it's a lot snappier than 'We dont sell illegal stuff'

They already have Charlie Dimmock for their Garden items. I wonder if she uses them in her own garden.

And Tommy Walsh for DIY items - while Waitrose have snapped up the third member of the Ground Force trio (probably as he's a bit more high profile than Charlie and Tommy, having done lots of other TV work).

mittfh Tommy has left the building, he's been replaced with snazzy phrases like "stick it" for the cyanoacrylate "stick with it" for glue sticks and "bond together" for the epoxy( which no longer comes with a strong clip,but are available separately)

Choose your own daft reply: 1/ "Mmm... nice dimmocks!" 2/ "An Excellent product" - Chef Excellence

Hi Calum, a few people have mentioned that my videos have a therapeutic effect. I'm glad I can help.

Yes BigClive, Bob Ross of Electronics 🙌

I would agree with this, I have a few youtubers I can put on and just calm and soak things in, Clive is one. LGR is another for example

@@raginranga3494that’s such a good comparison holy shit

@Ryan Wiley Actually, on other websites it stands for "Thumbs Up". It means the same thing when all is said and done, but hey-ho. Bloody brilliant old bean, yours was, for once, a reply that was actually readable in one pass. Without punctuation and capitalisation, and all that goes with it, text is meaningless if it just rambles endlessly without natural breaks and pauses.

1 amp per pound

Prehistoricman no 1.05 amp per£1

Is the Guinea Amp the post Brexit unit of current?

There was no c in a British shilling.

Guineas are originally what you would pay solicitors in. A pound for the solicitor and a shilling for his clerk. Or some multiple of that. Also a way of overcharging posh people by making them think it's a special high class rich-persons price.

I have a degree in electrical engineering. And programming and physics I study sciences and medicine histology histopathology cytology forensic pathology diagnostic medicine biomedical bone sciences ect. I use andunio boards with shield boards to do ecg and the sensors. For spo2. Ect I like the spo2. Pulse ox ect and ones for blood sugar test

@@steuk6510 How come someone as clever as you has not yet mastered the use of the comma?

@@johnm2012 When he's that smart he doesn't write his posts, he has plebs write his posts for him!

@M Harris 🤣😂

@@johnm2012 I would assume their main language is a different language, which makes sense if you take a second to consider before posting a comment.

Luke Den Hartog Yes, that is very important. I wish, that every charger did that. If a smartphone senses a voltage drop, while it is charging it is going to lower its current draw, becase it thinks, that the charger can't handle it. There are too many chargers that can't even hold 5V at over 1A.

Many of the primary side sensing ICs have cable compensation built in these days, but what do you set it for if you do not know which USB cable might be used?

stefantrethan IMHO linear increase from 5V at 0A to 5.3-5.4V at 2A. I think this is the best way. Even the best USB cables drop 0.3-0.4 at 2 A.

Blatt Ferenc Yeah, just one problem. If you have a power hungry device and a low power device both plugged in at the same time, the low power device will get the higher voltage. Which it may not like... Now if USB leads were made of decent sized copper conductors, there would be less volt drop.

Mark 1024MAK I can't think of any USB device, that gets damaged by 5.3V. That has to be within tolerance.

But... but.. they are magically made with innovative industrial design.. And no doubt aircraft aluminium something or other. In reality.. From the tear downs at least, Apple have comically over engineered them. And then shoved them into a tiny plug for the faithful to buy for stupid money.

DiodeGoneWild Makes it more of a shelf filter too, doesnt it?

Even more saaaaaaaaalllttt. :D hi DGW love your vids

Not ONLY so. Turning AC power on (or plugging the unit in the socket), the inrush to an empty capacitor through the choke builds up higher than continuous current. Next the AC voltage decays, but the choke drives current in the same direction. That results in as much as DOUBLE voltage at the capacitor without some sort of mitigation like the resistor.

My favourite electronic engineers bigclive eletroboom diodegonewild and photonics induction you guys are awesome I watch all the time diode your funny but you need to do more funny stuff keep up the grate work guys

That would be AWESOME!

I wanna see it explode!

@@tmdrake I think that is the "burn" setting.

Some of us down in the SW also eat them head first.

I quickly cut their heads off first to avoid causing them any unnecessary pain.

I want to hear them scream from inside my stomach

Never thought I'd see you outside your channel.

They both end with "r", it'll be fine.

Mike's wish for a field-attachable macro lens came true. it only took a few years for the rest of the internet to catch on. XD

I mean if you're watching a channel that disassembles electronics....not too uncommon

how often do they say "uhh, that's tight" just before? ;p

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's always thought "spudger" sounded immensely sexual

Not on KZfaq but maybe on RedTu-

Well, how often do you hear "screwdrivers are good for impaling people" on youtube? (Literally the next phrase)

I think it's more to do with either an old stressed PSU, or your father's E-Cig battery was faulty. Cheap e-cig batteries have been known to draw too much current, catch fire. The fact your PSU fan was off is irrelevant, that only runs under full power on. The USB ports on a computer can normally only supply 500mA unless it's a special charge port which still only gives out up to 2A. The 5v rail on your PSU can output 20A maximum, so if your PC is off you still wouldn't come close to overloading it with a USB device. I'd test the output capacitors on your PSU, they are usually at fault on SMPS's, especially cheap ones.

Minor correction, the Main 3.3v / 5v / 12v rails of the PSU are NOT Powered when the machine is "Off". The only rail that remains on is the "5VSB" (5V StandBy) rail, which is only ever rated at a few amps on PSU's and the cheaper ones tend to be less, say 2A or so, where as more expensive PSU's such as Seasonic and Superflower tend to be around say 4-6A or more, So if you have a machine with a cheap PSU turned off, and charging USB devices from it then you may be overloading the 5VSB rail. Dont forget that even though the machine is "Off" certain things are still powered from the 5VSB rail if its plugged in and receiving power, including things like the NIC's so that you can wake up the machine remotely, and the Ram if the machine is in "POS" (Power off Suspend). Combine that with USB loads and you have a chance to overload the 5VSB rail. A proper PSU should have protection on the 5VSB rail, and it should shut down that rail if its overloaded like it would the main rails, but with cheap PSU's you dont always know what your getting.

Well that way the germans would not know what to do.

JETJOOBOY I was just wondering how the hell they make any money selling those for a pound, was starting to suspect Poundland was a money laundering operation.

Maciej Pociecha now there's a theory...

How the heck they make them for £2 and such good quality...love to see a British Company make just the Pcb for that price..

A currency manipulating communist government utilizing slave labor.

DetroitDiesel671 Hmmm, could be.... Could be! Or just a Loss leader as the sell Ibuprofen for 3 times what Aldi do...

It is not a good charger. It make huge noise to FM radio. My Samsung charger does not do that. Samsung is real technology, not this piece of junk.

@@dariusz078 pretty much all switch mode power supplies/regulators generate rf 'noise' , some much more than others.... the samsung must have good filtering...

and also depends on the switching frequency

Agree, I googled the supplier and they look Kosher, they're still in business and have been since 2006. I have real admiration for people who can do "cheap and cheerful" when most will settle for "lowest possible price/highest profit, fuck it if people get killed." If their website is to be believed (who really knows?) they have gotten various certifications.

@@dariusz078Obviously a real Samsung or Apple charger is going to be superior, you get what you pay for, but selling to the end user at £2 and it not being a death hazard is pretty darn good in my books.

They just send the nice ones to the store that Big Clive shops at.

It would be really great if someone takes a sample to bits before selling it in large scales. The sad part is, that there are people out there knowing that they sell crap and can't do anything about it because of costs. Planned obsolescence is another keyword. They don't sell parts that last forever on purpose.

I'd like to think the buyers know what they are doing, but I suspect they are not experts and rely upon the promises from Chinese OEMs. Maybe they've just been lucky.

More likely they tell the buying team that under no circumstances do they want to be in the papers and courtrooms because they sold a power supply that killed someone.

PETER GREEN I don't think any shop deliberately buys dangerous electricals from China. All look for CE approval, but that doesn't cover everything (and let's assume the CE conformity is genuine)

Khron's Cave I remain to be convinced. The magnetic field is induced in the transformer core. Then the collapsing magnetic field induces current in the (secondary) windings.

I stand to be corrected, of course. And for what it's worth, from what i've seen, CCFL inverter transformers seem to usually have split-bobbin windings, despite operating at high frequencies.

I ended up reading your comment at the same time as him saying and doing that.

He can use the burn marks as reference point.

He has. It wasn't good, I recall everyone complained about it.

I was just thinking that actually.

I've noticed it too. You're not insane. Maybe we're "sensitive". You're not supposed to feel an MRI but I definitely felt it (tingles) and could the describe the motion the operator was making.

Your a sick man.

But when do you insert the pyros?

+Charlie Dobbie Poor Mr Bun-bun

@ Boring Old White Guy. Aye, that's true, but you don't normally stick a firecracker up its bottom and blow its brains out! LOL!! Hmm, "Bunny McPhee And The Big (Clive) Bang" - I know, let's make a movie about that...

We had a cat that are bunnies that way and often left the meaty legs.

I imagine Signalex is whichever of five dozen different Chinese factories makes the lowest bid for each particular product. The manufacturing side speak very poor English going by the paperwork you sometimes get included. The "designer" might well be plans stolen from the bins round the back of somebody else's factory.

Additionally, I'd imagine that the ones that do use "glue" are actually solvent welded rather than using anything that could be on its own called an adhesive.

"the word your looking for is ultrasonically welded". That's two words, lol. And it's "you're" not "your", hehe

Depends on the devices, they might also draw 1.5A and 0.5A.

JETJOOBOY More correct to say that the total output is 2A. But if a USB device is intelligent, it will limit it's current demand. Whereas a 'dumb' device may not limit it's current demand.

Yes, they do that by ramping up the amps until the voltage drops, then they go back a bit. This is not trivial to make and requires a microcontroller for charge control, so only expensive devices implement it.

anlumo1 well it is £2 😊 top end poundland ha ha...

I have an iPad Air 2 which will draw up to 2.1 amps on an official apple charger and some others. On this Signalex /Poundland 2.1 amp charger I can only draw 1Amp when using one usb socket. In tests, where at the time using apple’s 2.1Amp charger with single socket, it was drawing 1.6Amps at the charging phase that the iPad was in. So it looks while the charger will output 2.1 amps on spec, it will not output more than about 1 amp on each port, unfortunately. But it’s still useful because of its dual 1.1(?)amp output capabilities, but not that useful for charging a single beefier device quickly... a bit of a shame...

I'm an Anker fan, and I second this! Would be a breath of fresh air to see the insides of a "unsurprisingly good" charger look like.

Ave,

They make good stuff. I've had some of their Micro USB cables for about two years and none of them have become wonky like all the cheap cables I had inevitably did.

The two ports are completely commoned, so the 2.1A he got from one port will be the max you can get from the supply in total.

She bent your spudger, did she? That's what you get for trying to copy the Kama Sutra. 😀

Mark Giblin you luck sod!

Yes, and many of us in the States also use the phrase "brute force and ignorance". I've even worked at a couple places where it was abbreviated to "BFI".

Dave Lennon-Copeland Life is mauve, I am orange. Hic hac hoc.

Dave Lennon-Copeland Colour is in the eye of the beholder... but it's close enough to red for me 😜

Mark 1024MAK - I get ya... maybe it is his new lighting that makes the colours look out.

NEVER trust orangg

Who Nose - Mauve is a nice colour too! :)

bdot02 Yes, for fun and profit! We just quit doing Archer.

I'm at 23 wearing a sweater, but low humidity. 8.6 for an extended period would render my hands next to useless as they'd work in slow motion and no strength, let alone all the shivering and organs shutting down.

Not interested, thanks for your interest anyway

South Spain, been around that for weeks. So much for global warming.

THX 1138 Maybe some people just don't like the cold? I'm a male and only weigh 135 pounds, the cold gets to me rather quickly as I have no insulating fat layer to protect me.

Scotland

Admiral Preparedness Not going to happen anytime soon... Manufacturers have yet to take on board the suggestion of a universal power adapter "standard" voltage... The nearest we have is USB, but USB was intended only for computer peripherals.

Since when is DC safe? DC is much more dangerous than the equivalent AC voltage.

Daniel I Which type of DC? Rectified AC (has a peak voltage 1.4 times the RMS value, similar to AC), or "smooth" DC (like from a battery, or regulated DC PSU). In telecommunications, a lot of equipment uses 48V to 55V DC supplies. In older exchanges, there are no safety insulation barriers.

Mark 1024MAK I'd rather touch a 240v AC supply than a 240v DC supply, AC pushes you away, DC pulls you in. Not only that but DC is much harder to switch mechanically as it arcs much worse. This would lead to premature failure of switches and plug/sockets. If you are talking about having an extra low voltage (12v for example) supply in the house, then this would either need MASSIVE conductors to supply household equipment or it would need to be a separate circuit in addition to the low voltage AC supply.

The most dangerous kind of DC is Washington DC

It's reference to coming directly from Chinese sellers on eBay, but you're right. I do sometimes correct myself. I've definitely nothing against the Chinese.

Tom I think you blew a fuse buddy ...Big Clive is right to say from China since the stuff he buys IS FROM FUCKING CHINA !

Tom De Mulder tell all the British workers that when they face redundancy from all the shit flooding great Britain

Well, wrong. If you do find a cheap shitty piece of electronica, chances are it's made in China. That country became synonymous with crappy plastic products that are mass produced with little to no care about quality and safety for the end user. True that it also produces the best there is as well, but that's besides the point. I'm sure that when he will review something expensive made in China, he will say the opposite, so shhh....

A vast majority of products coming from China ARE junk. It's just a fact. There are a couple cities where components are manufactured in China where they're actually quite good like bearings but they're an exception to the rule. I have friends from many parts of the country including regions of Asia and even they warn against buying full assembled products from China. Over here we have Harbor Freight - a huge hardware store chain (if you're not from here). 99% of their stuff comes from China. 75% of that is considered a disposable, one time use tool. Granted - they're stepping up their game finally and bringing in better stuff but their electronics are still from China and still mostly junk. Basic world trade economics, manufacture subpar products to offer a lower bulk price to other countries to compete with local companies while making better products within your own country for your citizens