The Clapper Teardown: 1984 vs 2020 Designs
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2021
- Love it or hate it, it'd been 35 years of manufacturing the same product. Let's reverse engineer them and see what's changed.
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Perfect for powering my home network infrastructure
"Have you tried clapping it off and on again"
"Hey Google, make a clapping sound"
or just simply yell "CLAP"
Clap on, Clap off... clapon clapoff... The Clapper. Yeah, I'm that old. I was finishing Navy Flight school when that thing came out. We bought a couple to prank people with.
In between those two, there was a triangle shaped clapper, I found one when I cleared my folks house out. At one point I even saw a Darth Vader one in the stores....
Odd, they still don't have a ground.
I was going to suggest that the 400w limit was a marketing move to make you buy the Clapper Plus (which has a remote control), but apparently that's identical at 200w per port. It doesn't look like they offer any other models between this one and the Plus.
I remember this on tv ads when I was a kid in the 90's I feel like the design was still the 80's one. Im quite impressed with how the original one was done and how its changed. Very interesting, that project idea sounds fun.
The very first examples in UK were marketed as 'The Clap" particularly to young me who must have thought the slogan "Give your friends the clap" somewhat amusing. (For readers of lower chronological endurance, "clap" is nickname for an STD which is now not common, as I understand....
No we knew... wanted to give one as a gag gift to a conspicuously boyfriended friend of ours but we wouldn’t waste $30USD on her.
Always good to see a new upload! I like the clapper even though I’ve never used it. I’d like to get one of the special ones. If I’m going to buy one it might as well do something cool.
fascinating! thanks for showing these off
In the original ads they say it can turn on and off a stereo. What would happen if you were hosting a party and music is blaring with booming bass, Wouldn't the sound from the stereo activate the clapper and shut off the music? I set off the original clapper with a wind up toy I had, it was this bathtub toy with feet and it ran across the floor and I had the clapper connected to the lamp and the lamp was turning on and off to the sound from the toy.
I believe there is still a market for these today, clapping twice is still easier than getting a smart plug and setting it up to your phone, and perfect for a bedroom lamp, since you don't even have to think about talking or getting up, usually if you have one of those smart speaker you'd have to say something like "speaker, turn on bedroom lights" but if you have a clapper, you just have to clap twice and the lights are on. there's part of me wondering why there isn't clapper functionality on smart speakers, it seems like a dumb non-inclusion.
I believe there's a model in between the two that you have, it's a triangle-ish shape, and it's most likely the same or similar to the brand new one, just with older versions of the components
Had the idea to make a clap counter to integrate with my selfhosted MQTT automation. All it would need to do is detect, count and maybe time the pauses between claps. From there you can make any pattern you want with long and short pauses, and any number of claps to do any task.
Hello Mark. I just looked at your tear-down video and saw what is wrong with my 2020 version. My fuse is blown. Can you advise me how and where to buy the fuse for the Clapper? What is the fuse power rating? I would rather fix-it vs. buy another one. I miss being about to Clap and turn on my stair lights when I go to my second floor. Thank you in advance for your help.
My guess is legal dictated design requirements to 200W/port so that end users wouldn't be able to clap on/off a 1500W heater.
Clap on, clap off, the clapper!
I like the 2020 one
Tim Taylor(aka Tim the tool man Taylor) may disagree.
do'nt 'most people' have a lamp by their bed though?
Slightly off-topic.... Lateral question. How did North America end up on 110volts for domestic wiring, while Europe and most (nearly all) the rest of the world is on 220/240v.
Cannot see much upside of the lower voltage - surely there must be a lot more copper needed in the wires. And makes high power appliances mor difficult. UK has 3kw heaters as the max (tho kitchen appliances and water heaters may be bigger).
And then there is 50 Vs 60 Hz AC.
If I remember right, in the early days it was a safety thing, then once it was established we never went back and changed to the higher volt system. I'll say, most every house does have 220v, it's just only run to one or two outlets for things like dryers and water heaters.
We were first, that's mainly it, and when the rest of the world mostly decided on 240 it was too late to go back. Also we do get a 240v supply actually, and american homes have 240v wiring for high power appliances. I actually have my home server and networking equipment running on 240v as it's ever so slightly more efficent.
Someone get this to BigClive!!!
Imagine the size of a dual UK plug clapper...