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The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

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Repair, teardowns & right to repairElectronics & circuit design

What it is

Big Clive tears down the Dubai lamp, a Philips LED bulb developed with Dubai's ruler for maximum efficiency and long life. He examines its construction and circuitry, including underrun LEDs and many filament strips.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as proof that efficient, long-lived LED bulbs can be built and as an example of well-designed lamps.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “I can really recommend the channel”

    Teardown of Dubai lamps with more filament strips running cooler

    MrGilbert, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “The Dubai Lamp: The “World’s Most Efficient” LED Light Bulb”

  2. “For actual good LED lamps (not the crap they push in USA) check out”

    Example of well-designed long-lasting LED lamps

    foxhop, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid”

  3. “Check out the dubai lamp to see a lamp designed to be efficient and last”

    A lamp designed to be efficient and long-lived

    asddubs, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop”

  4. “cited source material comes from the always awesome Big Clive YouTube Channel.”

    Source material for the article, from a favorite channel

    adolph, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy”

  5. “They have a different design and it gets into the electronics.”

    Different Dubai lamp design with a look at the electronics

    shagie, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (2017)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: dubai lamp, big clive, philips, teardown, led longevity

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