Christopher IseneCointreau - will it carbonate? The extra loud squeaky one
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Psgk56pQhM
YouTube
Ich erinnere mich vage an Legenden über #XLR auf Schuko Adapter - eine Kabeltrommel zum Verlängern findet sich ja immer irgendwo - und #BigClive hat diese nützlichen Geräte tatsächlich auf #Ebay gefunden…
Widowmakers from your favourite online sellers
JdeBPFood for thought:
#TomScott — London–based
#MattGray — London–based
#MattParker — Surrey–based
#ChrisSpargo — London–based
#JagoHazzard — London–based
#BenSaunders — London–based
I'm pretty sure that #RuthAisling is based somewhere in Scotland, but apart from that there's a dearth of larger YouTubers that I've encountered based in the likes of Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, and so on.
There's #KariLawler in Wolverhampton and that bloke that rides the West Midlands Railway, and that's it. The Isle of Man has #BigClive. Whereas Leicester, Coventry, Walsall, Lichfield, Solihull, Manchester, Leeds, Northampton, and so on have no big YouTubers at all, from what I've seen.
The cable box, that the relative's cable company never wanted back well over a decade ago, has come out of hiding down the back of a workbench in a shed and yielded a 500GiB Seagate hard disc. Not to be sniffed at.
If I can figure out how to get the heat sink off, I shall satisfy my curiosity about what CPU it used.
It's one of those affairs that uses the 'H' type of torx-head screws — purportedly a 'security' measure, but I was able to buy a set of L keys for £15 from Machine Mart.
Thanks should go to whoever it was on the FediVerse who put me on to #MachineMart a couple of years ago.
https://machinemart.co.uk/p/laser-miniature-star-bit-set-tamperproof/
Yes, I know. £15 for something that I could have got for a tenner off e-Bay is not the best trade. But I'm having fun channelling #BigClive, opening the thing up with pry bars and sticking the hard disc into another machine to see how it is partitioned and formatted.
C.I bought a #Hangell (no, I wasn't familiar with that name) switching bench power supply and it arrived. It happens to be one that #BigClive just briefly showed in one of his unbagging videos.
I got it because my existing old #linear supplies max out at around 18 V, and that has been a hindrance of late. A #switching supply isn't ideal, because of the possibility of noise, but this model will do 5 A at 60 VDC, and a linear supply that can do a couple of amps at that voltage is big, heavy, and pricey.
So of course, as soon as I received it, I took it apart. As you do.
And ... I'm pleasantly surprised. The #PCB layouts look good, the assembly appears very good, with proper pick&placed #SMT components and reflow soldering, not hack-job hand soldering. The components seem to be #quality, even name-brand where appropriate. There are what appear to be genuine class X and class Y #safety capacitors everywhere they should be. The front binding posts are fairly typical cheap #Chinesium ones, but appear to be from the better end of the quality spectrum as far as those go.
One ding: the multiple #electrolytic output caps appear to be 63 V-rated ones. For a supply that goes up to 60 V, that's just not acceptable. Maybe that's because this unit can also be had in a 30 V model? Or maybe they're just hoping you don't notice.
I'm sorely tempted to replace them with 100 V-rated ones before I use it. I'm going to add some more output #filtering as well.
Yes, there are tons of the things that use the 433 MHz (or 3xx MHz) remotes. Many are programmable, so you can use remotes of your choice - multi-button pocket fobs, ones you stick on a desk or the wall, ones that mount on the wall and look like a normal lightswitch, etc.
They're cheap, so the big brands don't do them - they want to sell you the connected type (and probably a subscription), but you can find them on your local cheap & cheerful Chinese tat site.
If you're familiar with Big Clive, he's done a bunch of videos on these types of things - how to use them, teardowns, autopsies of dead units, etc. You can try searching his (large) back catalog with something like:
bigclivedotcom
The trashiest electronic channel on YouTube. We test and use affordable electronic soldering equipment and tools to build, teardown, modify (and sometimes destroy) random electronic stuff. A British TV licence is NOT required to view my videos or almost every other video on YouTube. Many of the builds and projects featured here operate at full mains voltage and carry a high risk of shock and fire. As such they're really intended for either entertainment value or for those who do similar stuff. The videos are generally uncensored and may contain tasteless jokes, profanities and even blood and electric shocks when things go wrong. So just like a normal workshop really. So kick back, grab a beer and enjoy the ride.
Chris WenhamSome people have a weak laugh reflex without also lacking a sense of humour. I've never heard one of my friends laugh, but he gets jokes and appreciates humour.
There's also #BigClive on TouYube, who I've never heard laugh even during livestreams when you'd expect a guffaw or two from all the jokes being cracked in chat.
But he's definitely funny. His Scottish MRE video is comic genius. I haven't laughed that hard since Del-boy fell over in the pub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU&t=6s
Scottish army ration (MRE) with radioactive heater.
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Druid 🏴#BigClive - This connector can kill you.
