GE’s stuff should also be good. And just added a Y and Two 100 watt leds in lieu of my old purchase, 170 “reader,” it was called. Dollar General. Inside a fixture, an 8-10 Watt bulb with the socket down will quickly heat to 60 C or more, or as the reviewer points out: too hot to touch. Now say they both have their eyes on buying the same new 3d printer or game console or laser cutter or whatever non-essential item… Are they really in an equal position to do so? Except, unlike the horses, we keep breeding more humans rather than less. all of the ones I bought started flickering bad and then suddenly stop working but when you turn them off they will come on very dim, didnt add this in they quit after 6 months. Didn’t have to ban my incandecent bulbs for that. So, while venturing the isles of the local dollarstore I came across these babies! This isn’t the first garden light hack we’ve shown you, there was this flashlight, and some LED hacks. When you think about electronic prices in the past, consider that the purchasing power of the dollar keeps dropping, too. A person losing a job to automation looks for other work. So the people who use the most energy are still allowed to waste it, and the people who matter the least in this matter are thrown under the bus. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Please enter your postal code to verify if flat fee shipping or pick up applies in your area. That’s slightly different from a shop where different mechanics are at play I think.. That’s also too hot for the diodes, and the actual lifespan will be reduced. So they invented this whole cock and bull about energy saving for the environment – where household lighting is actually only responsible for 15% of the bill, and households themselves represent about 15% of the electricity demand in the first place, so they were splitting hairs by banning incandecent lightbulbs in domestic use – it’s completely ineffective in the larger scheme of things – and to add insult to injury: regular long fluorescent tubes are just as or more energy efficient than the new LED bulbs, so for anyone actually looking to save money: don’t need to bother with the LEDs. I did notice that with mine at least there is a very slight (15-20 seconds) warmup period but this is probably simple thermodynamics or delayed phosphor saturation. Stuff laying around. There’s just not much inside.”. “The factory of the future will have two employees, a man, and a dog. The economics of dollar stores are interesting; a grab bag of expired product, obsolete product, and simple overruns. LED string lights, Valentine's Day LED String Lights, 3 ft. Strands, Soft White 100-Watt Equivalent Medium Base LED Lightbulbs, LED Glittery Orb String Lights, 34.75 in., Valentine's Themed.. Cob Led Portable Work Light starting at $1. My plants are pretty happy on the cheap. Not only would you have less heat by moving the PSU farther, but the LEDs themselves could be heatsinked much better. The “Luddite Horses” appear at around 3:33 are a pretty good analogy to humans nowdays. They take about 10 minutes each to make and the effect is amazing. As for my personal use, my windows face west, so between about june to late august, I don’t actually need to turn the lights on until after 10 pm, if at all. This, with the smoothing cap, would simplify the design instead of trying to get an exact PWM signal. Enjoy big savings and free shipping for the whole family. They really did last much longer than regular bulbs and IIRC the increase in lifetime was proportionally higher than the increase in price. I just got a 6pack of dimmable candelabras from Feit. I’ve had 2 of these and both went within 2 years. Just a bridge rectifier and a smoothing capacitor. They will show you heart, star, dinosaur,a nd underwater designs. (yes some of these are also made in China, but there is a large quality difference. ) They are required to do this. GE ‘should’ be good. If you want maximum efficiency and light distribution, as well as no switching power supply noise: get the “filament” style bulbs. There are 9 LED devices inside, each with three LEDs. I actually don’t want 360 degree transmission for a lot of applications. Most say that they are NOT dimmable in the fine print. And it would tell the fixture developers that their fixture is not appropriately cooled for the LED inside. 21.3K shares. Here’s the scoop… About 10 years ago I (I am Julie) spent a small fortune on expensive solar lights for our garden. You will need:Tea Lights from a dollar store1 meter CAT5 cable (or other thin 24AWG wire)Wire Stri… But this does not sell more LED bulbs. Cheapest Christmas Lights for your 99 cent stores, discount stores, gift shops, supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, one dollar stores & one euro shops. From the video I understand that there are two bridge rectifiers. You can always slip through an amount of absolute crap, because it takes time for the public to notice that it is useless and stop buying it. For example, the bulb has two boards in it. They draw around 8.2-8.5watts and do provide decent amount of lighting power. Please enter your postal code to verify if flat fee shipping or pick up applies in your area. Lights found in: Self-Adhesive LED Push Lights, Luces LED con clip para libros, con ángulo de luz ajustable, Luminessence - Velas votivas LED, exterior metálico, Tool Bench - Ganchos con ventosa, 9 … The strings are suspended in still air inside a glass, effectively insulated so they overheat, and the lack of driving electronics and smoothing capacitors means they blink like stroboscopes. it’s most likely being driven by a half-wave rectifier. !”, the ‘teardown’ starts here: https://youtu.be/ESZ154gIpSM?t=381. I think cheap LED drivers is an art in itself. However you theoretically could also stick one of those films that spread edge LED on an old monitor and convert to LED that way. Whites alone can get it done, lookie here... That's a great find!, Where they a dollar?? This action will open a modal dialog. LED tea light candle + twigs + pebbles + glue gun. Unless of course the bulbs are absolute kak, and not worth the dollar. Here are the pics. This weekend I was out shopping and low and behold I found LED light bulbs at the dollar store. So from May to October-ish, those lights are generating heat that serves no purpose. Or non essential marine batteries, electronics, solar panels etc etc. I did come up with an interesting idea which is to apply the same mechanism to glass tubes for backlight replacements on older monitors. They are living in a dream. CFL 850LM 15W @ 8 hours a day -aprox 38 days. But those which do not, still son’t dim to as deeo an orange that I wish, nor show a pretty filament. I have had 13 of these bulbs in place for about 11 Months, some have been on 24/7 (close to 7920 hours) so they don’t just drop dead. Some manufacturers of “premium” LED bulbs even insert a tiny fan inside the bulb to keep things cool, but that’s just another thing to break down. You are using the cost of rent as some sort of absolute fixed point of value. Applicable in most urban areas. Incidentally, you can buy the filament separately on Chinese sites as I recall from one of those tear-down video (bigClive?) We reserve the right in our sole discretion to limit quantities to normal retail and online purchases. Though of course they didn’t blink out like the filament bulbs, but simply became dimmer and dimmer and slower to start until after about two years in use you had to replace it. If you really want to understand though I would suggest searching YouTube for a video showing the construction process of the vacuum tubes in that 1930s radio. Build nuclear power, and there’s no need for battery backup against unreliable renewables. They’re all still working great. The low-end LED market is based on the point that the consumers won’t know if a product is good until they try it, so you’re guaranteed at least some sales every time you re-package your shit-bulbs and sell them under another name. The manufacturers don’t care. Once they are in flower I'm going to be using a Mars TS600, but for veg and future micros I'm very impressed with the screw in LEDs and will continue to use them. The step-up transformers can be simply changed and other parts replaced at the same time. On the whole, the cost of any radios you produce is also going to include that one unemployed person, for whom you have to pay welfare because you can’t just off him. Otherwise nobody would buy light bulbs. Considering what has been written about heat damaging the bulbs, they should be considered in some form of indirect lighting environment with the socket down or maybe sideways. Here’s a fun fact for you: I’ve been slowly replacing every bulb I own with LEDs for 5-6 years now. What about them, huh? More money could be made if everyone was forced to switch to something new. I have these bulbs, every single one flickers. Skip these crappy bulbs; Cree sells well-ventilated bulbs that are regularly on sale for about the same. You forgot rejects and products that are intentionally bad to make them cheap, because you’re not worried about preserving brand image with a no-name product. Just a bridge rectifier and a smoothing capacitor. It should, and probably is: the small four-pin IC (if you could call it that) on the FR-2 board looks suspiciously like a bridge rectifier. Esp w all the gas lines bursting. Let them break – the government is paying subsidies anyways, the consumers have to buy these shitty bulbs because nothing else is allowed, and anyone who’s trying to question the point of it is labeled a heretic anti-progressive and promptly gagged. Thematic Pages. Lighting Dollar Store Garden DIY Ideas. I attached the lights to the bottle with adhesive dots so that the glue was invisible. becomes more effective and easier means to gain wealth than productive labor” I say ‘welcome to our current capitalistic system’. Fun fact: it actually was the incandescent light bulb industry (read: Philips) that initiated the ban. I don’t know what the failure rate on them is, but they have virtually zero power supply electronics, instead relying on having a long chain of LEDs in series. They run cool because they have great heat sinking, or really good ventilation. You can add better heatsinking to keep the Tj closer to Ta, but it’ll cost you with diminishing returns, and you can’t have the metal heatsink surfaces exposed to the user because of electrical safety issues and regulations, so you’re always a bit gimped in how much heat you can remove from the bulb. What abuse would that be? It’s not about capitalism vs. anything else, but the fact that the displaced people have nothing useful to do. Also, why don’t we have LED drivers that can reconfigure the series and parallel arrays instead of using actual drivers? If you’re looking for indoor lighting, pick string or fairy lights. zpekic has updated the log for TIM-011: FPGA-based VGA and PS/2 keyboard adapter. http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/149/FL77944-933719.pdf There are very specific duty cycles and maximum power limits on the data sheet for any LED. What you’re complaining there is that not all people have access to the same trivial luxuries, which is kinda… silly – as the main reason they are considered desirable is for the manufactured consumerism and status. Part of the issue is the ginormous cost of upgrading HiV transmission for more amps. Lights found in: Self-Adhesive LED Push Lights, 2.75 in., LED Hanging Lamps, 5-ct. $9.99 Flat Fee Shipping or Pick up. Naturally, they cost a dollar, and he wanted to see what was inside of them. The question is then about what sort of work you want them to do: trivial services which consume resources, or productive work that sustains resources. It only adds the cost of the robot. Boo hoo, I can’t buy a diamond ring! No irony. This is a lose-lose situation. Solar Flares And Radio Communications — How Precarious Are Our Electronics? They mate with an ingenious slot system cut into the boards themselves and then just solder together. The moment the people realize they can vote themselves wealth is the end of democracy. The quality of light is also much better than CFLs and they are instantly bright when turned on, unlike CFLs. I’m already looking at different options for retrofitting my lights with different sockets, because the -industry- is still allowed to buy incandecent bulbs in special form factors. Julie finally got smart after years of denial. 3 for $1.25. Those filament types are the worst of the worst. Philips-Osram on the left, CREE 4Flow in the middle and the Dollar Tree – GreenLite on the right. There are 9 LED devices inside, each with three LEDs. Let them use LED bulbs if it saves them money – that’s a no-brainer. I see a lot of incandescent bulbs fail by the filament not truly burning out, but coming detached on one end. Their incomes vary proportionally so each “feels the same pain” in paying the monthly bill. I usually see the “60 W equivalent” bulb at Dollar Tree but I have also seen one that says it’s dimmable on the box. “More attractive” is a matter of manufactured demand, fine arts and “services” are a matter of manufactured demand again. ( And keep in mind you just said people want to work.). It is interesting to see how you cut costs when your volumes go so high. …these up and you will. Man I wish much dollar store offered such goods. In real life the Dollar Tree light is ever so whiter than the other 2. The store IS likely giving them away, just like supermarkets have stupid cheap milk but expensive snacks, or fuel stations charge very little for normal pump gas but a fortune for a frozen coke and pie. The kitchen, garage, and bathroom are lit by tubes. I did a similar thing, but stripped the little plates holding the LEDs off and mounted them on side of old PC case...just the side, not the whole case...lol. The Grocery Store sav-mor in my town has some much nicer bulbs 2 in a pack for 1.98, the quality is much better and they are dimmable, go figure. Early sell-out possible on special purchase items, and quantities may be otherwise limited. I think there is one bridge rectifier and one LED driver chip. Must be watching another vid cross linked somehow. Oh, but they did, because the CFL/LED bulbs are a fucking scam. How can you manufacture a bunch of plastic pieces, 9 LED devices, a capacitor, a bridge rectifier, an IC, two PCBs, and some resistors, put them together, stick them in a printed box, and ship them across the ocean and wind up selling them for a dollar? Julie is happy now. There’s no real workaround for this, as the properties of the semiconductors dictate what junction temperatures they can handle. One tends to forget, that an incandescent light bulb is actually a piece of art, and once was expensive high tech. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075WNJ43M The difference between the real deal and the dollar store knock off is HUGE! Your posts reveal an anti-capitalist bias that does nothing to make people’s lives better. There are tons of people who live in locales where they don’t need heat, they need AC or fans. The new and improved… I’ve since replaced all my bulbs with halogens, which unfortunately is also going under the regulatory hammer as well because it’s inconvenient that they actually do outlast the energy saving bulbs in real useful lifespan, and what they put out as heat is simply subtracted from my heating bill. if there are two rectifiers, it could be they used two lower power ones because a single high power rectifier would be more expensive. There’s just not much inside. > I’ve since replaced all my bulbs with halogens, which unfortunately is also going under the regulatory hammer as well because it’s inconvenient that they actually do outlast the energy saving bulbs in real useful lifespan, and what they put out as heat is simply subtracted from my heating bill. When rectified, shouldn’t the flicker be at 120 hz ? “I actually don’t want 360 degree transmission for a lot of applications. Tim Bitson liked 250W DC-DC Boost Module Test & Reverse Engineering. zpekic wrote a comment on project log Instruction Decoder. It won’t break, but the lumen output suffers considerably. In theory that would make them pretty failure-prone, but I know a bunch of people with them who haven’t had a single one fail. Non essential is largely ambiguous. >”. Reminds me of the often heard remark these days that the sun is actually white but is always portrayed as yellow. It either works or it doesn’t, which means it “works” and hush on the details. He was working late. The packaging for the harder to find bulb is different so keep your eyes open! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Does this self-adhesive, super-bright LED light really worth purchasing? I don’t think your analysis of the value of a dollar really works. Still, the price of these bulbs has dropped like a rock over the last few years. Normally I would regard this as a conspiracy theory, but I have corroborative experience that you may be right. It will be the dog’s job to bite the man if he tries to push any of the buttons.” Same price and the color output is much better, I’ll see if I can get the specs on it. The point is that while you can buy decent LED bulbs for $20 of whatever they cost now, that’s not what people actually buy. It’s always a bit tragic to run into such nasty LED drive circuits. As he was finishing up, someone drove up and told him the lights nearly blinded him a half mile away while driving towards them. Having machines replace human laborers is simply more costly than the human laborers, and the choice is not about some sort of neo-ludditism, but whether you want to pay more to have the free time, or pay less and have a job for everybody who wants to work. This is not entirely true. I’m amazed you didn’t rant about them giving you headaches. lights he was replacing. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies. The consumers are always trying to find a cheaper way out, so there will always be people buying the $1 specials, getting dissapointed, and then trying something else. It almost tempts one to thing we should go backwards as a way to end unemployment. Therefore I think, that LED bulbs have the potential to become much cheaper than it was ever possible with incandescent bulbs. LEDs don’t care about pulsed power, really only the eye does if it can detect 60hz flicker, which is mitigated by phosphor. All three of these LED bulbs are 40W equivalents. My favorite kind of driver are the phase cut one. There is no lack of demand for things that make life better, including higher quality goods, more attractive goods, fine arts, and a wide range of services. He assumed the LEDs had the same angle output as the (vapor?) I like to photograph, print and paint, and the weirdly shifting and changing color balances and indexes of the LED/CFL bulbs are just a nuisance. Recently the EU made a sting operation on LED floodlights by purchasing something like 92 different off-brand products from randomly selected shops, and about 80 of them failed to meet standards and had to be pulled off the market. Of course, I didn’t buy $1 bulbs – I bought ones from Cree, on sale, that cost a bit more. I realize that that is pretty much the only place to go BoM shaving, once you’ve gone with low end LEDs; but it is also what is most likely to fail and/or kill the otherwise fairly durable(slightly less so for the phosphor-based white ones, but fairly long lived there and extremely long lived in the case of monochrome LEDs) LEDs and consign the whole unit to the trash well ahead of it’s time. There are tons of people who live in locales where they don’t need heat, they need AC or fans. Led found in: LED Hanging Lamps, 5-ct. 120 Cheap and Easy DIY Garden Ideas. And some of the bulbs are really really bad, http://www.olino.org/us/articles/2015/01/20/lidl-livarno-led-bulb-e27-11w, >”The ambient temperature during the whole set of illuminance measurements was 23.2 – 23.3 deg C.The temperature of the housing gets maximally about 61.5 degrees hotter than ambient temperature.”, Comments: Good video, bur it doesn’t feel like the original, bigclivedotcom (https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom). The humble incandecent lightbulb was standing in the way of all these China Export (CE) blinkers they wanted to push on the shelves, because it was too good for competition: it offered 100% CRI, instant on/off, dimmability, no loss in light output with age, insensitivity to cold and heat etc. One place might have higher incomes but also a higher “cost of living”. Buy high quality wholesale Christmas Lights online directly from China Christmas Lights wholesaler with fast shipping and worldwide delivery. It was the exact same shit with CFLs, which when placed in fixtures would last little longer than the incandecent bulbs they replaced. I expect in gas stations they need to recoup the cost of the attendant being there. becomes more effective and easier means to gain wealth than productive labor, and the society collapses to overconsumption as there’s nothing to keep it in check, which then gives rise to tyrannical regimes that strictly dictate what and how much everyone shall have. A wide variety of dollar led light options are available to you, such as lighting solutions service, application, and certification. Look how much labor is involved and compare it to today’s manufacturing methods. Heads up for readers in Ontario, subsidy event going on now until end of month, Canadian Tire has several variety 2 packs for $1 and Walmart has singles for 50c, 10 package limit, so you can get more at CT. At least it is being sold at a price appropriate to its (low) quality. Except… when we know we can do better… that would be like employing people to dig holes just to fill them back up. >”Except… when we know we can do better… that would be like employing people to dig holes just to fill them back up.”. The power supply? Much higher quality, not sure how they are available for the same price (albeit in a 2pack), https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/product/certified-light-bulbs/details/2262953, “A lightbulb that supposedly lasts you 23 years isn’t exactly the best choice for a throw-in product, because once everyone has one they won’t be coming back for more.”. Or: the point that people often overlook about the glorious star-trek future where nobody needs to work, is the point that resources are still limited and so the distribution of wealth becomes a matter of more or less tyrannical central government. Because of the packaging of the LEDs, the die transmits in almost a 360 degree sphere – and because there’s no heatsink or base with electronics, or even a PCB – light is transmitted in 360 degrees as well. Now that a whole room only needs about 100W at most, we should start looking at moving to 24VDC as the new standard for home lighting. I did some basic math to determine if the cost was worth it. You must log in or register to reply here. $9.99 Flat Fee Shipping or Pick up. Oh, and while we know this isn’t actually a hack, we think you’ll agree this is. 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If there’s essential quality improvements, the machines can make them as well. All of these things can change separately by vastly different amounts or even change in different directions. Also they are typically blue LEDs (InGaN) coated with YVEuO5 or a variant which downconverts at a very high efficiency to green and red, suspended in a silicone binder. A radio might have cost $50 in 1935 and a much better performing radio might cost $10 today. When it comes to the things which are necessary for “living” this is probably true. Learn how your comment data is processed. The heat kills the diodes just as much if not more than it does the power supply capacitor. Just a reminder: in browsers when on the youtube site you can press a number key on your keyboard to jump to that percentage of a video. Just hanging this here for everyone in this cluster of discussion. Or have I been working on one-offs too long and I’m being clueless about how much it actually costs to do millions of something like that? Zoom Out ... this item can be shipped for FREE to your local Family Dollar store, or you can choose to have this item shipped via UPS directly to you (shipping fees apply). I started by lopping off the neck of the bottles with our miter saw so that they looked a little less like plastic travel bottles. Mario Gianota has updated details to Hackaday Clock A Day Entry: CMOS Logic Clock. People want to work as long as work is what provides them their income. Yeah, they put out heat “subtracted from your heating bill”…in the months you use heat, in your locale, genius. I understand why people do it; but it is still sad to see. So how can you not find the lightbulb ban at least a good example of powerful lobbies driving corporate interests instead of consumer interest? Again, I had no problem, why did I have to suffer? Besides, the sockets and fixtures we’re dealing with are designed to withstand 60 – 100W of heat – while the LEDs produce approximately 10% of that. It is hard to remember now, but there was a time when electronics were expensive. You put in some thoughtful points, thanks for the reply, but on this part: “all sorts of pointless gambling schemes and scams, etc. The power supply? Yeah sure, it should be huh. Buy products such as TSV 16.4ft/5M 300LED Waterproof RGB Muliticolor Changing Flexible LED Rope Lights TV Backlight Tape Strip Light Kit with 44Key IR Remote Control, 8-Brightness Level, Memory Function, 12V Power Supply at Walmart and save. (press 2 to jump to 20% which in most cases bypasses the intro.) Battery-Operated LED Projector Lights, 2.875x2.75x1.125 in. Why? Julie bought 12 Dollar Store Solar Lights, for yep, you guessed it, $12.00 dollars. Careless buy. Try them out I grow on a budget, even using egg shells, Epson salt, and baking soda. Still, why not eh, I mean they could easily produce them as a universal long light for all kinds of uses where a longer light is handy. Worse, during the summer months, that heat has to be removed by my AC. Simply stick them onto the wall wherever you need a little extra light, and manually press the light to turn it on or off as needed. I think not! LEDs really only care about average power making them too hot if too high. Be like Julie. The rule of thumb that every 6 degree increase in temperature halves the life expentancy of the part, so running it at 60 C instead of 40 C, the 65,000 hour promise turns out closer to 6,500 hours, or instead of 23 years 2,3 years of use. They remain white when dimmed. And guess what I’ve never had to do? Try them out I grow on a budget, even using egg shells, Epson salt, and baking soda. Exceed them and lifetime plummets. Apparently where [Adrian] lives there is a subsidy paid to retailers for selling LED lighting, so you may not be able to get the same bulbs at that price. DIY Grapevine Lighting Balls from Lynne Knowlton. [Adrian Black] found some 9W (60W equivalent) LED light bulbs at the Dollar Tree (a U.S. store where everything costs a dollar). Awesome! It kind of reminds me of some discussions I have had with people regarding living in different parts of the world. And if you click on the title of an embedded youtube you jump to the actual youtube page. Rent, manufacturing, shipping.. these things each have their own separate fluctuations in supply and demand. We want you to be fully satisfied with every item that you purchase from www.dollargeneral.com. Stuff laying around. These self-adhesive LED push lights are perfect for lighting up dark garages, sheds, closets, restrooms, and much more. 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