hello my names Mel welcome to my world and for those of you that are new to my
channel I'm currently converting this Mercedes Sprinter into an off-grid go
anywhere sleep anywhere kind of stealthy
camper van so if that's something that interests you then please don't consider
subscribing to my channel now today's video is a bit of a follow up and I'm
sorry to say it's a bad way to video game well actually I'm not sorry it's
likes I'm quite excited I've got a message when I'm uploaded this video
from another camper van channel and that channel is he sent me a comment and
I quote I brought exactly the same TV pal you can actually turn it into a
12-volt TV I did it to mine you just need to solder a 12 volt cigarette plug
to the connection in the back when you open the back there's a tiny square that
stays 12 volt in two pins solder positive or negative and a presto 12
volt TV saffle let's give it a go let's get that telly off the wall open it back
up and just see if we can turn it into a 12 volt TV well I took the TV off the
wall as you can see this is a bit net this bracket so I'm going to take this
opportunity to tighten this up so if one good thing comes from this I'll have
this one nice and tight so let's take the back off wonderfully she's gonna
invalidate more warranty take the back off there's a square that size 12 volt
what look let's take all these screws out there we go look at this next it
says power PWR upgrade could that be it do I dare put
12 volt on see what happens what's the worst look after so I'm looking at this
tiny little plug right and I'm thinking I've seen this plug somewhere before I'm
racking my brains we've all seen this type of plug before and it suddenly
occurred to me I'm more drone battery this is real cheap generic drones that I
brought just for the fun of it and the lead kind of fits in there and if I plug
it in it kind of makes a funny noise I'll get a little popping sound on the
speaker so I know I've got a good connection there so I'm gonna cut that
lead off this battery because this battery is only three volts 3.7 volts
and these are just cheap rechargeable batteries anyway so I want to cut that
lead off plug it in and then attach some other wires and stuff bear with me we'll
see if this works now just to keep you in the loop this
plug fight all day up close to the lens you can see it's got these wings on the
side they do kind of slide in to the slots in the side that this little tiny
plug but the slots on the plug don't go all the way down that square bit so I'm
going to trim these off so modified this a little bit you can see I've trimmed a
little bit of those off and now he actually goes in and fits in there nice
and solid now well so I've got replies I'm going to cut one at a time I'm not
going to cut both through Baofeng because it might cause a shot in the
battery so I just cut one at a time I
don't know if this is going to be safe or not because
if these wires are gonna be thick enough to take 12 volts I'll see anything I'm
worried about so I'm gonna strip the casing off but looking at this plug is
tiny so I don't think it draws a lot of impeach you can't do so I think it's all
right see what happens is it gonna fly
maturely no nothing's working
this lead is actually getting quite hot so I noted at what I think didn't quite
work so this whole cable is getting really hot but look at feeding these
wires I mean they are super super fine really don't think these are quite up to
the job so I'm gonna scrap this idea and I'm gonna use some 13 amp cowboy instead
I'm like a mini high so on this ended a cable I've got my
super adapted little plug this plug come for my drone battery and then on the
other end I've got this plug and I've just wrap these wires around there like
that just to see if it works I'm gonna insulate that we're a little bit of
budget type and I'll do it so they're apart like that and it actually holds
them apart now if you liked this video do please give me the thumbs up don't
try this at home remember I do this and blow things up so
that you don't have to just plug this in and see what happens
okay but fingers crossed I'm gonna plug this
in here
well there you go like I was saying why blow things up so
you don't have to