One of my favourite Big Clive moments was when he turned up on Barry Lewis's channel (a thoroughly nice and decent British amateur cook and kitchen gadget tester) when Barry had plugged a 120v rated grilled cheese toaster into a UK 240v household supply, near kitchen conflagration hilarity ensues:
"The best bit about this video is seeing you plug a 120V appliance into 240V without realising it, and then watching the horror unfold as the grossly overloaded appliance makes loud stressed noises and emits flames. The appliance doesn't just run at twice it's normal power, it's closer to four times the power. Good job. Very entertaining."
I've followed Big Clive for about 5 years now and he's a great presenter. Especially his "what cheap shite I bought from my local Poundland on the Isle of Man" videos...which actually kinda reassure you that Poundland's "cheapo" electrics aren't that terrible or are going to burn your house down.
Offtopic but serious question: how do you downvote someone on HN? I thought they flat-out turned that off as a design decision, like you see on some subreddits.
At least 500 karma points are needed, but even with that, nobody can downvote a reply to their own comment, which is what your parent commenter was referring to (albeit rudely).
You need a certain amount of karma before it is enabled. I can downvote comments - but not posts. I've got just over 500 karma. I think 500 was the tipping point.
The guy I replied to spent 3 years thinking downvotes didn’t exist on this site simply because he wasn’t enough of a windbag to earn 500 karma. That’s not fun, it’s a tragedy. What would be fun is a discussion that leads to them changing this lame rule. Quiet people shouldn’t be punished for being quiet.
It put a big smile on my face that big clive is the first comment here :-) His videos are hypnotically good! He's tied with aVe IMO as the best teardown channels on youtube.
I admit he got me good with his "Scottish Army MRE" video though in my defense, who expects an April Fools video in January? I really enjoy his teardowns and the accompanying circuit diagrams - amazing stuff.
He has a lot of other stuff too, but I agree, he has probably made the largest and most in-depth collection of LED lighting videos on YouTube. Unlike a lot of other review videos, he doesn't just take the lamps out of the box, plug them in, turn them on and make some comments; he takes them apart and scrutinises them in a lot of detail.
That whole stuffing 240v into a BabyBel cheese and Co-op mincemeat pies thing was quite amusing, I guess the festive season can be "slow news" days even for video bloggers. That said, back in the early 90's when I was a field engineer, a mate and myself used apply 240v to foodstuffs in the company workshop "just to see what happened" when things were a bit slow. The resulting smells were somewhat odd.
Have you ever seen "PhotonicInduction"? He did a lot of very dangerous and borderline insane stuff with electricity like running up a 20KW bulb in his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT5_-A0m8_U (or, more famously, chucking a cinder block into a washing machine)
He married someone from India and the UK Home Office wouldn't grant his partner a visa initially. I think it's all sorted now and she's now living with him in the UK:
