in e27 screw base and B22 bayonet cap base. There may be a colour option, but I just saw warm white.
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Clive back home and full of ginger beer, the world is again at peace and ready for hacking LEDs.
And on the 2nd try, hack the correct one! I am still laughing...
Big Clive I think you have a buzz going! :-)
I have no idea what Clive is talking about but I know what is saying!! Does that make sense? I would for sure hire him to rewire my house. 'Clive just do you think is best' happy to pay to leave him to it.
Just don't make my house look like Edinburgh tattoo!!
Fortified ginger beer..
Triple 5 K subscribers. Congrats Clive you've won a timer.
The only timer!. Brilliant 😂
I thought you meant he had 15k subscribers and did NOT get that joke. I need to go to bed.
Martin Muehlhaeuser Another K and he'll get two for the price of one.
You MUST CT scan a 555 timer IC and ASMR it to decent music. Nobody Does It Better.....
@@ethanpschwartz Me too, it's 12:37AM here :l
Clive could you do a video talking more about apparent power factor / power factor and the implications of new smart meters? I've been holding off from having one installed, and want to know what knew charging schemes they might enable negatives / positives etc. And how much there in the interest of consumers v providers.
for a standard home installation you get billed for active power in most countries. You are billed for KWh, not for KVAh. A smart meter probably doesnt change anything on that
As consumers it allows you to see what you are using. We rely on ours to tell when our oven reaches temperature.
For providers it avoids needing to send someone to read the meter and let's them see what actual load you are putting on the grid (apparent power) vs what you are actually using. Also gives them a clear picture of exactly who us using what and where which could potentially help target where to put micro generation sites.
Its unclear if they will ever switch to billing by apparent power but it means they could which is the worry.
@@alexatkin i would understand it somehow if the electricity companies would billing their customers for apparent power. sure, you get nothing out of it, but on the other hand, the electricity company has to burn something to "compensate" for the phase offset. if you power, say for example an oldschool lightbulb, with an efficiency with say 10%, you have also to pay for the whole power consumtion of the bulb, not just for the light you get out of it. simmilar principle applys to apparant power...just saying
luckily out appliances are getting better and better and modern SMPS come with real good PFCs
beingatliberty - the so called advantages of so called “smart” meters are oversold. Yes, you can monitor your electricity consumption. But after a couple of weeks, most people will get bored of this. And if you already switch off devices and appliances, it will *NOT* save you any money whatsoever. It also won’t save you any money if you are too lazy to switch off devices and appliances.
The first generation of “smart” meters often will no longer work as smart meters if you change your electricity supply company (at least in the mainland U.K.). The second generation smart meters are supposed to be better in this regard, but it’s too early to tell.
The cheapest electricity deals are often from electricity supply companies that don’t require smart meters.
Smart meters are not free, the money for the smart meter programme comes from charging bill payers more.
How good is the data security? With smart meters transmitting consumption data, at some point enterprising criminals are going to figure out that you can tell if no one is at home using smart meter data...
The national grid already has a very good understanding of the mainland U.K. power requirements, so I’m not sure smart meter data is going to make any significant difference in this regard.
I strongly recommend instead of wasting time on a smart meter, instead look at turning off unnecessary electrical devices and appliances. And when you need to buy replacements, look at the efficiency figures. Also cheap items may not last as long as better quality items. So also take into account lifespan and quality.
This video explains it ruclips.net/video/XCtYNNDslJk/видео.html
"Open electronics and alcohol! It's a splendid combination!"
And yet- you still shock yourself less than Electroboom, who does this stuff sober. ;) Maybe if he had a couple stiff drinks... (=D
Mehdi knows exactly what he's doing, sorry not sorry 😉
@@georgeprout42 he does. Sometimes I wish he would actually get serious with his content, but he's very entertaining so I don't really care
@@Zipppyart He had a series where he was serious but he stopped :(
@@The2Coolest2 A serious series... seriously ? 😬
Pifco (described as "UK housewares and personal care", I suppose the latter is the vibrator department) was bought by an American company, Salton Inc. in 2001. Salton changed their name to Russell Hobbs Inc (they acquired that British brand at the same time they bought Pifco) in 2009, and were bought by Spectrum Brands (which was originally Rayovac) in 2010.
So it hasn't really been a British company in nearly twenty years... (though it appears to still be registered in the UK.)
Vibrators and Fairy lights sounds like a complete party!
Vibrators and Fairy Lights is, incidentally, the name of my upcoming band.
Buzzcocks?.... Oh, that's taken too.
That's ironically the name wrote on my first comunion tape.
good tear down.
Does anyone know when PhotonicInduction is coming back.
I like BigClive's vids for sanity and PhotonicInduction's vids for insanity :-)
RUclips as the single income source hasn't worked for a long time now and setting up sidebusinesses is a hassle that many hobby Tubers don't want to go trough, so they have just stopped creating content because it's time, effort and money wasted. Andy is one of them, apparently - which is no surprise considering all the things happening in his life.
Kreosan from Russia is filling in for Photonicinduction while he's away. Look up his channel, they just released a vid this week involving an 8kw Tesla coil and an electrified watermelon helmet.
About 4 months ago, he said that he was coming back with a new series, however, nothing has come from that so far. ruclips.net/user/Photonvidscommunity
Glad to have you back home Clive!
Vibrators and fairy lights to make a party...you have totally made my day, Clive!
Nice to see that the practice of measuring flux in pauls is spreading
Back at the bench, stormy and fun. Saw those lamps last week-end. Now I will get some for playing.
🎵 Clive wears his sun glasses at night
so he can
So he can
Watch things as he tests LED lights🎵
perfect!
Has a nice ring to it
wot is choon ?
Corey Hart - Sandstorm ;)
Louis isn’t a repair channel anymore. It’s a NYC real estate channel!
And a cat channel.
Can't stand the man, to be honest. This is probably an unpopular opinion
@@jhsevs Louis roseman is an obnoxious prick and has allot to hide I have had personal experience with the little turd and he is simply just not to be trusted.
Louis may come across as obnoxious to some, but I felt dirty for installing QT back in the day (work PC, never at home). Apple policy is the issue, and he's doing a great job for pointing out how they rip customers off.
That's the little fellow that can't keep a women because he's a vegan and wont eat tuna , and to busy shopping for real estate for cats
Glad to see your hands are recovered.
Absolutely. Wish you the (dermal) best!
Till NEXT TIME! Buuhuahahahaaa! At least, he doesn't deliberately stick his fingers in a 7kV television flyback transformer like Shango066 does. "That tingled my bottom!" No, that's Svengoolie...
could measure it in place, or go with the destructive method...
Destructive it is!
(have a thumbs up for the destructive method :))
Not enough flux :'(
no fluxs were given during this vijeo . femtopauls of flux.
According to WikiPedia: "The Pifco brand is no longer used by Russell Hobbs, but was licensed for use by KB (Import and Export) Ltd in 2007 who went on to market a range of electrical items under the brand, from LED Christmas lights and lighting to heating and cooling appliances."
Ah Pifco... brings back memories from the 1970s and cheap, very cheap, torches and battery powered fans
Thanks Clive, nice poundland screwdriver set, worth every penny. Off down in the morning to get some lamps.
Congratulations on the 555k subscribers
Pisco is Chilean/Peruvian grape booze. And it's delicious (:
Pifco! Not heard of that brand since I was a kid.
The bike lamps on my Raleigh chopper were pifco.
@@blackcountryme Pifco and Raleigh were both part of the same company for a while.
@@tasherratt could be, buy the big Eveready lights were better... But Eveready batteries (card and paper wrapped) were rubbish.
As one who's read some of the scientific papers covering dendrite formation in lead-free solders, I have to say I was surprised when I first learned about this phenomenon. Tin is an all-around weird metal.
Whenever you mention ElectroBoom, I'm reminded I stopped watching ElectroBoom and EEVBlog after the Pewdiepie things they did. Don't like the dude.
I like how you can tell about the effects of the dark & stormy on Clive, especially in the second half of the video. He even messes up by picking the wrong lamp to modify and somehow gets super hyped up. Really fun video.
Welcome back home Clive, missed you shenanegans!
I really enjoy these hack videos. Good times. Cheers from kansas. Tungtangulation as AvE would say.
Clive is slowly turning into Kenny Everet, All in the best possible taste
"Always change you leads from amps to voltage setting"
Yeh guess who kept forgetting and blowing up fuses!
If you own a Fluke meter, you soon remember as the fuses are about 20quid a set!!
@@Cornz38 yeh, found that out after blowing 3 and the boss telling me!
I have 2,5kg of lead based solder stashed away. Multicore brand. Smells so good!
I think that it'll last the rest of my life, if i use it for repairs. Maybe when it starts running out, i'll switch to lead free for new homebrew projects so i can work on lead based products with lead based solder.
Normal service has been resumed, flickering HOPI, pink lamp holder, and MDF :)
aaahh...pifco the patron god of bicycle lights !!!
Yeah, torches. Dildos and fairy lights?.. Scarey childhood Clive musta had!
@@stevewatts3502 and hairdryers, As for vibrators, he means "Massagers" just like the Hitachi Magic Wand :-)
Is this being lost on me? Please don't let all this POUNDLAND and PiFCo innuendo be lost... the names could be a singles bar. Haha. Now back to all things electrical.. Wonderful narrative to the mystery that is, "electricity". Thanks Clive.
I like slightly intoxicated Clive XD
I had a pifco battery powered clothes brush. I bought it at a jumble sale when I was a kid, no idea why.
7:74 - "fairy light and vibrators, that sounds like a complete party"
bigclive 2019
I bought a couple of the 5W PIFCO LED bulbs shortly after Poundland dropped that style for the Electrek brand in favour of the later ones, one cold white, one warm, nether of which I liked so they're languishing somewhere in my bedroom in a box of junk... :P
Welcome back home. Your hands healed nicely! 👍🏻
IIRC RoHS has little to do with protecting consumers from lead safely sealed up inside products, the real concern is "recycling" programs in developing nations where they simply burn piles of circuit boards and collect the precious metals that ooze out the bottom
Jeremy Ruhland And the people exposed to it in the factory for however many hours a week
"Open electric connections and alcohol, splendid combination" BigClive 2019
ntm, high voltage :3
ntm, high voltage :3
ntm, high voltage :3
8:50 what you need, are some coloured pens! You could colour in the traces! Or do it on the computer, if you wanna be boring, since you're printing them out anyway as blow-ups.
Sorry to hear Her Majesty's goons got hold of your Tom Of Finland prints and your "specialist" metalwork. Depending on circumstances, I think you can put in claims for stuff lost in the post, even if it wasn't sent insured, there's a default level. "Depending" is the important word there.
Someones had their coffee (or stronger) this evening "Not 100% sure" - Clives super accurate anyway :-)
I could be wrong but my earliest memory of Pifco was a hair dryer????
Could well have been. It may have been the pifco cordless electric clothes brush. They've been described as the JML of the 70s
Pifco has done all sorts over the years. Household lamps, hair dryers, tape recorders, ladies vibrators, all sorts of car electrics including distributors and coils etc. The old Singer Vogue used almost completely Pifco parts for the electrics when built. Desk fans, electric tooth brushes, slow cookers, Christmas lights, the list is almost endless.
We had a hand-held Pifco hair dryer - pink, of course. As others have said, just about anything in the small electricals department would be their cup of tea.
For Clive's amusement and my own - I just did a random search for a Pifco soldering iron - oh yes - they've not let us down !
www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/183793445113_/Vintage-Pifco-Illuminated-Soldering-Iron-250-V-35.jpg
I'm a sucker for *really bright* E27 LEDs. In 2015 I bought an Osram 17W bulb which supposedly had around 1500lm (or even more, I don't remember). But now it has failed me, after the warranty has run out and after an estimated run time of 15.000h, so about what they predicted. Still, this isn't very satisfying, because an LED wouldn't need to fail. In this case, it is the power supply that failed (at least I suppose so), since the LED starts flickering as a whole. However, it is so badly glued shut that there is no hope of opening it in a nondestructive way in order to repair it or replace the shoddy component. But the worst thing about it is that I haven't even learned from that experience, and I bought another Osram bulb, because they are the brightest with their 21.5W and around 2400lm.
While my Phillips LED from 2011 (back then it was an 11W high power LED with around 800lm, ridiculous for today's standards, but it made good light) still works no problem. Oh well, I've also bought some new 18.5W Phillips LEDs with 2100lm. If they happen to last longer than the Osram does, then it'll be Phillips all the way from that point on.
If the postage to the isle of man weren't as expensive as it is, I'd send the dead or dying Osram LED to you for a post mortem, Clive. But since it is a one way street anyways (as in: once you're in, you'll never get it back together), I'm not even sure it would be worth it.
Around 12:00 we see you wiping away bits of plastic debris - and I'm thinking mind you don't cut yourself on the stubby component wires soldered in
then realised it's only a photo !
Hey, the hands have reappeared again !
In honor of having 555k survivors you should makes something with the overused chip of similar numbering.
I liked the older design of Poundland lamps. I've had a few (3w) in use for the last couple of years, and none of them have failed. Excellent value.
His three phase FBRs are called "EVEN FULLER BRIDGE RECTIFIER".
That LED at 5:00 is gonna be dim with the tracks as you laid out. ;-)
Welcome home, Clive.
Also, yes, lead-free solder IS rubbish, and it's not juicy at all!
I've been looking for an equivalent bulb in our Dollar Stores.
Good hackage!
blindly prob 170volts...... this has the making of Electroboom.
Oh, how I have missed this type of videos. Excellent video, sir! Made my morning way better!
I think I'm going to get some of those 5W jobbies (in the Glasgow sense) to mess about with.
Huh huh huh huh.... "jobbie"
@@edgeeffect was wondering how long it would take to get a laugh.
Wait did you just say a
*inhales deeply*
*FUUUUUuuUuUuUuUuUuUuUulllllllll* *edit cut
Brilliant, I really enjoyed this video! I've only just found your channel and look forward to watching more. Now, where's my soldering iron and bottle of gin :)
Ah, Pifco, I’m amazed they’re still going, even if it is just cheap tat now.
You should tell the people of Flint, Michigan about your assertion that water doesn't dissolve elemental lead.
I prefer the AvE 'Rectumfryer' :D
Lead free solder is booty. Long live leaded solder!
You set me searching for info on PIFCO, i knew in my youth they were based near a firm i worked for in Failsworth, Manchester
Seems they done a lot of taking over, buying brands, they became part of Russell Hobs of electric kettle fame, in 2001 Salton bought them, and in 2010 they were bought again by another conglomerate & the Russell Hobbs business in the UK was reorganised to become Spectrum Brands (UK) Ltd. Spectrum Brands in the UK now design and manufacture consumer products in addition to Russell Hobbs, including the brands Remington, IAMS, Eukanuba, Tetra, FURminator, Rayovac and VARTA.
Further PIFCO info i found here modernmooch.com/category/pifco/ if you like to trip down memory lane as I do...
ps.The first thing i remember under the Pfico brand...was a mains powered massager my mum owned.....
I think she must've had a bad back or something.....yeah that must be it...
Just thought i'd share that gem from my past...
Hi Clive welcome home.
This was great! Thank you Big Clive!
It's always the ppbus or a capsitter! Mr Clinton wants some Greenies! 😄
Drop it like its G3 hot
When will you finally get a safety transformer with 1:1 transformation for your high voltage experiments? :D
Then you won't get a shock when you accidently touch anything (unless you close the circuit anyway)
An isolation transformer carries its own risks. In this environment I'm protected by good isolation from ground and two RCDs/GFIs.
Can you use a resending service? There has to be one in the UK that will serve IOM specifically,
Hopefully next vid will be the failed Asda bulb ?
I actually want my leds to glow when turned off.
I've a compact fluorescent that flashes every 40 seconds - when turned off.
Thats even cooler!! Great for a outdoor lamp
I had that with a CCFL in the hall after a mishap with the shower in the bathroom above.
Who the hell gave this a thumbs down? Seriously?! Ugh!
shame the UK has no Action stores (they are original from Netherlands but also in Germany etc. these days) as they now have a great selection of wifi-controllable lamps of a brand called LSC. Also detectors and switches e.d. I bought a 470 LM warm white WIFI LED lamp for 6.50 Euros and I discovered by its mac-address that it includes an Espressif chip (Esp8266 or 32). Would be awesome for you to tear one down Clive.
You MIGHT try the LED car head lights.. Major Light, 12v, and LOTS of heat.
Landfill is normally acidic, so the metallic lead will become lead salts soon enough.
I keep some 60/40 in my tool kit, but I only use it for tricky repairs on crowded boards and the like...
I remember PIFCO hair Dryers in the late '80's - early '90's
With the draw at 1ma, that lamp will last as long as the caps in the down converter will last, because you will get the full 100,000 hour+ out of those LED's.
Clive you can buy PIFCO B22 and E27 Lamps from Home and Bargin for £2.99 pack of 4. There rated at 5 Watt 425 Lumen and the Colour temp is 6000K. I measured the current at 30mA
Colour temp may be OK, but the cheap LED lamps have a shitty spectrum. None of them are going to match the full spectrum of an incandescent lamp, but the cheap ones have one red peak, one green peak and one blue peak. Colours will look wrong. Even wronger than with a more expensive LED lamp. Which still makes colours look wrong compared to an incandescent.
Clive your on one tonight brilliant keep the good work up
I have a pifco electric bicycle bell. And a faulty quilt from Asda.
Most interesting, pity I'm in the wrong country, no pound land over here. It would be really handy if it was easy to tell whether a lamp is a capacitive dropper type, of a full on switch mode supply before buying them. I kind of prefer the cap droppers as they are so much more simpler = longer life.
I almost burst my sides laughing when you mentioned 'randomly probing' mains circuitry - if I did it, smoke would surely ensue, Only Big Clive gets away with this.
You never go full bridge rectifier!
HaHa!!! @ 22:01 Time stamp...Louis Rossmann Therapeutic? Well Okay then! Never looked at Louis that way... :D
Yes, Clive is home and need more refreshments of ginger beer... Thanks Big Clive...
LLAP
Watchout for the PIFCO ladyVibe in a poundland near you soon?
Lots of things seemed so much better with lead in them.
Hi this video looks crystal clear FAB : )
i definitely like Clive + Dark&Stormy
When I was a kid, my mate's parents had a Pifco "massage machine" with which we had some interesting stories that I probably shouldn't share.
I still don't quite "get" power factors, real and apparent power.... could you do us an idiot's guide sometime??
Rectifier or Rectum-Fryer in AVE speak
Yes, rectum frier
fryer ??????
Ya, but Clive's got a more literal one ... m.ruclips.net/video/ClSch3zLC0k/видео.html
I have a vintage pifco roadside lamp it looks like a dalek the doctor had fun with and turned it into a lamp
@BigCliveDotCom - You mention Louis Rossmann @21:50 who has OBS software by Paul Daniels (not the magician, which reminds me of the Mrs.Merton question to Debbie McGee - "What first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels?") which renders a virtual multimeter inset. Just for Chips'n'Pickles, can we have a BigCliveDotCom virtual Hopi Meter, complete with a flicker option to make it unreadable? ;-)
Kudos, Clive. And extra kudos for the ElectroBoom reference!
I dunno who'd buy a 3W vs a 5W anyway. LED light bulbs aren't bright enough! They're not as bright as they claim to be! The commonly sold ones don't compare well to incandescents, and it's the brighter ones are hardly ever found in supermarkets etc. Even 5W isn't good enough for a living room, or most other rooms. As a porch light, maybe, fine, and using hardly any power is a good thing there. It was the same with compact fluorescents, you'd see 8W everywhere when really 11W was the minimum acceptable and really 15W would have been good.
Clive, about charging for apparent power: To my knowledge, no company or anyone else is charged per kVAh "used" as you suggest.
Normally industry still pay per kWh, but they have to pay a penalty if their PF falls below a certain value, for example 0.9.
If the power Companies actually tried to charge you for kVAh, you could almost certainly sue them for misleading people or false claims or all sorts of stuff. After all they only have to produce that much more Power as is dissipated on the lines. They do *_not_* have to produce the same amount of KWh as the amount of kVAh.
If they do charge for reactive power you should buy some bad PF lamps to counteract inductive loads like fridge motors
Sorry but I have seen meters with kVArh on them for business use.. Case in point: www.esbnetworks.ie/existing-connection/meters-readings/how-to-read-your-meter/how-to-read-your-meter
@@dreddwailing6395 This only really works if it's matched to the inductive load and only comes on when the motor does, otherwise it's just like those "miracle power saver" boxes Clive tore down a while ago
Skruffles the meters have it, but that doesn’t mean they’re charged for it directly.
@@JasperJanssen exactly. Of course there are meters for it, otherwise how would the power company know your power factor.
Can you show how you would measure the power factor of such a low current device? Would you use a 'scope and some sort of shunt? And an isolation transformer, perhaps?
So many lamp swaps I lost track and eventually so did Clive.
How many Dark and Stormy's was this??? 😂😂
It was more than expected. That's the problem with them.
2:30 How dare you say Poundland have cheaped out :-)
You know Clive, the name "Pound Land" just sounds like a chain of brothels... Buy 5 screws, get one free!!!
These shitco things die fast, home bargins do gu10 5watts.avoid them, they come in a 4 or 5 green paper box. One lasted 7 weeks! I do repair mine but not even 2 months!
Big clive has a buzz going! :P
Pifco used to be a good company - they made some really good christmas lights in the 70's and 80's and various household gadgets ...... im not sure if pifco is the same company now though ?
Clive, at work our offices and some of our labs use a redundant power system called something like electrax (not sure on the spelling). You push the plug in and twist and isn't like any sort of plug I've seen before. Was wondering if you could do a video doing a bit of an explanation of how it works, the idea behind it etc. Cheers!
If the plugs are shaped like keys it uses a set of bus bars that run the full length of the strip. The plugs have contacts that engage with the bus bars when rotated.