https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/fc85e684-679a-4e8e-b75e-2601e5b82ec3 The LED neon-style ornaments are getting better and better. From the early version with vacuum formed thin plastic backing, to the moulded white plastic outlines, and now this very rugged version that looks like cast acrylic sheet with the channel for the LED strip and wiring holes cast-in. It's also using an interesting approach to terminate wiring onto the internal LED strip by making slits in the back, and directly soldering across two solid mid-LED pads to get a strong invisible connection. The LED strip has a resistor per LED giving a theoretical maximum current of about 10mA, which ensures long LED life while keeping the total current down for easy powering by a simple USB power supply. This ornament used about 800mA (4W). It's a shame it's hard to get the 5V LED-neon strip at the point of making this video. It's commonly used in this style of ornament as the single LED and resistor arrangement means it can be cut to very accurate lengths, and obliterating an LED in the process doesn't really show too much. You could retube these ornaments with the 12V version, but that can only be cut at a resolution of about 1 inch (25mm). LED-neon uses a continuous strip of LEDs on a flexible PCB, that is mounted sideways in a white and translucent extrusion. The light is bounced before illuminating the diffused front, resulting in a very smooth neon-like linear line of light. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:43:57 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/fc85e684-679a-4e8e-b75e-2601e5b82ec3 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.