Opening the 1W Dubai lamp (with schematic)

The smaller lamp bases often make it hard to fit decent drive circuitry into an LED lamp. Many manufacturers skimp by just having a low voltage ceramic capacitor and rectifier. But Philips have put some very interesting circuitry into this lamp.

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[aeedi]

I'm from Dubai and I just bought a bunch of these for my chandelier! When I first heard of these bulbs I thought it was just marketing hype.. Funny enough before this video a friend who works in an architecture firm would tell me how great these bulbs were and I was quite surprised at the time, and now I see a channel from outside the country talking about how great they are.. Great to see them torn down

[ArikiH]

It would be cool to see a video where you go through different current smoothing on lamps using an occilliscope

[jordanciaramitaro]

I have a strong feeling that Dubai lamp will become a marketing term to sell cheap dangerous knock off versions at inflated prices in the near future.

[draketungsten]

"Let me know if you want me to open the other lamp, " he asks, as if the answer would be anything other than YES.

[Petertronic]

"Let me know if you want me to take X, Y or Z apart"
Everybody: *YES*

[HeidiLandRover]

We have been watching the UAE Tour. I got very excited when I noticed one of these bulbs in the studio behind the presenter. Nobody else understood why I was interested in a lamp :-D

[jfanreva]

One of the features they're touting for these lamps is the low heat output to save on air conditioning costs. In a place where you run a/c all year round that could be significant.

[BRUXXUS]

Amazing what they’ve done with jellybean parts in such a tiny space. So clever and efficient in every way.

[jansenart]

Dubai has a rather well-earned reputation for being hot, and doing round-the-clock construction both on land and in the Gulf. Burnt-out bulbs requiring constant replacement that might halt construction would constitute a royal pain the the balls, so underdriven LEDs that could survive much longer at higher temperatures would be a boon for the booming city-state.

[nickk]

You seem on your usual good form to me Clive! Trouble is, because you mentioned you recorded it while feeling less than fresh, one tends to look for stuff that probably isn't there. The power of suggestion so to speak. Very interesting as usual. Thanks!

[tomschmidt]

Amazing you can fit so many components in to a candelabra base. Too bad they are not available elsewhere, the random failures and short life gives LED bulbs a bad name.

[ThunderBassistJay]

Using components below specifications often elongates their lifespan beyond belief. For this reason we used to lower the filament current of radio valves by a few percent, back in the day.

[kinasc]

WOW! Radiotvphononut, then Shango066, Techmoan, Glasslinger and now Bigclive, what at a saturday! Afternoon Clive.👍

[fevensteather]

Honestly Clive, this should be brought to the top of everyone's existence. I love you man.

[spokehedz]

I would kind of like to see how the device deals with those "unfavorable conditions" such as over voltage, under voltage, spikes, etc. Maybe do that to the 2W bulb to see how 'robust' the design is?

[tobiwonkanogy]

I feel the low power radiating from this rare oddity . The world needs these for sure not just Dubai man.

[SimplyStave]

TAKE APART THE 2W BULB!!!!
As someone who is just getting into this stuff as a hobby, it’s nice to see how the circuit board components scale with power rating. Cheers!

[Purple]

That dubai lamp video has got over 1.6 million views in just a month or less, I bet these are really popular 💡

[jmonsted]

I'm all for testing more lamps. Especially ones readily available in Europe from decent brands.

[tonythemadbrit]

The great thing with a company like Philips is they're not limited by what components are available when deigning consumer products, because they can make whatever they need in-house (in their component factories), or at least they could when I worked for them. I was a Philips engineer for 13 years, and we could order Philips parts for in-house projects from our other factories. I once asked our purchasing guy to order 4 small special diodes for a prototype board. About a month later a forklift arrived carrying four rolls of diodes for a component insertion machine, a total of 4 million diodes. Our purchasing guy had accidently entered an incorrect digit in the part number. We contacted the diode factory and offered to send them back, but they told us to keep them.