it's Monday it's mailbag Monday as usual I have a beer in this case it is none
shall pass oatmeal stout from devil-may-care Brewing Company they
brewed it actually at Stone angels brewery on Pitman Highway in Winnipeg so
I'm not sure who this devil may care group is obviously they've contracted to
use somebody else's brewery for now which is fine and as you can see I've
already poured it tall it's just not a question that I'm getting a lot of
chocolate and sort of roast and coffee and stuff and which makes sense um
they're claiming notes of dark chocolate coffee figs dates and yeah as bold as
the Black Knight himself wonder who they're influenced by says here it's the
perfect for unwinding after a long day of pushing the Primo or cutting no
enlarge tweets with hearing or getting a new shrubbery when that looks thanks but
it's not too expensive enjoy it yourself or share it with your friend cold bitch
okay the first thing we have is adapter
which is exactly that it is an adapter it is an RF adapter it is an SMA
connector on that end and that little connector whose name I can never
remember which is for the for these software-defined radios the RTL SDR type
radio so that should fit into there nicely and they can connect to an SME so
now my adapters include BNC f-type and SMA plus the two cheap little antennas
that came with the things so I should be able to connect to just
about any antenna that I come across or adapt to and from them mcx male to SMA
female rg3 1600 los pigtail adapter cable Edie from and wind and so I got
this from currently they're not shipping it to Canada clearly they did when I
bought it and when I bought it I paid a dollar forty-eight Canadian with free
shipping currently it's going for a buck 57 they don't have much else to say for
it other than the same thing so this connector whose name I couldn't remember
is an MC ex male and I'm probably still not going to remember it next time I
pull one off I'm not sure why but whatever
okay next in we have charging plug what sort of charger this is oh it's not
actually a charging plug it is simply a travel adapter so on this side oh this
is the this is the Japanese plug it's it matches up close enough with the North
American one but it's not polarized North American plug the live in neutral
or different size so you get it three way around on an ungrounded one the back
side here it's one of those could be anything's could be the EU plug could be
the UK plug could be would do Australian I'm not sure but it does a whole bunch
of different countries however the reason that I bought this I actually
ordered this back when I got that 3d doodler pin thinking that I could just
adapt from just plug that into 110 and use the DC power pack with it hang on
really go get it well the other me is off getting a demonstration set up let's
just check the listing useful Universal UK EU AWS EU to us an American travel
power adapter plug converter from song schenke 1972 99 cents Canadian and free
shipping that's the same price I paid for it we a way back it's not seeing
very much about it down here maximum 250 volts 10 amps and adapts all these
things now remember it's not a power converter it's just a pin shape adapter
so we'll have to be a little bit careful thing this thing let's go back and take
a closer look okay so as I said I bought this thing when I got this 3d doodling
pan because it came with the European plug so my intention was to just
I forget to plug in I'll kinda like that and that does work and then I can plug
it into there so just just see if that's actually outputting the promised voltage
now this adapter says on it that it can work from 100 to 240 volts incoming 50
or 60 Hertz that's just a very universal little adapter except for it's not
making connection worth a damn here there you go 12 point 2 volts if I hold
it the right way there we go so that does the job however in the interim
between when I ordered this thing in when it actually showed up I found this
at a Goodwill store which is actually a transformer which creates 220 volts out
of our North American hundred and ten and it's got the proper European plug on
with a ground and everything this thing cost me 99 cents this cost me 250 and
this doesn't seem to fit very well it's pretty pretty loosey-goosey in there you
see the gyro pins fit kind of in there just sort of in between these squares
for the UK one and the kind of angle ones for the Australian one and so quite
honestly this thing's not really worth the 99 cents that I paid for it it's
very close to what the big five calls a death dapjur
okay what is the next thing it says charger module that's promising
hopefully it's better than the last one Oh
and also a USB charge module okay so what we have obviously USB output an
inductor so it's going to be either a buck or a boost of some kind I'll chip
in there and full capacitors on that side and clearly a couple of DC inputs
over there so I'm going to guess that that is the positive input I don't know
if that's gonna be a buck or a boost though I think I might want to go and
look this up before I start plugging anything into it and seeing what it does
QC three point zero two points or a USB Rapide Rapide module charge do i
conceale telephone charger volt here all right you guys in quebec and france quit
laughing at me from leaf oh I got this for two dollars and 82 cents with free
international shipping so this is one of those fancy new charge type units that
uses smart charging and it looks like it's got a multiple different types coal
come quick charge two and three wall waste FCP mediatek PE BC 1.2 whatever
that is port for Android nap Obama all are set compatible with everything or it
just goes for normal 5 volts if none of those are appropriate very cool
so it is a step-down circuit board it takes me eight and 24 volts in and steps
it down to somewhere between 5 and 12 volts on the output well that's
interesting best we have an autoplay with that so
I've got my no Rui ding intelligent load out here and it does support these
various quick charge modes oh why did you start nope so I've got 15
volts on my little power supply over here and I got it set the current limit
at 3 amps but I don't think I'm going to get that high
this guy is connected to the reading and I'm not 100% clear I've done a little
bit of poking around the manual another hundred percent clear on exactly how to
use these quick charge modes but I can get it dance so let's do this we'll
start him up fifteen volts put it into current mode so right now or set at half
an amp let's turn that on and because it's a higher voltage over here that's
where amperage the wattage is the same and this thing actually shows us what's
two point seven watts at the moment so that's two point seven watts and five
point two volts and half an amp it's gonna start cranking this thing up one
amp one-and-a-half amps and these are voltage sagging no it's not it's still
five point three volts so that's awesome
so they're just shy of two amps the fan kicked in ten point eight watts and that
is still five point three volts I'm going the wrong way
two and a half M certein watts five point three volts still there's three
amps out of this thing which is 16 watts and five point three volts what's going
on over here and that's about 1.2 amps at the 15 volts coming in here so my way
is you're going to start oh they're not bad let's zoom back down here so where
are we again so we're at 3 amps so that 3 amps isn't gonna change no matter what
else I do because that's set by the potentiometer so now I'm going to hold
this quick charge button down here and that sets it into the different quick
church modes there's the automatic one now you know you just ignore that for a
minute it should start stepping through the different modes I think I hit okay
maybe there we go so it's stepping through the different
voltages five nine twelve volts and see these LEDs moving around here you know
stepping up the voltage by the 1 volt steps all that's happening on a USB
connector back down to 5 volts I think there's one more step that it takes here
so it seems to settle on cook charge 2/3 mode just interesting and just gonna
you know one of these modes yeah okay so I mean quick church 3mo drink now and I
can step the voltage to over power protection so that's interesting it
didn't like that I'm just gonna reset it by turning the power supply on and off
again so anyway so this thing can trigger this guy to do to do its
different quick charge mode so I'm assuming if I plug my phone into this it
should also be able to do that that's getting quite warm for me dragging three
amps through it wow that's the most powerful USB source that I've got that's
neat in Poe almost anything for life Wow I like that next thing in this one was
obviously well bought from China but shipped from another one of these drop
shippers in Mississauga you have to look up that address and Mississauga find out
what that is oh-hoh USB sound adapter double USB
microphone double USB headset seven to virtual 7.1 surround sound that looks
interesting get this very thing out of the way what does it say here microphone
mute headset mute volume up/down and it's got to looks like it's got two
headset with microphones in and out okay so I got headphone microphone headphone
microphone and over here we got a microphone mute and speaker mute and
volume up and down interesting it says virtual 7.1 sound
ha there's the lie right there includes the X er 3d the virtual 7.1 channel
sound simulation software for XP and Vista
none of which exists in this house no driver's exec should work on a Linux and
Mac but not with that magic software so it's only simulating 7.1 which means
it's basically just a sound card which is fine let's go see how much this old
turkey kospi external virtual 7.1 channel USB 2.0 3d audio sound card
laptop PC mic adapter the not only could I not find the listing I couldn't even
find the guy I sold it from anymore it looks like his accounts been terminated
or deleted or something anyway I paid two dollars in 10 cents here's a random
one just so we can take a look at the details of it what they say it's
probably all copied and pasted but there's not much here that isn't already
on the package so I think I'm going to try and connect it and just see what
happens okay so I've connected to my old standby
microphone the one that I've been using for a long time but I got the new new
one go back to the microphone video about a month ago if you want to see
which one this is this is the the one that's just tied on to a selfie stick
handle anyway this is that microphone plugged into one of the two microphone
inputs on this thing and I've got my headphones plugged in to the output so
if I hold the my earphones up to the microphone and see me and hear this
so it works it does the job and it doesn't sound too horrendous at least
the headphone part does I'm not sure what the microphone part sounds like to
you and there's there I just plugged it into the other microphone input and I
think it's doing the same thing and then I plug into the other headphone output
it does the same thing so I'm thinking that they're just like parallel door
mixed or something inside I'm not sure okay let's see what the last thing is
LED module it says another one of these neopixel rings okay we've looked this a
couple of times before this is a 12 pixel a ring I think I've actually
already got one of these somewhere I think oh you know connect that up leader
um let me not much say these are well if you haven't seen these things before
they're addressable LEDs they're RGB LEDs each one of these is RGB so three
colors and each one is addressable so you can tell just this one to be on or
off or red green and blue or combination this one to be completely different this
one to be different this one to be different all the way around and you do
that with a single serial data input line so you can take five volts and
ground and data comes in and ripple through them so you send the serial data
in the first one grabs whatever's addressed to the first LED and then
passes the strips that off passes the rest of it along now this one grabs
what's addressed the first led which is actually what this would would have
thought was the second led and so on all the way around so and then whatever the
leftover gets passed out the data out and onto another bunch of these things
you can go many hundreds I'm the I think the only limitation is really the timing
but I've seen people using hundreds and hundreds of these things off a single
digital output pin from an Arduino so again this is another one that I
couldn't find the lit the actual listing for but it is RGB LED ring 12 bit ws2812
5050 RGB LED plus integrated driver module I
bought it from Sheng long see but they currently seem to have their store
closed there's nothing in there when I go
looking through their store strange maybe they've shut down for vacation
however here is a random cheapest seller superstar
lots of people have these you saw from the search earlier and the search is
willing at the link to this guy selling it for 219 at the moment as I said I
paid two dollars and 21 cents so it's pretty close and there's not too much to
say about them if you're just going to be using them for most people that are
using these you're going to be using them with a library on the arduino or
with some kind of a driver that somebody else's built so you don't have to worry
about all those nitty-gritty stuff down here the fact that the data rate is 800
K bits per second or that the PWM frequency is somewhere in the 400 Hertz
range or over 400 Hertz or that there is a stupid number of colors that you can
make out of it you don't have to worry about that the library takes care of it
so just for funsies let's fire this thing up I've I did dig out the other
one that I got I'm just gonna solder a little instead of header pins onto this
one so that we can connect to it easily
grab a 5 volts and then ground from over there 5
ground and then the data in sit fight you go to the data out of this guy and
when I turn it on there we go isn't that fun let's see if they can
make these things a little bit more the colors a little bit more visible the air
that's more colorful than looking at it directly on isn't it alright here is
today's a male big Monday assortment let's see what we've got well the
neopixel ring the LED ring that took five weeks to get here
the one we got here this USB charger the quick charge USB charger took 28 days
that's pretty impressive this USB sound adapter thing only took 12 days to get
here wow that's got to be a record the oh my god here the SMA adapter the
SMA need to remember that MC MC X to SMA adapter took two and a half months and
this stupid little useless cheap piece of crap took 540 months to get here it's
just not worth it in all sorts of levels anyway thank you so much for watching as
always I really appreciate you guys showing up to see what I'm up to
if you've got any comments or questions or you want to tell me how stupid I am
for buying this or anything else please jump down into the comments and we can
have a chat about that thanks as always to my patreon supporters for helping me
to buy these things keeps me from from going to broke doing it and I enjoy
doing these mailbag Mondays and you guys from what I've heard down in the
comments and just from seeing how many people watch these these mail big Monday
videos I think you guys are liking them so I'm
gonna keep doing them for as long as I can this is this is a fun time just
hanging out in the basement seeing what's coming in from the Far East thank
you once again as always for watching I will talk to you later
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