it's mail bag Monday number 48  New Year's Eve edition let's get busy
  here in the interests are not being  predictable I've decided to go with a
  non dark beer this week a local beer of  course from farmery this is the great
  white north belgian wheat ale trivia  hudson bay coastline in northern
  Manitoba is home to the world's largest  population of beluga whales I did not
  know that let's give her a taste yep  that is exactly what I would have
  expected from a belgian wheat ale that's  not bad actually
  it's clarifying nicely in the glass  holding its head pretty well okay let's
  get started with card quantity one  nothing else on the back side it's hard
  something like no it's nothing like card  it's not even plastic sheet it is a
  bunch of short DuPont jumpers saying  these things just come in handy yeah you
  could use wire just plain old telephone  wire a cat5 where and i often do a as
  witnessed on what is this little buck  converter a boost converter or something
  but for bread boarding these things just  come in handy they're simple they're
  easy the color coded not the color  coding means a lot to me being you know
  somewhat colorblind but the it does help  so what do you got he looks like 40 of
  them two three four five six seven ten  yeah so 40 of them these are the short
  ones
  what do they call them 11 centimeters 12  centimeters hundred twenty millimeters
  probably and I find that those are the  size that I run out of first when I'm in
  the middle of a project just because  yeah they're short and they're handy so
  I got more 40-times breadboard DuPont  jump wire male male female female female
  10 20 30 centimeter jumper cable for  Arduino from fashion jewelry ease forty
  pieces various different links but I  chose the 10 centimeter ones male to
  male I actually got these at auction for  80 cents for the pack of 40 the regular
  price is buck 49 so a bit of a discount  but not too much they're still not that
  expensive anyway alright next in let's  see if this is anything more interesting
  exciting the electronics quantity one  feels pretty full I'm thinking there's
  more than one in here of whatever it is  oh yeah it's a whole bunch of
  transistors of some description
  these are IR f9 five four zero in and  we'd recognize that part number I don't
  exactly should try and figure them out  or should we just go to the listing yeah
  let's try and figure them out this thing  is usually pretty good I'm thinking that
  it might be a MOSFET
  it is it's a p-channel MOSFET  specifically five times IRF 95 40 p
  channel power MOSFET 20 23 amps hundred  volts Wow to-220 I are from servi 2014
  somebody have bought from several times  in the past so they're selling five of
  them for dollar 35 at the moment I got  25 I paid 6 dollars and 73 cents
  the current price for five five packs of  five is 675 so a couple of cents more
  but nothing significant not too much  more down here in the description so
  since there isn't much information in  there we'll get the real datasheet and
  find out what's actually going on  maximum power dissipation hundred and
  fifty watts Wow drain source voltage  limit hundred volts continuous drain
  current nineteen amps at 25 Celsius or  13 amps at 100 degrees Celsius Wow
  that thing is a beast and it claims to  work up to 75 degrees Celsius okay it
  looks like it wants a little bit higher  voltage to turn it on solidly it's not
  quite a logic level so I might have to  slam it a little bit harder but it
  should probably come on illogical yeah  so there's the full-on volt heat source
  is 10 volts to get 0.2 of an ohm RDS  okay what do we have here cable plug it
  says  just like it's over fed into the package
  you never know what you're gonna get so  going slice into it okay it's an RF
  adapter you use an RF adapter from BNC  to I think that's the tiny little
  connector that I whose name I can't  remember that goes with the
  software-defined radio things hang on  let me grab it so yeah that is in fact
  that meeting connector okay so now I can  use antennas and stuff that have B and C
  I've already got one adapter for f-type  which is the North American cable TV and
  antenna related antenna type thing  it's a 75 ohm connector and then I've
  got these cheesy little antennas that  came with the things which fit onto
  there so that should give me some  variety of ways to get signal into these
  little things 15 centimeter cable BNC  female jack 2 MC x male plug right angle
  RG 3/16 6-inch pigtail b1 okay  so MC x male plug is what that little
  connector down there is RG 3/16 is this  type of cable and everything else is
  pretty much self-explanatory BNC is that  guy there from Bruce shark - zero zero
  one current price is 284 i paid  according to my notes two dollars and
  twenty three cents which isn't much of a  jump not much really to say about it
  it's 50 ohm characteristic impedance  based on the cable type yeah nickel
  plating on the BNC gold plating  theoretically maybe a molecule thick if
  it is actually gold  the male character I'm liking that I'm
  not usually one for a belgian wheat beer  but this is this is not too bad compared
  to something that I've had this could  grow on anyway next thing we have is LED
  module I always like a good LED module
  ok so first of all it's an LCD module  but more specifically is an LCD keypad
  shield so we have a typical LCD module  there are two lines by 16 or 18
  characters something like that and then  we have left up down right reset select
  buttons now looks like a power LED that  part I'm assuming is for contrast to
  this LCD and it is on an arduino uno  shield format slick this seems to be
  made from a company called d1 robot I'm  gonna have to start with a sketch they
  don't sketch from these guys if I can  find one or I'll have to reverse
  engineer where all the pins go yeah  let's uh let's go and do a little bit of
  searching and if I can find an obvious  demo sketch I'll light this up we'll see
  16:02 LCD with keypad shield board blue  backlight for it we know Duhamel in Neo
  V I could never pronounce that that's  the r do not do a robot from oh my god
  x lane j 2016 g something like that zoom  in on that if you really want to do it
  or follow the link i'll just put  link to it currently he's selling it for
  three dollars and seventy two cents I  bought it at auction for two dollars and
  seventy two cents  basic sixteen character by two line
  black on green display but it also says  it's got a blue backlight weird you know
  is the extremely common parallel  interface chipset okay so it's not SPI
  you know face code is freely available  yeah if you know which pins it happens
  to be wired out to hmm time for more  research after a short amount of
  googling I found this thing on DF robot  which I guess makes a certain mind since
  since it's actually labeled D robot on  the one that I've got in front of me
  they're selling it for nine ninety at  the moment if you want to buy it from
  the original seller people probably  created it maybe who knows who these
  Chinese things anyway so that's that's  it right there pretty much and I
  scrolled down to find some information  about it the and in their wiki they have
  some code which is awesome so I've  copied and pasted this code straight
  into the IDE and dumped it into an you  know that it happened have lying around
  and slam this thing on top of it and  well let's take a quick peek at the code
  here so it uses the crystal library pins  eight nine four five six seven eight and
  nine are the reset and enable I think it  is and four five six seven of data pins
  and then it's defining the buttons and  stuff like that this is interesting the
  buttons aren't on digital pins as you  would assume they are in fact on a
  single analog pin so there  pulling a resistor or I don't know
  exactly I couldn't see it on there seems  to be there's a voltage divider that
  they're cutting in or something like  that anyway
  the voltage there's the the button  definitions anyway regardless and then
  just a switch case if this then print  that if this then print that blah blah
  blah all the way down so let's uh oh and  it's also printing a one second timer
  since power turned on they're printing  every second and then just printing
  stuff on the screen let's go and take a  look at it and see if it actually works
  here it is all switch the power onto it  and it says push the buttons now getting
  this thing running it confused me for a  little while but then it occurred to me
  let's just check the contrast and it was  fully at zero when I first got it
  cranked the contrast down so it was  looking like that but should only change
  hands here so you can see what I'm doing  if I bring the contrast back up to where
  it's supposed to be multiple turns there  we go so that's threw me off for a
  little while but anyways so push the  buttons so select button left up down
  right this reset button is not a button  that I did enough eyes itself as reset
  it in fact is the processor reset I  pushed that little reboot like that that
  is the same as pushing this button on  the uno like that which is a little
  awkward if you want to turn this into  some kind of a game pad toy thing or
  whatever or remote control unless I  suppose you pad it out and make a little
  shafts that push down through your 3r  casement onto those buttons
  but anyway that could that could come in  handy for some sort of a project or
  other if nothing else it's a it's a  handy little display although saying
  that it pretty much obscures most of the  rest of the pins some of them are broken
  out up here  what is that d1 error sorry D 1 2 3 4 5
  6 7  although 4 5 6 7 are in use by this guy
  here and the analog pins are available  down here as well except for a zero but
  that's okay because it's being used by  these buttons anyway you got time for
  one more here this is a whole bunch of  letters and part numbers charger is what
  it says it is fairly well wrapped anyway  oh it's a little power bank kit well
  actually it's a power bank is not really  much kit involved here is there it looks
  like it takes to 18 650s in parallel  there's an output voltage and an input
  voltage and an LED and it's not hurt by  being dropped onto the floor okay let's
  grab these here's some that I salvaged  from a laptop earlier so let's find a
  couple that are fairly close to the same
  let's see those two are pretty close  just because oh yeah that one I sort of
  look inside of but that's okay so  theoretically you just put these guys in
  here in parallel
  and it should light up let's grab  something for it to put on the charger
  doctor yeah let's grab that to show me  some vaults it's not showing any gold
  it's okay  there now we've got some draw 5.08 of
  volts so I put one like that 20  milliamps 19 million
  that's reasonable for an LED hey I've  got one I got one of those so USB test
  loads around here that I haven't had a  chance to use any real testing well let
  me break that out so here we have the  Ruby ding USB load intelligent load so
  I'll plug that in it looks like it's  already set for 40 milliamps so I'll
  start cranking up the load there's 100  milliamps still at 5 volts let's just
  crank up the current here doing 60
  okay there's 500 milliamps still nicely  it five vaults 750 million amps oh is
  editor flicker on this camera and still  at 5 volts 1 amp still at 5 volts oh
  right that's what 5 watts 5.0 powers duh  5 volts running up 1 and 1/4 amps 4.9
  vaults is starting to drop off so let's  leave it in voltage mode and just start
  cranking keep cranking the current up  here okay there just dropped the 4.8
  volts 1.4 3 amps let's just take it to  1.5 and see what happens
  1.5 amps 6.7 watts 4 point 4 volts so  it's pretty much dropping off at 1.5
  amps but that's not bad just for a  cheesy little power supply here mini USB
  port 2 times 18 650 battery charge  holder power bank box shell case DIY kit
  from VIP 902 9 can't price is well it  varies I paid two dollars and 42 cents
  for the one that I got depending on the  color that you get it's either two
  dollars and 40 cents or two dollars and  53 cents or two dollars and 46 cents or
  two dollars and forty cents or two  dollars and 46 cents how do you make a
  do a power bank prepare - 18 650 slide  out the keys bottom installed 1866 these
  inside the box close the box  enjoy your DIY power bank now right then
  colors yeah sighs yeah 5,600 million  powers that's going to depend entirely
  on which 18 650s you put in there isn't  it
  charging input 1 point 2 amps charging  output 1 point 2 amps after discharging
  it I guess you should also check and  just to see what the charging current is
  so I've got this guy set - oops - 5  volts and current limit at 2 amps I
  don't think it's going to get there but  we'll find out so focus is that in and
  the cool button it's charging at 5 volts  and 200 milliamps hmm these things have
  been sitting for a while so they're  probably a little bit discharged
  actually you know let's stop that and  just find out what the batteries are
  actually at shall we  in parallel I'm not going to be that
  concerned oh they're at 4.15 volts okay  so they are fairly close to fully
  charged I'm gonna see if there's any in  here that are mostly discharged okay I
  found a pair that are that are sitting  below 4 volts so I'll toss them in there
  reading what 3.8 so let's see what it  takes to charge them there we go
  charging it with nine hundred milliamps  okay that's that's entirely reasonable
  alright here is today's mailbag monday  items last mail big monday of 2018-2019
  begins tomorrow  let's check the shipping times on these
  guys the dupont cables took six weeks to  get here the MOSFETs took two months
  this BNC to MC X adapter took seven  weeks the LCD / keypad shield took five
  weeks and the slowpoke did you ER  this to sell power bank kit took four
  whole months to get here what are you  gonna do that's just the randomness that
  happens so this is a ditto again shops  talk shop stock RF what is that thing
  called software-defined radio adapter um  I got a couple more coming and then I
  think I'm gonna start playing with that  a little bit I've played with it a
  little bit down here in the basement I'm  not getting a lot of signals anyway so
  that's why I'm getting these antenna  adapters Powerbank always handy to have
  a power bank and this guy I don't know I  got a good deal on it but it'll probably
  work its way into various little  projects and stuff along the way thanks
  again for tuning in every week Wow every  second week anyway um I for the whole
  year I mean I I really appreciate you  guys showing up and and what you gotta
  see down in the comments is always  interesting often informative sometimes
  humorous I just I I can't express how  much I appreciate you guys showing up
  and and clicking the like button and  subscribing and doing all those YouTube
  things but mostly showing up in the  comments and letting me know what you
  think of what's going on here and of  course the guys in over patreon who go
  that extra mile and throw a buck in the  tip jar now and again helps me keep me
  in beer and helps pay for a little bit  of this stuff those guys are awesome and
  I appreciate that too well uh I will I  guess talk to you in 2019 thanks for
  watching
  Happy New Year whoo
  you
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