1 USB soldering iron test and teardown with schematic.
Big Clive's look at a cheap USB soldering iron, cited to show it manages small jobs while warning about power, tips and static.
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2 Disassembly and schematic of an arc lighter.
Big Clive takes apart an arc lighter and draws out its circuit, cited for the schematic and estimated electrode voltage.
3 eBay clock kit. Full build and setting guide.
Big Clive assembles an electronic kit with a seven-segment display and examines its board, linked as a reference when troubleshooting the same kit.
4 Testing dodgy 100W LEDs from ebay sellers.
A bigclive video on white LEDs that explains why some packages contain several junctions in series and raises doubts about the quality of cheap sourced parts.
5 Inside some dodgy Chinese USB power supplies from Greece.
Big Clive examines some USB power supplies and finds poor isolation, used to show how a mains charger can fall short on safety.
6 IKEA SMÅHAGEL USB charger teardown
A bigclivedotcom teardown of the IKEA SMAHAGEL charger, cited as evidence of a safe, decent mains design and for detail on its components.
7 Simplest solar light possible, using old phone battery.
Offered as a useful bigclivedotcom project showing a simple, cheap solar powered LED light that people adapt for their own builds.
8 Inside a 125A DC circuit breaker. Unexpected arc quenching feature.
Big Clive shows why a DC arc keeps burning where an AC arc dies at the zero crossing, explaining why DC breakers need magnets and arc chutes.
9 What's inside Eneloop and LIDL NiMh cells (fire, apparently)
Cited as an example of a NiMH cell catching fire when opened up, and as a sample of bigclivedotcom's entertaining teardown style.
10 104 LED filament lamp - just because....
Bigclivedotcom's video is offered as a helpful answer when people ask what the thin LED strips inside modern filament-style lamps actually are.
11 USB plasma ball teardown and schematic.
Big Clive's plasma ball teardown is praised and used as a reference for how the driver circuitry works, including what happens to current when the globe is touched.
12 Test etching PCBs with inkjet transparencies.
BigClive's walkthrough of making boards at home with UV-sensitive laminate and an etchant, offered to people who want to try this route themselves.
13 Shorting out a fully charged cheap lithium jump starter. (It didn't end well.)
BigClive opens a lithium jump starter power bank, estimating its peak current with improvised methods and showing cable and cell resistance effects in practice.
