Subtle product placement.

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

On SALE! aveworkshop.myshopify.com

@A6Legit

8 ай бұрын

​@@arduinoversusevil2025such discount it be losing money not to buy it 😆

@PvtMurphy

8 ай бұрын

Woot! Thank you!

@rjwj64

8 ай бұрын

​@@arduinoversusevil2025😅😅

@gedalja

8 ай бұрын

Bought it! Axing Dutch fingers on the job in no time! And some warning stickers of course...

It saves electricity by blocking the receptacle from everything else

@howlerbike

8 ай бұрын

It's OK I guess if you don't mind the sensation you get from being violated when your hood gets winked. Eeeeuw.

@rf159a

8 ай бұрын

LMAO

@Gizmo42Rodeo

8 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing.

@jjc4577

8 ай бұрын

it's a NEMA 5-15 chastity belt!

@dochaze1

8 ай бұрын

As Andrew dice clay said regarding diets, “it’s not a video tape, it’s not an audio tape, it’s duct tape. You put it over your mouth so the fuckn Twinkies don’t get in.”

Fastest we've seen Uncle Bumblefuck move in a long while.😅

@rusinoe8364

8 ай бұрын

Shit was live!

@robbiefisher8639

8 ай бұрын

😂😂

@JuniorJunison

7 ай бұрын

"Lit me up like a Christmas tree" 😂

Ah damn, they got the boxes wrong at the factory again. That's not the electric-saving box, that's the indoor surprise fire starter. It's meant to test your houses smoke detectors at 3 am while you're away.

@wobblyboost

8 ай бұрын

lol, yep I couldn't help thinking of demolition detonators when I beheld a wad of tinfoil twixt two wires in ceiling wax.

@shenghan9385

8 ай бұрын

That's the beauty of it. If a house is burnt down, no occupants can use any home appliances in it for a while.

@azurplex

7 ай бұрын

There's finally a REASON for your smoke detector to go off at 3AM. The perfect compliment to the unreliable First Alert smoke/CO detectors your local jurisdiction probably mandates you have.

I had no idea the German technology had advanced this far

7:55 That's how it saves you energy! The less devices you can plug in the less electricity you use!

@colgesuks

8 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing.

@WilliamTythas

8 ай бұрын

and if it burns your house down you wont be using any electricity

@markbeiser

8 ай бұрын

BRILLIANT!

@thedillestpickle

8 ай бұрын

Now just get one for each outlet in your home and you are set!

@hellshade2

8 ай бұрын

one good energy saver is to keep your cable box plugged into a power strip with a switch and when you are not watching tv turn of that strips power. because that box use a ton of power even if turned off normally. best unplugged when not in use...

It's usually not the device that scares me. It's the fact that you don't know if your neighbors would plug in something as sketch as that next door.

@logansmall5148

8 ай бұрын

This is why it is best practice to have a firebreak between your neighbor's house and yours.

@KHALABEEB

8 ай бұрын

They would🤣

@MelodicTurtleMetal

8 ай бұрын

For maximum savings, you put one in every unused socket.

@davidkane4300

8 ай бұрын

It's like the death plugs (double male-ended cable) so they can plug in a generator (or now the huge power banks) into their house, but don't turn off their main breaker, so it back feeds the transformer, giving the lineman a spicy 2400/7200/19900V-ish (but super low current) at the line side of the transformer and along the deenergized distribution lines. Probably not going to kill them, but it'll be very much like that homemade capacitor in this piece of crap.

@jaythompson5102

8 ай бұрын

Thank everything that is holy for standards and guidelines.

When I was a kid, my dad MacGyvered a capacitor from a ~3' x 2' sheet of glass with tinfoil on both sides...all held safely in a vertical orientation via 2x4 pine off-cuts. It was part of a Tesla coil he built to make 6" bolts of lightning. I had a fun childhood.

@jmaxim80

8 ай бұрын

Awesome 👌

@ryanvess6162

8 ай бұрын

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@iamarawn

8 ай бұрын

That does sound like a fun childhood. Tell your father he did a good job and some random dutch idiot is proud of him!

Am I the only one that thinks the world needs an AVE and Big Clive colab 😄

This is why your boss tells you to wear your electrical safety gear when you open a panel even a low voltage one...because you will open a capacitor with a chainsaw and poke at the innards with a un-insulated chunk of metal and still not think it's your fault you got popped.

@meyou5092

8 ай бұрын

Since the cap barked back it was a big dollar unit with a real cap. Ave, when measuring a cap disconnected from the mains, it helps to have your meter on DC and not AC. HAHAHA, I knew it was gonna bite him after he measured on AC volts, got nothing, and convinced himself the cap was a fake. Murphy's law, don't ya' know. zztt Glorious.

@grlpeterson

8 ай бұрын

Sweet jesus, my wife had a hard time understanding why I was laughing so hard. If she only knew...

@juliogonzo2718

8 ай бұрын

@@grlpeterson I watched that over and over about 6 times 🤣

@lokelaufeyson9931

8 ай бұрын

its safe, i wear my safety specticals and my ultra electric resistant rubber gloves made from used condoms bought in walmart

@grlpeterson

8 ай бұрын

@@lokelaufeyson9931 why buy them when all you have to do is go behind the store?

Got one in every socket, now the wind mills nearby turn in the wrong direction. What gives?

@boboften9952

8 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@centexmachineshop

8 ай бұрын

You’ve installed them upside down

@boboften9952

8 ай бұрын

@@centexmachineshop Ahhh ...... DC , not AC ????

As a ridiculous aside. Here in New Zealand those little mini chainsaws gave been recalled from the market because the don't have a chain brake😄

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

Gotta watch out for that kickback... the torque is overwhelming

@BladeMcCloud

Ай бұрын

That's so pathetic 😂

Many years ago my old man picked up one of these at a home show and he had it mounted to the houses main panel. Good thing that one came in a metal box, because within a couple years that cap failed and it was burning hot for god knows how long. The only reason I checked for him was because the electric bills were getting crazy high. I love my old man but he's so gullible he'd probably buy that that Chinese canned air.

@morgan5941

8 ай бұрын

We had a capacitor explode in an outdoor wall light at work. It blew the cover some twenty feet away and made the room on the other side of the wall smell like burnt plastic.

Honestly you gotta admire the brilliance in its simplicity and cost effectiveness even if it is manufactured trash. It even had an unexpected built-in anti-tamper feature.

@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse

8 ай бұрын

Just imagine how cheap labor has to be for this to be more cost effective than a manufactured cap.

@skataskatata9236

8 ай бұрын

isn't it a manyfactured cap?

@Colonel_Obvious

8 ай бұрын

Manufactured trash. Great term for such a device. Imagine, there is a factory in China turning these things out by the ton. What does this magnificent little device do? Nothing at all. It is manufactured trash. What a wonderful time to be alive.

@minekush1138

8 ай бұрын

crap

@kennethelwell8574

8 ай бұрын

“ unexpected “ 😂

The penaxe is for when the odd rodent or accountant moves across your desk.

@formdoggie5

8 ай бұрын

That was redundant.

@lemuelseale1640

7 ай бұрын

Whats the difference between the two?

Well at least yours actually HAD a capacitor in that potted box! I ordered an identical unit (but with non-compliant UK 3 pin arrangement) to tear apart, and there was nothing else buried in that potting resin than the cut ends of the two black wires!

When I was a teen my dad ordered some chinesium emergency kits for the family to keep in their vehicles. As the combination radio/flashlight/alarm/battery pack/can opener/compass instructions and features list said, "emergence helpful". Been in my vocabulary ever since.

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

I inherited one of those from my grandfather, probably 90s vintage. I think I saved the crappy hex keys and tossed the rest of it, though the hex keys were kind of bendy and malleable. I think he must have held onto it because someone gifted it to him. The flashlight portion was ridiculously huge but put out next to no light. I don't remember what else was included with it, but it may well have had a mini claw hammer in there somewhere for those times when you need to drive a nail into someone else's gas tank for quick access.

Chinglish, or Chinadian, or even Japanenglish has been, over the decades, a source of belly shaking laughter. In the 1960s I used to work on imported motorcycles. The manuals are *HILARIOUS!!* Thanks for the video!

@5thelementcannabisproduction

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget the Quebecois Hinglish ..

@DasIllu

8 ай бұрын

Like in Yamahahahahahahahahahahaha?

@Mack_Dingo

8 ай бұрын

You know its gonna be good when they add 2 random words together to make it compound

@kbjerke

8 ай бұрын

@@5thelementcannabisproduction I'm from the Eastern Townships. Restaurant order: "I'll have two egg, side by each and a pair of toast!" Best wishes to you!

@nobody8717

8 ай бұрын

How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us!! You are on the way to destruction, make your time!!

Remember, when your house burns to the ground, you'll start saving on your electricity bill.

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

When you wake up dead, that's how you'll know it's working.

I remember one of these from when I was a kid. I accidentally cracked one open and all the saved electricity leaked and spilled out. My parents never let me near any appliances for months after that.

@emmajacobs5575

8 ай бұрын

“accidentally” …

I'm sure you've seen Big Clive do a teardown of these "products"... but I have to admit I was surprised to see that there's better engineering done on the cardboard box than what was inside of it.

@tree_carcass_mangler

8 ай бұрын

It is a nice box.

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

That was the saving box. It was in front of us the whole time. The other thing was a mouse from 2002 with misaligned prongs.

@raymitchell9736

7 ай бұрын

You know@@Dwigt_Rortugal... that makes more sense than anything in that video! And probably TRUE too.

Can I now publicly apologize for my schadenfreude when you poked the pixies in the empty plastic box.

I wish we could've seen the actual capacitance of the homemade capacitor on its own

@MazeFrame

8 ай бұрын

I think BigClive has a video where he checks it.

@colinwilson210

8 ай бұрын

​@@MazeFrameI think followers of AvE tend to run in similar circles on KZread - who else does everyone follow in case I'm missing any salient satirists ?

@stanimir4197

8 ай бұрын

@@colinwilson210 DiodeGoneWild "Power Factor Saver (energy saving box scam evolution)", that one has even better capacitor. Overall his series on phone charges are proper good.

@propheticchaos

8 ай бұрын

@@stanimir4197thank you for that my good sir. Anyone else doing sketchy stuff?

@jordanclayson2

8 ай бұрын

He's gonna have to buy another one to test this

You should do one of those 'insect/pest removers' with the blue led and 'ultrasonic' speaker.

@jimchesnutt7879

8 ай бұрын

If you're talking about the 'fruit fly catchers', those things actually work. Sticky pad and a blue light seems to be irresistible to many little flyers.

@travispoulin252

8 ай бұрын

​@@jimchesnutt7879 That's not what he's talking about as he said ultrasonic bug repeller and not fruit fly trap. Search ultrasonic bug repeller to see what he's talking about. They have been around since the 90s. Also, the best fruit fly trap is a little glass of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dish soap in it.

@kanmeridoc1784

7 ай бұрын

@@jimchesnutt7879 nah, it's supposed to be a supersonic or ultrasonic frequency generator that repels mice and etc. Much like Rodent Sheriff, the peppermint spray, if it does work it doesn't for very long.

The second you plugged it in, my refrigerator started buzzing all the way over here in New England. Powerful magic in that phase correcting cap. Almost wet myself laughing when the cap discharged. We used to charge up caps in high school electronics class back in the 70s and leave them on the bench for each other.

@incognitoalias2808

8 ай бұрын

I'm sure the 1.43 million Sarcastic Subscribers had a outburst of Laughter at the 9:36 mark, birds of the same feathers seem to F**k around together on each other's expense............

@brainkill7034

8 ай бұрын

@@incognitoalias2808if he didn’t want people to get a laugh out of it he wouldn’t have posted it

Nice 'shoutout' to ElectroBOOM!

Great work, as always. Love the way you priced the pencil axe. $6,627.00 USD, but if you buy now, it's $19.00 USD, on sale.

@lolman123401

8 ай бұрын

That actually might be illegal depending on where he lives

@jman1121

8 ай бұрын

@@lolman123401 Planet Hoth. I'm fairly certain that it's governed by tauntauns. Note, do not approach with laser sword.

@dotonthehorizon9620

8 ай бұрын

That is illegal in the mighty EU

@mcrande

8 ай бұрын

Where do you find his stuff to buy?

@dotonthehorizon9620

8 ай бұрын

@@mcrande you really took the time to type this comment but you didnt think to check the description?

Dude, Supa Spanner was intentional and was a huge hit when it came out in the 80s in Australia. We got one for my old man for father's day, and it survived and was useful where none of the horrid no-name excuses for spanners we could afford did. These days I can afford known brands of combination spanner which are far superior, but that Supa Spanner still brings back fuzzy memories of successfully removing seized bolts.

The CE logo on the box is formatted correctly, but it's not on the device. The C, if turned into a circle, should intersect with the left of the E. Now, I've seen legit devices lose the space between them, but in general, manufacturers are careful about this, because they actually paid for the certification, which comes with instructions. When I was in Afghanistan, contractors were installing cheap Chinese electronic fluorescent ballasts that were catching on fire. Since the QC Passed label clearly can't be trusted, I began requiring UL- or CE-certified ballasts manufactured in North America or Europe. The contractors found European-style ballasts made in Turkey with the CE logo on them. They seemed light years higher quality than the junk they were previously installing (and I had hands-on experience with German ballasts), so I accepted them. No more ballast-caused fires.

"Gentleman, Welcome back to the shop" You love to hear it guys, I know I do.

I'm so impressed, I bought one for every receptacle in my neighbor's house!

@FirstLastOne

8 ай бұрын

Well, to be faaaaaiiiiiirrrrr, it will do as it claims if you plugged one into every receptacle in your home.

@lokelaufeyson9931

8 ай бұрын

its a good way to make your neighbors happy

I really do appreciate you and your efforts to further science.

Your meter was set on AC when measuring that capacitor. That might explain why you measured "no voltage." 😉

@imho2278

7 ай бұрын

Ýes.

Remember, if somebody's selling them, somebody's buying them. If that fact doesn't scare you, then maybe this device doesn't either. Thanks for the vijeo, and thumbs up.

@eisenkrieg553

8 ай бұрын

My mother is one such customer. I'm just glad I got my hands on it first. I instantly knew that at best it did jack, at worst, it would cause a housefire.

Dang man... that capacitor had you so distracted someone else was able to sneak in and crap in your pants... lol. In all honesty, that was interesting.

Always a treat thanks for making videos ave!

I’ve been seeing these in elderly peoples homes. I figured it was two LED’s that just light up and a total gimmick. Now I know!

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

Right next to the bug repeller with ants crawling over it.

Thank you. I always wondered if I was a sadist, and now my laughter has confirmed it. 👍

Thank you for taking the time to educate about the kinds of dangerous nonsense out there in your usual extremely entertaining style. I've been a huge fan of yours since you were doing Arduino stuff.

@Bpf1893

8 ай бұрын

I miss those days!

All that was missing was the "Not to Be Operated by Fuckwits" warning label.. or in their mother tongue 不得使用“fuckwits”安全标签进行操作

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

Next warning label!

OH MAN!!! That was the funniest thing I have ever seen on KZread!!! THANK YOU!

Our friend Big Clive WOULD LOVE this, and how 'Nibbling at the Angry Pixies' somehow magically helps 'Sedate said Angry Pixies'! 🤔😉🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧

I'm sure bigclive will be along in a moment and say he did this five years ago.

Glad you managed to give yourself a tickle, I managed to find a power supply with a good quality capacitor and I didn't realise no discharge resistors - after 14 hours sitting that was still dramatic!

@housegoth

8 ай бұрын

I popped myself good on the capacitor from the back of the tube on an old CRT monitor when I was but a young lad. Knocked me on my ass and numbed my arm for a good bit and the poor screwdriver I was poking around with was no longer usable since the discharge cause an arc strike that melted the end off the tool.

@FloweryThoughts

8 ай бұрын

@@housegoth I got a similar knock down while dusting off an crt to read the numbers better...damn that anode button!

The ending was *HIGH* *LARRY* *US!!* Thanks for taking one for the team!

The capacitor was charged via the high value resistors, but the led's dropped the voltage when you meaasured after unplugging, the capacitor would be very slowly discharged via the led's, but there was enough in the capacitor when you broke in, Best way to save money is not to buy it ;)

@sparkyprojects

8 ай бұрын

@@wally7856 I'm not familiar with the fluke 87, had to look it up, well spotted ;)

@iconoclad

8 ай бұрын

@sparkyprojects That's not exactly what happens in an AC circuit. Unfortunately Ave did not trace the schematic so we don't know exactly how it was wired. The thing is, a capacitor in an AC circuit does not exactly "charge up" as the voltage across the cap is constantly changing, going negative and positive, the phase leading the AC cycle. So, when you disconnect it from the AC, there will be a residual voltage on the cap. It could be negative or positive and the voltage level will be determined by the exact moment in the AC cycle when the power was disconnected. So, the voltage could be a litlle or a lot or even nothing. Having said that, if the capacitor happened to be wired in series with the LEDs then they could have been acting as diodes and the capacitor could have been charged to a particular DC level as high as 1.4 times the RMS mains voltage. Probably less because of the resistors in the circuit. The discharge time in such a scenario would be totally dependent on the configuration and the resistor values.

@Gameboygenius

8 ай бұрын

The LEDs and 1M discharge capacitor would discharge the capacitor quickly.

From New Zealand and I can tell you that electroBOOM is very proud of you 👏

Haha great work! Love the stickers 😎 I remember the ACHTÜNG gag when it was a fax joke! We had that slapped on every panel that went out 😂

Made by the same company that makes the fuel saver that plugs into your OBD2 DLC....

That capacitor was shocking!

I had to laugh when you were exploring the inners of the Ching Pow Capacitor. I wonder how many of those items are sold across the world? Might have to get me one of those Axe Erasers. Looking forward to the full sized hammers. Thanks for the knowledge and laughter, Ave.

I received the Axe head today and my wife saw it and said I WANT ONE! I love it thank you!

Hey partner, I'd love to see the copper hammer or maybe just the swingin bit come back. I'm a newbie machinist and I think it's be a great addition to the US Generali 😉

I looked it up on Bill's internet search box. Summarized by Bing AI Pros ✔Saves money on electricity bill ✔Non-slip base ✔Easy to use ✔Sharpens knives effectively Cons ✖Not effective for all knives ✖May catch fire

Stunning information. So grateful.

Now that made my morning Thank you very much

In defense of Supa Spanner, Supa has been slang for super for a while. I could see an English speaking company doing that just for the alliteration. Or an English speaking employee of a Chinese company being unusually clever.

Found one of these next to a dumpster so I took it home & popped it apart. The capacitor had no markings on it. Got out my cap tester & it read open. 🤔Curious as to how or why it failed I cut it open & found the hot & neutral wires were just stuck into that wax like material & potted. No capacitor guts, no foil, no nothin. *Heavy-duty Electricity Saved Device- Model Deluxe. However develop lower power use! No need pay attention ~ burn house down for Save $!*

Got my pencil ax in the mail today. Wanted to drop by and say how much I like it. Thanks a lot

😂 When that thing let the magic pixies out and bit you, I damn near choked on my spit. 😂 Had to go back and watch it a few more times, didn't even notice you said it was live the first go round.

I picked up a set of 2 of those Supa wrenches a few years back from someone just because they are a good conversation piece lol

Place the trash receptacle under the vise so that when you loosen the vise it falls right in. Old German trick.

@jimmyrustler8983

8 ай бұрын

Saves you the effort of throwing, that's why their grenades were stick-shaped.

you gave me a good laugh keep them coming!

Ohhh! The C and the E are so nicely spaced close together so it's a testament to the best quality in the world!

Fine! Fine! I just ordered the damn axe... And more stickers.

@jasonbundy7600

8 ай бұрын

Where does one find the pincle axe?!?

Awesome shock value!

When I was a much younger man I had a wrench very similar to your supa spanner there. Mine had a flat middle rather than your curved one and was actually very good as a bicycle tool. I rode everywhere and things happen. That wrench saved me time and time again. Been missing for years.. I'm sure it will turn up in a bin somewhere lol.

That was the best laugh I've had in a week. I am not ashamed.

Say what you will about that capacitor, it held a charge.

That label on the device is NOT a "CE Mark" used in EU, but "China Export" label, which pretty much quarantees that the device will not have any EU wide conformity requirements. The one on the packaging seems to be "CE Mark".

That’s one mighty fine hammer you’ve got there! I’ve been drooling over it for awhile now.

Wow, you took one for the team at the end there. Nothing like a nice jolt of China flavored juice running through the old nervous system to keep you on your toes!

We need more BOLTR videos!!!

They don't care if people take it apart because doing so requires having one, which requires buying one, which means they sold one. That's all they wanted to do. Sell one.

Seeing/hearing AvE get a boot, priceless!

“No need maintenance, no need pay attention” On the back is wonderful

That was he best video you have ever produced!

the tiny hammer now has a new friend, look forward to the tiny axe's arrival.

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@robertwittjr1198

7 ай бұрын

received my tiny axe today, look forward to the next tiny tool installment. anyone have any ideas what would go with the tiny swing press and axe?@@arduinoversusevil2025

I was just waiting for the bench vice of knowledge to appear, you forgot to bring out a notebook with the schedule drawn out though.

Wow, that cap caught you with your pants down! Supa scary moment, right there! 😊

The "Supa Wrench" goes well with the "Mucho Macho" brand tires that I saw selling online.

Well if you plug it in and it takes up both slots limiting the ability to plug anything else into the socket dosnt it work?

Germany? Does it burn coal?

@A6Legit

8 ай бұрын

D juice

Another AvE gem! Great vijayo!

9:35 Merry Christmas. Damn that was a good laugh! We've all been there. Glad it wasn't a bigger capacitor.

That's a normal film and foil capacitor. It's probably low value, maybe 0.1-1uF, so it's fairly high impedance at 60hz. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the main current limiter for the LED's. It will hold charge, but it has AC voltage across it in use, so the DC value across it will vary depending on what point in the wave you unplug it, with an average value of 0.

@BigBenAdv

8 ай бұрын

Probably just there to smooth out the waveform a little so the LED doesn't flicker.

@NanClaymore

8 ай бұрын

@@BigBenAdv to me it looks about the size of a 0.1u 250 VAC capacitor as a guess. If so, it would have an impedance of 20k ish ohms at 60 hz, which is about the right value to drop 120 volts down to normal LED type current around 4-5mA. None of the resistors are really the right value to light the LED's and simultaneously not catch fire. I think the phony baloney idea is that the cap smooths the mains AC and while it's "doing" that the waste current lights the LED's so you know it's "working".

@BigBenAdv

8 ай бұрын

@@NanClaymore Sounds about right. Haven't really looked into the circuit connections. Either way, these things are an absolute waste of materials and really just contributing to waste/ carbon generation.

That's some quality chinese junk there. I got friends that buy from wish and temu because the stuff is safe it's UL listed. My printer can print UL listed also. I can't wait for homeowners insurance to go up do to all the crap that's slipped by and into peoples homes.

Oh my, when you got lit up it tickled me the most! 😂

AvE's impersonation of Electroboom, I love it! Friggin hilarious.

Now do the ionic air freshener that's always making the high pitch whine. It's the same size, but white, flat, with a blue light on the border

I use this to elextrixity like German. Keep stall power bill low efficient most good Mao.

This vijeo made me order more stickers from you. Job well done!

I have to say AVE that when you poked the capacitor and got a shock I couldn’t stop laughing I’m very sorry.

Insurance companies would love finding these things in burnt out buildings. They might even be in on the hustle.

@Dwigt_Rortugal

7 ай бұрын

Try this one weird trick THEY don't want you to know about.

0:48 I hate it when my appliances get a fever. Maybe I should get one of these...

@SkigBiggler

8 ай бұрын

@@MS-qr4rkIt’s mostly useless, but adding capacitance to the circuit can correct power factor, which is charged for on industrial connections. It has no meaningful effect on residential power bills though, so all this does is sit there and look like it’s doing something.

Wow that is a real high tech device got to get some. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

I’ve never laughed with one of your videos as much as this one. This was outstanding detective work, thank you.

You got one of them all in one wrenches like I got twenty years ago, I still ain’t figured it out!

Hides additional outlet. There's the magic.

8:30 try your Fluke in DC mode, then you will see a voltage... Capacitors don't store AC voltages ;)