I made a charging station from an IKEA cart!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2021
- Hello! In this video we get rad and make a battery charging station using a metal Ikea cart known as a RASKOG.
My charging life was a mess. For starters, I'm quite a bit of a "dumper." I dump my jacket on the floor, I dump my photography bags after a job instead of hanging them up, and I dump batteries on the floor. So I decided to convert my unused Ikea cart into a neat charging station.
I drilled two holes for the wires. This was the toughest part as, I don't know if you know this, but metal is hard. I watched a few TH-cam videos first, which made me an instant expert. To prevent the bit from overheating, I used some oil. With some patience, I drilled two one inch holes.
The bottom rack holds: the charger, a Canon battery charger, and all the charging bricks and plugs. The middle rack is my battery storage area. I created a border using gaffer's tape. One side will be my dumping ground for uncharged batteries, the other will hold the charged batteries. I could see someone more organized really rocking this 2nd floor of batteries...but again...dumper here.
Lastly, I used the top level for my most used batteries. Fujifilm, Sony a7iii, a6400, GoPro, Godox flashes, and a wireless phone charger.
Lastly, I recommend watching Wes Perry's video on charging lithium batteries. He had some good advice including NOT burning your house down. This is why I included a power strip with a switch. If I'm not charging, the electricity to the batteries will be turned off.
See that video here: • 5 Godox Battery Rules ...
Lastly, I share these videos to help and inspire someone to create their OWN charging station. This one works for me. Don't be a killjoy and just point out what I SHOULD'VE done. Instead, share some good ideas in the comments for the future charging station builders of the world.
Here are some other charging station videos that inspired me:
• How to Build a DIY CHA...
• Desk Setup Organizatio...
Products
Ikea cart: www.ikea.com/us/en/p/raskog-u...
Phone charger: amzn.to/2Luc6mP
Sony a7III charger: amzn.to/39wXWtd
Sony a6400 charger: amzn.to/35AWFAf
GoPro charger: amzn.to/3oKtKRQ
Power strip: amzn.to/3bAS4Sr
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Oh my! This is a very great idea! Thanks Omar! More hacks/ideas please.
This channel is a constant source of great ideas. Thanks.
Great idea Omar! Now if I only had the room in my office for a cart! LOL! Thanks for the video.
As a Swedish expat working for IKEA in Philly I can only say thank you:) Great way to show how to use our products in new ways! Great job!
Thank you soooo much! I have multiple headphones, cell phones, power tool batteries, keyboards, etc. charging as a big mess in my dining room and haven't been able to find a retail solution. This is awesome, and I can't thank you enough for tidying up my life (and dining room).
Glad to help!
You fancy playa! Seriously, great job, my tidyness OCD was soothed by this idea.
Great idea Omar!
Oh! You just gave me an idea for my currently unused tabletop shelves, or whatever it's called. It's athing that you put docs or "important" papers on.
Amazing, what a nice way to recycle also! Love the music, I was back in time watching something like Miami Vice and charging my devices.
Completed time on the project... all of 2020. Nice video to help motivate everyone to do something similar
Worked great. No more twisted cords. Great idea
Glad it helped
Love the 1980’s vibe. Needed terry sweatbands. Ha ha!
very nice Omar!
Cool video love the 80s music vibe
A nice Idea and good Video with really awesome music :-) Was watching it 2 times ony to listen the track :D
Nice 💕
If you need to liberate a cord and charger for travel, just snip the cable tie
Still way better than the time-wasting mess at home 😊
Plenty of nice tips ! Thanks !
A smart company like Anker should design and build something like this. We're all living in batteries/chargers hell at the moment. I'd buy a pro charging station in a flash.
A new year's resolution. I will use that and take it further for all the electronics I got. Thanks as always Omar 🙏
Man! That’s amazing idea 💡 Thanks a lot for sharing!!!
YES! I've been hunting around for charging station hacks for months and couldn't find anything that I liked. This idea is fantastic. THANK YOU!!
Great Idea! Nice work. I like the emphasis on safety too. Forgive me but, if I may suggest, the main supply should be plugged into a GFI outlet, and the holes where the cables pass through, as someone suggested, should be covered with rubber grommets. With a portable station moving around over time, the cable linings may abrade, exposing the wiring to the metal of the cart. Lining the shelves with non conducting, rubber mats will add additional safety or. If you can, use a non metal cart altogehter.
Nice project! The 80's montage music is killing me. Lol
This is a great idea!
When free travel finally returns and if you use a laptop and velcro your SSD drives and card readers to the back of your laptop, 3M Dual Lock is THE way to go. Heck, if you want to velcro anything, Dual Lock is fantastic.
This. This brings me great satisfaction.
So close on 100k!!
Get out of my MIND, Omar! I've been trying to decide what to do with OUR rolling IKEA cart, then I see this... 😳
I needed this! 🙏🏽 thanks
brilliant!
nicely done!!!
Wow 🤩 next level buddy!! Well done 👍🏼
Thanks NICE JOB 👍🏻
Omar with power tools!! Didn't realize I needed that in my life until now.
Now that was very impressive . I’m going to order one for myself .
LOL everything watches better with 80s training music!
Great idea, but it's very important to protect the cables that run through the holes you drilled. You can buy rubber grommets sized to the holes, or simply use gaffer tape and cover the sharp edges with a few layers of tape. This will prevent the cables from rubbing against the sharp edge eventually becoming damaged, or worst case shorting out and causing a fire.
I used Velcro to attach my chargers to the wall in our basement. Then two four feet long outlet strips underneath. I can remove the chargers whenever I need to. If you have the dedicated space to do this, I highly recommend it.
80’s montage music.... nice.
Awesome! I just realized, by the way, you're on the verge of 100K subs! Congrats!
great!!!! until you go on holiday and need the charger and lead lol, but nice idea
Nicely done ... now we need to see you mounting that Ikea cart after you bought it :) that's exactly where i would already fail ... I am so incredibly clumsy ...
Coolness 🙏🏾
You uh...have too many batteries to charge. Nice work lol
Great Job you are an all rouder.
Was literally just thinking about doing this!
Nicely done. A good inexpensive solution to a neverending, always growing problem.
You did however, make a potentially serious mistake. Where you have drilled the holes for the cables to pass through . . . the edges of the holes need to be covered with rubber piping, or perhaps a silicon bead. Whilst you "brushed" it clean, it is still a hard edge which will eventually chaff at the wires.
Great idea from Ikea #DadJoke. Velcro Ties FTW! Tip: when wapping the velcro make sure the soft side is always out. so the velcro doesn't catch on your clothes. Great vid 😀👍
Seeing this gives me so much anxiety wishing that camera manufacturers (and 3rd batteries) would all just use USB-C 😫
Great video tho, as usual!
By the time they do, laptops and phones will be using USB-D (or whatever else comes next). There’s no winning.
And to add insult to injury, I just received a battery-powered light with a USB-C port, but it will only charge with a USB-C to USB-A cable, not with my USB-C to USB-C cable I charge everything else with. Like... come on!
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Very good. Of course it would have been even better if you ad spray painted it canary yellow! 🐤🐤🐤🐤
very cool idea, until you need to bring the charger (with power cord) along for a trip.
Can you smell it? Can you smell the 100k subs coming closer and closer?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks Omar, I'm stealing whole cloth. Super timely, as my studio is a mass of wires and chargers and it's awful.
I did something like that some time ago. Then I went on a trip and need the chargers I zip tied. Just saying! Good concept though!
A rubber grommet in the cable holes would of been something that I'd of done to stop the cables rubbing.
Timely. I was just thinking about making a charging station.
Where do you get your music?
I didn't expect than, also zero dislikes on a video is ultra rare. Thank you Omar.
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Haha I have the same exact IKEA cart thrown somewhere unused in the garage.. I will think about "stealing" your idea
And, when you are going on a trip, do you bring your RåSkog with you?
No one goes on a trip these days...😔
DynaMite!
So... You locked all the cables. It means when you go to travel, you have to bring that charging station go with you right? 😂
Nobody's traveling, man. lol...Plus...you have ONE charger?????
@@ogonzilla some devices only one charger.
it would be much more interesting i you could make an xpro3... ;)
Fun fact: Råskog means Raw forrest.
So.. Idk. Guess you can edit it more? 🤔
An entire vlog without saying a word? What have you done with Omar???
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