Is it just me? I never hear the soldering iron buzzing.

@retrogamer33

4 жыл бұрын

Not just you, I've never heard it either.

@OAleathaO

4 жыл бұрын

@covishen - The only time I hear it is if I watch his videos and listen with headphones. Normally I watch his videos on my TV with the sound going through my stereo and I never hear it.

@Rodville

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me being old and my hearing going out.

@rimmersbryggeri

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rodville I think its very close to the ambient noise from my computer i do hear it some times when its very quiet around me but very seldom I think because it's interesting conmtent. Had it been on gilmore girls we would have probably heard it all the time.

@ed-jf3xh

4 жыл бұрын

I've never heard a soldering iron buzz. None of mine buzz. Maybe you've got some mechanical issues if yours does.

That hot glue in heatshrink method is a nice trick to know. Thanks for that :)

@willybee3056

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the 60s we were doing something like that with a plastic soda staw, and rtv caulking. Minus the heat shrink, and it was for automotive applications. We would slip a 2 or 3 inch piece of soda staw over one wire, solder the other wires to the first wire, and slide the straw over the connection, and squirt the rtv into the straw. In a wet environment it was the way to go. At least,, we didn't have any problems. ..

@paulsengupta971

4 жыл бұрын

If you also watch Julian Ilett's channel, you can see that his production of the outdoor solar controllers he makes/sells/used to sell have a similar construction, hot melt glue under heatshrink.

@paulsengupta971

4 жыл бұрын

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@paulsengupta971

4 жыл бұрын

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@paulsengupta971

4 жыл бұрын

From about 5 mins: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c3Zpj5OngrDcdrQ.html

I just wanted to say thank you, I have learned so much with you. The technical stuff of course (very enjoyable) but as well as the basic trivial things no one is truly explaining such as soldering tips and tricks, cutting things the right length, using crimping tools ,terminating wires or just good/safe practices/habits to have and so much more of the little things in a very entertaining but skillful and understandable way. It gave me enough know how and confidence to try things myself and I wanted to thank you for that :)

N.B. This video is not sponsored or endorsed by DuPont, Motorola Mobility or Fire Containment Pie Dish Ltd.

@highpath4776

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot I can use Fray Bentos tins for useful purposes.

Cracked up when he pulled out that pink calculator

@juliannesermon8057

4 жыл бұрын

It says Sissy Squad. Must be some sort of awesome superhero team.

@vicecapo8767

4 жыл бұрын

New here?

@higorguedes4413

4 жыл бұрын

@@vicecapo8767 Nope lol

@maicod

4 жыл бұрын

@@juliannesermon8057 Vince the crew chief at the tattoo likes to tease Clive. he stuck it on the calculator.

@man_eating_monkey

4 жыл бұрын

Pulling out a calculator to divide by 100

Clive, your voice, content and delivery pleases my soul just about more than anything else on KZread. Keep the videos coming!

"There are other strippers that you can get that are easier" ... ... is that also in Glasgow?

@bennylloyd-willner9667

4 жыл бұрын

@michel777ification I thought strippers were more of a nightly business than daily...

@ZsomborZsombibi

4 жыл бұрын

Just avoid Thai strippers. Believe me.

@michaelthibault7930

4 жыл бұрын

It's a puzzlement. Aren't they made for ambient pleasurement? Are you saying that strippers are not all the Siam?

@charadremur333

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelthibault7930 you ruined the joke...

@michaelthibault7930

4 жыл бұрын

@chara Joke, what joke?

I was all focusing in a serious manner until the Sissy Squad came forward and the laughter took over.

7:10 Posssbly the BL-5C which of course comes from old Nokia phones, but now pleasantly makes an appearance in modern portable radios such as the Retekess V115 and the Retevis RB615.

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Nokia and Technifone garbage

As someone who's been thinking about getting back into hobbyist electronics for the first time since I was about 12, these videos have been an absolute goldmine for simple, useful tips and bucketloads of information, free of the oft-seen "you need £200 worth of tools & equipment before you even start" gatekeeping of hobbies like these. Like here, strengthening (and I suppose insulating too) bare leads using nothing but a hot glue gun and some heatshrink! Simple but brilliant. Thanks for your work & expertise in putting these together in a way that even an idiot like me can understand. And if you happen to be reading comments on this old video, I must ask where you get your equipment from, particularly those micro molex connectors? The only places I can find sell a single pair for about £2, or a million pairs for £20. Either way, a bit of an investment for a single project that I might give up on halfway through! :)

@bigclivedotcom

Жыл бұрын

If you search for KF2510 you'll find the little Molex style connectors and their crimps.

@jeremylewis4450

Жыл бұрын

Add a video on Deutsch plugs. I hate them

"I'm just gonna make sure I'm not doing anything weird here." That is something I never thought Big Clive would ever say. Ever. :o)

Did something similar with some old phone cells (motivated by previous projects of yours), used them to power a slow cycling RGB LED, in such a configuration that it can be charged while the light is still on, one could conceivably do that with these quite easily, just add a second connector on the battery without a resistor. For some of us IT guys, its all about uptime!

As a curiosity item, does anyone else actually hear the soldering iron buzzing? I never have.

@joefarr3304

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, never... I thought it was just me who couldn't hear it.

@evilutionltd

4 жыл бұрын

The human ear is better at picking up the sound than the phone microphone. Then KZread compresses it. There's little chance of us hearing it.

@salfordjc

4 жыл бұрын

no

@benbaselet2026

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, never.

@Extras16

4 жыл бұрын

On my bassy laptop (with headphones and/or inbuilt speakers) and TV I can, but they can stream at 4k (not that the videos are uploaded at 4k), so wonder if they are able to decompress more effectively, as never heard on my iPad (with same decent headphones or inbuilt speakers).

Love the simple explanation on how to calculate the amperage and the little adapter is a nice touch. I like the fact that you can still see the resistor value. Awesome video.

I’m gonna be learning how to build my own battery bank soon. I’ve got recycled 18650 cells coming and I’m excited.

High quality racheting crimping tools are a wise investment.

I really enjoy watching your little projects, as they give me little hints on what I can use the same similar circuitry in other projects.

Love the thumb and index holding the wires and the middle and ring holding the solder. Not your 1st time doing that I guess 😉. I'll have to try that. Its always a dance with alligator clips over here.

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't even realise I soldered like that until people pointed it out. It also explains why people would ask me if I wanted them to hold stuff while I did repairs and then suddenly went silent when I started using my left hand to hold the PCB, hold the component in position and feed solder in simultaneously.

@COBARHORSE1

4 жыл бұрын

When I see Bigclive doing it, it looks amazing and difficult, but I've caught myself doing it too. Hands are amazing. Good to see you also watch Bigclive.

@routercnc9517

4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you dropping by Steve. Good luck with the saw restoration !

@SteveSummers

4 жыл бұрын

@@routercnc9517 Thanks. The saw is slowly coming around. I like watching what Clive gets into. I always seem to pick up something from his videos.

@Electrowave

4 жыл бұрын

After a few prods with a hot soldering iron I learned to control my fingers pretty quickly. I assume the same for Clive :-)

Love your videos Clive and it's a delight to listen to someone who speaks English very well.

15:00 BigClive's electronic version of "Measure twice, cut once." 👌

Clive! Icon of freelance electronic technology implementation! I watch on 50 inch tvs as monitors and listen through workshop HI=FI receiver and have never heard your soldering station buzzing. Love your videos and view them promptly. Kudos!

I love the TP4056 modules. I converted pretty much all my LED flashlights (and the vintage ones that weren't originally LED got an upgrade) to use lithium cells using those modules to have built-in charging capability. It takes only a couple of minutes to set everything up and I've got quite good at embedding the circuit inside the device. Another fun thing is to restuff alkaline batteries (like the 6V lantern battery or the 4.5V flat square ones) with the lithium cell and circuit to make a completely invisible and reversible mod.

@michaelosmon

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for sharing your experience. It would be really cool to watch a video of you retrofitting a 6V battery with lithium cells, I'd click on that in a second.

I have a set of 100 warm white lights. They were powered off three AA cells and a flasher circuit. Funny thing was the circuit boosted the voltage to something like 24V and toggled the polarity for the effects. I eventually replaced the controller with a small 24V transformer and a 27K resistor. The lights now take about 0.3mA and something like 7mW for the lot. At night they still give enough light for me not to walk into things in the room whilst still enabling me to see the stars through the windows! It is impressive how efficient LEDs are these days, I remember my first ones in the early 1970s, 10mA and you could see red LEDs if the room wasn't brightly lit :-)

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Modern LEDs are incredible. Visibly lit at literally microamps.

Perfect timing. Just like you I bought one of those Halloween Strobe lights with the nice housing on clearance and my plan is exactly this right down to the charger board. Ok back to watching.

Dear Clive Thank you so much for this vid Love, Jawn

“There are others strippers you can get“ Oh my. It all depends on your tastes and budget.

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Mainly cheap ones.

@bland9876

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigclivedotcom i know who im inviting next time i get a fat stack of ones

@MyName-tb9oz

4 жыл бұрын

@@bland9876, Excellent name. ;-)

@bland9876

4 жыл бұрын

@@MyName-tb9oz wire stripes = anorexic girl

@MrV1NC3N7V3G4

4 жыл бұрын

Discounts available if you're not picky about age or number of teeth. 😉

Very timely with Xmas approaching. Thanks

Wonder's if Clive has a red dot on his socks ! Chuckles and runs from the glare !

Whoa. Didn't expect to see unior tools in any of your videos. Also greetings from Slovenia where they are made!

You beautiful man you are literally carrying my project with these well made videos.

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

What are you making besides a firehazard?

Excellent little project very useful indeed! Thanks Clive!🙏

Wish I could like this video twice. Thanks for the content BigClive

@joshroolf1966

2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting some great visuals from 'lucid mooses', thank you!😂☁️☁️☁️🌱☘🍀💚💙💛

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

I wish I could give you 2 thumbs down

24:00 - "If, however, you have a big, *_fat_* battery pack..." How rude! It's not fat...it's just got big atoms. ;) lol

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

It was a penis reference

Thanks Clive, I learned something today. Best wishes.

I use these cells to build little night lights to guide you the way. I found out they give me enough light when i run the led with 0.1mA or even less. One 18650 liion cells will last for 2-3 years. Self discharge will be higher than the actual current of the led. I just use smd 5630 leds from 5m strips with a 10k resistor in series.

Nice. I have a few old Lithium cells lying about. On a similar note I recently resurrected some old hair clippers where the 3xAA NiCd battery pack had died. I replaced the innards of the charger with a crap USB 5V PSU and rehacked the clippers to use a 18500 Lithium cell with one of those charger/protection circuits you used. They work brilliantly now. Charge very quickly and last for ages per charge and a bit lighter too. The charger weighs almost nothing compared to the big old transformer that used to be in it. I now use the clippers to trim by little beard one a week :)

7:09 That Nokia battery is model BL-5C. If anyone's interested.

@TonyLing

4 жыл бұрын

As used on the fantastic and super cheap Retekess V115 radio

@Knaeckebrotsaege

4 жыл бұрын

And if you buy a BL-5C type battery for a device and it's too thick, you need the thinner BL-4C instead. For actual, genuine nokia batteries the BL-5C would be 1020mAh and the BL-4C 720mAh. The fakes/knockoffs usually claim completely ridiculous capacities (I've seen anything from 1500-2900mAh for a BL-5C, which isn't possible in that physical size) and are actually far below the original batteries' rated capacities (usually 500-800mAh for an okay-ish BL-5C clone, less for really crappy ones)

Thanks that's very useful knowledge there. I just need to get those charging unit bits.

You make it look so easy! I'm very glad I found your videos as I want to make a system to light up all my dioramas/doll houses.

Your videos are wonderful Clive, I enjoy every one...... Thank You.

That calculator killed me.

I like the hot melt glue idea to give the connections stability. I will use this first chance I get great idea.

This is the Clive we know and love! Thanks for doing a well needed hack episode!

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

He was drunk on grappa

I love the calculator!

Thanks Clive.

Nice calculator Clive.

What an amazing video! Loved the whole video!

Thanks for The ammeter info.Great Video This.

...your "pink calculator" is the best! ;-)

Nice modular approach Clive. I have a tub of assorted cells that need a bit of this action.

Great little project

That linking connection is a great idea.

i cant hear the soldering iron, or the noise from my desktop computer is outbuzzing it, heh. Or its my damaged hearing :-) Very neat project, need to look into it and see if i got some leds laying about, might have my old samsung s4 4000ish mah battery somewhere... or a old powerbank to salvage!

Beautiful job 👍🏻

Cool trick for the protection circuit. I'm going to have to remember that!

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Forget that trick, he's trying to burn you house down

..... When the flux smoke rises towards the camera, I instinctively 'blow' it away, (as I have done for 50 years).

@AVDULAI

4 жыл бұрын

here 2 :)

@pietpaaltjes7419

3 жыл бұрын

Same here except I keep my breath while the fumes pass :-)

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

A little late for Clive, ok?

Something I do with those two-cell Christmas light strings: I make a "Joule Thief" circuit and mount it in the space which was supposed to be occupied by one of the two cells, then I run the light string from a single cell in the remaining space of the battery compartment. The single cell lasts about the same time as the two cells, but the string of LEDs drains the power fast regardless of whether you use it in the original configuration or with a joule thief circuit. BTW, old CFL lamps are a great source for transformer cores to use to make the joule thief circuit. They each have a toroid and a straight inductor, and both of them can be used. The wire from the straight inductor can be unwound and re-used to make the coils for your joule thief circuits, with plenty of wire left over.

Thank you for that reminder about measuring voltage drop across the resistor you know the value of to determine Amp draw. I appreciate you sir. You are very easy to follow and learn from.

you show the safe application in electrical circuits, it is nice to see the methods and explanation of how things safely work together. plus the use of the connections for easy applications with universal connections and various resistors. along with changing set up for the battery.nice video

You're an artist!

Love it Clive, would like to see you try a little light from the side where your wrists are, just to get rid of some of the shadows, only needs a little bit.

Dear Clive, I have a Moto G5 and love it as an all round mobile. Batteries are less than £10 and you just open the back and fit them yourself, 30 seconds. I have to say the new G8 does look good, large battery, good camera/cheap storage you fit yourself, but sealed back, Cheers Colin.

Great vid - that TP4056 looks like a useful bit of kit. I saw some batttery cob lights with dimmers for 2 quid in Poundland yesterday that might be usable with this :)

I've said it once and I'll say it again, I would love to have a video consisting of your life from leaving school onwards, I'm fascinated as to how knowledgeable you are with electronics and a vast array of other stuff. It's a complicated subject yet somehow you break it down into plain English, or Scottish in your case. You must have left school with some decent exam results to enable you to embark on the career you chose. So how about a Story of BC After School?? 😁😁

@bigclivedotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Short summary. Bottom of the class at school. Straight into an apprenticeship with an electrical engineering company. Then just absorbing huge quantities of electrical and electronic data throughout my life.

@GavinM161

2 жыл бұрын

​@@bigclivedotcom Just goes to show formal education isn't everything. Learning on the job and building experience as you go (good and bad) leads to a better engineer.

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Get a life baby

Funny that I decided to use an LG phone battery as I began to watch this. It's been a few years since it got charged and still lighted up my LED tester. Having small LEDs and wires nearby opened up some exploration for me recently. Your videos are helping me with some circuits I wanted to make.

thanks once again big clive. learned a thing or two as usual.

Thanks this was a really good one. I like to watch you work and learn from you (rather than you just dismantling stuff).

To release those connectors from the shell you can use a 180g-Force Pogo Pin - the spring takes up some of the pressure and limits the damage to the connector retention tab as you press on it. Snip the tip off a spear-shape probe with a side cutter - a real one, not one for tiny component leads, the cheap component snips are too soft) and it won't skid as much on the tab

None of us can hear that soldering iron, Clive ... but it is nice to imagine we could ... go on, tell us another one

Speaking of thoes crimping tools, I have on occasion had to use a pair of pliers in their stead, and yes they are very much worth every last penny for the correct tool.

Hola nunca fui a la escuela de electrónica, siempre me a fascinado el tema, hago pequeños proyectos con Arduino .Ahora reciclo una batería de teléfono, con un TP 4056 y alcanza los 4.30 volts no apaga el led rojo (cargando) y por lógica no enciende el azul (cargado) busque todo el día como reducir la histéresis entre encendido y apagado, pensando en voltaje. A pesar de no comprender con precisión tu explicación, veo que la histéresis entre encendido y apagado es controlada por corriente, (i) voy a quitar la resistencia de 1k y pondré un trimpot, espero conseguir cambios en la histéresis, desde hace tiempo eres una de mis profesores favoritos de electrónica nunca me di el valor de hacer comentarios. Saludos desde Queretaro MX

@bigclivedotcom

7 ай бұрын

Puede haber alguna variación entre los módulos TP4056. Podría valer la pena probar con otro. Muchos de ellos disminuyen mucho la velocidad cuando la celda está casi llena.

Maybe I misunderstood you when you talked about one MOS being energized for charging and the other for discharging, but I think you misspoke (don't take me wrong, I'm your fan and I think your channel is great! ) I once worked a bit on a power management unit (PMU) and I believe I know why they use 2 MOS. The use of 2 NMOS is because of the diodes which are shown in the schematic, called body diodes, and that are intrinsic/parasitic to the transistor itself (that's why they are in dashed lines) . By having 2 MOS you end up with 2 back to back diodes which can not conduct in a faulty condition. That is the purpose of the 2 NMOS, despite making the MOS resistance 2x worse and doubling the cost (in MOS at least). For instance, imagine you don't have M1. If BATT+ gets accidentally shorted to BATT-, even if the chip detects it (it should) and turns OFF M2, current will still flow through its body diode and the chip would not have control and be able to protect the battery. Inserting M1 fixes that. Likewise, w/o M2, if someone accidentally tries to overcharge the battery, even if M1 is turned OFF current will still flow through its body diode. You'll need M2 to cut it off. Sure you can use the parasitic diodes path on charge/discharge cycles, but that would lead right away to a drop of 0.7V on the battery voltage and to a loss of efficiency. The MOS resistance is much smaller and the diodes were never intended to be used as charging or discharging devices. Both NMOS are therefore turned ON either when charging or discharging. Of course I might be wrong, but it's too late and I'm too lazy to go check the DW01-P datasheet right now 😊 Cheers.

@raykent3211

4 жыл бұрын

I think you're right. You can't have significant current through either gate, nor through the current sense pin on the chip. Rub those out and you're left with no path on the negative side if either mosfet is off. It has to go through both mosfets in either direction.

Thanks Clive, I've had a crappy evening and you've made it better.

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Commentary provided by the severely dyslexic.

Them little TP4056 boards are handy, I've converted a number of things from Alkaline battery to Lithium batteries using these boards, just have to make sure to replace the charge current resistor to match the cell, otherwise it can pump too much current into the cell, which the protection will stop, but still better to be safe... :)

Great project 👍 Thanks for sharing 👍😀

Those small TP4056 boards are excellent value.

good little fitting thanks

This is actually pretty awesome, i have done this myself, but not with these kinds of batteries. I took a large retro looking lamp, with those big round glass tops and i have put an old color changing LED setup only in the glass part. So Basically its a big glowing ball when i put it on the floor with the light inside it. The LED changes colors slowly out of one single LED and with the diffusing of the lamps spherical dome that sits by itself on the floor, as if some kind of colored crystal ball, its a nice nightlight for ambiance. I will convert to these batteries next and i like the connector idea of it as well. :)

quite enjoyable to watch..

New subscriber. Thanks!

A heat gun has been on my list for years. I really need to do something about that, eaaaaa ? Years and Years. One never has enough Kapton Tape. Or the right size.

@man_eating_monkey

4 жыл бұрын

For heat-shrink tubing an ordinary hair dryer may do. A lighter or candle works too.

Bill’s Tool Store in the Glasga Barras is my go-to place for impossible to find stuff. Best visited often, buy on impulse and keep for when may be needed. I really must build another shed. Staff know a lot of stuff too. As usual Clive, both entertaining and educative. Shame a lot of teachers don’t understand the need for both.

There is nothing better than to do some electric math with The Pink Calculator)

I've got a bathroom scale that talks. Well it used to talk. It kept coming on at random times without provocation and any time someone made any noise near it. It'd be 4 AM, I'd be sleeping away and... "PLEASE WAIT" "PLEASE STEP ON THE SCALE" So I did what any self respecting person would do, and put a drill bit through the speaker at 10,000RPM. It no longer talks. Then the battery tray (double AAA), kept falling out. Couldn't put the scale down or get on it without the batteries falling out. So I chopped it off, stuck it on the bench supply, and found it didn't make magic smoke at 4.2V rather than 3V. Ended up sticking a 1500mah cell on it from a drone battery that had exploded on me. Hot glued a magnet to the scale and to the battery, and now it's a very convenient rechargeable scale. It still comes on randomly and the screen lights for 20 seconds each time, but even after months that battery is still sitting at 4V. It's quite impressive how long low load stuff can go on a simple lithium cell.

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Sure it does. Keep that info on a need to know basis.

Salvage, salvage, salvage everywhere!

That's a familiar looking charge controller. I have a bunch of them.

I always used a similar manual stripper to Clive's, except mine was much worse made in quality. Its jaws were straight and didn't connect very well and it didn't cut very well and it was a chore to adjust, and due to bad alignment, and visibility, the amount of covering removed tended to be pretty random. I tried a few automatic ones at a store. They do tend to not work on thinner cables, but there are expensive ones that can. I watched a video by Andreas Spiess about wire strippers and chose the big clunky Chinese black plastic one, the FS-D3, ordered it for about 6€, it took about 3 months, and surprise, it actually works amazingly well for super thin wires and even for ribbon cables.

Indeed, I got one of the orange handle jobbies with three crimp jaws, it is very hard to do and I have ruined many a connector with the tool.

I have been using the TP4065 modules for ages now. Make sure to get the ones with protection built in to make sure shorts are protected. Lately I have been trying to implement the version with adjustable output which works well, until you want to fix the pot. It always seems to shift a bit.

Just found your channel and I´m liking it very much, you explain very well! thanks for sharing your knowledge! ¿Can you make a video on how to recharge this batteries ( I have several with different chemistry and voltages) ? Greetings from Mexico!

Hey Clive, I'd suggest looking into graphene supercaps. You might find them interesting for how small they are compared to traditional supercaps(which are of course humongous.)

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think they've come of age yet. There's also the issue that if a graphene supercapacitor can be charged in seconds then it can also unleash all its energy in seconds too. I wonder what the failure mode is.

bigclive Do you tin both ends of the wires before crimping? I must have one of the fake/cheap crimpers because I rarely get strong crimps out of mine

@bigclivedotcom

4 жыл бұрын

I don't tin before crimping. The matching of the crimping tool to crimp is important for the strongest crimp.

I've ordered 3 sets of crimpers off Amazon with overwhelming positive reviews. All garbage! Is there a direct link to the good ones? Searching, and wondering if the reviews are legit or a scam is getting tiresome.

@Dick.C.Normous

4 жыл бұрын

@@ICNine Thats a nice tool and all but the OP said 'wire crimpers' you posted a link to a wire strippers.

Clive, have you any idea what make the terminal crimps you used in this video, as they seem to be very good.

@bigclivedotcom

Жыл бұрын

If you mean the tool used for the crimps, it came from a UK supplier called Rapid Electronics. www.rapidonline.com/rvfm-ht-225d-ratchet-action-crimp-tool-ht225d-85-0262

The wire strippers you use are the same type as my preferred ones, I think I acquired them from a careless engineer at my factory, these are basic but consistent when stripping many wires. Great tool from great careless engineer.

No, I don't hear the soldering iron xfmr either. Maybe I'm missing out on the ambient pleasurement?

hot glue and shrink tube technique is on point! and very pleasing when the clear tubing is used. definitely stealing this idea.

at 23:17, your showing how the protection circuit works reminded me a lot of quassi connectivity (also known as a BUD switch, or block update detector switch) for redstone in Minecraft, where the only way you can get the component to update is to make some sort of change in the circuit, most times near the power source, or component being powered. I find there are a lot of similarities between electrical circuits and redstone, but this is the first time I've seen something that reminds me of the oddity of quassi connectivity, especially in a protection circuit. Quite interesting!

@bryantracy260

3 ай бұрын

Quite you!

Love the video, inspires me to ask our local phone/tablet companies from shopping centres for a bunch of old batteries.

Aye bro, It's about to be winter here and a lot of homeless die from freezing.......most homeless have access to a simple battery bank/outlet or cells from the battery recycling bin. Think it would be possible to come up with a simple "personal heater" that could be made out of materials scavenged and plugged into USB or even just like a modded dollar store light or aa,aaa cells? Maybe 2 items from the dollar store combined makes a pocket heater? Something that simple that's accessible could save lives. cheers brother