tonight i'm trying a slightly different uh style of beer than i usually have
this is times changed high and lonesome ale named after one of the coolest funkiest little
bars in winnipeg the times changed high in lonesome club neat little hole in the wall
place that always has really good live music there's some really cool artwork on the cover
and 10 cents from each can goes back to the artist so i can definitely support that
so let us start with the openings this one says universal probe test leads pin
that could very easily be what it is or yeah it could be a plastic sheet
but no it is test probes these are kind of an old-school style test probe they're a hard plastic
and they have very similar to uh the little screw latch thing for the wire that banana jacks have
so you just strip a little bit off the wire shove it down there it comes out through this
little hole here and then you will lock that down onto there and i got those to go with this little
meter here these little mini banana jacks that i got in the previous mail bag and this silicone
test lead wire that i got many many uh weeks ago in a mailbag i know i'm probably not gonna use
this thing that often but i'll use it a whole bunch more if i actually have test leads for it
one pair universal probe test leads pin for digital meter multimeter etc etc
i got these for dollar 95 canadian with free shipping from well it doesn't matter what this
seller's name is because they are no longer on ebay after selling just shy of 70 000 items but
as usual i will link you to a search term that does find a couple of people selling them anyway
and here's one of those as you can see there's nothing too special about these these are just
old school probes they clean their poly made brass and stainless steel with nickel plating
yeah they probably have at least two of those things but i don't see too much else to say
about them other than what we already uh saw when we're looking at them in person so there you go
next in says lighting fixture hmm a little bit small for a lighting fixture but you never know
what
yeah okay oh um yeah okay i think i remember this um
let me just yeah i think that's how it's supposed to go
basically wraps around your hand and that and then gives you a couple of little work lights
obviously i wasn't super serious about this thing when i bought it but i saw it and it
seemed goofy enough to throw in a cheap bid on so here we are nightlight waterproof fishing gloves
with led flashlight rescue tools outdoor o2 um yeah i did get this at auction and
i must have been drinking or it was late at night or all of the above but i actually paid
five dollars and seven cents of my patreon's money for this oops um anyway uh i will link to
this even though it was at auction um there should probably be yeah there's some similar ones up here
on the other hand it did come with batteries and it says that there are two cr2016s don't
know what else to say with this other than uh oh sometimes the late night purchases just get you
apparently nobody else wanted to bid on it although you know as goofy as it seems for working
on things up underneath the model railroader in a dark corner somewhere that might be okay
i don't know maybe it's not such a stupid thing after all time will tell i guess all right what's
next it uh no customs declaration came through the canadian re-shipping warehouse in mississauga
well packaged whatever it is they didn't want it getting broken
it is just as it says a 2.2 inch spi controlled tft module on the back it identifies itself
as 240 by 320 2.2 inch and we have mossy miso clock chip select over on that side we have a
sd card full size sd card there and same pins on the other side here with
an added uh vcc and ground and led okay that should be interesting to play with
something to add to my display boards uh collection i think that's one of the larger ones
that i've uh that i've got as well so that should be good 2.2 inch tft lcd display module
ili 9341 spi 240x320 451 slash avr slash stm32 slash arm arduino uh currently going for 1474
miracle nor 1872 but when i bought it it was 1297 american or 1647 canadian with free shipping these
things always seem to change oh well so what do we have down here 2.2 inch dot matrix 240 by 320 yeah
four wire spi um oh 262k or 65k color depth i have to look that up and find out exactly what they're
talking about size yeah it has four leds and uses the la 9341 driver for which there are libraries
for all of your popular microcontroller modules including one library provided by adafruit to the
official arduino repository of libraries next in we have cable sleeves a very big package it is too
not the biggest today as you may have noticed at the beginning there is one much larger one
oh looks like heat shrink a bunch of red heat shrink okay three different sizes always a handy
thing to have in stock here i've got a fair bit of heat shrink in in various different sizes in stock
and i can pick up black heat shrink quite cheap at princess auto there's some eight inch stuff
there and they've got it in in different various different sizes and it goes on sale all the time
but they've only got black and i tend to use heat shrink a lot on power cables especially
although you know there's lots of other applications for it obviously anytime
you don't want a wire to have bare bits shorting out on something else so yeah nice to have it in
different colors and red and black are obvious for you know color coding power cables 16 feet
heat shrink two to one tubing electrical sleeving cable wear heat shrink tube
i've got uh three different sizes i got five millimeter eight millimeter and ten
millimeter all from sarrarinet this is dash zero the five millimeter cost me 249 canadian
the eight was three dollars and eighty cents and the ten was four dollars and 1969 cents with
free shipping woohoo they do actually have an assortment of colors so i probably could
have gotten some more um but we'll see not sure if i uh if i want to have maybe green would be
useful for doing uh the grounds and stuff separate from negative power i've got some yellow maybe a
bit of blue i don't know we'll see two to one um voltage of insulation rating 600 volts yeah
not sure if i would trust that necessarily um once it's shrunk you can use it anywhere from
stupidly cold to stupidly hot uh where is 125 degrees celsius melt temperature or the
shrink temperature wide range of uses yeah there you go cut slide shrink use
and the big one now i know what this is because
there's nothing else this big and heavy that i ordered uh plus it said what it was on the
outside of the box on the uh on the shipping label even though it came from a canadian seller
have you guessed it yet
how about now let me just get this guy out of here and then we'll take a proper look at it
it's a variac i got my own variac i've wanted one of these for decades and decades back when i was
doing a lot of work on analog audio electronics and whatnot um it was just always a sort of a
thing that you'd like to have it'll be handy to have but i just could never justified or afford it
but now thanks to cheap electronics and the generous help of my patreon supporters
i was able to find this one and as i mentioned i bought it from a canadian seller and with shipping
and everything that was absolutely the least expensive for exactly the same part number um you
can get these on ebay or aliexpress or banggood or wherever or amazon but i just happened to get this
on ebay from a canadian seller it says that its output is good up to from 0 to 130 volts
ac at 60 hertz input is obviously going to be 110 or whatever is coming to the wall
um it's a thousand va so if you have a perfectly resistive load that means a thousand watts
uh i'm not going to go into va uh right now because it's a little bit of theory and
i've exhausted myself on theory in that last video the input fuse is 10 amps at 250 volts
that should be just fine oh it even says 10 amp fuse right there okay so what a variac is it's uh
an auto transformer it's not an isolation transformer as you normally think of transformers
it has a two windings primary winding that's connected here and a secondary winding which
the wiper of this knob taps into at various different points that's kind of wonky and
adds the secondary voltage to the primary voltage you can actually sort of see it
through there sort of if you can see the wiper going by can you no you can't
uh anyways i will i'll give this guy its own video because it deserves it plus before i power it on i
want to just open it up make sure that the earth ground is grounded to the case and passes through
and that generally the wiring inside it is safe because with mains powered stuff that yeah okay
i bought it from a canadian seller but it still was manufactured in china and is very inexpensive
piece of kit for what it is so i'm gonna take it apart take a look inside it and everything um
fix up any bad connections or lose connections or anything weird that i find inside it and
that will be an upcoming video variac transformer variable thousand va ac voltage regulator copper
coil 110 volts zero to 130 volts i get this from key give one in richmond british columbia canada
uh currently he is selling it for 92.90 but as you can see it's been updated it was 86.22
when i bought it free shipping then and still has free shipping there's a lot of other sellers that
sell these things and because it's so heavy you may want to if you want to buy one you may want
to search around on your local websites or the international version of ebay search for your
own country stuff like that just because it's the shipping that's going to kill on this thing
but yeah there you go you can see there's an american seller it's got it for 76.89 but just
shy of 50 bucks shipping and these are all exactly the same ones here's some a little bit better
quality ones probably they've got uh metering and stuff on them digital metering but i just got the
least expensive one i could find as i typically do so there's all the specs there's not too much uh
too much surprising they're not much different than what we've already seen
it says the dielectric strength uh is good for 1500 volts for a minute
i don't have any way of testing that so i'm not going to copper coils yadda yadda
pretty much what i described there is the specs maximum output 10 amps um
sort of i guess depending on whether you've got a resistive or inductive load i guess
but typically you would use this with something a lot smaller something like a
a tube amplifier would be ideal especially if you're testing it and you know it hasn't been
turned on for a while and it may have dry shorted capacitors or something slowly bringing up the
voltage may tell you uh tell you its secrets before it explodes in a cloud of smoke i'm
looking forward to getting into this real soon and playing with it and then just having it available
for when the need arises when i need to repair something where this would be an appropriate tool
oh i'm pretty pleased with that assortment um let's just quickly go through the shipping times
the variac took less than a week because it was couriered from vancouver or richmond um the heat
shrink took 44 days the tft screen took 11 days because again it used the canadian respinger house
these test probes took 39 days and the funky little glove like thing took 36 days
the more i look at that the more i think it might actually be useful for a few
applications especially if those little three millimeter leds
the they're fairly bright but they're not uh i mean it's only going to be what 20 milliamps so
that pair of batteries in there will probably last a good long time you know build those up
and stay tuned real soon now for a uh for a video diving in under the skirts of this thing
well thanks for watching everybody once again i'd really appreciate that uh questions and comments
down below and as always thanks to the generosity of my patreon supporters for
keeping my beer fridge full and keeping the mailbags rolling in but i did i just
couldn't keep doing these mailbags without the without the patreon folks so cheers to you guys
thanks for watching everybody i will talk to you later