Voltlog #250 – Replacing Bad 4mm Banana Plugs With High Quality Hirschmann and Staubli

In this video I replace some of my old crappy 4mm banana connectors with some new Hirschmann and Staubli, high quality connectors. These should be more reliable and provide a low resistance connection between my test gear allowing me to pass high currents without any issue.

Voltlog #219 – InTheMail

Welcome to a new InTheMail, the series that will touch both your passion for electronics and your bank account at the same time. We’re gonna start with a set of 3 prying tools from Best which is kinda of known in the mobile phone repair business, it’s a Chinese brand that sells this kind of tools. I like these because they have a nice rubber handle which provides a good grip for when you’re trying to pry open an enclosure.

Voltlog #106 – InTheMail

Hello and welcome to a new InTheMail, this one is shot from the new Voltlog lab. I haven’t finished setting everything up in here so the sound & lighting might not be to the same level that I had before but please bare with me I’m working on solving everything. Since I haven’t installed all my equipment I thought it’s better if I do an InTheMail episode so let’s get started.

Here are links to all the items shown in this video:

Voltlog #75 – InTheMail

As mentioned in the previous video this month will be mostly InTheMail episodes because I just have a bunch of stuff from China and I gotta show it to you before I go use it on other projects. Same as before I tried grouping similar items in this episode so let’s get started on another InTheMail.

Here is a list with all the items shown in this video:

  • Bourns 10K 10 Turn Potentiometer
  • Plastic Rotary Knob 6mm Shaft 10pcs
  • 16mm Potentiometer Knob Black With 6mm Shaft
  • 3P4T 3 Pole 4 Position Rotary Selection Switch
  • On/Off Momentary Push Switches
  • PBS-11A Locking 2 Pin On/Off Switch
  • KSD9700 Slim Bimetal Temperature Switch
  • KSD301 Bimetal Temperature Switch
  • 2mm Binding Post Plug Connectors
  • M5 Banana Jack 4mm Socket
  • 3.5mm Slim Metallic Stereo Jack 4 Pole
  • JST XH 2.5mm Connector With Wire Set
  • 1007 Hook Up Wire 24AWG

Links to all of these products are in the video description visible on youtube.

Voltlog #40 – InTheMail

Once again too many mail items to fit into a single video, so we have a two parts upload. In the first video I only had time to show two items the SONOFF from ITead and the SP mini from Broadlink but that is including teardowns and discussions on the internals.  Surprisingly the SP mini doesn’t use the ESP8266 as expected but instead it uses the MT7681 from MediaTek.