Making a wiring loom for a prop. Rambly Q&A video.
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- When I was based in Glasgow I made quite a lot of controllers and looms for local prop and production companies. It allowed me to fit electronics into props quickly, or let them put the looms in themselves if there were any delays. Although making the looms is fairly time consuming, it is similar to the work involved in working on the actual prop. It also allows you to do it in the comfort of your own workshop. In many instances installing the prewired loom is often easier than trying to make it inside a large and complex prop itself. Much less fibreglass dust and resin smell too! (The prop industry isn't actually very glamorous.)
This pair of looms are for one of the companies I did a lot of work for, but just a favour for personal use.
The guys and gals in prop companies are like sculptors, but unlike an "artist" who spends years sculpting one statue, these guys just bang them out every day. Their carving and artistic skills are incredible. You see them gluing blocks of polystyrene (styrofoam) together and the next time you look round there's some perfectly shaped statue getting coated and prepared for fibreglassing/mould-making.
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I received one of those stand alone heat guns many yeas ago after borrowing one from my neighbor to strip the linoleum off the counter top in our old house, shortly after purchasing it. The heat gun worked so well, I told my wife I loved it, and on my next birthday, I was presented with a nice cased set, came with add on tips, in fact it has the one you use all the time. It sits in it's case in the back room, unused to this day because I was injured shortly after, and have never got back in the back room to do any work. Over the years things kept getting packed back there for storage till today when you can't eve walk in the damn place except for one narrow passage to my old office chair. I hope to one day clear it out so I can try and get back there to use it, as everyone keeps telling me I am crazy building projects and rebuilding laptops whilst sitting in my electric recliner, they seem to fear I will drop some solder down the chair and set myself ablaze. Hasen't happened yet, but I do have a lot of shirts with burn holes in them where solder has somehow dripped on them. One day though, when I don't have anything else on my agenda, I will tackel that back room and get rid of all the shit back there that isn't even mine, then, perhaps I can once again try to get back to my workbench and do the work right. It has, however made me very dexterous with my hands, which used to shake like a damn leaf, the soldering has somehow made them steady once again. Funny how that works. Perhaps soldering is good therapy.
I had a coworker who always had shaky hands until he needed to work on something and then they were absolutely still.
I showed my doctor the kit watch that I assembled all SMD tiny parts, he was amazed that I was able to do that a he is treating me for the shaking problem, as well as a ton of other crap. I think that's why I love building these kits and learning more even at my ever increasing age (be 68 next month, damn I am getting OLD)
Shoving live cables up a gargoyles bottom to make it's eyes light up? 😂
I have to admit, I've fallen asleep while watching your videos, however shortly after I was woke up by my cell phone hitting me in the dam forehead. Also it was my way of unwinding after a very long day. It helped me fall asleep. Yes I watched the video again. While I was rested the next morning.
I've never fallen to sleep with Clive's voice.. Now, JW, on the other hand...
TheChloeRed I feel asleep not from lack of content or anything negative, I dig Clive and his videos but his voice is relaxing, at least I find it relaxing.
Ah, I find Clive's voice has enough variance and parts that are energetic to keep me awake and interested in wanting to see what the outcome is - sort of like a good book I can't put down and sleep.
I've fallen asleep to Clive before. You're right though. It's not from being bored or anything negative. I've watched hundreds of his videos through to the end. It's just he has such a comforting voice.
Sleeping with your phone next to your head, probably not the smartest idea
I grew up in Fremantle and lived in Melbourne for a decade. Was not expecting a trip back to my younger years while watching this video! Thanks Clive!
Traditionally a gargoyle is a water spout (you can remember this with 'gargle' ), the similar ones that are not a water spout are grotesques.
What you have there looks like a griffin, but if it was on a church (usually just the head/shoulders) would be a grotesque.
For twisting wires i just use a cup hook in the drill, as long as the wires are at the same tension (keep it tight), it's not a problem, once twisted, i reverse the drill a little to prevent the tangle
When i solder connectors that might melt, i grip the pins with the croc clips, as long as the iron is hot enough, it solders fine.
Glad to see someone else picked up on the gargoyle/grotesque point. My inner pedant always screams at that. :)
Never knew that, thanks. I blame the (mostly excellent) Disney cartoon show. :D
TIL
Also, croc clips as heatsinks is one of the greatest discoveries I ever made.
To add to the exactness and pedantry: because language is a changing thing and people have been calling the statues without water spout "gargoyles" as well, the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded to also cover what would traditionally be called "grotesques".
While you are correct about the traditional difference, calling a "grotesque" a "gargoyle" wouldn't be considered wrong by modern dictionaries.
@@daanwilmer "the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded" - That is a very diplomatic way of saying "lazy people with lower priorities for intellectual matters found misusing one word for something superficially similar but different acceptable and tolerated with such widespread fervour that it began to make less disinterested people sound stuffy". After all, you cannot have "gargoyle" expanding without "grotesque" diminishing.
By the way, these long form vids are superb. It's relaxing, informative and overall good entertainment.
I've been doing electronics off-and-on for 4 decades. Taken "How to Solder" courses as refreshers. This is the first time anyone has mentioned putting flux on the desoldering wick and the pads, helps to remove the solder from the pads.
Promptly tried it. Wow! Fast and clean.
When you twist 2 (or more) wires together like this, you are also twisting the wires at the same time. If you have a geared spindle for each wire, driven by a gear concentric with the main shaft where the centre gear does not turn. In this way, as you twist the wires together they are automatically twisted in the opposite direction. This solves the unraveling problem.
I just pictured this. Good description.
My neighbour collects old farm tools. He has a rope twister that works just like that. Hand cranked.
Yes, exactly the same principle. Rope factories do the same thing, but with very long rooms. I think there is one with a room about a mile long. Ideally, the source spools are attached to the outer gears for continuous production, up to the length on the spool but for producing ropes the spools would have to be enormous so that doesn't work. Clive said the wire was 7 core, they will have been produced in exactly the same way but with 7 heads.
My neighbor is a rope twister by profession, he's 97, though. They worked beside the river, in good weather only, and with roundabout a quarter mile long pieces (land miles = max 400 m), drilling them on a device like You described it.
“If I designed an electric chair, it would be absolutely amazing, it would have digital readouts, it would have fairground lights. Although it wouldn't need them, it would have smoke machines for extra drama. It would be like a Halloween prop but with politicians in it. And lawyers.”
Vote Big Clive 2020
And the booming voice of the Centaur pinball machine
love to see Cheeto the Chump in it ;)
I think Ms. May and Vlad would be better.
That's "Lord Cheeto" LOL
The neighbor probably leaves the missing cats sign up so she'll know when someone new is in the neighborhood.
:-) Gladys Kravitz :-) (Bewitched).
It is interesting, your soft voice is rather soporific. No matter how interesting, if I watch late at night (or wee morning) I find myself waking up sitting in my chair halfway through the next video. It is quite refreshing and I do "rewind" to catch what I missed. I don't have the problem watching during the day, however. I used to use the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series, which I have watched many times, for the same purpose. I didn't have to watch the video as I had the dialog memorized. I could pop that into the VCR [I now have the series on DVD] and go to bed.
"If I were to ever design an electric chair..... lots of fairground lights on it.... "
Don't ever change Big Clive, don't ever change.
Just want to say bigclive that I love your videos. I took a few classes in college to try to learn electrical work and just never really picked it up. I only passed well enough to complete the requirements for computer work.
Your videos are just in that sweet spot for me where I understand most of what you are talking about, and still learn quite a bit. Keep up the great videos!
“Vote for Big Clive. When the military suddenly got repurposed closer to home.” Hahaha that had a lot more depth in it than I’m sure many pick up on! I laughed out loud!
I've done this exact thing before. Someone gave me a hollow composite garden sculpture of a squirrel. I dremeled out the eyes and illuminated them.
The method I used was simple: Start with diffused red LEDs and arrange them inside the statue such that they are centered in, but about 5mm behind where the eye surface should be. I affixed them from the inside with clay or blutack (i don't remember which) At this point, I used clear acrylic latex caulk (the kind that cures semi-translucent). I used a small spatula and filled the eye cavity with the caulking, making sure to encapsulate the LED. The exterior surface is simply sculpted to form the convex corneal surface.
In this way, the entire eye glows uniformly at a wide range of angles, it still looks good during the day, and it's entirely waterproof. In retrospect, using silicone would probably be better for outdoor use.
I love these videos where you make stuff and answer questions.
I poured a rum and coke. Great Friday evening! I was working on a poo incinerator at a wastewater treatment plant today.
Thank you ~so much~ for showing prop work:) At first I thought this was going to be about work with your own props, something I hope you will also show in the future, but I am also enjoying your work with the props of others.
He's shown some before.
I worked for Trickets Fairground in Cranford , absolutely loved it building up the old dogem set and putting up the tilt (roof) which weighed a ton, it was a good life and we worked for food mainly , if we were fed well we worked hard . it took 8 hours to build up the dogem set and we could tear it down and put it all away on two trucks in 4 hours if we had to.
These days the dogem sets are mostly automated and fold out like a transformer hydraulically all the heavy lifting is done by macherinery.
As an aprentice plumber I had to go into the Gosport sewer system and do maintenance repairs the sewers are suprizingly clean but the worst part of my aprenticeship was in work experience clearing out blocked rodding holes on driveways you wouldnt believe what got stuck in those pipes and you didnt have a glove to put on as you rammed your arm up the sewer pipe to grab a stuck sanitary towel. most of the time that was the cause of the blockages, very occasionally a disposable nappy. like the evil eyes great little project. lovin your videos sometimes i binge watch them picking up bits of the past ive forgotten about eectronics, i also watch a lot of "My Mate Vince" to who repairs broken electronics products, the R2 D2 was very interesting. also lovin trhe soda stream experiments keep em coming the baileys was hilarious.
The good bit about having a dirty job is that there's much less competition and it tends to pay well.
I enjoyed your Disney stories. I worked for The Lion King gazelle touring Broadway show. ALL of your descriptive language made me chuckle quite a lot. I was the production rigger and Flyman for 5 yrs. I wanted to mention the automation on the show was amazing and, yes I ended up doing a lot of the repairs and helping a brilliant chap Named Dave Cambell. I was blessed to have spent so much time with him learning electronics. Love your channel. AvE mentioned you and it seams I've spent to much free time already surfing your vids but hey... So what. Cheers Mate.
You must've got 20-ish views from me on this video, because I've fallen asleep while watching it! As someone who has pain-related insomnia, I love the fact that you're making these videos!
I sometimes watch your videos to help me fall asleep, but that backfired yesterday when I woke up with a panicky nightmare that I was getting a 240-volt electric shock, caused by watching you be unsafe with electricity so many times.
I'm totally guilty of falling asleep with your videos. But I do go back and watch them again!
I do enjoy a good big Clive ramble
That was one of your best videos.
I0m guilty of falling asleep when watching your videos. Your voice is soothing. :)
bigclivedotcom i lik the fact that you speak your mind and have no filter
The wiremen at the factory I worked out used a drill to twist pairs too. One end was tied to the handle on a full filing cabinet, the other end hand twisted, folded over (to stop the slipping), and chucked in the drill. Tension the wire and away you go. If the tension is too high the full filing cabinet drawer opens, correcting the problem.
I have a kilo of griffin guano for sale. Great for growing twisted pears.
That was a "Peach" of a comment! :-) Well done! Peter would be proud. ;-) Shut up, Meg.
Love the drill bit wire twister, I'll have to try that sometime.
The phone using the battery as a heatsink for the screen actually does make sense. Lithium-ion batteries perform poorly when cold, so using the unwanted heat from the screen to warm up the battery ensures that the battery performs better, and uses up energy that would otherwise be discarded. It makes the phone more energy efficient.
Like the dry humour , especially about the electric chair, it sounds very entertaining, problem being who would be the first candidate
I have good success twisting my own stranded pairs when I put one end in a vise and the other in a drill tip, making sure both wires are off center in the chuck. I put some tension on the pairs and run the drill. Keeping tension on the pairs as you twist is the key to success.
This is the second time I've watched this video because I fell asleep the first time. 😁
Another great interesting video Clive
You got my vote!
With regard to twisting wire directly in the drill chuck, I found that it works as long as both wires are under tension, so that one does not have enough slack to twist over the second wire.
My work had us twisting 18 AWG wire for communication interconnect between boards in a chassis, and we would often twist up 20-30 feet at a time, by clamping one end in a vise on the bench at the far end of the room, and then making sure that the wires were the same length when tightened in the drill.
Once it was twisted as far as we wanted, we would give it a couple of good tugs to settle the copper strands into the twist, which mostly eliminated the tendency to unwind once released from the drill chuck.
Keep on the good work! Really appreciate what your doing!! I hope you come back to the Netherlands ! Because some of your ideas have i just for making really nice lighting on some fairytales!!
I'll vote for you Clive!
Clive gets my vote for PM Because he answers his comments! Great vids Thank you Clive
Great video Clive.
Mr. Big Clive (since I've not yet had the pleasure of tipping a pint with you) I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up (without employing one of those sketchy Vietnamese services). Sharing your genius is a gift to us all. The "cheap-shitty" episodes have a temporary flare. This episode will change the way some of us think.
Cracking LED gromit!
But there's no cheese
DragonHarrierGaming Gorgon Zola ?
Delphine Rosewood not even wensleydale
DragonHarrierGaming as long as he doesn't get his stinking bishop out. 😉
A gargoyle is architecturally functional, they're elaborately carved gutter-spouts for (mostly) ecclesiastical buildings.
These fine gryphons are of the type used as decorations for gate-piers, etc.
I went to Luna Park! =D It was great. Yes, I road on the wooden coaster. I spent a week at Melbourne back in 2012. Really fun.
I happen to be working in a optical type shop in around 1990 ?. And there was a guy installing a new machine, They needed a guinea pig to try it out. So I volunteered, you just looked into it and it took a picture of the inside of your eye, and printed out a picture. They do this basically to compare what your macular ( ? ) nerve, so they can tell if its getting thinner which would give you trouble, this is what sends everything you have ever seen travels to your brain. So they take a picture, then years later they can compare against the earlier picture to see if its failing. And yes its truly amazing what the inside of your eyes look like. They actually gave me copies of my photos on floppy disks, which I have transferred over to CD. I have never used them to give to a eye doctor ,but havent been to a eye doctor.
In Scotland as part of your routine free eye test they take a picture of the back of your eye and store it in your file.
I have been with Three for a long time, great network
On that note, Vodafone suck dinosaur balls.
Big Clive for PM!
Don't forget the fairground music on the chair.
The Magic Roundabout :)
@@izools But a flattened 5th out of tune, for added creepiness.
It was fun hanging out with you this afternoon clive! Enjoyed the cat stories also lol
That word I keep forgetting too is. Contention :)
Moto g6 play vids seem ok, thanks Clive ur great company, the planet feels less loney with you talking to us. Thanks
I did seriously look at the G6 play as it has a higher resolution camera than it's siblings. It doesn't seem to sound too bad either. I'm just a bit wary of buying any Lenovo phone right now after that "update".
In Boy Scouts, we made our own heavy rope out of twine. We had a gadget that had three hooks/eyebolts, and it was clamped to the tailgate of a truck. As you cranked it, the entire thing rotated one way, and the three bolts rotated counter to that (as I remember). It was to maintain the twist in the twine while creating the large rope. No clue what happened to it.
You can insert the wires in to the chuck but you have to use a piece of *soft* rubber or *soft* silicone tubing. First, insert the tubing in to the drill chuck then insert the wire ends in to the tubing. Close the chuck, attach the other ends of the wires to a fixed point and slowly spin up the drill. Done!
Fantastic video and love the length of the vid. You can't moan at a hours worth of big Clive 👍
CONTENTION!!!!!!
I've never had much trouble twisting wires just in the chuck of a battery drill. The trick is to anchor the other end and keep up some tension. Run the drill in reverse for a couple of seconds before taking the twisted wire out. This stops the tangling problem.
That's how I do it too
I put a " vine eye" into the chuck and affix appropriate number of wires but otherwise do same as you - maintain tension whilst winding - quick pull at end then couple of reverse revolutions to detension
Decades ago when I did production work for a long defunct division of Motorola (Four-Phase Systems), we would terminate the pins onto straight wire, then gently use a drill to wind the strands down past a specific length, then unwind the spring tension to the finished length, and insert the pins into the shell to lock in place. Made thousands of cables like that. Never had an issue after the first day of crushing pins - and having to fix them...
enjoyed that. Thanks.
Greeting from Las Vegas Nevada USA. I'm from Lyon France.
lol. I make my twisted pairs the same way, but I mostly use two different colored enameled magnet wire. It works for low voltage runs. ;)
i hope you show the finished Griffen when its complete
CONTENTION!
Where I worked in the industrial control systems sector years ago, silicone polishes were banned in the area where soldering was undertaken , as it causes havoc with soldering on pcb’s.
Oh dear, we've been found out! I'm one of the ones who finds your voice soothing and tend to listen to it at night. But you are so damn interesting at times with the projects that it doesn't always work. Sadly, your voice really helps if I have a migraine starting, oh well, whatever works for that...
I wish my voice could have cured my own migraines when I was a kid. They were horrific.
Mine are mostly weather related now, weather front goes in or out, head hurts and stomach churns. Yay!!
"Creepage of the electrolytes and corrosion of the contacts" at 40:20 or so - pure poetry
Also, I would possibly vote for Big Clive!
Another advantage of the UK plugs is that the prongs are incredibly robust, while on euro plugs they often get squeezed together.
I bet the Prop industry is very challenging and that what love
If you like short deadlines, including ones that don't even give you time to order the correct materials. And if you like being haggled for a lower and lower price by high profit production companies then it might be the career for you. It's not glamorous. I recommend getting a trade and keeping prop making as a sideline.
@@bigclivedotcomI hear you anyway I really enjoy your videos
You can spin it in the chuck. Just pre spin about 2cm tightly by hand and shove the wist in the chuck. Keep it under tension tell you get a tight spin, then revers the drill until you can release the tension and not get curls.
Clive are electric chairs tested for electrical safety ?
Yeah
your sure on that ? so far no one has given me an answer for definite
@@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Yes ironically an implememnt designed for ending human life can be deemed unfit for use on ground of electrical safety. They test the chair before an execuetion. Another interesting quirk is someone on death row approaching their execuetion date has to be deemed healthy enough to be execueted by a doctor.
It was kind of funny back in the 1940's this fellow came through our town who had killed a Highway Patrolman in Minnesota, and was on the run. He was speeding, and our local police stopped him. The idiot killed our cop as well. Well in this part of the State, at least back then, this was the worst crime you could commit and quickly a posse was formed, lead by the town Justice of the Peace, duly deputized by the Sheriff over the phone. The criminal was caught before he left the county and taken into custody. He was arraigned, had his plea hearing, where he plead guilty and sentenced to death within 3 days. He was transported to the State Pen where they looked around and discovered that the State had never purchased an electric chair, even though that was the legal means of capitol punishment. So they began to call around and found that our neighbor to the South, Nebraska indeed did have one, their governor loaned it to us for the execution. The Chair arrived two days later, and the criminal was strapped in. Our local Justice of the Peace (who I worked for while I was in High School) was asked to pull the switch, and since the officer who was murdered was a close friend of his, he accepted. He pulled the switch at midnight on the set execution day, and always said, it didn't bother him at all, and he would gladly do it again should the situation ever come up.
Hello from Perth! :)
At about 2:26AM I've been watching this and ironically or perhaps unironically for watching an electric channel I hear a loud bang outside and the power cuts out as it happens and then almost as fast as the bang happened everything came on again so I crapped my pants a bit XD I just hope nobody got incinerated in the middle of the night
For using a drill I put them straight in the chuck, but instead of centrally I put one wire into each of the gaps between the pieces of the chuck (as far from center as they can go). It also allows for twisting 3 wires should you need. The wire needs to be a little taught for it to work properly though.
Thank you so much !
what i discovered during my visit in paris was that the smell was mostly in the side streets, people just did their business there
For 2 pin keyed, low powered, non-waterproof, non-board mount connectors I've moved to using the red pre-wired 2 pin connectors used for hobby RC batteries. You should see them if you search "JST 2 pin 100mm" on e-bay. You can get them in pairs by the 100's, super cheap and pre-polarised.
I really laughed at the electric chair design!
Could the grounding rod be a rectal probe?
Too much? 😂
Nothing's too much for the particular type of people who would be put in it.
“Las Vegas and Florida. The trashier bits (of America).” Truer words were never spoken! LOL
Contention!
the transformer buzzing is not a problem for me (not apparent to my hearing). Great ramble, thanks.
@BC, I appreciate an older video but, I wonder whether a thin frosted acrylic tube would have worked best. Push two flexi tubes from the eyes down to a "base" with the LEDs mounted at the end. The LED light should refract down the acrylic and glow..... Simplifies the build and makes it easier to replace components.
Oh hey. That method you use to make twisted wires is pretty much the same as the method used to make rope. In the olden days before the industrial revolution, people would have to crank it by hand instead of using a drill, and they would usually use 3 or 5 strands instead of 2, since odd numbers worked out better for keeping things nice and tight, but the various concept is pretty much identical.
Crazy. I was just looking into modifying two gargoyles for miniature wargaming. It's official, BigClive is some kind of sorcerer.
My nephew used to call them Gargles.❤
the rig you made for twitsting wires is fairly similair to the traditional method of making rope.
One of my rules is KISS! Keep It Simple Stupid! You said something about someone makes things to much that just make time hard to keep it working! So I like the KISS!!
Hey clive, a _really_ good option for connectors for outdoor use is Deutsch DT, extremely rare to see one fail due to water ingress. They are however quite expensive iirc. Another is TE Superseal which I believe are much cheaper but still do a good job. Then again, I guess they'd be a bit too bulky for what you're doing here.
EDIT: Also, I kind of miss the hum and tick of the soldering station, kinda made me think you had a Little Helper like Gyro Gearloose.
also cheaper options are hot glue or silicone and depending on size denso tape. why use proper connectors when you can botch it ;-)
Well, I've done my fair share of bodges over the years, usually meant as temporary repairs, but you know how it goes with temporary repairs that don't break immediately. But at some point you just get sick of re-fixing the same thing over and over, so you start doing things right the first time around, unless it's an absolute emergency of course.
B C i don,t know how you do it a project as simple as this and i could not stop watching had too see all of it , but wow the shade of red on those LEDs i can just imagine how those gargoyles are gonna look , Yet Another great vid , ? can you get your friend to do a video of them and send for you to post ... Thanks
Great video as always Clive, I really enjoy hearing about your experiences and opinions. I too hate politics, but clearly we have the same views. I'd vote for you immediately.
Appreciate the info on 3. I'll be leaving O2 soon so glad to have a recommendation from someone I trust that knows what he's talking about.
If you have a friend with 3 then ask them about local reception. It varied between different providers.
Will do thanks. We all know you can't rely on their coverage claims
I have a similar wire crimper but I don't have that exact set of bits. For the photo I didn't pull all of the bits out of my network toolbag, but here's the crimper and the RJ-45 and RJ-11 bits. :D
Oh, yay... I don't seem to have included the link to the photo I was referring to in my comment. I is smart! randomer.net/stuff/crimper-20180720-01.jpg
Pro tip for the weirdos like me that listen to chill out. If you swipe down or whatever to access your phones settings, it won't play the video but you can still hear. You'll save a ton of battery. Also, be careful! You might wake up with your toaster taken to bits and a sudden craving for MRE's and booze!
Swiping on my mouse, but nothing of the sort happens.
@@Anvilshock this is a mobile only thing.
@@BurningApple YOU DON'T SAY!!
@@Anvilshock no.. I _do_ say! 🤪
Attempt to weather-proof the LEDs with a grommet, but why no connector with o-rings or a rubber seal? And isn't there a type of heat-shrink that also has a form of hot-melt glue already inside that seals against any moisture? Seems like that should be an option worth considering.
It is just a foam garden decoration though. No need to overcomplicate things or make them too expensive. Some wires and heat shrink is all it should need.
I have the same issue with the falling asleep during videos thing. Certain people seem to put me to sleep. It's not because they are boring, but just something about the video or voice.
Superlube is less messy. It's ptfe Teflon grease for 3d printers but I use it sparingly for everything because it's pricey. But a tube lasts a while
Clive will you ever talk about color organs I know you like Fairground lighting controllers and it should be right up your alley I absolutely fell in love with them. I have one from the 70s that I'm trying to fix that runs on 12 volts for automotive use I think it would be an interesting video. I'm stumped on why it's not working I'm more familiar with Mains powered ones but the 12 volt one is stumped me a lot and I'd be happy to send it to you for a video I think everyone would really appreciate it.
Nali varnish is pretty good at waterproofing
49:30 yeah that's me. You just soothe my restless mind 😂
Bell wire..used on door bells and thermostats..2 wires solid core, Twisted.
This is most likely just one of those pleasant linguistic differences but here in Canada what you built is a wiring harness. You wisely omitted the loom as it's very much unnecessary with only a single twisted-pair and would make installation difficult in this application.
man i put your video on to go to sleep i get my "learnin" and you dont do loud banging videos so its good for that
I worked for Northern Light to. The Edinburgh branch.