This is like watching two cavemen try to debug fire.

"If you don't survive, I'll clear your browser history." *wipes tear. Sign of a true bro right there.

I felt like I needed PPE just watching this video.

A few classic phrases in there - "False bravado has got me though worse than this" "Once it works, you can dial back the sketchiness" - I think there's a t-shart in that

Please please please put "Everything's a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough" on a t-shirt I'm a prospective pixie wrangler so I would love that.

Once again, the majestic dewclaw in its natural habitat, living among the angry pixies.

"Why are we here?" we ask ourselves that very question EVERY VIDEO...

For some reason I’m reminded of Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner.

These guys are extremely giddy despite being one wrong connection away from St. Peter's waiting room.

The Saskatchewan Skunkworks strikes again!

"Additional safety measures" = Chickadee's sunglasses = Genius

I never thought of marking down the amount of kills my bench power supplies had. Going to have to start doing that.

VFD not made out of glass fiber reinforced nylon JUNK

A wise man once said “I can’t explain it because I don’t know “ 🤘🏻🎅🏻

I really can't thank you enough, I feel like my vocabulary has been greatly enriched by this channel

Reminded me of my days testing UPS battery banks, the M.O. (modus operandi) was to not use both hands when testing so as to avoid at all costs any chance of completing a circuit between your 2 hands and (if you're lucky) a trip to see the EMS folks. It of course doesn't help that working with lethal voltages causes ones heart to race and hands to sweat which increases conductivity. I learned early on as an apprentice sparky that you treat every wire as live and lethal, so that when you do come face to face with a real live one, you have trained your psyche that it's not any different than any other situation you've done 1000's of times before.

As often, I didn't understand half of what was going on, but enjoyed every second of it. Can't wait for that real load! (That sounded wrong.)

Ave gets so excited when dewclaw comes over

Ol' Dewclaw has that Hunter S.Thompson mumble going, I can only Imagine it gets more pronounced(seems the wrong word to describe a mumble) with more beers.

Tips: If you want to break hi voltage DC with a motor contactor, run them thru all three phases of the contactor in serial so you will have a better break gap, not just one.

DC-AC inverters need more voltage in the DC bus due to the rated AC voltage being measured as RMS and the DC being max, such as a Bosch-Rexroth, FANUC or Siemodrive servo control system. I would ask the engineering department to explain better but they keep avoiding me.

"everything is a smoke machine, if you use it wrong enough" 😂

Fun fact: AvE made those "balancing holes" in the cast flywheel during the initial drunken test run of the ole Bridgeport

The Claw is back , long live the claw! You keep putting your pinkies close to that 236 Dc while looking thru the camera and one of these days you gonna be first Canuckistany to fly by electrocity. This is a great thing for those people who live on batterias. I can't wait to see the next installment.

"Nerdly" fault. I was breaking my head over this until I saw it said NRDY, otherwise known as a "Not Ready" status.... Ah, VFD's have such good problem indicators.

this was some good old ave. it’s been a while since we’ve had the pleasure to witness pure entertainment

More AvE and Dewclaw duo please! You guys are so funny! It reminds me of a mechanical engineer friend and I. We work together and when we are building stuff we are always cracking up like you guys. We hypothesize and test our theories. We make fun of each others areas of expertise, mechanical his and electrical mine. We always have a great time working together and is the same vibe I feel is between you two.

Weirdest looking printer I ever seen.

Contactor not rated for DC loads? No problem, let's add a gigantic inductor! Great idea, if it doesn't limit the inrush, at least it'll turn the contactor into a stick welder. Was that thing supposed to open ever again?

Don't be afraid to use a "capacitor forming tool". Or lightbulb in series until the light goes out before hooking up DC leads.

I love it when you don't edit out the issues and talk through them. This caveman can use all your wisdom.

I give this one Nein Stars.

KZfaq needs an award for the content creator that would be the most fun to actually hang out with in person.

Only thing more entertaining than Mssrs AvE & Dewclaw are the comments after the video :-D

"There's nothing we won't do to fuck shit up" - Dewclaw, 2018 Words to live (and die) by.

..... Dewclaw shows up as froggy too? Mobile air and battery pack? Mods to fork lift? 4Kw solar? Air rams/pumps? Vertical wind turbine? All to farm cranberries.....

DueceClaus, a less preferred visitor towards the end of December.

Sounds like Bob and Doug McKenzie powering up the brewery.

I have spent many hours in front of some god forsaken drive I've never seen before disparately googling manuals. I can absolutely relate to this video!

I hate it when you have a perfectly set up gag and someone drops the ball. Lay off the devils lettuce dewclaw....or maybe try more? Yeah more is always better!

I feel like Dewclaw really came into his own in this video. He was swingin' 10 for 10 whenever he said a word.

Some folks would look at all those batteries and work, and they might ask 'but why would you do that'? Because they could! One of the best reasons for doing anything, for the hell of it.

I run my 12000lb vintage metal lathe with a similar setup, except it's 50 truck batteries and a 30hp VFD. This is reminiscent of all the messing around I had to do to get mine to work.

I am not a native english guy and listening to him, trying to understand what is real, what is sarcastic/ joke/ technical terminology or jargon is almost impossible Additionally most of the words make no sense for me or i dont know them right....im loving it...tt is fascinating..like a new language. And I will watch many many more of your videos till i get it. Because what i understood for sure is : You know your stuff.

Ok The DewClaw needs to be more vjo's. You two together are so funny!!! Great content to make any bad day into a good day!!!

Proof positive that the stinky sticky demon lettuce has been legalized in Canadia... Love it.

Hahaha - Dewclaw and I have the same pliers and I use them for the same reasons "Doing a lot of things you probably shouldn't do" Haha! Awesome Dewclaw!

I was wondering how I was going to run my 3-phase welder from World War II off grid... Spanks!!!

I'm supposed to be working on something that makes money yet I am here. Why am I here? I don't know, but I thoroughly enjoyed this video despite the fact that I will never use any of this information because I will never ever run my air compressor in this manner. I will hook up a windmill or enslave rats to my air compressor before I'll do this nonsense, yet I watch the whole video for absolutely no reason and I'm not sorry I would do it again.

Entertaining and educational, and nobody was turned into a fuse...nice job!

I love it when Dewclaw is in town, the banter is amazing

"everything is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough. " rofl love it!

380vdc, just about perfect to run off of the battery pack on most electric vehicles! Gotta be real careful with that hvdc stuff, it'll fry you right quick... I work with the high voltage components on EV's on an almost daily basis. Just today I did an "experimenalt" swap of a Toyota Rav4 EV battery pack with one from another car. If you are looking for a contactor (relay) for switching that kind of voltage, I'd look into getting something off of some EV or another. We use Gigavac contactors on the DC fast charging kits we build at work. I think they're rated for 1000vdc up to 500a, and are powered with a 12v coil that draws about 0.3a. Some EVs use contactors powered by PWM though, so something to keep in mind if you grab something used...

Currently working on a few

nothing has made me want to learn french more then watching an AvE video

Damn I love this channel. Toss PC correctness right out the door. Awesome.

Friging amazing what can be accomplished when funding is not an issue, (need more batteries, no problem), and intoxication removes inhibition. Then… creativity, and intuition is free… to break though the boundaries of innovation! I am, impressed!

Best dewclaw line, "Sometimes you gotta face death once in a while".

It's always a pleasure to watch you collab with Dewclaw

The only time I’ve seen wires jump was on a 400 KW generator. It had a tired 12 volt M40 starter. The battery leads would jump a foot.

With the thirst for DC voltage undiminished; any Tesla cars in the neighbourhood may be raided for a bank of cells in the dark of the night.

The DC wiring is doing double duty, in this case it also acts as the fuse.

You bring back great memories of when the latest generation of equipment shipped and was delivered to a job site with no formal training. Good thing it was a great paying job with Union benefits....Our sales brochures said....Factory Trained.....More like "Hit n Miss" in the field! One question....from a casual observer....you were lighting up the VFD drive computer with 120VAC it seemed....Guess there is a further workaround with Auxiliary 12VDC to 120VAC inverter....Time to run back to Princess Auto I think👌

Very cordless I see!

Epic levels of sketch! Bravo for not dying!

NRDY is Not Ready. Means a fault is preventing operation. Looks Sweet!

After all that Diag. You Guys did it! Congrats. Happy Holidays

You're real close to doing a proper load all right!

That weller at 1:31 is one hell of a tool. It's always a great soldering iron, default heat gun, and last resort cigarette lighter.

Good to see it chooching at the end. I salute your fine work.

I got one of those DP712s a couple years ago. Of course I fried it with some lead acid batteries, and they fixed it under warranty. It's been awesome since.

Those frigging rapid roll door controllers finally came in handy, and still disappoints. Why a door needs a PLC we will never know.

1 million subs congratulations. We all have glaucoma here in Humboldt

Oh you almost got me. I was about to ask "what, no epilogue?" Ah, but there it was. Awesome stuff man, you have given me a few dastardly ideas with this one...

Having had some idea of what you were trying to accomplish, this was a very entertaining vijayoh. For them what hasn't had proper apprenticical training, electrizmic components are small containers that have a measured amount of majikal pixie dust called spec. When a component fails, generally breaching this small housing and releasing the contents (often in a puff of fire or greasy smoke), the component is said to be out of spec.

as usual, I have no idea what you are doing or trying to accomplish, but loved every minute of it

I don't know if I've posted this before, but Dewclaw is my spirit animal.

Dew Claw Episodes are the best... He needs to be a regular .. all the keener's can wait on their hydro..

Dewclaw needs his own youtube series

"... you can never throw anything awar, ever!" My FiL and MiL's life motto, right there.

great video looking forward to more from you guys as you up the sketchiness of the equation, after all that is one massive TIG welding setup you have there, no wonder the contacts fused together, come on break out some argon and a tig torch....

I think you have too much fun with ol dewclaw there lol you guys are great i love watchin your vjo's

"the question here is ........... .... I don't recall " LOL

As someone interested in both off-the-grid stuff and stuff with 3-phase motors, and largely having resigned myself to the belief that ne'er the twain shall meet, this is the kind of science I need in my life.

always good for a laugh and education. We use Mitsu. drives in the control panels we build at my job so its interesting to see another drive manufacturer unit.

Name a more iconic duo.

That was a neat trick on how to turn an Allan Bradley contactor from NO to NC!

5:44 : suddenly everything turns Canadien.

always fun watching these video's, keep up the fab work.

Thank you for this awesome experiment dyude.

The whole of human experience, expressed with wisdom and wit. I love the sketchy bits, down to the crusty tools.

I really love how you left all that cardboard on there just in case it does go up, maybe there won't be any evidence left.

Always a good fackin chuckle with Dewclaw around. Good stuffs lads

"You can never throw anything away... ever!" Please explain this concept to my better three-quarters. I am unable to.

Excellent work. Although I have to admit, I instinctively moved *back* from my monitor for a few segments there....

"It's not a fault, it's a feature" - that, sir, is gold and I'm going to use it whenever one of my d.i.y malfunctions has unforeseen fortuitous consequences! ;-j

Hey we use those same AB contactors for running are CAT 3 motor power . Run power in through 1 and back out the other to the motors. Aslo run the reset for the estops through the snap on auxiliary contacts sometimes will use a sick safety relay for that too. Anyway kool vid.

AvE like a giddy schoolgirl when the mighty dewclaw is near. He got it sooo bad, 4:30 opens box with boxcutter!!!!!!! Lol you've changed. Lol

Merry Christmas! Ave, you should give Dew Claw a hand if he has to play ball by himself ; ) And God bless

Now this is what happens when you have a vivid imagination and enough spare time to use it. I love it 😃.