Spoiler Saver & Christmas Riddle Riddle: 2 mums & 2 daughters went out for Christmas dinner, each ate one portion, yet only three portions were eaten in total. How is this possible?

Congrats on the repair, sponsorship, and potential televised venture. Well deserved!

Wow wee! That's one bang-tidy repair. I bet urine heaven with the sponsorship and TV offer too. They must be a big fan. 👍

In order to prevent the circuit breaker to blow, you can put an incandescent bulb in series with the load. In case of a short circuit, the bulb will switch on brightly. Otherwise it might just light up very dimly. Do not use your variac transformer without propper protection. A short-circuit can draw enough current to melt the thin wire in your variac. Great content, btw!

What you can do to test Mains voltage equipment is to connect a 60W filament bulb in line with the live cable and if it's ok the lamp with hardly glow but if the unit has a fault instead of it going bang and maybe damaging anything else on the board the lamp will just light and not damage anything else. Great repair.👍

That board looked beyond repair so black with carbon as it was. Great fix!!

Good to see all this positive stuff happening to you. You're one of my favorite youtubers to watch

Nice fix Vince. Congrats on the sponsorship! I think you'd be great on the telly too.

I love repairing things and just yesterday found your channel. I had to pause the video to check out the IR on my remote using my phone camera. FANTASTIC!! I've already learned several things from you mate!

"Nothing worse than buying something working when its supposed to be faulty." said only 1 person ever! I had to relisten to that line 3 times and I laughed every time!

Great video Vince as usual. I've only been watching a few months but binge most days. I like to try and fix things and have learnt so much from you and gained confidence. Thanks so much and Merry Christmas to you

You deserve the recognition Vince, always entertaining and informative.

You are a unique human being, as we all are.... one of a kind. Don’t fret about confidence. If someone is interested in you, based on what they’ve seen, be yourself, no confidence needed. Really enjoy video’s, all the best.

Always wanted a Dyson fan, but settled for a duux fan which is an awesome fan, quiet enough for the bedroom, remote included and a very good breeze, awesome fix there Vince I hope your 2023 goes great, brill news about the sponser and have a fixing (less) Christmas

Vince so great to hear the positive news and your hard work is being noticed. I always enjoy your content no matter what you are fixing.

Well Done Vince, you know I'm a FAN of your work! :) At least that repair was a bit of a BREEZE compared to the other fan! Well done, seems we both have working Dyson fans now, although your fault was different to the one I did 👍👍👍Great Job as usual!

Excellent video as always Vince. I just wanted to say that I’m a tree cutter working for the electricity board. We clear all the trees that grow near the hi voltage overhead cables. We’re not allowed to have fires and burn the branches we cut purely for the reason that the carbon particles in the smoke can conduct the electricity back down to earth and perhaps harm or kill someone. Just thought it was an interesting little fact because of what you found in the fan. Thanks again for the great videos, keep them up 👍

A natural entertainer you are Vince. You have many doors to open. All the best for 2023👍🏻😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hey Vince, glad to hear you're doing well! My Mate Vince on tv would be awesome. Enjoyed this repair because in the beginning it really puzzled me why the board was that charred without any visible component damage ... Congrats on the achievement 👏👏👏👏👏

House explodes Vince : Excellent! Never change vince!

A very satisfying little fix (sometimes I wish KZfaq had Smell-O-Vision, but this is not one of those times, so I'm happy to make do with your description), and congratulations on the long-term sponsorship - I'm sure that will remove some of the stress of your money-gobbling Rolls project. And we all benefit by having you able to keep making videos on it. Excellent.

Soooo soo happy to hear you have sponsorship an new opportunities going forward. Your videos have been so helpful to me on a year that has been the worst for me an mu partner . I wish u a merry Xmas to u an family an look forward to more of the best content on KZfaq

Great Job Vince. Good news having a sponsor for the next year. Congrats.

Nice. I blew a main 200 Amp breaker on a USA panel once. That made a big bang, and flash.

Carbon is used on motor brushes but compacted, the camera on your phone doesn’t have an infa-red (IR) filter on it. Excellent fix well done, I did notice the top of the oscillator motor was wet, well done Vince great fix thanks mate

Well Done on all the hard work you put in creating all the videos you make Vince..You deserve it 100%..love the big boom on this one, Thought by the sound of that it would be total toast inside.

Amazing video! Nice job with the repair and good luck with your sponsorship and some more great videos in 2023, and have a great Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Congratulations on your offer for 2023, well deserved Vince!

Not watched live tv for 3 years or so now I have become more content with on demand but would certainly love to see everyones mate Vince on the TV. Guy Martin wasnt very keen on his TV Career he found it hard to talk to the camera and not a person, he would have to get someone to stand around it. Quite similiar in a fashion he was a succesful motorbike racer and you busted moves on your skateboard, he currently works as a mechanic keeping people moving, and you once worked as an Telephone engineer keeping people talking, He builds things and restores, you fix things and restore, only difference is your OK talking to a camera you do it for us lot weekly. Would love to see you hit the 1 million mark, You never ask people to like and subscribe your just you which I admire, Great video as always.

Awesome to see this working properly again! Good luck on the potential television offer! I am looking forward to more videos!

Great work Vince. Never seen a short purely based on carbon residue before. Really nice 🙂. Thank you.

Sounds like 2023 is gonna be an awesome year for you vince,no better person for it to happen to,another brilliant year of videos,thanks for keeping us all entertained,Merry Christmas to you and all the family mate

Nice a sponsor, a working fan and an invite to talk on TV you deserve it Vince all your hard work and dedication is finally rewarding you and giving you what you deserve.

You can see easy the way from the spark, this is also the reason the board fuse is fine. Love such fixes, easy work.

Good news on the sponsor mate.. great stuff.. I used e spares a lot in the past.. they're great for washing machine parts .cooker parts. However small..

Wow! What a bang! Very nice fix.

That was a big bang mind VInce, scared the crap out of me with headphones on. Great fix.

Congrats on your sponsorship! Well deserved. 🎉

Hi Vince. We had an upright fan similar to your old one. Harry our Alsation had been left in the house whilst we went to the supermarket, a while after this we turned the fan on, Massive bang and all trips blew, Harry had wee'd on the fan whilst we were out. I found it very strange that no fuses blew either in the plug or the fan. Maybe the fuse board trips cut out so fast, the fuses dont have time to blow. Thing is, the equipment will blow everytime it's switched on, a bit dis-concerning. When I saw where it was black, I really thought the fan motor had blown. Great bit of investigation,, and the cheapest of fixes ever.

Very unusual condition. Great fix.

I wonder if the wife quickly checked the life insurance policy when the lights flickered and heard the scream lol.

Me and the wife love watching Vince, we take non monetary bets whether it will be a fix or not

So just herd the TV invite. I've just done one for Hochanda in Peterborough and it was quite an experience and definitely one you should take. Remember your the expert and everyone is rooting for you. If it goes wrong just laugh at yourself and they'll refilm it. In fact I'm going back over Christmas to film some more. Good luck Vince 😎😎😎😎

Class video yet again Vince. Cracking buy and fix. Summer 23 will be a breeze 😅

Totally agree with the sentiment. @2'08" "I'm already happy, Worth every penny, Nothing worse than buying something working when it's supposed to be faulty". Kinda sums up a fair proportion of my most enjoyable activities. Recognizing, Analyzing and hopefully Overcoming problems and obstacles. Probably the fundamental reason humanity has progressed so far. Works for me!!! Nice one

Great fix Vince!

Vince, thank you for the interesting new video. Great job!

Congratulations on all the good news you deserve it as I know how much time is involved in producing content that is the quality yours is, side note that fan repair is as good as new and I would have no worries using it in my home you will have no issues with safety 👍

Well done….very well done and good luck with your future ventures 👏👏

Excellent bit of forensics

Happy to hear about the sponsorship! Wonder if it's ifixit, lol. Great fix and great video. Keep it up!

Wow! Vince.. Wasn't expecting it to be such a big bang! Great video 👍

You need a Dim Bulb Tester. It comes in handy anytime you want to plug in any questionable electronics. A Dim Bulb Tester puts an incandescent lamp in series between a device like an old radio (or in your case that fan) and the AC power from a wall socket. Thanks to this, if the device has a short circuit, the bulb will simply light up instead of causing any damage. Just do a search here on KZfaq. It's cheap and easy to make. Nice fix by the way.

I honestly thought that once the board was out and cleaned up that you were going to dissappear and return wearing a Hazmat suite, full face mask and ear defenders. Then connect it up and switch it on to see just were it was sparking from. 🤣🤣🤣

Been watching pretty much from day 1 sounds like exciting times ahead totally well deserved & well done!

congrats Vince on all the good news... the sponsorship and the TV deal (I have my fingers crossed for you). hopefully I will get to see it and I'm sure your will do amazingly. well deserved.

glad to hear the good news for youtube 2023! Mind sharing who the sponsor is? I honestly think you have a great voice for TV - might really be worth considering! Excited about the defibrillator you spoilered ;)

That's great news, Vince! Nice one!

Yikes. I would've scrapped the board as soon as I saw that. I was sure it wasn't really fixable when you showed it. Nice blue fix.

FYI, just because you can see the little infrared LED light up when you press a button and look through your phone camera, it doesn't actually mean the remote is working :) It just means the remote is working enough to shine the LED. I have a TV remote for one of my old TVs, the remote works just enough to make the LED turn on, but, it doesn't work enough to tell the TV what to do.

You should really get yourself a light bulb to act as a current limiter!! So simple but yet so effective. You simply wire a 60W filament light bulb inline with the live between the mains and the questionable item, (have one set up with a mains plug, light socket and mains socket you can plug in any time you need to test something) if there is a short the bulb then just lights up instead of things blowing up and tripping the power or damaging your variac etc!

Sitting here 1am watching whilst finishing up my Seiko 4R35 custom Tuna I bought for £50, just finished polishing the insides of the sapphire crystals on front and back, final dab of rodico on the now spotless dial, inserted the stem in with a freshly loctited crown and button'd up and thing is like brand new :) Yesterday using conductive paint and conductive epoxy I brought back from the leaked battery dead a National Semiconductor LCD watch, had to redraw half the circuit board and repair several solder joints but new battery in and working like new... all this was drawn on the inspiration of your very early watch video and the video's that followed teaching this old dog new tricks indeed :)

Congratulations!!! Can't wait to watch MMV TV!

Never be afraid to take on a new challenge matey :) Well done on the repair too 👍

nice repair and it looks like everything is on the up for you in 2023 I hope next year is the same for me after bad medical news this year also the reason you can see the remote working on your phone is because your phone camera doesn't have a IR filter or something I think but some phones do have the filter on the camera so I guess your main camera has the filter so you cant see the light from the remote

Well done good luck for the future

Well done Vince ... you are clearly learning a lot from ElectroBoom 😀. And as for TV work, really try to find out what they are looking for as well as ‘the angle’ they are approaching it. I think your natural enthusiasm would shine through. Best of luck and have a great Xmas!

Hi Vince love watching your videos , all the way in Ireland I came across your channel a couple of years ago and have been watching ever since keep up the fantastic work , I’m also following the rolls videos as well , maybe you do a video on your watch collection at some stage, that be interesting to see as well 👍 all the best for the new year merry Christmas Best wishes David

Great video, good luck for future career

Congrats on the sponsorship and with the TV offer see if you can just to behind the lens stuff 🤙

That's a great point about the voltage and ground, because voltage is just the (potential) difference between two points. It's like the difference between the ground and the floor, it's the same when the floor is on the ground, but it's a lot different if you're in a penthouse on top of a skyscraper, or deep in an underground tunnel..

Tip from Eddie over at Kiss Analog. Use an upside down tupperware container as a blast shield if you are worried about exploding components.

From what it seems from friends who have had these kind of dyson fans is they're good for 3 or so years and then they stop working. Then you spend more to get another. It's similar to their vacuums, they work great... for the first 3 years and then they progressively lose suction until they just stop working all together

Hi Vince .. not sure if this has been mentioned but Telephones can see the infra red remotes as they do not usually have an infre red filter but most cameras will have an infra red filter and therefore not detect the infra red led. Great video as always

Good job mate 👍

Oha, telly stuff? Sounds awesome 👍

another awesome repair i look forward to seeing you on TV Vince

Oh!? Well Happy New Year!

Marvellous work. Should one crop up, I recommend a Strathearn turntable (not working) for exploratory surgery.

Have to say I was expecting a smoke emitting device rather than carbonisation - good catch. That darn cat ! I had a computer fail because of Act Of Cat. My fault for leaving the case off while fixing it, and not checking the cat wasn't hiding in the computer room. I let the cat out next day, noticed little yellow needle-shaped crystals on the floor of the case, cleaned up the pee, and carried on. About 6 months later the motherboard failed, and I noticed a lot of corroded tracks in the bottom corner. Sadly BER and replaced the MB. Well done.

Vince another feature of that fan I think is you can tilt the fan backwards a little bit to aim the cool breeze higher. I think you just tilt the curved part the air comes out of from the round base it sits on.

*"Confidence", You DO Have.* Who else is Excited when there is Electronics Not Working? lol Explore what's wrong, not sure what it takes to fix, Just *TRIES?* BRAVO!

As always this was a really interesting video... even more than most.

Kinda scary scary equipment with the fuse not blowing defeats the purpose it being on both the cord and internal. I would definitely check if their is a safety recall and also let the manufacturer know.

I have come across old plugs that got hot when plugged in when the appliance was switched off ... a coating of carbon had built up over the years between the pins...... removing the coating with fine abrasive paper cured the issue !

Hi Vince, nice fix once again. I can hear that you've got the cold once again, get well soon and when you are fit again, show some love to the toaster in the kitchen 😁😁😁 It has so many scratches.

You should absolutely do the TV show. I'd watch it.

Very good keep the work up ☺

Love your Videos!

"I'm so happy I almost got blown up"🤣 I love your videos!

Definitely cat wee - seen that before and it's difficult to get rid of the damage made by the arcing - but you did a great job! Strangely conductive stuff!

I know this is an old video, but I’ve often wondered what was in these fans. Had the same experience with 32 amp MCBs tripping, but fuse in plug top being ok. Those 13 amp fuses are stubborn little devils, so not surprised to hear the explosion!😂

nice save good to see it not going into a landfilled

Cool bang :D Nice fault finding and congrats for all the good things coming next year :)

Nice fix 😃

The origional internal partitions were breaze block. When the on-suite was built the blockwork between bedroom one and two was replaced with arated concreate block. I rember how much sanding my brother and I had to do on dad's crap plastering in bedroom two to get a reasonably smooth surface.

Cat pee is incredibly conductive. So you are correct that it has been sparking for a while, then the carbonization between the two terminals for the AC line input, tracked and shorted. Strange the plug fuse didn't blow though...

Go for it m8 think you would be a natrual , certainly make me smile when i watch your vids best of luck luck with all you decide to do .

Great video Vince, loved seeing you playing about those live wires. I can see you use "Head & Shoulders" so go for the T.V. roll. Perhaps you could be on the "Repair Shop" as a guest appearance! On a serious note. Playing about with electrical pieces of equipment without knowing fully as to what you're doing is perhaps something the T.V. companies wouldn't want to get involved with. But mending electronic toys and games etc. could be something they might go for. As others have said well deserved Vince. Now, go get them 'Japanese Pliers' I told you about.

Well Done Vince. Can I have your Autograph now before you become really famous and move to the States. Mick 👌☺️🍻