@Francis Taylor - Give me an example of an animal or lifeform that relies solely on echolocation for their survival please.

@Montejo Dominguez 😂😂😂😂

It is a rubbish skarpen a pencil bula bula......... Just solder a led at that place. It will work .

Like what?

Viewers are less likely to click on a video titled "Using graphite to bridge a burnt out LED circuit"

Yup, same thought!😂

Just ordinary click baite

What were you expecting? A golden pigeon coming out of the led bulb? 😂

@Matthew Mlocki It's toward the end

oh no, 3 minutes of your boring life watching youtube videos. Poor you.

​@Benjamin Hurtt It's an educational video. No one is expecting people to actually do this instead of buy a new bulb.

Nice

Most of those are actually around $5 a piece depending on the watts and amps.

Most folks have that stuff laying around. Burn your fossil fuels just to go to a store to buy a bulb is a WAYY more efficient use of energy.

While only spending a mere $4 in supplies /s

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Them: Create a conductive composite graphite-cyanoacrylate material to replace the failed surface mount light emitting diode.

Thinking the same thing. $2-$3 @Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Lowe's, or Walmart. Cute trick, but really???

​@Chris Greer the 'fix' won't do much for the environment if it burns your house down.

Ah classic, it's cheap so just replace rather than an easy fix... No wonder we're heading for a Wall-E future (or worse)

I duno cool lil project to learn about the bulb plus you get to actually save on some e-waste. I don't think it's a cost saving technique and I probably would just buy a new led but it has its value

@craig Brown They are wired in series so one of the other uncompromised contacts would open--- no fires.

@Slim Shady The things you try out when you have unlimited time at your disposal 😅

Yup in prison we used to put that same amount of graphite with a rolled up piece of toilet paper with just the tip of the paper on top of the pile of graphite give it 39 seconds in the microwave and it would react as if it was gunpowder from a firecracker 🎇🔥

That’s what I said. Those contacts act as circuit breakers in case of overheating. Now it’ll continue to get hotter until there’s a fire! Someone wasn’t paying attention in class on this subject.

​@dwatts64 Well said sir. 👏

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Your comment is hilarious and makes no sense at all! 😂 "He invented a 'lightbulb' using only a 'lightbulb' and some other stuff. 🤣 I invented a 'car' using only a car, gasoline, and a steering wheel! Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. What you witnessed was a man fixing a broken electrical circuit using graphite, baking soda, and superglue.

News flash, know-it-alls. Those in poor countries can't always afford relatively expensive soldering equipment or, to just go buy a new $4 bulb, like most of us do in wealthier nations. Hell, right now people in the US can barely afford it too. That's why this is kinda genius.

certainly comes handy if it were the last bulb on earth. thanks for sharing.

​@Adolph Dube yep, I got one at home that just stopped working...definitely gonna try this when I have some time.

@Clint Byrne it's perfectly safe. There's a transistor in the base that downgrades the power to 2w to 18w. The full current isn't passing through the graphite in the pencil. But all you have to do is trace around the blown out light with a pencil to complete the circuit.

@Adolph Dube I definitely agree

You actually found a good use for those?

Try indomie brand.

lmao

You’re silly. You literally don’t need to buy ramen noodles OR these materials he used. The human body is very conductive.

You guys crack me up .

​@David Allen where I live you can buy them at the dollar store.

You're godamn right! That's why we are where we are. Congrats.

That was my first thought.

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Some are $15 upwards

Exactly , this is what I think too. Taking one led out of a circuit will increase the overall electric power for the rest of LEDs. from Poland 😀

I see a fire in their future.

My thoughts exactly!

@gnarmarmilla The higher electrical resistance of the graphite/clay/baking soda/super glue mixture will create heat, which can melt and combust the plastic.

Is it really? Explanation please?

@eraldorh The voltage is referenced to itself with an offset of a few volts INSIDE the circuit. If you touch it, it's still 120/240 volts referenced to ground.

You still should insulate just in case of unexpected leakage

At the beginning you could see him placing rubber on the tweezers for insulation.

It's a natural manner of thinning the herd, lol. 😁

I use the 9 volt tongue method

@Area 53 Ballast is just a nickname. the LEDS have a current limiting circuit built in. It this bulb you can see it. It's the 8 pin chip. The 4 pin thing is the bridge rectifier. People just call it a ballast because it's basically the equivalent part of the circuit as a real ballast would have been with a compact fluorescent bulb.

@James L Dear James, I thank you for writing!

​@James Rae ballast, what are you talking about? LED don't use a ballast, there are some T8 compatible bulbs that can work with a ballast but they need additional circuitry to do that.

@James Rae You have to heat up the entire bulb so the plastic doesn't crack or split. Use a spudger to separate the top from the bottom. It can be done without deforming the plastic much. Silicon keeps it together. Usually it pops right back together. There's no ballast in the new ones. It's electronic now.

All the 'newer' LED bulbs like the one in this video, including the ones from the dollar store, have 8 Pin current limiting IC chips in them. Whether you have 7 or even 30+ LED chips in them, each LED gets driven at the same current. Since the 70's any hobbyist knows LEDs must have a current limiting resistor. I have modified these exact same ($1) bulbs by putting a potentiometer (small knob accessible from outside the bulb) and now I have a "dimmable bulb", right down to night light brightness - about 1/8 watt. I keep them on all the time in certain rooms & downstairs. To power them, I have made my own solar system, pure sine wave inverters, & LiFePO4 batteries that power 80% of my house 24/7. I use halogen bulbs for my reading areas. I taught myself how to solder when I was 9 yrs old (thanks to Radio Shack in the 70's). I've had LED bulbs in my house since 2005. They've improved a lot since then.

i knew this section would be a hoot

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Lol

Instructions unclear. Ingested pencil.

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​@Joe B I would too

​@Jeffery Smith oh... probably 😂

It's actually...6 human male boys

Buy another light bulb.....duh

@Paul Mortensen #2

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Tbh, graphite is a resistor, and an led is a resistor, and tbh, the resistance of the led should be about the same as the graphite, or a little less, so the others dont get fed more current due to the missing one

That's 2 easy

​@Area 53 for real. They used like 10% of what they mixed up

Yeah but who has time for that when you can sharpen a pencil, sand paper the graphite, collect it, rinse and repeat several times, mix the graphite your harvested with baking soda, carefully place a small amount across the broken LED then add some super glue. 😜

Uh huh

Wait what? They burn out every 8 to 12 hours Lmao? U had to have made a typo in ur comment cuz it doesn’t make any sense at all (what u said about ur front porch lights lol)…

Hahaha. . Burn

Haha same

How to recycle a light bulb?

the light shines from Uranus. love your content

That is because it is a diode--- one way valve basically.

Superglue, of course. Superglue and baking soda.

don't be silly

flux capacitor. I had to type it. sorry , I 🇬🇧

God bless capitalism.

It's rectified to DC at that point, probably wouldn't feel much more than a slight tingle tbh but I get it safety first (When creating your fire hazard bulb lol)

Eh it won't kill them. Good teaching moment.

@David Willis it helped me to see clearly that that I had Smurf piss and nope on the COVID.

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Where do you get molten copper from? 😧

shush , I think your onto something

Bahahaha

He basically created a fire bomb! Super glue is FLAMMABLE...hello 🔥

​@Ali Khan Light bulbs run on mains power. Yes, the LEDs are relatively low voltage, but the circuitry to convert mains AC to the voltage for the LEDs is quite dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

@Alex D Fascinating... I always thought the UK also adapted the E-Standard along the way. Thanks - I just gained 50XP 😀

That is a Bayonet(B22) mount used as standard in the UK

Yes, doing this will increase the voltage in the others, make them burn faster and potentially become a fire hazard

Yes

Yeah an it wouldn't put way more time n effort into increasing your chances of a house fire than I feel is sensical. Tbh you could take the foil wrapper off a Hershey's kiss or similarly packaged candy make a square a few layers thick an glue it over the dead led or the socket for the dead LED and it would be a quick 2-5 min fix for a bulb you probably are gonna wanna use somewhere you don't mind the added fire hazard lol.

I'm sure I've seen him do that in a different video

That's the way I'd do it.

Less likely to burn down a house too

@vivek koul same as this bulb in the video

@wisdom amoah koduah what's the wattage?

@vivek koul 1 bulb 💡 cost 0.83 cent😂😂

You mean in just $2 , 3 new LED bulbs can be purchased from the store?

​@Nicholas Lenzini no he's got a point. The led that was removed was offering some resistance to the circuit. Bridging those contacts with solder would offer almost no resistance so the other LEDs will run hotter and fail sooner. If the graphite provides resistance that would actually be good.

You can't be serious.