I am only amazed that I didn't stop this video after the first minute.

"Just put aluminum foil on an LED bulb, YOU'LL BE AMAZED!" Proceeds to show me 20 steps that will take longer than buying a new bulb when I'm at the store.

He must really love that light bulb 😂

Just imagine the look on your insurance agent's face after trying to claim fire damage from a "repaired led bulb".

When I get a flat tire I remove the tire, melt it down, remold it and then reinstall it.

Interesting for educational purposes but I'd never risk my family's safety for a $4 bulb.

What is the opposite of being amazed? That's what I am after this video.

This isn't going to burn down anyone's house because nobody is going through this much trouble to save an inexpensive light bulb.

Darwin-award bonus points for replacing your fuses with pennies. "You won't believe what happens!"

Gives your house the glow of campfire

Here’s a guy that spent a entire weekend binge watching MacGyver shows!

My wife thinks I'm in the bathroom at 4am watching porn. Instead I'm watching a man turn a light bulb into a USB light bulb on a stick.

Please don't follow stuff like this and mess with anything that plugs into mains if you don't know what your doing, but also electronics like LED's that run on lower voltages you could still cause a short wich can lead to issues, and im pretty sure putting foil or just solder in place of an LED isn't the best idea since that doesn't draw anything and has a different resistance. As for the usb part of this, yeah that seems fairly safe although you might still get shocked from the caps (maybe) and please don't plug that into a pc especially if there's a short somewhere. Just do your research if you wanna get into electronics and don't go messing with with mains unless you know what your doing.

I think I messed the steps up, because after going through the entire process I ended up with...A LIGHTSABER!!! Thanks for helping me make a murder weapon to strike down my enemies and conquer the galaxy! YAY! ☺️

He should fill the plastic cover with explosive and leave that tape off the tin foil so the spark is able to make contact. Then set Alexa that the circuit is the Christmas lights. Next time a merc death squad comes into your house to take you out you jump in the bathtub (always seems to survive explosions on tv) and shout ALEXA TURN ON THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. KABOOM

For those who don't do electrical, don't have tools or a soldering kit, but do have a job, the store is full of brand new light bulbs that need a new home. Please adopt.

As well as what the others are saying about safety and ease of buying, this totally reminds me of my brothers fooling around with old electrical, circuits, and even old tubes! Best saved for bored rainy days for middle & high schoolers. 😄

This trick does work fine, but the rest of the LEDs will now be running at a higher current and will die faster. Ideally you need to replace the LED but in this case it will be better to buy a new bulb.

Spelling error in the title: You'll almost CERTAINLY be "a-BLAZED!!" 🔥

I did a similar thing on an electric welder. It had a circle of diodes with one burned out, these were very difficult to get replacements for do I just jumpered the faulty one and the welder runs on the other eight. It has worked fine for years even though each of the other diodes handles a tiny fraction more load.

The appreciation of science 🥰 Thank you for sharing!

morale of the story: always look into the comments section first before proceed to watch any videos

We used to do this with old tvs. The ones with the big boxes behind the screen. If the TV died, first thing was to find the fuse inside. You could replace the fuse, smart idea... but if your really smart, you just wrap foil around the dead fuse and bridge the gap. If my memory serves me right, eventually the foil burns out and stops working. Yay

But do 50 other things before “just putting aluminum foil on lightbulb”, like taking a wire out and stripping it and use a C-clamp then turn around 3 times and do a jumping Jack then plug it in and in a few hours your house will burn down.

Repeat: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME !

Me thinks a match would be an easier and quicker way to start a fire 🤷

Very expensive led car headlights can be repaired the same way. Especially if you have something like a kia where the entire plastic assembly must be replaced. And for those nervous Nellie's out there. A fire from this type of hack is virtually impossible as the fractionally increased load on the LED is internal to the bulb. Thus worst case another diode burns out early and the entire bulb stops functioning.

The thumbnail made me think you could make the bulb into a disco light

This reminds me of wrapping car fuses in silver foil when you run out of replacements

(As sung by the great musician, Billy Joel) 👨‍🎤🎤🎶🎼🎵🎹 "We didn't start the fire...It was that one dude from KZhome tryin' to fix broken light bulbs..." 💡

Il ne faut pas mettre une résistance ? Pour compenser la consommation de la led manquante ?

Yes please do this if you enjoy the ambience of a raging inferno in your home. Toasty!

Absolutely brilliant and ingenious! - love it guys! Yours gratefully, Stewart.

How many times should I watch this before being amazed???

Still waiting for the amazing part

Electrocuting myself while turning down the water heater was a life lesson I’ll never forget.

Use do this in the 70s 80s with Christmas lights thats why there was many fires 🔥

Cool videos...I just love this channel. Shouldn't we have put a resistor in place of the damaged LED s as to control the distribution of voltage across other LED's?

Good "Grow" bulbs have 150+ LEDs, cost $20-40 each and this technique could be useful for saving them

PSA: If you tried any of these and something happened, say a fire in your home, your home insurance wouldn't cover it. This is very dangerous for the average person to be messing with. I don't recommend it.

Makes me think about when they had screw in fuses and people used to replace the fuse with a penny . Talk about some big fires. 😄

I can't believe someone would make a video which could lead to a fire and possible death.

Great tips for burning the house down! Thanks 🙏

I love learning how to fix instead of replacing. I really appreciate this type of knowledge because it's in alignment with the idea fixing through understanding, Thank you !

You WILL be amazed if you get this to work- with all your small electronics, electrical, and circuitry training - building an LED ‘type ‘ light …from an LED light,; be a breeze. Stick around for the next video when we make a laptop computer out of a soda can .

How about replacing it with another led from damaged bulb

Wouldn't it be safer, and easier to open your wallet and buy a new bulb? Unless you love the feeling of getting electrocuted

Ok so I watched the whole thing.... Still waiting to be amazed!! Did I miss something!?

OR you can just go down to the gawddamned 99 Cent Store and buy another bulb. 🤦🏾‍♀️

The alliminium foil is mentioned in the title like its the main highlight for the build and yet I barely saw the foil as it dissapeared amongst the other 101 steps shown

So, I understood the concept of retrofitting a led bulb to be powered by a USB, but what was the purpose of shorting the circuit by soldering or covering it with aluminum foil?

Now show us how long the rest last by being overdriven 😆.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. 👍🏻 We’re all better for it.

I was so blown away😱. . .WTF did I just see🤔

Solder yes, aluminum foil NO!

I love that the video is titled for using tin foil to do the fix and then right after he shows using solder is the smarter way to do it. All of it seems like more work than just buying another bulb for a couple bucks, but hey I guess if the stores were closed and you really needed it working now...

Had to come to the comments to find out why I was supposed to be amazed that the light up came on.

Love it but although I have a toolbox I wouldn't risk it!!!

This is too much work. Home Depot here I come. Lol

I wonder how many people will electrocute themselves trying to do this

Simple yet magical, thanks easy to understand ✨

Screws it in a 1\4 turn saying it's dead. Probably never even made contact. It's probably fine

Don't do it at HOME 😱

I like how at first it's pretty easy, okay I have tin foil and then by the end it's like simply be an actual electrician

I wonder how many people are going to burn their houses down to the ground trying this?

Alex, can I have "when you're too cheap to buy a new light bulb" for $200.

The test wire shows the LED that has failed. The wire is conducting the 1.5 volts across the burnt out LED, by the lighting up the working LEDS. And the foil tape is replacing the failed LED. Soldering is best and safest. Plus the lose of one LED gives an extra 1.5 volts to the other LEDS, making the lamp brighter.

Just brilliance love it, thanks for sharing my friend 💡

I actually did this and...I'm sending this comment from Heaven right now.

1. Other LEDs will start failing because you bypassed failed one(s). 2. If you were going to make an informative video you would test each LED and replace defective one(s) I am all for repairing rather than replacing, it's better for the environment. There is, however a right and a wrong way to do it.

wow that thunbnail must be hella accurate

As soon as I saw side cutters being used to strip wire I knew this was a hackjob and probably unsafe... Yup.

Wow amazing, a flameless candle! What next? A horseless carriage?

As an electronic major.... Please don't do this EVER! get another bulb, being cheap is usually pretty dangerous when dealing with the electricity in your home🤷‍♂️

"Juat stick keys into light sockets, you will be amazed"

Presumably the first fix isn't quite as dangerous as it looks, as the LEDs will be in front of the (low-voltage) PSU? Or they're obviously wired in series, so may still be a bit high. What sorts of voltages will power LEDs like this be taking individually?

Back in my younger days We had Fords.... So we just walked everywhere. 😁

Penny under a burnt out fuse !?!

Wow. Excellent. I'm trying this, running my TV and fridge on foil energy. Thank you

sooo... basically you took a lightbulb apart, and after what looks like a few hours of hard work, and many an electrical hazard, you finally got yourself a lightbulb. You must be a genius

Comments how fire will be started with low-fire risk led bulb... then lights a 3 wick candle and walks out of the room.

Just a giant flex of electrical knowledge and skillful application.

The Litchfield lighter (OINTB) only ran on 1.5v. This is 240V.

So what does it do

That's a lot of work. I thought put it onto top of the bulb.

What kind of light socket used a bulb with no threading?

Yes let's make a fire hazard instead of just buying a new light bulb

Lovely!

I don’t know if I missed something, but I didn’t see any aluminum foil used in the video

You should probably place a warning word in place of the word Amazed …. like terrified, aghast. I followed the steps in this video exactly as shown. I can’t remember everything that transpired but it looks like i have a halo or a visible aura when looking at my reflection, I can’t remember if the light ever turned on but the blisters on my hand and burn hole in the carpet have me convinced it must have.

I have one problem here. The video was really cool and could be educational (though everybody needs to be safe when working with electricity). My problem is that it might be the worst title I've ever seen, and it makes me want to never watch another video by the creator.

No!! Don't don't do this. Basically one of the LEDs has failed (probably from getting too hot or being overdriven). Firstly, using a piece of cable may work but is likely unsafe as often these are driven at full mains voltage (if you touch the connection or short it, you could get a shock). Next, if you HAVE determined a faulty led and taken it out of circuit, do it with solder and a link. Taping a piece of aluminium foil over is likely to cause arcing if it is being run at mains voltage as the tape heats up and doesn't make a good connection. Finally, if they are sharing the current, by taking one out of circuit, you end up overruling the remaining ones which will then fail quickly. If you are lucky, you won't cause a fire or get a shock.

This only means that the leds they're all connected in series from factory 😂

"I hope you enjoy this video of How to DISASSEMBLE and REPAIR an LED lamp WITHOUT A SOLDERING IRON DIY LED lamp repair" This is your description of your video in quotations as well. This video is informative but very misleading to the average person who thinks they won't need anything more then a led bulb and aluminum foil.

The were too busy figuring out if they could, they never bothered to think if they should.

Somebody take this fella outside for some fresh air - and maybe help him find a girlfriend.

I have bought tons of LED bulbs, but never seen one with a bayonet base. This must be in Europe. Wonder if this would work with screw type LEDs in US of A???

We in America need more tips like this since sleepy Joe is being told everything is going well for us🤦🏻‍♂️

Now you can add 🔋 to that and it can charge that bulb 😅

Question? Does this "fix" change the full light spectrum? Does it make the bulb hotter?