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Busy Man Dan
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2007
Welcome to my channel. Here you'll find some of the things I do to keep busy:
-Fixing Things
-Making Things
-Reviews
-Experiments
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-Fixing Things
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-Reviews
-Experiments
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Why Your Old Battery Charger Sucks (probably)
If you're still using a really old battery charger you may want to replace it. Even if it's not "broken".
I've been using the same Rayovac 3-in-1 charger for my AA and AAA batteries since 1998! And I didn't think anything was wrong with it... until I looked closer using my Fluke NetDAQ data logger. It very well may have been the reason my batteries weren't lasting as many recharge cycles as advertised.
In this video, I take a behind-the-scenes look at how an old Rayovac 3-in-1 charges batteries and why this may be hurting them. I also compare it to a modern charger made by Panasonic.
If you're interested in buying the same charger featured in the video, and want to support my channel, consider buying it using the affiliate links below.
Charger shown in video: amzn.to/43gd3mn
Charger plus 4 batteries: amzn.to/3TcTYga
Also, please remember that there's a lot more nuance and complexity relating to battery charging than I could cram into a 7-minute video. I could talk about it for hours, but even I wouldn't have the attention span to watch that!
Thanks for watching!
Dan
I've been using the same Rayovac 3-in-1 charger for my AA and AAA batteries since 1998! And I didn't think anything was wrong with it... until I looked closer using my Fluke NetDAQ data logger. It very well may have been the reason my batteries weren't lasting as many recharge cycles as advertised.
In this video, I take a behind-the-scenes look at how an old Rayovac 3-in-1 charges batteries and why this may be hurting them. I also compare it to a modern charger made by Panasonic.
If you're interested in buying the same charger featured in the video, and want to support my channel, consider buying it using the affiliate links below.
Charger shown in video: amzn.to/43gd3mn
Charger plus 4 batteries: amzn.to/3TcTYga
Also, please remember that there's a lot more nuance and complexity relating to battery charging than I could cram into a 7-minute video. I could talk about it for hours, but even I wouldn't have the attention span to watch that!
Thanks for watching!
Dan
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Fluke's Netdaq is a hidden gem
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A professional grade data recorder, within the DIYer's budget? Yes! Aside from making the gold standard in handheld electrical tools, FLUKE also has a lesser known lineup of top-of-the-line data recorders. This device can measure & record pretty much anything (electrically) you want: AC/DC voltage, current, resistance, temperature, frequency... faster than you can blink an eye. Although they're...
Sealing The Deal: Air Compressor Leak Fixed With Loctite
มุมมอง 290ปีที่แล้ว
It’s not a droid, it’s a leaky air compressor! In this video I give it some of that sweet, sweet green Loctite to make it happy again. Music Credit: Hep Cats by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500022 Artist: incompetech.com/
Replacing a broken hinge on the WYZE headphones
มุมมอง 1.4K2 ปีที่แล้ว
A love the WYZE noise-cancelling headphones, but I don’t love that all my pairs broke in the same place (the hinge) ☹. In this video, I design and print a more robust hinge part and get my headphones back in action.
Reviving My Soldering Iron’s Worn Tips
มุมมอง 3K2 ปีที่แล้ว
How much does it cost to get a new tip for your soldering iron? It depends how you do it. In this video I use my money (literally) to replate my worn-out soldering iron tips. Join me to see how vinegar, some old coins and a dash of baking soda work together to add new life to spent tips that seem unsavable. Keywords: DIY, Nickel Plating, Nickel Acetate, Fix, Repair.
Fixing my Milling Machine's Broken Digital Readout
มุมมอง 1202 ปีที่แล้ว
The ON button on my milling machine’s readout was so overworked, it quit! Leaving me lost, at least in the z-axis. In this video, I recruit another button for this job and get the digital readout working again. Twice. The milling machine in the video is a CRAFTEX model CT129N.
Fixing a Broken Hand Crank Radio
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On a dark and stormy night, possibly as a result of spirited re-charging, this portable radio’s hand crank arm broke off. In this video, I re-make it; better, faster, stronger.
The Self-Cleaning Chicken Water Bowl, Part 2
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Do you ever wish your chickens’ water bowl cleaned itself? I do. Follow my project of making this wish a reality. In part 2, I make a control circuit to sense water level, automatically fill the bowl and control the flush function then put it all into a nice box.
Making a Spare Key for my Nissan Micra
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Want a clone of your Nissan key but don’t want to pay the dealer a king’s ransom? Check out how I made a clone of my Nissan Micra’s key for less than the cost of one of those lame buttonless keys from a big box store. Warning: some filing required.
The Self-Cleaning Chicken Water Bowl, Part 1
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Do you ever wish your chicken’s water bowl cleaned itself? I do. Follow my project of making this wish a reality. Presenting: the self-cleaning chicken water bowl, part 1.
What Killed This Milwaukee M18 Drill Battery?
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I take a look inside a couple of old Milwaukee drill batteries to see why they're not working and if anything can be done to fix them. Using a battery analyzer I check the health of each individual 18650 cell and see how much capacity remains after 10 years.
Electric Lawnmower Upgrade, Take 2
มุมมอง 6063 ปีที่แล้ว
Converting a lead-acid battery powered lawn mower to use Milwaukee Li-Ion drill batteries instead. I was hesitant to make a second video about a mower conversion, but I took a different approach this time and focused on different aspects of the build.
Making a DIY Lockring Wrench
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Why buy when you can make? In this video I make a quick and simple lockring wrench from materials I had laying around my shop.
Upgrading a Neuton Mower to Run on Drill Batteries
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Rather than shell out for replacement lead-acid batteries for an old Neuton CE6.3 electric mower, I convert it to work on two 20V DeWALT drill batteries that I already have.
Just in case anyone is wondering there is a download available on thingiverse.
Can I buy this replacement somewhere?
Hi, thank you for this video. Does programming the fob to open the doors erase the old fob? I've read somewhere that when programming a key (entering the key 6 times), it erases old keys and I need to reconfigure all the remotes in the same session, is that true? And can you mention which generation is the car? Thanks
The one upside to that old charger is that is that it doesn't care if its rechargeable or not. It just charges it 😅
They actually sell battery holders on Amazon
Yes, My broke that way.
Is there anyway you can change the earmuffs?
Well played!🙂
hey man! just wondering, what was the outside diameter of the lockring?
This video speaks volumes. 30 years ago Nissan had a high reputation for reliability, ease of maintenance and good design and was much admired in the UK, where it had a couple of large factories. With the introduction of "keyless entry" on the K12 Micra and other cars complications started to show up and the 'NATS' ant-theft system proved to be prone to intermittent malfunctions which frequently switched off the engine even though keys were genuine and owners could prove their ownership to main dealerships. These issues first began around 20 years ago and many Nissan owners in Japan had their NATS disabled when warranty expiry was near. This happened far less in Europe and it tended to be Nissan Europe cars which had the most troubles. Nissan UK factories assembled the cars from Japanese parts with most models and chose to simplify NATS and so-called 'self diagnostics'. Keyless entry and ambitious anti-theft electronics were disliked by British customers. The tale of Carlos Ghosn is well known and he was lauded in the early 2000s for saving Nissan from technical bankruptcy by forming a developing alliance with Renault (which is semi-nationalized), closing down many Japanese large plants and laying off thousands of highly skilled workers and, bit by bit, Nissan products became more Renault than Nissan. Renault had pioneered keyless entry but was less over-sophisticated in engine management systems. By the 2010s the old standards of Datsun/Nissan had all but disappeared yet Nissan sold more units worldwide than did Renault. Mitsubishi was also in the 'Alliance' and its uneasy fortunes in N.America eventually led to it making few sales in the USA in recent years. Mr Ghosn is a convicted felon in several countries but appears to jet all over the world. Nissan has not been Japanese Nissan for decades and parts for all models are centered on the Netherlands, making them expensive beyond merit. I still own a fairly old Nissan but keep it more out of sentiment than utility. One might reasonably conclude that the words Nissan, reliability, and helpful dealerships do not belong in the same sentence, paragraph or whole page.
Hi @BusyMDan, I know this isn’t the right video, but I was wondering if you would be willing to sell/share the STL of the Wyze headphone repair piece you made. I’m suffering the same problem you did, and my modeling skills are at beginner level, so I don’t think I would be able to complete this project on my own. Your help would be much appreciated!
My door unlocked but the hazards doesn't flash
Thanks for an excellent video. Unfortunately I have not found any readily available low cost software for this.
I am stuck with 2 of these beutiful loggers simply because I can not get a license from Fluke for the software. The software I have runs in demo mode only. They say they have stopped support on the NetDAQ and the 2638A Hydra Series III, thus I am stuck with Demo software which is useless for what I want to do. What a shame, this is just a beutiful product.
Genius! I'm blown away. I mow a gnarly community garden field with a donated CE5.2. The heavy lead acid replacements & their long charging times are frustrating, & the battery case is nearing end of life. Your improvements would save this wonderful mower from the scrap heap pretty much indefinitely. If you ever produce/sell your set-up as a kit, I hope you'll let the community know - ebay/amazon have little for Neuton fans, & replacing the lead acids costs ~$100+/yr. And the disposal nightmare.... Hope you jump in, I'm too old to be lugging this battery around!
How do I find an activation key for the DAQ software?
you can't, Fluke discontinued the software and is now obsolete.
@@Oldsirhippy I found a new CD and license online for the DAQ Lite software for $335. If anyone would like to share this "obsolete" software with me, let me know. We could "crowd fund" the purchase.
I really like my older Fluke Hydra II, it's like having 21 multimeters connected to my computer (albeit with RS232).
Can I use this to plate my home made 100% copper tip? With no OG coating or factory plating just copper? Thank you I appreciate your reply ❤
Really impressive bed of work. Thank you for doing that. I have a slightly older model with a CE5 24V battery, and I’m going to give this some serious thought. My approach might be a little different in that I would try to use the existing mower battery case to construct the holder for the portable tool batteries. It would also mean that the mower would run always at 20 V, but I could have two in parallel, which would give it a lot of oomph.
Hi, great video! Do you, by any chance, have the access to full version of the NetDAQ software? It seems impossible to find, and the trial version can only run for 60 minutes.
How did it go?
I had to use my Newton 6.3 today and the battery was clearly very low. So I pulled the batteries they looked physically like new. I disconnected all the wires and am now charging each battery on my bench charger. The bench charger doesn't show any problem with the first battery, it shows 90 percent capacity. I'm now charging the second battery then will be the third. I checked the charger wall wart and it shows 40 volt no load so it should be fine, however I did find the charger plug was badly rusted. I used some very light sandpaper to get the rust off and bare metal then used DeOxit on the plug. After I get all the batteries charged up I'll reinstall then try the wall wart charger again. I checked Amazon replacement batteries are all over the place price wise, it looks like exact replacement of three would be about $75 at the low end.
I found three specifically for the Newton 6.3 priced at $68 on Amazon. I finishted the second battery and it tested good with 90 percent capacity. The third battery is on the charger and so far it's charging just like the other two. I expect it too will have 90 percent capacity.
Mine has also broken a while ago! Any chance you would sell a set of these?
Dam I have that very same battery charger....
My condolences.
So I noticed the same thing, I used my lithuim charger which detects the NiMh batteries too and charges at .5c and keeps the batteries cool vs the other charges from Radio Shack charge in series at 250ma which causes it to really heat up. Its also interesting when discharging the same batteries as I have 10% more mah with the correct charger vs the near 20 year old one.
Interesting. I can imagine that there are so many different charging "profiles" between all the different chargers sold. Unless someone spends time to really measure and dig into what's going on with their specific model it's essentially a mysterious black-box.
I had an old charger. After it cooked a few batteries I decided to take it apart. It advertised as a smart charger, but the only brains were a chip that sent "x" amount of current into the battery for "y" amount of time. Basically just a timer. For the old type of batteries it worked fine. The current and time were enough to charge the low capacity batteries at the time. The newer high capacity batteries were being undercharged and performing poorly. I gutted the device and turned it into a constant 10ma charger. Good for slow charging standby batteries for a long time, or applying a slow safe charge for old batteries I need to test to see if they're recoverable or test for capacity (you don't know their capacity unless you fully discharge from a fully charged state. A long time at a slow charge doesn't seem to hurt them any more than they already are). I replaced it with a real smart charger (oddly enough I bought it from Radio Shack). Internally it's actually smart and testing showed it really does charge the batteries the correct way.
Thanks for the comment, I completely agree; the low and slow charge method works great, if you have the time. Which I think I would be able to get away with, usually. The speed of the Panasonic is nice though...
I discovered something similar when fast charging NiMH RC airplane battery packs many years ago, they pulsed a high current and then paused for a short time to measure the voltage… got plenty hot but we were fast charging, kind of expected.
Thanks for the comment. Indeed there is a lot going on with the science of charging NiMH batteries. I could talk about what I observed for hours, but even I wouldn't have the attention span to watch a video like that! :)
Honestly really good vid! Expected much worse when I say the views but this is something I could see with 60K+ views
Thanks for the comment. I get a lot of enjoyment from doing my projects and then filming / editing them. I'm no pro, for sure, but I'm trying and finding better ways to put the videos together. I'm glad you enjoyed it, consider subscribing and stay tuned for more! :)
My parents once bought a better charger like 15 years ago. It always reported errors on all batteries. We returned it as broken. Now I'm pretty sure it wasn't but the batteries all were.
I know right!? That's the peril of modern technology, especially electronics; without complicated diagnostic equipment determining what's going on is often just a guess. I could not predict what I saw before hooking up my Netdaq and really diving into the data. Thanks for your comment!
Changed my charger from an old Energizer from the 2000's era to the Panasonic smart charger same as yours a few years ago. I like the fact that it could individually charge each battery in their respective slot, charges faster and could even tell the battery level/condition instead of being timer based like the old one.
Agreed, the individual charging and the level indicator are another big plus! Thanks for the comment.
The best charger in my opinioni Is the ones that use constant very low current 20-30ma, that way you can overcharge the battery but the temperature stay ambient since its such low power
I think those are great too! the only downside is the time. A 2000mAh AA battery would take 67 hours to charge at 30mA. That's almost 3 days and that's assuming no efficiency losses.
@@BusyMDan yeah i built One with a few resistors diodes and leds and leave It on 24/7 and whenever i Need a battery i take a charged One and put a dead One in the charger
Very good video, the quality is as good as bigger channels. I always noticed those high temperature increase in my NiMH battery charger, but i just tought nothing of it. Now i understand why all my batteries die early: let them sit in the charger for days on end until the charging light turns off, so i presumably overcharged them so much i killed them in around 20 cycles. Thank you very much for this video.
Thanks for your comment! I'm always excited to learn about new things and pass it on. It's motivating when I get feedback that someone else got value from my videos.
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Same mine did this also id like to replace them If you have the file I would appreciate a copy
Is it cool and an amazing tool? Yes, heck yes. Do I need one? Sadly, no. Great video though, short, concise and plenty of relevant information.
I'll stick with a modern USB analyzer that works on modern OS. Inexpensive and small nowadays. Requiring the old PC desktop software and network connection is a no go.
aww now i want one yet i have no use for it
Good video and Fluke has always made high quality measure ment instruments. But what is ironic about this video is the ad at the start was for National Instruments LabView. Does this device have LabView drivers? Probably not. That might be why there are so many used ones for sale. And, by the way, anyone who thinks they can get useful results using a raspberry PI, or Ardweeno, has no experience doing that.
Thanks for the comment! The info about the ad is quite amusing. TH-cam is getting pretty effective at finding what's relevant for ads. I didn't realize that ads were being played because I didn't turn any ad feature on... To answer your question: I haven't personally tried this with LabVIEW, so I don't know first-hand. But it does have a serial port in the back which can be set to the data being measure. Something (i.e. a computer) just needs to be setup to record it as it is sent in. So it should be possible. Also, completely agree with your comment about Pi/Arduino, they definitely have their uses, but precision measurement is not it. Even for automation, there's better options. than the Pi I'm working on another video about a cool (and cheap) industrial PLC with easy to use drag and drop programming, that anyone can use. So stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Great video. The YT algorithm worked for once! Subscribed. Thanks.
that spin was clean af
Nice introduction on the Netdaq. I have one, but I've been having trouble getting it on my network for some reason. Can you make a video explaining the setup of the device?
Oh fun, every single one on the hell auction site is over $1k (but mostly $2k), plus about $200 postage to this part of the world
bro every ebay listing is so expensive no where near what your video says
Can measure anything you said ?... I guess i'll pass, I don't want to be sad
I came from the Fluke video and was surprised to see what looked like a track lockring tool when scrolling through some of your other vids. These two hobbies intersecting is great!
Is the sw still avaylabl?
is it a battle royale? what kind of game is this
I have a ccrane radio and my winding crank broke.Very easily.I had to buy and order the replacement crank.When I took off the back of the radio the amount of disassembling was beyond my skills.You cannot find anyone that works on things anymore . I'm gonna have to send my radio to ccrane for repair.The old days were simpler.
is the software still on flukes website, normally they try to force you to buy new hardware when its that old. i would like to buy one i assume the software is not locked with a key. that fact that it uses eathernet makes its easy to spin on a windows xp vm
Wouldn't we be rather at 1300$ instead of 185$... I found one on ebay for 380$ but out of service