starting off as is traditional with the pouring of the beer tonight it is starbeast
espresso imperial stout from sukram's brewing in winnipeg espresso starbeast is a full-bodied
imperial stout with the addition of little sister coffee maker's colombian el merdino
i think i got that right this beer has hints of dark chocolate espresso and a resinous hop bite
so tonight i'm taking a closer look at these little video lights that i got their newer brand
newer makes sort of budget oriented photography and audio gear and so far
anytime i've seen it it's surprisingly good for the for the cost of it compared
to i mean it's not high-end stuff but it's also not priced like high-end stuff it's priced more
reasonable for people like me and you just you know youtubers clowning around in their basement
the kit came with three lights but i've got two of them up here mounted already and i've been using
them for a few weeks now and let me just turn them on and you can see the difference that they make
unless they just take the shadows right out of that front there and actually i should have turned
the auto exposure off on my camera because they'd adjusted for it a little bit hang on
let's try that experiment again there i've got the two lights off and i got my exposure
locked on my camera now we'll crank it up and you can see the difference that they actually
make without the camera automatically adjusting for it that's pretty impressive
in sort of killing shadows in front of it yeah okay it creates that extra shadow back there but
that's not a big deal nobody's looking back there anyway until i pointed at it
and just for reference there's where i've got them mounted they're hanging just out of shot
and yes that is a selfie stick handle zip tied to a spring clamp clamped on just above my uh
workbench so the three of them came with a set of accessories uh each one came with
one of these little ball heads or swivel ball heads it's just got a quarter 20 in the bottom
quarter 20 on the top and a little adjustable ball head so you can put it wherever you want
they also each came with a charging cable and a suction cup with a little swivel mount on it as
well which makes them really handy they're they're actually intended for you know sticking onto your
laptop for video conferencing or stuff like that but realistically you can stick them onto
any smooth surface i don't know whether that counts as a smooth surface or not not really
my bench has been hacked up pretty severely i'm just giving a find a smooth surface around here
there how about the screen of that multimeter and then you can just mount whatever you want
and realistically any glass surface or anything like that is going to work i don't just don't have
anything around here other than that so that's what was in the kit basically that times three
each light comes with a cold shoe mount on the bottom which is intended to mount onto the top of
the camera or something like that it's also got a quarter twenty thread on the bottom it's also got
three female i guess you'd call them cold shoe mounts on the side which you could use to mount
another light or any other cold shoe accessory like a microphone holder or something like
that and then the locking ring locks it down in place and it doesn't go anywhere
but i'm not going to do that and i think i will put this guy back up on his mount so
that it can help light the way here and we'll focus on that singular one there
so on the back of them they've just got a potentiometer for brightness adjustment
all the way from very little which is that thank you auto exposure on the camera all the way up
to much brighter and on the back they have the usbc charging port and a four led battery status
indicator according to the little manual that comes with them they are 5600 kelvin plus or minus
20 so not perfectly calibrated but fairly close 60 degree wide light beam they're good between three
and six meters away maybe as a fill light but for what i'm using them for the closer the better
they have a 2100 milliamp hour battery inside them or so it claims at 3.7 volts so obviously
lithium-ion in my experience charging them they came out between 20-20 milliamp hours
and 22-90 milliamp hours so that 2000 that the claiming of 2100 they're claiming in the book is
close enough to honest that's reasonable this is hard to show but it is a 7x7 grid of leds in
there so if my high school math doesn't fail me that's 49 leds in the panel and i guess there's
not much else to see on the outside of them it's held together by there are five screws there's
one each down there and two down there so i think that's probably the next thing that we should do
unfortunately i can't use the fancy screwdriver down these little holes
so i don't even know where this one came from it came with
some other product but it's the skinniest tiny screwdriver that i've got so it will have to do
now then it just comes apart there so it looks like the fake okay the face bezel
comes off the diffuser comes off there is the array of leds and the reflector
just a little bit pull that reflector off there is oh it even says 49 led panel how nice of it
and looks like we've got some more screws holding the panel in place
i probably also want to spudger off the potentiometer cap i think unless there's
a screw underneath it feels like there is a screw underneath that little power sticker
destroy that completely getting it off yep there's a screw on that potentiometer okay
good thing i didn't get too carried away on the spudger activity
so yeah just a cheap little potentiometer in there pull these screws off the panel oh and there's
more screws back there on the circuit board okay this thing is put together very solidly i approve
so then that gets the panel out of the way very nice little aluminum core board is it on the
car no it isn't it's just a board okay just all the leds in parallel by the looks of it
and there is the cell now it looks like it's got a protection circuit on the end of it which is nice
two pieces of foam and then the control board
and two or three screws four screws holding that in wow they really did
a number on this thing it's got all kinds of screws holding it together
and because there's still power on that board there's no way of disconnecting it
i am going to use my ceramic tweezers to remove those screws so i don't short anything out
and there we go that's it out so on the circuit board we can see that there are
the four little leds for state of charge and actually if i turn it on
you can see that they light up nice and blue three out of four
those leds over there all light up nice on the panel as expected
so i haven't broken it yet and the other thing on this side of the board is that usbc so we're just
getting closer to the board here there's basically three chips on it there is an inductor there is a
diode there which is a 3 amp schottky diode this chip down here has no markings on it at all so
i'm going to assume it's a microcontroller that's in charge of everything this up here is a tc4055
which is a usb power controller and lithium ion linear charger not really a surprise considering
that it's uh sitting physically right between the usb and the battery and then this guy over here
any guesses well the part number you probably didn't guess that's an fp7102 which is a 3.6
to 28 volt 2 amp constant current regulator for white led according to the data sheet
and this schottky diode here and this inductor are all part of its circuit and then there's a
few smaller capacitors and a few resistors just to set the current limit and whatnot
no real surprises on here everything is exactly what you would expect and it's a
fairly well laid out board from what i can tell a little potentiometer is a little bit
of a basic component but that's all you need to do the job everything else seems like
exactly what you would hope for in a product like this i'm especially impressed at the number
of screws that's holding this guy together and that's a fairly solid plastic molding
lots of detail in there and these i mean i got them at a screaming clearance deal which is what
uh i think they cost me five bucks each which is not what you're likely to find them for right now
again they're clear they were a clearance deal when i bought them but there are still a handful
of them kicking around and newer now has other very similar looking lights in their catalog
if you want i'll put a link to a search on ebay for these things down in the description uh
also somewhere probably now i'll put a link to the mailbag where these showed up and it's got some
other information and whatnot from the sellers website i like these and i think i'm going to
put this guy back together now and i don't need to do that on video because you saw me take it apart
and there we go it's back together again and it even still works that is pretty cool
hello when something still works after i've taken it apart anyway those are pretty cool
little lights and i'm glad i grabbed them um as i said there's links down below if you care to
see if you can find one they are they are a discontinued product but if this is any
indication of the quality that neewer builds their stuff i am really impressed like i said
they are not trying to take away the professional lighting market this this is aimed squarely at uh
at us uh you know home gamers basically uh hobbyists whatever you want to call us
and at the price point that they sell these at i'm happy to say that it's a decent thing
um now i bought these with my own money as you as i've mentioned before this is not sponsored
newer doesn't know who the hell i am they're not endorsing this or anything but so far
i from from the various products of theirs that i've seen so far i am impressed anyways uh what
do you think comments and questions down below as usual thanks for watching i'll talk to you later