it's Monday I've got mail, got coffee let's doing mailbag Monday let's start with
this one strap holder it says oh okay this is some screw down holders for tie
wraps or other branded zip ties I just always call them tie wraps
because that's the brand encountered first and it just that's like the
Kleenex of tie wrap of zip ties anyway you screw these onto a wall or a beam or
whatever and.. ummm... do I have any around here... okay so when you're running a bunch of wire in in a bundle
for instance under your model railroad. You can line these guys up screw them on to
the bench work underneath take your bundle of wires and do and that
through there and there you go, you have one bundle of wires firmly attached and
screwed down if you need to add more wires later you just come along and cut
one or two ties lay the wire in redo those ties, carry on down the line cut
a couple more lay the wire in it makes for a nice neat tidy wiring solution and
not that expensive either let's go take a look okay here we go
plastic saddle cable zip ties screw mount base five millimeter width hundred
pieces from lucky.warm I paid two dollars and eighty four cents plus buck
twenty seven shipping so that's what ... four bucks for a
hundred so what's that four cents each yeah those are consumable item all right
next in it says electric iron USB and then Chinese characters oh hey it's one
of those cool little USU soldering irons King few different people talking about
these guys on YouTube this of course would be the cheapest one I could find
cuz that's just how I do things you know that you've been watching long enough so
USB cable that comes with it and 32 inches plus another 14 through 42 46
inches long okay that's comfortable okay no I'm gonna plug this into the USB
power bar off to the side here which you may remember from other video such as
USB power bar and what else am I gonna need to see if this thing works bit of
solder probably should I get something too so I'll just see if it melts it
first of all so plug it in and push the button there's no indication anything's
happening pushing and holding the button there's no indication anything's
happening LED there's no instructions came with this thing whatsoever it says
okay on the back of it it says that it is a come on focus 5 volts and eat Watts
USB soldering iron that's all it says
okay so that's obviously not working off my USB power thing there okay let's try
this battery that I put together a while ago okay so as you can see there's no
current happening and when I push the button that continues to be no current
happening so what's going on inside this little guy oh nothing happens Kate
that's disappointing
step one is any voltage actually getting through this chintzy little cable yes
okay that's not the problem the problem is in here huh
how far do I want to go during a meal bake video on
new 5 volt e-mini portable USB powered electric powered soldering iron pen tip
touch random letters from yungang by well I got this at auction for five
sunny day in Canadian 450 Merkin what does their other ones down here know
there aren't other similar listed okay well it's a 2015 hot sale whoo hot sale
right it was the 2015 model I bought it in 2018 at auction on eBay
alright brand new high-quality not convinced about the high quality part
compact fully functioning not fully functioning USB soldering iron is
perfect for obvious its rapid heat up and cooling above a small tip protective
cap yes it has that clings to eat in 15 seconds and cool down in 30 seconds LED
indicator anyway that's enough about that
well after that disappointment let's see if a big bag will make me happy here it
says 1 times the lights something this size and you're gonna guess that's maybe
some please it is in fact look very much like a strip of LEDs yes these are Hey
doesn't really say on their claims to be 3m adhesive on the back says it's 12
volts and there's three LEDs and a resistor in each segment so let's
get some volts into it let's see what it does okay so there we go
Wow there it is these are either bright white or cool white I can't really tell
from the package I'll have to take a look but that's well they are nice and
bright at its current limiting at 1 amp okay let's just see what it takes to
make it not current limit 1.7 amps Wow at 12 volts okay so that's probably a 5
meter spool for that kind of that kind of current let's take a look at this
thing and find out what it really is 5 meters white slush warm white 5630 SMD
non waterproof 300 LED strip lights 12 volts I chose the white as opposed to
the warm white and these cost me six dollars and fifty cents Canadian which I
happened to buy on sale for 44 percent off Amy I'm cheap what else is there to
say about them down here pure Hoyt 6000 6500 Kelvin which looks like the ones I
got 3000 lumens for the five meter roll and yeah wait nanograms being 120
degrees there we go Oh CRI greater than 80 for those who
think that matters these ones I ordered for installing
under the kitchen cabinets to light up the counter my wife will be happy that
these have showed up now I just have to wait for the couple other things they
ordered to go with it
five pieces for 33 megahertz RF transmog that sounds promising
I hope in sticking to blasting that's one of the five pieces oh right there's
a transmitter and receiver so five pairs right yes okay so these things there's a
few different ways that you can do RF to get between a couple of our doing yui
modules these things are the cheapest way the other the other common way the
other common way is n RF 24 lo1 which got a few here as well but these one so
the N RF modules are by direction you transmit and receive with same module
these ones are unidirectional you know a transmitter and a receiver so they're
good for remote control type applications where you don't care or
what the device being remote control has to say you just tell it what to do and
then carry on with your with your day basically so I'm going to be playing
with these at some point in the future I think I've got one other RF type module
coming so I'll probably or do i I don't know oh I'll think about that when it's
time to do that video but I'll probably sit down and just do a quick comparison
of them for type of applications that I might want to do meanwhile let's go and
check the listing for these guys five pieces for 33 megahertz RF transmitter
and receiver link kit for Arduino arm MCU WL new from love cell 2013 the five
pairs was three dollars and seventy cents
just stupidly cheap for what they do does it seem much down here product and
property so there are five bolts they work on for three to three point nine
two megahertz which is an unlicensed band in most of the world the receiver
sensitive to neg 105 DB M or DB should we should say DPM hopefully because DB
alone is a meaningless term which means it can the receivers can pick up a
signal fairly far down into the mud that's good
you can put an external antenna on to it 20 to 200 meters so the transmitter can
run on three and a half to 12 volts it says and application remote controls by
the way yeah somehow I screwed up you think after doing these things for as
long as they have been that I would figure out what I'm doing anyway I
didn't have the camera on when I opened this and these are more types of zip
ties saddles these type are self-adhesive though an adhesive backed
you know peel the back thing and they come on to something no we use these at
work a little bit but only when we can't use the screw down ones these ones do
have a little screw holes and could use I suppose with really small screws but
typically not typically they're just stuck on to things that you can't drive
a wood screw into like metal or or concrete sometimes but usually metal and
you can put a tie through either that way or that way if you using the screws
obviously you'd run it through that way but they do the same thing but the more
sticky pad on there doesn't hold on the hot case of something very well like a
piece of equipment that generates Heat it holds okay for a while but it does
tend to let go you need to trick though that an old installer showed me her
daughter crazy go in the back but before you stick it down and that sucker ain't
falling off which is mostly true it also doesn't hold quite as much pulling force
this way because it's just a piece of but they're cheap and they do have their
application fee 50 pieces fixing plate self-adhesive plastic wire tie cable
clip clamp from we up grandly some of buck 70 Canadian dollar 32 American free
shipping of course and there is a picture of them in action and there we
go the content so yet another Monday mailbag that's disappointing that it
doesn't work out of the box to do some work on that LEDs will make my wife
happy these zip tie tie wrap sadly things are going to come in handy for
actually installing these and the RF modules well something to play with in
the future thanks for watching as usual if you got anything to say about any of
this stuff or any mistakes that I obviously made talk to me down there in
the description and as usual thanks again to my patreon supporters for
helping me buy this stuff which I open in the mail bags in use for projects
later which you're going to see on YouTube I will talk to you later