Their name was derived from their fields of study, where the members were to become Lawyers, Engineers, or Doctors. Taking the first letter of each field and creating the acronym 'LED', thus naming the band 'The LED'.
Though relatively popular during their time, for the current SA youth generation the name 'the led' won't ring any bells. The rock scene in South Africa has since Fokofpolisiekar and the emergence of MK boomed. Looking back. the the Led can be considered pioneers of the scene that was to follow
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Come On
The Led Lyrics
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We were so happy, woman, talkin' for hours and hours on the telephone
Then one day I set you up to walk right outta my life
Leavin' me all by myself, all alone, to cry every night
(Babe, babe, babe, babe, oh)
Oh, I want you to come back home, yeah
(Oh yeah)
Sweet little girl
You've been away so long
Now listen to me
I said I made up my mind, woman when you left me there, oh
I was gonna find another sweet lover who's gonna feel all of my, all of my, all
Of my cares
So I met a sweet little girl just about as nice as she could be, oh
I fell in love with that woman but she turned around, and did the same thing
Again to me, whoa
(Babe, babe, babe)
Oh baby, baby, please come home, home
(Come on home) home, yeah, it's alright
(Oh yeah) I know
(Ya been gone too long) been away so long
(Babe, babe, babe) I want you to please come home, oh
(Oh yeah, ya been gone too long)
So I made up my mind
I gonna crawl right back to you woman
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah
'Til you're here by my side
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down
Cause I keep thinking about all the good times
Keep thinkin' about it
I want to make you mine
Oh, babe
(Babe, babe, babe)
Babe, babe, babe, please
(Come on home)
Please come home, yeah
(Oh yeah, ya been gone too long)
I want you to oh oh
(Babe, babe, babe come on home)
I want you to come back running home to me woman
(Oh yeah)
I want you to think about when we walk through the trees together
(Ya been gone too long)
You know we had such a real good time
Whoa, here they come
(Babe, babe, babe, come on home)
I believe it's always calling
Do you feel the brown leaf against your face you ought to sing and shout
(Oh yeah)
The Led's song "Come On" is about the regret of being broken up with and wanting the person back despite trying to move on. The song opens up with the singer reminiscing on the days when he and his ex-girlfriend would talk on the phone for hours on end. However, she left him and he is left to cry every night. The singer is clearly longing for her to come back home and make things right.
Despite the hurt and pain, the singer found another woman, whom he fell in love with, but she did the same thing to him that his ex did. The singer is clearly regretful of his decision to move on and realizes that his ex-girlfriend is the only one he wants. He pleads with her to come back home and to think about the good times they had together.
The lyrics are clear and relatable, as many people have gone through a similar experience of losing someone they love and trying to move on, only to realize that the person they truly want is the one who left them. The melody is equally relatable, with its sorrowful tune and pleading lyrics.
Line by Line Meaning
There was a time I used to call you on my very own
I miss the good old days when I called you without any hassles or interruptions.
We were so happy, woman, talking for hours and hours on the telephone
Hours-long of chat sessions made us so happy and we enjoyed every bit of the conversation.
Then one day I set you up to walk right outta my life
I guided you to move out of my life for your betterment though I regret it now.
Leavin' me all by myself, all alone, to cry every night
Your departure left me heartbroken, and I spent most nights crying by myself.
(Babe, babe, babe, babe, oh)
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about.
Oh, I want you to come back home, yeah
I deeply desire for you to return to the place you once called home and be with me.
(Oh yeah)
Interjection to express agreement, affirmation, or enthusiasm.
Sweet little girl
Casual reference to the woman he longs for, who he sees as endearing, lovely, and adorable.
(You been gone so long)
Interjection to convey a state of sadness or sorrow due to the woman's long absence.
You've been away so long
Your long absence has made me realize how much I need you and miss your presence in my life.
Now listen to me
I now have something important to say that you need to hear.
I said I made up my mind, woman when you left me there, oh
When you left, I made a decision that my life would go on, and I won't let myself suffer from your departure.
I was gonna find another sweet lover who's gonna feel all of my, all of my, all of my cares
I decided to find another woman with whom I could share my love and receive the same affection in return.
So I met a sweet little girl just about as nice as she could be, oh
I found another woman who was as lovely and kind as you were.
I fell in love with that woman but she turned around, and did the same thing again to me, whoa
I fell in love with her only to find out that she treated me badly and broke my heart again.
(Babe, babe, babe)
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about.
Oh baby, baby, please come home, home
I beg for you to come back home to me.
(Come on home)
Interjection to encourage the woman to come back home and be with me.
I know (Ya been gone too long) been away so long
I acknowledge that you have been gone for too long, and your absence has made me realize how important you are to me.
(Babe, babe, babe) I want you to please come home, oh
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about; requesting her to come back home.
(Oh yeah, ya been gone too long)
Interjection to express agreement that the woman has been gone for too long.
So I made up my mind
I have finally made a decision about what I want.
I gonna crawl right back to you woman
I am going to humbly return to you as your man and seek your love and forgiveness.
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah
I am going to keep pleading with you to take me back.
'Til you're here by my side
I am going to do everything in my power to have you back by my side again.
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down
Every familiar place reminds me of you, and the memories we shared, and it hurts me knowing we're no longer together.
Cause I keep thinking about all the good times
I can't stop thinking about all the fun times we had and how much I miss those moments with you.
Keep thinkin' about it
I continue to dwell on how much I miss you, and think about reconciling with you.
I want to make you mine
I want you to be my partner for life and be mine forever.
Oh, babe
Interjection to express love and affection for the woman he is talking about.
(Babe, babe, babe)
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about.
Babe, babe, babe, please
Requesting the woman to come back to him.
(Come on home)
Interjection to encourage the woman to come back home and be with me.
Please come home, yeah
I beg of you to come back home to me.
(Oh yeah, ya been gone too long)
Interjection to express agreement that the woman has been gone for too long.
I want you to oh oh
Expressing his desire to have her back home with him.
(Babe, babe, babe come on home)
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about; pleading with her to come back home.
(Ya been gone too long)
Interjection to convey a state of sadness or sorrow due to the woman's long absence.
I want you to come back running home to me woman
I want her to come running back to me, seeking my love and requesting to be with me.
(Oh yeah)
Interjection to express agreement, affirmation, or enthusiasm.
I want you to think about when we walk through the trees together
I want you to reminisce the wonderful moments we had together.
You know we had such a real good time
We had a great time together, and I want you to remember that.
Whoa, here they come
Interjection to express amazement or excitement; anticipating something to happen.
(Babe, babe, babe, come on home)
Interjection to express strong emotions of love and affection towards the woman he is talking about; pleading with her to come back home.
I believe it's always calling
I believe that our love for each other is always present and has the power to bring us back together.
Do you feel the brown leaf against your face you ought to sing and shout
Metaphorically speaking, I want her to realize the end of autumn, symbolizing that our time apart and the changing seasons have made us miss each other; and when we come back together, we should celebrate and be happy with each other.
(Oh yeah)
Interjection to express agreement, affirmation, or enthusiasm.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., ROBERT MELLIN LIVING TRUST
Written by: JIMMY PAGE, ROBERT PLANT, BERT BERNS
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Martin Kuliza
@SloppyProgrammer
yes indeed, and we'll call this program "THE BOOMER"
LOL
The only problem in our plan to take over the world and predict Mehdi's booms is... MEHDI IS UNPREDICTABLE
even the google algorithm or you tube algorithm cannot predict his booms.
PROOF : if they could they would insert an ad just before it happened so we would wait around for the boom
On that note, Have you seen the movie HERE COMES THE BOOM :P
instead of kevin in the movie i would have appreciate that Mehdi was the teacher and got into a cage match
i would have appreciated if that cage was a Faraday Cage and that they might call it the Faraday Cage of Death
but yeah Mehdi is just unpredictable
although i'd love to see him in a movie
Junker Zn
For a simple LED its just a DC source like an I/O port, the LED, and a resistor. But in commercial designs, driving an LED efficiently as well as controlling the brightness actually takes a bit of work. There are two methods.
The most common method is to use a current-controlled driver chip, usually set to near the LED's rated current (e.g. 20mA), and you then control the brightness with a PWM. The PWM is sometimes built-into the driver chip and controlled via I2C, but it is just as easy to use a little PIC microcontroller to handle the PWM. The PWM typically runs at 40KHz and has 256 brightness levels (base clock is thus around 10MHz). LED driver chips allow you to set a fixed current with a resistor and you use something like a PIC microcontroller to control it. However, there is a 'minimum' brightness when using this method because LED driver chips can't actually turn on and off quickly enough to handle PWM settings below around 100uS.
The driver chips work best for LED strings. We don't use inductors... Actually, we try to avoid using inductors at all because they vibrate and they are expensive components compared to other components on the board. They are EXTREMELY efficient. We try to arrange the voltage drop across the string such that the voltage is close to zero at the bottom of the string. The driver chip then basically connects the bottom to ground (current controlled), so the losses through the driver chip are extremely low. e.g. if you have a 20V series string of LEDs you make your power supply something like 21V and thus the driver chip's internal FETs only has to dissipate 1V, yielding an efficiency of 95%.
The second method is to servo the current with a FET/op-amp circuit for brightness and use a simple fixed PWM to limit power consumption. Again at around 40KHz. This is more difficult to get right because the FETs linear range is really sensitive to voltage (hence why it has to be a servo), but it works. It isn't as efficient because the FET eats the difference, but it allows the PWM to have a wide pulse width without being too bright, which is important for certain transmitter/detector applications.
Then finally, one might ask why use a 40Khz PWM instead of, say, 60Hz from a half bridge? Well... because the human eye can easily see the flicker at 60Hz, but won't see any flickering at 40KHz.
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Hamza Rauf
Super interesting video.
Vergil
bro you really help me out with engineering♥
ElectroBOOM
Hi All! Around 6:40, although my first LED was dead from the first capacitor experiment, the second LED was not dead! As some of you pointed out, I totally forgot about the fact that the LED, forcing the current one way through the capacitor only, charges the capacitor to the main voltage peak (hence the one quick blink) and after that because the capacitor is charged, the voltage across the LED doesn't go positive and so it won't turn on any more. The solution would be to discharge the capacitor, say by placing a reverse diode across the LED to discharge the capacitor in the negative cycle. The reverse diode could also be an LED, which means in both cycles you would have an LED on causing less flicker, which is nice!
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Petter Olofsson
Nope, the reason it's not lit is because of you exceeding the reverse voltage of the LED ;)
But you would also need a reverse diode in case your led was 50x stronger than the datasheet
Thanks for the video!
Nate Gunning
ur vids r so educational and informational