As Andrew dice clay said regarding diets, “it’s not a video tape, it’s not an audio tape, it’s duct tape. You put it over your mouth so the fuckn Twinkies don’t get in.”
Ah damn, they got the boxes wrong at the factory again. That's not the electric-saving box, that's the indoor surprise fire starter. It's meant to test your houses smoke detectors at 3 am while you're away.
There's finally a REASON for your smoke detector to go off at 3AM. The perfect compliment to the unreliable First Alert smoke/CO detectors your local jurisdiction probably mandates you have.
When I was a kid, my dad MacGyvered a capacitor from a ~3' x 2' sheet of glass with tinfoil on both sides...all held safely in a vertical orientation via 2x4 pine off-cuts. It was part of a Tesla coil he built to make 6" bolts of lightning. I had a fun childhood.
one good energy saver is to keep your cable box plugged into a power strip with a switch and when you are not watching tv turn of that strips power. because that box use a ton of power even if turned off normally. best unplugged when not in use...
Many years ago my old man picked up one of these at a home show and he had it mounted to the houses main panel. Good thing that one came in a metal box, because within a couple years that cap failed and it was burning hot for god knows how long. The only reason I checked for him was because the electric bills were getting crazy high. I love my old man but he's so gullible he'd probably buy that that Chinese canned air.
We had a capacitor explode in an outdoor wall light at work. It blew the cover some twenty feet away and made the room on the other side of the wall smell like burnt plastic.
This is why your boss tells you to wear your electrical safety gear when you open a panel even a low voltage one...because you will open a capacitor with a chainsaw and poke at the innards with a un-insulated chunk of metal and still not think it's your fault you got popped.
Since the cap barked back it was a big dollar unit with a real cap. Ave, when measuring a cap disconnected from the mains, it helps to have your meter on DC and not AC. HAHAHA, I knew it was gonna bite him after he measured on AC volts, got nothing, and convinced himself the cap was a fake. Murphy's law, don't ya' know. zztt Glorious.
It's like the death plugs (double male-ended cable) so they can plug in a generator (or now the huge power banks) into their house, but don't turn off their main breaker, so it back feeds the transformer, giving the lineman a spicy 2400/7200/19900V-ish (but super low current) at the line side of the transformer and along the deenergized distribution lines. Probably not going to kill them, but it'll be very much like that homemade capacitor in this piece of crap.
Honestly you gotta admire the brilliance in its simplicity and cost effectiveness even if it is manufactured trash. It even had an unexpected built-in anti-tamper feature.
Manufactured trash. Great term for such a device. Imagine, there is a factory in China turning these things out by the ton. What does this magnificent little device do? Nothing at all. It is manufactured trash. What a wonderful time to be alive.
Well at least yours actually HAD a capacitor in that potted box! I ordered an identical unit (but with non-compliant UK 3 pin arrangement) to tear apart, and there was nothing else buried in that potting resin than the cut ends of the two black wires!
I'm sure you've seen Big Clive do a teardown of these "products"... but I have to admit I was surprised to see that there's better engineering done on the cardboard box than what was inside of it.
When I was a teen my dad ordered some chinesium emergency kits for the family to keep in their vehicles. As the combination radio/flashlight/alarm/battery pack/can opener/compass instructions and features list said, "emergence helpful". Been in my vocabulary ever since.
I inherited one of those from my grandfather, probably 90s vintage. I think I saved the crappy hex keys and tossed the rest of it, though the hex keys were kind of bendy and malleable. I think he must have held onto it because someone gifted it to him. The flashlight portion was ridiculously huge but put out next to no light. I don't remember what else was included with it, but it may well have had a mini claw hammer in there somewhere for those times when you need to drive a nail into someone else's gas tank for quick access.
Chinglish, or Chinadian, or even Japanenglish has been, over the decades, a source of belly shaking laughter. In the 1960s I used to work on imported motorcycles. The manuals are *HILARIOUS!!* Thanks for the video!
@@5thelementcannabisproduction I'm from the Eastern Townships. Restaurant order: "I'll have two egg, side by each and a pair of toast!" Best wishes to you!
If you're talking about the 'fruit fly catchers', those things actually work. Sticky pad and a blue light seems to be irresistible to many little flyers.
@@jimchesnutt7879 That's not what he's talking about as he said ultrasonic bug repeller and not fruit fly trap. Search ultrasonic bug repeller to see what he's talking about. They have been around since the 90s. Also, the best fruit fly trap is a little glass of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dish soap in it.
@@jimchesnutt7879 nah, it's supposed to be a supersonic or ultrasonic frequency generator that repels mice and etc. Much like Rodent Sheriff, the peppermint spray, if it does work it doesn't for very long.
The CE logo on the box is formatted correctly, but it's not on the device. The C, if turned into a circle, should intersect with the left of the E. Now, I've seen legit devices lose the space between them, but in general, manufacturers are careful about this, because they actually paid for the certification, which comes with instructions. When I was in Afghanistan, contractors were installing cheap Chinese electronic fluorescent ballasts that were catching on fire. Since the QC Passed label clearly can't be trusted, I began requiring UL- or CE-certified ballasts manufactured in North America or Europe. The contractors found European-style ballasts made in Turkey with the CE logo on them. They seemed light years higher quality than the junk they were previously installing (and I had hands-on experience with German ballasts), so I accepted them. No more ballast-caused fires.
Dude, Supa Spanner was intentional and was a huge hit when it came out in the 80s in Australia. We got one for my old man for father's day, and it survived and was useful where none of the horrid no-name excuses for spanners we could afford did. These days I can afford known brands of combination spanner which are far superior, but that Supa Spanner still brings back fuzzy memories of successfully removing seized bolts.
@@MazeFrameI think followers of AvE tend to run in similar circles on TH-cam - who else does everyone follow in case I'm missing any salient satirists ?
@@colinwilson210 DiodeGoneWild "Power Factor Saver (energy saving box scam evolution)", that one has even better capacitor. Overall his series on phone charges are proper good.
The second you plugged it in, my refrigerator started buzzing all the way over here in New England. Powerful magic in that phase correcting cap. Almost wet myself laughing when the cap discharged. We used to charge up caps in high school electronics class back in the 70s and leave them on the bench for each other.
I'm sure the 1.43 million Sarcastic Subscribers had a outburst of Laughter at the 9:36 mark, birds of the same feathers seem to F**k around together on each other's expense............
I remember one of these from when I was a kid. I accidentally cracked one open and all the saved electricity leaked and spilled out. My parents never let me near any appliances for months after that.
Dang man... that capacitor had you so distracted someone else was able to sneak in and crap in your pants... lol. In all honesty, that was interesting.
Glad you managed to give yourself a tickle, I managed to find a power supply with a good quality capacitor and I didn't realise no discharge resistors - after 14 hours sitting that was still dramatic!
I popped myself good on the capacitor from the back of the tube on an old CRT monitor when I was but a young lad. Knocked me on my ass and numbed my arm for a good bit and the poor screwdriver I was poking around with was no longer usable since the discharge cause an arc strike that melted the end off the tool.
The capacitor was charged via the high value resistors, but the led's dropped the voltage when you meaasured after unplugging, the capacitor would be very slowly discharged via the led's, but there was enough in the capacitor when you broke in, Best way to save money is not to buy it ;)
@sparkyprojects That's not exactly what happens in an AC circuit. Unfortunately Ave did not trace the schematic so we don't know exactly how it was wired. The thing is, a capacitor in an AC circuit does not exactly "charge up" as the voltage across the cap is constantly changing, going negative and positive, the phase leading the AC cycle. So, when you disconnect it from the AC, there will be a residual voltage on the cap. It could be negative or positive and the voltage level will be determined by the exact moment in the AC cycle when the power was disconnected. So, the voltage could be a litlle or a lot or even nothing. Having said that, if the capacitor happened to be wired in series with the LEDs then they could have been acting as diodes and the capacitor could have been charged to a particular DC level as high as 1.4 times the RMS mains voltage. Probably less because of the resistors in the circuit. The discharge time in such a scenario would be totally dependent on the configuration and the resistor values.
Thank you for taking the time to educate about the kinds of dangerous nonsense out there in your usual extremely entertaining style. I've been a huge fan of yours since you were doing Arduino stuff.
hey i just acquired an older festool sander for pennies on the dollar, however turns out it doesn't work. Instead of sending it in for repair i thought maybe it would be a good donation to the BOLTR cause. let me know if interested
So I made a couple homemade capacitors from zip loc bags and aluminum foil. Almost as tedious and time consuming as hand wrapping a secondary for a tesla coil. Once I added the mineral oil, the plastic absorbed it and swelled up the capacitor causing it's capacitance to change drastically. LAME
I looked it up on Bill's internet search box. Summarized by Bing AI Pros ✔Saves money on electricity bill ✔Non-slip base ✔Easy to use ✔Sharpens knives effectively Cons ✖Not effective for all knives ✖May catch fire
That label on the device is NOT a "CE Mark" used in EU, but "China Export" label, which pretty much quarantees that the device will not have any EU wide conformity requirements. The one on the packaging seems to be "CE Mark".
Hey partner, I'd love to see the copper hammer or maybe just the swingin bit come back. I'm a newbie machinist and I think it's be a great addition to the US Generali 😉
The more observant amongst us will have noticed that the DVM was on AC when you tested for the retained pixies on the terminals. So, you found them when you looked in the box!
received my tiny axe today, look forward to the next tiny tool installment. anyone have any ideas what would go with the tiny swing press and axe?@@arduinoversusevil2025
For those playing at home, there is 2 CE marks, one is Compliance Europe, and the other is Chinese Economic. Convert the letters in to circles and see where they overlap, there is a subtle difference and it pays to get to know the difference.
@@whatdoyouwantfromlif No, that is the point of having a very similar design, so that they don't have to comply with the European Safety Regulations. They are hoping that most people won't notice the difference and if someone gets killed they don't have a leg to stand on because it is not actually a Compliance Mark..
+1 point to Evil for "capaciting" Arduino. I suppose I may have that backwards. Is anyone able to confirm wether Arduino is referring to the subject at hand, or our mini-chainsaw welding protagonist?
That's a normal film and foil capacitor. It's probably low value, maybe 0.1-1uF, so it's fairly high impedance at 60hz. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the main current limiter for the LED's. It will hold charge, but it has AC voltage across it in use, so the DC value across it will vary depending on what point in the wave you unplug it, with an average value of 0.
@@BigBenAdv to me it looks about the size of a 0.1u 250 VAC capacitor as a guess. If so, it would have an impedance of 20k ish ohms at 60 hz, which is about the right value to drop 120 volts down to normal LED type current around 4-5mA. None of the resistors are really the right value to light the LED's and simultaneously not catch fire. I think the phony baloney idea is that the cap smooths the mains AC and while it's "doing" that the waste current lights the LED's so you know it's "working".
@@NanClaymore Sounds about right. Haven't really looked into the circuit connections. Either way, these things are an absolute waste of materials and really just contributing to waste/ carbon generation.
I had to laugh when you were exploring the inners of the Ching Pow Capacitor. I wonder how many of those items are sold across the world? Might have to get me one of those Axe Erasers. Looking forward to the full sized hammers. Thanks for the knowledge and laughter, Ave.
My mom has what I suspect is something like this, an AC current "smoother". It's supposed to absorb the ripples in AC current in your house to prevent the EM waves from affecting you. I bet the Chinese saw the specs for the "name-brand" one, and thought Hell we can build that cheaper, and get sales no matter what words we put on the box!
Let's say, in an alternate universe, that this is a well-engineered, well-made product that works exactly like it's supposed to. How does plugging this in to one of my outlets lower my power bill?
There was a guy selling one of these devices at the hydroponics store. I sat and listened to his whole speech. Left the store and came back in with my voltmeter, and asked can I test the voltage and amperage on the input and output...... then the excuses started.
That's some quality chinese junk there. I got friends that buy from wish and temu because the stuff is safe it's UL listed. My printer can print UL listed also. I can't wait for homeowners insurance to go up do to all the crap that's slipped by and into peoples homes.
LEDs are diodes which is why you didn't get a voltage on the terminals even though the capacitor was charged. Likely the LEDs were reversed biased so that you couldn't detect their voltage at the input.
Lol my dad had one of these and insisted I use one. He ordered me one and I rolled my eyes... he's a smart guy but sometimes he doesn't do enough research.
I got a sudden flashback from the days I wanted to find out what and why you hear that whine in an old camera flash device. I found out I prefer to lick a live socket over touching a huge capacitor.
Received mine yesterday, says mine has an improved design on the box. Took it apart and I can clearly say that you reveived a faulty unit. Mine has a flux capacitor and so should yours
I looked into these back in the late 90s and/or early 2000s. Of course everybody explained how they worked slightly different but that is essentially their intent. I think the claim was that motors and modern electronics cause your power feed to go out of phase and these corrected that. The idea was that even if your power company didn't charge for power factor, that the peak in the wave form was off effectively creating a lower working voltage level causing devices to use more amperage for the same amount of work. This/these types of things supposedly corrected for that. Back then, you could find large units that connected directly to the fuse panel like you would install a breaker and run another circuit- excep it was just a block of capacitors bolted to the wall. I never could tell if they actually did anything special. My boss swore his units saved him a bunch of money. But he also swapped out 2 or 3 1970ish window air-conditioning units and electric baseboard heaters for a modern 2000ish central air with heat pump. I tried one and never noticed anything different in my electric bill.
When I was a much younger man I had a wrench very similar to your supa spanner there. Mine had a flat middle rather than your curved one and was actually very good as a bicycle tool. I rode everywhere and things happen. That wrench saved me time and time again. Been missing for years.. I'm sure it will turn up in a bin somewhere lol.
I had one of those supa wrenches but the other end hinged the opposite way, so when you opened up both ends to max and held it vertical it represented and abstract water bird/swan/duck, so my brothers and I called it the "duck spanner". I'm sure its still in the house somewhere. That tool got us far when we were kids. Swapping and trading bike parts with our friends so we all had a working bike to go riding. No phones. No computers. No internet. Those were the days.
Double bit ax bought and paid for, anxiously awaiting its arrival! What is it they say about a fool and his money? Around my parts this will be a handy way of "pointing" out the difference between ask and ax.
Subtle product placement.
On SALE! aveworkshop.myshopify.com
@@arduinoversusevil2025such discount it be losing money not to buy it 😆
Woot! Thank you!
@@arduinoversusevil2025😅😅
Bought it! Axing Dutch fingers on the job in no time! And some warning stickers of course...
It saves electricity by blocking the receptacle from everything else
It's OK I guess if you don't mind the sensation you get from being violated when your hood gets winked. Eeeeuw.
LMAO
I was going to say the same thing.
it's a NEMA 5-15 chastity belt!
As Andrew dice clay said regarding diets, “it’s not a video tape, it’s not an audio tape, it’s duct tape. You put it over your mouth so the fuckn Twinkies don’t get in.”
Ah damn, they got the boxes wrong at the factory again. That's not the electric-saving box, that's the indoor surprise fire starter. It's meant to test your houses smoke detectors at 3 am while you're away.
lol, yep I couldn't help thinking of demolition detonators when I beheld a wad of tinfoil twixt two wires in ceiling wax.
That's the beauty of it. If a house is burnt down, no occupants can use any home appliances in it for a while.
There's finally a REASON for your smoke detector to go off at 3AM.
The perfect compliment to the unreliable First Alert smoke/CO detectors your local jurisdiction probably mandates you have.
Fastest we've seen Uncle Bumblefuck move in a long while.😅
Shit was live!
😂😂
"Lit me up like a Christmas tree" 😂
When I was a kid, my dad MacGyvered a capacitor from a ~3' x 2' sheet of glass with tinfoil on both sides...all held safely in a vertical orientation via 2x4 pine off-cuts. It was part of a Tesla coil he built to make 6" bolts of lightning. I had a fun childhood.
Awesome 👌
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That does sound like a fun childhood. Tell your father he did a good job and some random dutch idiot is proud of him!
7:55 That's how it saves you energy!
The less devices you can plug in the less electricity you use!
I was going to say the same thing.
and if it burns your house down you wont be using any electricity
BRILLIANT!
Now just get one for each outlet in your home and you are set!
one good energy saver is to keep your cable box plugged into a power strip with a switch and when you are not watching tv turn of that strips power. because that box use a ton of power even if turned off normally. best unplugged when not in use...
I had no idea the German technology had advanced this far
Got one in every socket, now the wind mills nearby turn in the wrong direction. What gives?
👏👏👏👏👏
You’ve installed them upside down
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Ahhh ...... DC , not AC ????
Many years ago my old man picked up one of these at a home show and he had it mounted to the houses main panel. Good thing that one came in a metal box, because within a couple years that cap failed and it was burning hot for god knows how long. The only reason I checked for him was because the electric bills were getting crazy high. I love my old man but he's so gullible he'd probably buy that that Chinese canned air.
We had a capacitor explode in an outdoor wall light at work. It blew the cover some twenty feet away and made the room on the other side of the wall smell like burnt plastic.
This is why your boss tells you to wear your electrical safety gear when you open a panel even a low voltage one...because you will open a capacitor with a chainsaw and poke at the innards with a un-insulated chunk of metal and still not think it's your fault you got popped.
Since the cap barked back it was a big dollar unit with a real cap.
Ave, when measuring a cap disconnected from the mains, it helps to have your meter on DC and not AC.
HAHAHA, I knew it was gonna bite him after he measured on AC volts, got nothing, and convinced himself the cap was a fake.
Murphy's law, don't ya' know. zztt
Glorious.
Sweet jesus, my wife had a hard time understanding why I was laughing so hard. If she only knew...
@@grlpeterson I watched that over and over about 6 times 🤣
its safe, i wear my safety specticals and my ultra electric resistant rubber gloves made from used condoms bought in walmart
@@lokelaufeyson9931 why buy them when all you have to do is go behind the store?
Am I the only one that thinks the world needs an AVE and Big Clive colab 😄
It's usually not the device that scares me. It's the fact that you don't know if your neighbors would plug in something as sketch as that next door.
This is why it is best practice to have a firebreak between your neighbor's house and yours.
They would🤣
For maximum savings, you put one in every unused socket.
It's like the death plugs (double male-ended cable) so they can plug in a generator (or now the huge power banks) into their house, but don't turn off their main breaker, so it back feeds the transformer, giving the lineman a spicy 2400/7200/19900V-ish (but super low current) at the line side of the transformer and along the deenergized distribution lines. Probably not going to kill them, but it'll be very much like that homemade capacitor in this piece of crap.
Thank everything that is holy for standards and guidelines.
As a ridiculous aside. Here in New Zealand those little mini chainsaws gave been recalled from the market because the don't have a chain brake😄
Gotta watch out for that kickback... the torque is overwhelming
That's so pathetic 😂
Honestly you gotta admire the brilliance in its simplicity and cost effectiveness even if it is manufactured trash. It even had an unexpected built-in anti-tamper feature.
Just imagine how cheap labor has to be for this to be more cost effective than a manufactured cap.
isn't it a manyfactured cap?
Manufactured trash. Great term for such a device. Imagine, there is a factory in China turning these things out by the ton. What does this magnificent little device do? Nothing at all. It is manufactured trash. What a wonderful time to be alive.
crap
“ unexpected “ 😂
Well at least yours actually HAD a capacitor in that potted box! I ordered an identical unit (but with non-compliant UK 3 pin arrangement) to tear apart, and there was nothing else buried in that potting resin than the cut ends of the two black wires!
I'm sure you've seen Big Clive do a teardown of these "products"... but I have to admit I was surprised to see that there's better engineering done on the cardboard box than what was inside of it.
It is a nice box.
That was the saving box. It was in front of us the whole time. The other thing was a mouse from 2002 with misaligned prongs.
You know@@Dwigt_Rortugal... that makes more sense than anything in that video! And probably TRUE too.
Great work, as always. Love the way you priced the pencil axe. $6,627.00 USD, but if you buy now, it's $19.00 USD, on sale.
That actually might be illegal depending on where he lives
@@lolman123401 Planet Hoth. I'm fairly certain that it's governed by tauntauns. Note, do not approach with laser sword.
That is illegal in the mighty EU
Where do you find his stuff to buy?
@@mcrande you really took the time to type this comment but you didnt think to check the description?
When I was a teen my dad ordered some chinesium emergency kits for the family to keep in their vehicles. As the combination radio/flashlight/alarm/battery pack/can opener/compass instructions and features list said, "emergence helpful". Been in my vocabulary ever since.
I inherited one of those from my grandfather, probably 90s vintage. I think I saved the crappy hex keys and tossed the rest of it, though the hex keys were kind of bendy and malleable. I think he must have held onto it because someone gifted it to him. The flashlight portion was ridiculously huge but put out next to no light. I don't remember what else was included with it, but it may well have had a mini claw hammer in there somewhere for those times when you need to drive a nail into someone else's gas tank for quick access.
Chinglish, or Chinadian, or even Japanenglish has been, over the decades, a source of belly shaking laughter. In the 1960s I used to work on imported motorcycles. The manuals are *HILARIOUS!!* Thanks for the video!
Don't forget the Quebecois Hinglish ..
Like in Yamahahahahahahahahahahaha?
You know its gonna be good when they add 2 random words together to make it compound
@@5thelementcannabisproduction I'm from the Eastern Townships. Restaurant order: "I'll have two egg, side by each and a pair of toast!" Best wishes to you!
How are you gentlemen!!
All your base are belong to us!!
You are on the way to destruction,
make your time!!
You should do one of those 'insect/pest removers' with the blue led and 'ultrasonic' speaker.
If you're talking about the 'fruit fly catchers', those things actually work. Sticky pad and a blue light seems to be irresistible to many little flyers.
@@jimchesnutt7879 That's not what he's talking about as he said ultrasonic bug repeller and not fruit fly trap. Search ultrasonic bug repeller to see what he's talking about. They have been around since the 90s. Also, the best fruit fly trap is a little glass of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dish soap in it.
@@jimchesnutt7879 nah, it's supposed to be a supersonic or ultrasonic frequency generator that repels mice and etc. Much like Rodent Sheriff, the peppermint spray, if it does work it doesn't for very long.
Can I now publicly apologize for my schadenfreude when you poked the pixies in the empty plastic box.
The CE logo on the box is formatted correctly, but it's not on the device. The C, if turned into a circle, should intersect with the left of the E. Now, I've seen legit devices lose the space between them, but in general, manufacturers are careful about this, because they actually paid for the certification, which comes with instructions. When I was in Afghanistan, contractors were installing cheap Chinese electronic fluorescent ballasts that were catching on fire. Since the QC Passed label clearly can't be trusted, I began requiring UL- or CE-certified ballasts manufactured in North America or Europe. The contractors found European-style ballasts made in Turkey with the CE logo on them. They seemed light years higher quality than the junk they were previously installing (and I had hands-on experience with German ballasts), so I accepted them. No more ballast-caused fires.
The penaxe is for when the odd rodent or accountant moves across your desk.
That was redundant.
Whats the difference between the two?
Dude, Supa Spanner was intentional and was a huge hit when it came out in the 80s in Australia.
We got one for my old man for father's day, and it survived and was useful where none of the horrid no-name excuses for spanners we could afford did.
These days I can afford known brands of combination spanner which are far superior, but that Supa Spanner still brings back fuzzy memories of successfully removing seized bolts.
I wish we could've seen the actual capacitance of the homemade capacitor on its own
I think BigClive has a video where he checks it.
@@MazeFrameI think followers of AvE tend to run in similar circles on TH-cam - who else does everyone follow in case I'm missing any salient satirists ?
@@colinwilson210 DiodeGoneWild "Power Factor Saver (energy saving box scam evolution)", that one has even better capacitor. Overall his series on phone charges are proper good.
@@stanimir4197thank you for that my good sir. Anyone else doing sketchy stuff?
He's gonna have to buy another one to test this
You got one of them all in one wrenches like I got twenty years ago, I still ain’t figured it out!
I'm so impressed, I bought one for every receptacle in my neighbor's house!
Well, to be faaaaaiiiiiirrrrr, it will do as it claims if you plugged one into every receptacle in your home.
its a good way to make your neighbors happy
The second you plugged it in, my refrigerator started buzzing all the way over here in New England. Powerful magic in that phase correcting cap. Almost wet myself laughing when the cap discharged. We used to charge up caps in high school electronics class back in the 70s and leave them on the bench for each other.
I'm sure the 1.43 million Sarcastic Subscribers had a outburst of Laughter at the 9:36 mark, birds of the same feathers seem to F**k around together on each other's expense............
@@incognitoalias2808if he didn’t want people to get a laugh out of it he wouldn’t have posted it
I remember one of these from when I was a kid. I accidentally cracked one open and all the saved electricity leaked and spilled out. My parents never let me near any appliances for months after that.
“accidentally” …
Your meter was set on AC when measuring that capacitor. That might explain why you measured "no voltage." 😉
Ýes.
Dang man... that capacitor had you so distracted someone else was able to sneak in and crap in your pants... lol. In all honesty, that was interesting.
Thank you. I always wondered if I was a sadist, and now my laughter has confirmed it.
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"Gentleman, Welcome back to the shop"
You love to hear it guys, I know I do.
Got my pencil ax in the mail today. Wanted to drop by and say how much I like it. Thanks a lot
Remember, when your house burns to the ground, you'll start saving on your electricity bill.
When you wake up dead, that's how you'll know it's working.
I picked up a set of 2 of those Supa wrenches a few years back from someone just because they are a good conversation piece lol
I'm sure bigclive will be along in a moment and say he did this five years ago.
I really do appreciate you and your efforts to further science.
Glad you managed to give yourself a tickle, I managed to find a power supply with a good quality capacitor and I didn't realise no discharge resistors - after 14 hours sitting that was still dramatic!
I popped myself good on the capacitor from the back of the tube on an old CRT monitor when I was but a young lad. Knocked me on my ass and numbed my arm for a good bit and the poor screwdriver I was poking around with was no longer usable since the discharge cause an arc strike that melted the end off the tool.
@@housegoth I got a similar knock down while dusting off an crt to read the numbers better...damn that anode button!
Can’t wait to get the call when I send my kid to class with his new pencil topper
I’ve been seeing these in elderly peoples homes. I figured it was two LED’s that just light up and a total gimmick. Now I know!
Right next to the bug repeller with ants crawling over it.
Ohhh! The C and the E are so nicely spaced close together so it's a testament to the best quality in the world!
The capacitor was charged via the high value resistors, but the led's dropped the voltage when you meaasured after unplugging, the capacitor would be very slowly discharged via the led's, but there was enough in the capacitor when you broke in,
Best way to save money is not to buy it ;)
@@wally7856 I'm not familiar with the fluke 87, had to look it up, well spotted ;)
@sparkyprojects That's not exactly what happens in an AC circuit. Unfortunately Ave did not trace the schematic so we don't know exactly how it was wired. The thing is, a capacitor in an AC circuit does not exactly "charge up" as the voltage across the cap is constantly changing, going negative and positive, the phase leading the AC cycle. So, when you disconnect it from the AC, there will be a residual voltage on the cap. It could be negative or positive and the voltage level will be determined by the exact moment in the AC cycle when the power was disconnected. So, the voltage could be a litlle or a lot or even nothing.
Having said that, if the capacitor happened to be wired in series with the LEDs then they could have been acting as diodes and the capacitor could have been charged to a particular DC level as high as 1.4 times the RMS mains voltage. Probably less because of the resistors in the circuit. The discharge time in such a scenario would be totally dependent on the configuration and the resistor values.
The LEDs and 1M discharge capacitor would discharge the capacitor quickly.
From New Zealand and I can tell you that electroBOOM is very proud of you 👏
Made by the same company that makes the fuel saver that plugs into your OBD2 DLC....
Thank you for taking the time to educate about the kinds of dangerous nonsense out there in your usual extremely entertaining style. I've been a huge fan of yours since you were doing Arduino stuff.
I miss those days!
Say what you will about that capacitor, it held a charge.
hey i just acquired an older festool sander for pennies on the dollar, however turns out it doesn't work. Instead of sending it in for repair i thought maybe it would be a good donation to the BOLTR cause. let me know if interested
All that was missing was the "Not to Be Operated by Fuckwits" warning label..
or in their mother tongue 不得使用“fuckwits”安全标签进行操作
Next warning label!
The "Supa Wrench" goes well with the "Mucho Macho" brand tires that I saw selling online.
Nice 'shoutout' to ElectroBOOM!
So I made a couple homemade capacitors from zip loc bags and aluminum foil. Almost as tedious and time consuming as hand wrapping a secondary for a tesla coil. Once I added the mineral oil, the plastic absorbed it and swelled up the capacitor causing it's capacitance to change drastically. LAME
I looked it up on Bill's internet search box.
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Pros
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✔Non-slip base
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Cons
✖Not effective for all knives
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I received the Axe head today and my wife saw it and said I WANT ONE! I love it thank you!
Place the trash receptacle under the vise so that when you loosen the vise it falls right in. Old German trick.
Saves you the effort of throwing, that's why their grenades were stick-shaped.
That label on the device is NOT a "CE Mark" used in EU, but "China Export" label, which pretty much quarantees that the device will not have any EU wide conformity requirements. The one on the packaging seems to be "CE Mark".
Hey partner, I'd love to see the copper hammer or maybe just the swingin bit come back. I'm a newbie machinist and I think it's be a great addition to the US Generali 😉
Instruction must not disobey for consequence of punish! Hight-quality product. 👍🏻
The ending was *HIGH* *LARRY* *US!!* Thanks for taking one for the team!
The more observant amongst us will have noticed that the DVM was on AC when you tested for the retained pixies on the terminals. So, you found them when you looked in the box!
the tiny hammer now has a new friend, look forward to the tiny axe's arrival.
Thank you!
received my tiny axe today, look forward to the next tiny tool installment.
anyone have any ideas what would go with the tiny swing press and axe?@@arduinoversusevil2025
For those playing at home, there is 2 CE marks, one is Compliance Europe, and the other is Chinese Economic.
Convert the letters in to circles and see where they overlap, there is a subtle difference and it pays to get to know the difference.
Do you think every Chinese manufacturer signs an agreement that they will not 'accidentally' print the wrong version on their product?
@@whatdoyouwantfromlif No, that is the point of having a very similar design, so that they don't have to comply with the European Safety Regulations.
They are hoping that most people won't notice the difference and if someone gets killed they don't have a leg to stand on because it is not actually a Compliance Mark..
Fine! Fine! I just ordered the damn axe... And more stickers.
Where does one find the pincle axe?!?
+1 point to Evil for "capaciting" Arduino.
I suppose I may have that backwards. Is anyone able to confirm wether Arduino is referring to the subject at hand, or our mini-chainsaw welding protagonist?
That's a normal film and foil capacitor. It's probably low value, maybe 0.1-1uF, so it's fairly high impedance at 60hz. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the main current limiter for the LED's. It will hold charge, but it has AC voltage across it in use, so the DC value across it will vary depending on what point in the wave you unplug it, with an average value of 0.
Probably just there to smooth out the waveform a little so the LED doesn't flicker.
@@BigBenAdv to me it looks about the size of a 0.1u 250 VAC capacitor as a guess. If so, it would have an impedance of 20k ish ohms at 60 hz, which is about the right value to drop 120 volts down to normal LED type current around 4-5mA. None of the resistors are really the right value to light the LED's and simultaneously not catch fire. I think the phony baloney idea is that the cap smooths the mains AC and while it's "doing" that the waste current lights the LED's so you know it's "working".
@@NanClaymore Sounds about right. Haven't really looked into the circuit connections. Either way, these things are an absolute waste of materials and really just contributing to waste/ carbon generation.
I had to laugh when you were exploring the inners of the Ching Pow Capacitor. I wonder how many of those items are sold across the world? Might have to get me one of those Axe Erasers. Looking forward to the full sized hammers. Thanks for the knowledge and laughter, Ave.
Well if you plug it in and it takes up both slots limiting the ability to plug anything else into the socket dosnt it work?
My mom has what I suspect is something like this, an AC current "smoother". It's supposed to absorb the ripples in AC current in your house to prevent the EM waves from affecting you. I bet the Chinese saw the specs for the "name-brand" one, and thought Hell we can build that cheaper, and get sales no matter what words we put on the box!
Now do the ionic air freshener that's always making the high pitch whine. It's the same size, but white, flat, with a blue light on the border
You didn't get voltage reading from the capacitor, because your meter was set on AC voltage
That capacitor was shocking!
Let's say, in an alternate universe, that this is a well-engineered, well-made product that works exactly like it's supposed to.
How does plugging this in to one of my outlets lower my power bill?
We need more BOLTR videos!!!
There was a guy selling one of these devices at the hydroponics store. I sat and listened to his whole speech. Left the store and came back in with my voltmeter, and asked can I test the voltage and amperage on the input and output...... then the excuses started.
That's some quality chinese junk there. I got friends that buy from wish and temu because the stuff is safe it's UL listed. My printer can print UL listed also. I can't wait for homeowners insurance to go up do to all the crap that's slipped by and into peoples homes.
Seems as per the vidjayo you were lookin for the AC on the capaceetoe , but DC is what shes beholdened to
8:30 try your Fluke in DC mode, then you will see a voltage...
Capacitors don't store AC voltages ;)
LEDs are diodes which is why you didn't get a voltage on the terminals even though the capacitor was charged. Likely the LEDs were reversed biased so that you couldn't detect their voltage at the input.
Awesome shock value!
Lol my dad had one of these and insisted I use one. He ordered me one and I rolled my eyes... he's a smart guy but sometimes he doesn't do enough research.
Germany? Does it burn coal?
D juice
Legend has it that they used 4 of these in the lunar lander. It extended the battery life by a factor of 20
Insurance companies would love finding these things in burnt out buildings. They might even be in on the hustle.
Try this one weird trick THEY don't want you to know about.
I got a sudden flashback from the days I wanted to find out what and why you hear that whine in an old camera flash device.
I found out I prefer to lick a live socket over touching a huge capacitor.
Do the axes fit construction pencils? If they do or can be made to, please let me know! These would be a great gift for the crew!
Like any axe handle, you've gotta haft the shaft. You'll be hanging heads like a pro in no time.
Received mine yesterday, says mine has an improved design on the box. Took it apart and I can clearly say that you reveived a faulty unit. Mine has a flux capacitor and so should yours
This thing might somewhat be legit. The capacitor may work as a power factor corrector. If you are billed for that, it may even work.
Was thinking the same, we don’t pay residential here in oz
I looked into these back in the late 90s and/or early 2000s. Of course everybody explained how they worked slightly different but that is essentially their intent. I think the claim was that motors and modern electronics cause your power feed to go out of phase and these corrected that. The idea was that even if your power company didn't charge for power factor, that the peak in the wave form was off effectively creating a lower working voltage level causing devices to use more amperage for the same amount of work. This/these types of things supposedly corrected for that.
Back then, you could find large units that connected directly to the fuse panel like you would install a breaker and run another circuit- excep it was just a block of capacitors bolted to the wall.
I never could tell if they actually did anything special. My boss swore his units saved him a bunch of money. But he also swapped out 2 or 3 1970ish window air-conditioning units and electric baseboard heaters for a modern 2000ish central air with heat pump. I tried one and never noticed anything different in my electric bill.
If you place the right size capacitor across the input to your house. You can stop the meter spinning in the old type meters.
so it's a shitty night light?
When I was a much younger man I had a wrench very similar to your supa spanner there. Mine had a flat middle rather than your curved one and was actually very good as a bicycle tool. I rode everywhere and things happen. That wrench saved me time and time again. Been missing for years.. I'm sure it will turn up in a bin somewhere lol.
Don't knock the Supa-Spanner.
It's fairly handy when you would otherwise use your Swedish Thumb-detecting Nut-rounder but some bugger has pinched it.
Our friend Big Clive WOULD LOVE this, and how 'Nibbling at the Angry Pixies' somehow magically helps 'Sedate said Angry Pixies'! 🤔😉🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧
I had one of those supa wrenches but the other end hinged the opposite way, so when you opened up both ends to max and held it vertical it represented and abstract water bird/swan/duck, so my brothers and I called it the "duck spanner". I'm sure its still in the house somewhere.
That tool got us far when we were kids. Swapping and trading bike parts with our friends so we all had a working bike to go riding. No phones. No computers. No internet. Those were the days.
It's a capacitive dropper. The cap is in series with the LEDs and drops the AC voltage.
Double bit ax bought and paid for, anxiously awaiting its arrival! What is it they say about a fool and his money? Around my parts this will be a handy way of "pointing" out the difference between ask and ax.
QC pass stickers got to love them that just means the QC printer was working overtime to make stickers and passed the printer warranty stage.
What won't they stink of next? Good for a laugh!
I was even doing the safety squince watching you cut into that capacitor with a mini chainsaw lol
Got me 2 of the double bits. Had to sharpen one . Be cool for you would make some more that we can fit with a quality handle and air cooled tool steel
It's one thing to ovulate a great idea, but it's another thing to hatchet!