Monday, April 17, 2017
How to Make a Solar Charging Phone Case
Are you tired of your phone running out of batteries on the go? Then you should make this solar phone case to charge your phone.
How to Build a Solar Powered Laptop Charger
A method for powering portable computers by photovoltaic means. Netbooks, notebooks, MP3 players charged by the sun...
How to Select a Solar Charger / How To Make Solar Charger
Thanks to technological development, Americans now have more choices
about where and how they do their work. Smartphones, laptops, tablets
and even portable printers and credit card machines make doing work
remotely easier than ever. Today, Americans also have a much more mobile
lifestyle than they did in the past. Many love to spend weekends
camping, hiking, and backpacking, but they need to be able to work too.
Or, they simply need electricity to complete simple tasks, like cooking.
Thanks to mobile devices and portable electric devices, working and
having fun on the go is possible -- until those devices run out of
battery. Luckily, solar chargers allow individuals to charge those
mobile devices no matter how much access they have to electricity. The
following article will show you how you can use portable solar panels to
charge everything from your smartphone to your camping generator.
about where and how they do their work. Smartphones, laptops, tablets
and even portable printers and credit card machines make doing work
remotely easier than ever. Today, Americans also have a much more mobile
lifestyle than they did in the past. Many love to spend weekends
camping, hiking, and backpacking, but they need to be able to work too.
Or, they simply need electricity to complete simple tasks, like cooking.
Thanks to mobile devices and portable electric devices, working and
having fun on the go is possible -- until those devices run out of
battery. Luckily, solar chargers allow individuals to charge those
mobile devices no matter how much access they have to electricity. The
following article will show you how you can use portable solar panels to
charge everything from your smartphone to your camping generator.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Laptop battery reconditioning
hello
so in today's episode I'm going to be showing you how to
rebuild an old laptop battery now in this particular example i'm going to be
using this old rival
clans show but keep in mind that what i'm going to be
showing you is really
could be applied to just about any laptop or even an
appliance like a cordless drill
ok now one of the first things I want to tell you is there's
really no reason to
be apprehensive about doing a procedure like this and take
this battery for
example I mean it is dead I mean it is totally did it will
not run the laptop
even for 10 seconds so no matter what i do to this battery
i'm not going to make it any worse off
than it is now ok the first step is to take the battery
apart this particular one is held
together by snaps some batteries use screws and some even
use glue but I've
never come across a battery that couldn't be disassembled
with some
ok so once the battery was part I knew what kind of cells
that used as i
suspected they were 18 650 cells around 3.7 volts so the
next step was to jump
on ebay can buy some all right so let me give you a little warning about buying a
lithium batteries
on ebay if you buy a cheap Chinese battery like an ultra
fire
you can be absolutely sure that whatever they list as the
million power rating is
a total lie
for example a good battery like made by panasonic or same
song will typically
advertise a million power rating of somewhere between 2000
2500 and that's
pretty realistic
now this if you look at that for example these ultrafire
batteries on ebay you'll
see their advertising six thousand five hundred million
powers that is total
bull as so realistically at the separate is is these
batteries actually have even
less than the name brand batteries when people have tested
on they've actually
found they're more like a thousand fifteen hundred million
power is rather
than 6,500 I mean think about it
the tesla model s use 18 650 batteries if six thousand five
hundred million
Power Cells really existed then that car would be able to
get around seven
hundred and thirty miles of range instead of 280 miles but
what they are
is super cheap
yeah I actually paid like a dollar apiece for the
batteries and it's actually pretty good because a name brand
matter would run
more like four or five dollars apiece and since this is not
a computer i
really need a lot of run time on it's mostly just an
experiment
you know i'm ok with the with the lower milli ampere rating
one thing that's
good to do is sort of sketch out the arrangement of the
cells how this
battery pack is set up is that the cells are actually paired
together and the
pairs are arranged in series like this
the main power connects at each end but there are sensor
wires between each cell
pair for monitoring and balancing in fact if I really wanted
to be cheap
I can actually eliminate for cells of this pack and it would
still work just
fine but the runtime would be cut in half by the way when
working with
batteries i always like to keep one of these nearby just in
case i overheat one
that we're going like thermal runaway or something
so now that I have the sells out of the battery i need to
desolder them and one
of the things i found out was that these metal clips are
actually welded on so I
was not able to be sort of them so i had to use wire as a
substitute one of the
first things I did was put some initial solder on the
battery terminals
you need a pretty strong soldering iron to do this is you
have to eat the
battery up pretty quickly to do this you have to make sure
the solder X has
actually stuck to the battery like this
of course you have to get both sides and the negative side
is a little harder
because there's more to heat up
so then I strip some of the wire and begin the process of
solving it onto the
battery pack
I found it easier to take the batteries in Paris while doing
the soldering and
then I also eventually set up some wood blocks into kind of
a jig that help hold
these together while at work
once all the main connections were done you can see how it
mimics the design of
the original battery
all that was left to do now is connect the original
electronics to the cells
then I put it all back inside the original battery and of
course you have
to close
well the cells apparently had no charge whatsoever as the
computer would not
turn on so i had to plug in the AC adapter
after a moment it started to take the charge and before long
I can actually
see the percentage start to rise but keep in mind the
battery pack is not
calibrated the only way to actually calibrate it would be to
go ahead and
fully discharge the battery and recharge it several times
that way the little
micro controller inside the battery pack will be able to
learn the actual
capacity of the battery once it was charged up I unplugged
it and set a
timer going so i can see how long it would run
I turned off sleep mode to make sure that the computer state
of maximum drain
the whole time so I'm not even sure how long a brand new
battery is supposed to
last and i have a clamshell
now in the past I've had used batteries go as long as two
and a half hour so my
guess is a brand-new and would do three possible even for
hours
so be really interesting to see what these a cheap batteries
will do so I
noticed around the one-hour mark it was still going strong
so far so good or so I thought
it turns out it went in to suspend mode not too long after
and wouldn't wake up
so I had to plug the power cable and sure enough it was
drink 20
so it turns out these el cheapo batteries from ebay will
only run the
computer for about an hour and 35 minutes which is probably
at least half
of the original runtime of brand new battery so that means
the million power
rating on these batteries is like i mentioned before
probably closer to one
thousand maybe 1,500 at the
at the absolute best so overall I'd say it's a successful
product because I
pretty much knew what to expect when i was getting into it
and so that's just
kind of warning on those those ebay batteries just you know
you get what you
pay for so as long as you're ok with with the cheaper
batteries you know what
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Friday, March 3, 2017
vizio 32 inch smart tv review
hi everybody this is ebay depot and today we're doing an unboxing of thevizio d32 dash D 1 D Series here's the TV it's a smart TV it's 1080p and it's
this one is 32 inch of course they have many sizes and this is a very affordable
line that they've made the TV features Smart TV features built-in Wi-Fi it has back lit LED and it's got a hundred twenty Hertz refresh rate which is fast
movement and of course you have the option of slowing down I'm going to go
ahead and open it and show you guys what's inside
so inside the package you have the TV itself you have your manual along with a
few screws for the legs and your batteries which are triple ace the
police your power cord your two little feet that hold the TV up and you're
smart remote which has three buttons right here for I don't know what that
first one insects UMO netflix and some radio and then all the features down
here i'm going to set it up and then show you guys what it looks like after
I've set it up and give you a little overview of what I think about it
so here's the TV after has been set up i'll show you what the back looks like
before we get on to it and here's all the different plugs laughs on first on
the side you have your regular audio inputs nothing right then you have your
optical input and then your hdmi and USB and then you have more inputs down here
which is the TV input and the regular inputs just the video
oh one second red blue green your land and another easy my back there now I'm
just going to turn it on and give you guys a quick preview of what it looks
like
so this is the actual display when it's playing something on netflix the picture
is nice crisp clear and the colors are vivid the sound however is something
that's lacking on this TV we got a speaker to use with it so that's going
to come later in a hotel speaker i'll do a review of that when it comes in and
but it's a great looking cheesy an amazing quality for the price thanks
everybody for watching this has been an unboxing the vizio d32 dash d1 vizio 32inch TV till next time
Taotronics bluetooth speaker bass review
Hi I'm and this is my favorite speaker ever.
Okay, okay, hold on, maybe that was too fast, but still, I'm pretty much in love with this speaker. Is it the right speaker for you though? Let's find find out, in this review of the
"TaoTronics SK06"
So let's begin with the design and the build quality.
The first word that comes to mind for me when looking at this speaker is "smooth". The aluminum
build gently wraps the whole speaker except from the front grills, with chambered edges
that add some character, resulting in an overall really good looking package.
The only interruptions in this aluminum frame are the the circular button on top - with
the power button and the usual media playback controls - and the two ports on the back for
wired audio input and battery recharging. Keep in mind that oddly enough there is no
option to change track, so you'll want to keep your music source at hand.
Having an elegant design however does not imply being light nor flimsy by any means,
as it delivers a really great build quality as well.
It's pretty large for a "portable" speaker, coming in at around 2 by 2 by 7 inches, with
a quite substantial weight of 1.85 pounds. While on one side this kind of size reduces
portability quite a bit, it feels really really sturdy in the hand, and the anti-slip rubberized
base adds up to the feeling of solidness of this device.
Okay, enough of the design, how about sound quality?
Well, I'm quite sure I've figured it out by now, but the SK06 is simply put one of the
best speakers I've ever listened to. I haven't tried super high-end portable speakers,
like 500$ speakers, but I have tried many in its range, and this easily beats speakers
that are double the price. The sound is clear and sharp, bass is loud
and punchy -, without losing much detail on the highs and the dims - it gets really loud,
it's overall just great. You can start to notice some distortion at
max volume, but it's not a big issue, and you'll hardly ever use it at the ridiculously
high max volume anyway.
Now, does this reproduce a 100% accurate sound? Not really. Should it? Again, not really.
From my point of view, and from the point of view of many customers out there, a good
speaker should make music sound good. Over-processing is of course never a good
thing, but if a manufacturer can add a bit of flavor to my music without overdoing it,
I'm a happy user.
There is one thing though that you need to keep in mind before buying this speaker, and
that is battery life. While it's absolutely great to get 20W of
power out of this little beast, you'll run out of juice pretty fast if you don't plug
it in every few hours. If you like to pump that volume all the way
up, you'll hardly ever get more than 4 hours, while you can get 5 or 6 if you keep it lower.
Overall, this means needing an external battery if for example you want to take it with you
for a trip over the weekend. For some users this may not be a problem at
all, but just keep that in mind if you plan to use it for a few consecutive hours far
from a wall plug.
Probably the most surprising thing for me about this speaker was price: as of today,
the SK06 goes for 60$ on Amazon, which is an incredible deal all things considered.
Okay so at the end of the day, who is this speaker for?
If you love music and you like to share it with friends, the SK06 will deliver the sound
quality and the power you need to fill one or two rooms at a time.
It definitely isn't the ideal solution if you need something small and portable to carry
music with you all day, but for a home solution it's simply impossible to find something better
at this price point.
So that was it for today, hope you guys enjoyed this video, and if you did don't forget to
leave a much appreciated like down below and subscribe if you haven't already.
As always, thank you so much for watching, this was Gio, and I'll catch you guys in the
next one.
Okay, okay, hold on, maybe that was too fast, but still, I'm pretty much in love with this speaker. Is it the right speaker for you though? Let's find find out, in this review of the
"TaoTronics SK06"
So let's begin with the design and the build quality.
The first word that comes to mind for me when looking at this speaker is "smooth". The aluminum
build gently wraps the whole speaker except from the front grills, with chambered edges
that add some character, resulting in an overall really good looking package.
The only interruptions in this aluminum frame are the the circular button on top - with
the power button and the usual media playback controls - and the two ports on the back for
wired audio input and battery recharging. Keep in mind that oddly enough there is no
option to change track, so you'll want to keep your music source at hand.
Having an elegant design however does not imply being light nor flimsy by any means,
as it delivers a really great build quality as well.
It's pretty large for a "portable" speaker, coming in at around 2 by 2 by 7 inches, with
a quite substantial weight of 1.85 pounds. While on one side this kind of size reduces
portability quite a bit, it feels really really sturdy in the hand, and the anti-slip rubberized
base adds up to the feeling of solidness of this device.
Okay, enough of the design, how about sound quality?
Well, I'm quite sure I've figured it out by now, but the SK06 is simply put one of the
best speakers I've ever listened to. I haven't tried super high-end portable speakers,
like 500$ speakers, but I have tried many in its range, and this easily beats speakers
that are double the price. The sound is clear and sharp, bass is loud
and punchy -, without losing much detail on the highs and the dims - it gets really loud,
it's overall just great. You can start to notice some distortion at
max volume, but it's not a big issue, and you'll hardly ever use it at the ridiculously
high max volume anyway.
Now, does this reproduce a 100% accurate sound? Not really. Should it? Again, not really.
From my point of view, and from the point of view of many customers out there, a good
speaker should make music sound good. Over-processing is of course never a good
thing, but if a manufacturer can add a bit of flavor to my music without overdoing it,
I'm a happy user.
There is one thing though that you need to keep in mind before buying this speaker, and
that is battery life. While it's absolutely great to get 20W of
power out of this little beast, you'll run out of juice pretty fast if you don't plug
it in every few hours. If you like to pump that volume all the way
up, you'll hardly ever get more than 4 hours, while you can get 5 or 6 if you keep it lower.
Overall, this means needing an external battery if for example you want to take it with you
for a trip over the weekend. For some users this may not be a problem at
all, but just keep that in mind if you plan to use it for a few consecutive hours far
from a wall plug.
Probably the most surprising thing for me about this speaker was price: as of today,
the SK06 goes for 60$ on Amazon, which is an incredible deal all things considered.
Okay so at the end of the day, who is this speaker for?
If you love music and you like to share it with friends, the SK06 will deliver the sound
quality and the power you need to fill one or two rooms at a time.
It definitely isn't the ideal solution if you need something small and portable to carry
music with you all day, but for a home solution it's simply impossible to find something better
at this price point.
So that was it for today, hope you guys enjoyed this video, and if you did don't forget to
leave a much appreciated like down below and subscribe if you haven't already.
As always, thank you so much for watching, this was Gio, and I'll catch you guys in the
next one.
Wheelwitness hd pro dash cam review
Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys, and I finally received in the mail my Dash Cam Pro!
Out for a drive today, thought I'd try it out. The Dash Cam Pro is in a lot of late night TV commercials for As Seen on TV products.
The famous line is the "Oh yeah, officer?
So it looks like a good idea, it's a camera. that you can mount in your windshield that will
record all the time, so when that moment comes.that there's an accident, either you're involved in or you might see someone else being involved in, you've got video of it.
Goes for about 40 dollars, I'll put a link to it down below this video.
I actually had a fairly unpleasant time with the ordering process and what happened after,
but I'll tell you about that a little bit later. Let's see what comes in the box.
First of all are the instructions. There's actually not a whole lot to it, you simply have to mount it in your windshield, hook it up to your car's battery charger, and as soon as you turn the car on it will start to record.
Okay, here's the device itself. You can see the lens there on the front. It has a little view screen panel that flips down. So you can look at that, you can review the footage there. And the whole thing twists around so you can look out the front window of your car, where it would normally be pointed, you would expect, or as in the commercial, you can point it to
the back of the minivan and see your children, who are always singing when you're out on
those long drives. Now, it's got a spot here to plug in the power with a USB connector to your cigarette lighter. On top, under this panel, goes a rechargeable. battery that they provide. And on this side there's a spot for an SD card, which they do not provide, and there is no internal memory in this, so without getting an SD card, you won't be able to record anything.
And here, underneath the screen, you can see Menu, Down, Up, and Mode, and right here on the end there's a power on/off, and I think this is for taking photos.
Here's the rechargeable battery. If you're running it off of the car's cigarette lighter power source, I don't know whether you need this, but of course, you may want to use that other plug to charge your cell phone or something.
There it is. Cigarette plug in that goes to a small USB connector that plugs into the device. Very long cable, probably about five feet long,
so you shouldn't have any trouble wherever your cigarette lighter is, reaching wherever you
want to put this on your windshield. There's the suction cup mounting piece.
And another cable, this one connects to a standard USB of your computer, so you can
plug this into the camera and transfer the files over if you don't wanna take out the SD card to do that.
I picked up a 16 gigabyte SD card to use with this.The maximum you can put in is a 32 gigabyte, and with that it's supposed to give you
>>Read Full Wheelwitness hd pro dash cam review <<
Out for a drive today, thought I'd try it out. The Dash Cam Pro is in a lot of late night TV commercials for As Seen on TV products.
The famous line is the "Oh yeah, officer?
So it looks like a good idea, it's a camera. that you can mount in your windshield that will
record all the time, so when that moment comes.that there's an accident, either you're involved in or you might see someone else being involved in, you've got video of it.
Goes for about 40 dollars, I'll put a link to it down below this video.
I actually had a fairly unpleasant time with the ordering process and what happened after,
but I'll tell you about that a little bit later. Let's see what comes in the box.
First of all are the instructions. There's actually not a whole lot to it, you simply have to mount it in your windshield, hook it up to your car's battery charger, and as soon as you turn the car on it will start to record.
Okay, here's the device itself. You can see the lens there on the front. It has a little view screen panel that flips down. So you can look at that, you can review the footage there. And the whole thing twists around so you can look out the front window of your car, where it would normally be pointed, you would expect, or as in the commercial, you can point it to
the back of the minivan and see your children, who are always singing when you're out on
those long drives. Now, it's got a spot here to plug in the power with a USB connector to your cigarette lighter. On top, under this panel, goes a rechargeable. battery that they provide. And on this side there's a spot for an SD card, which they do not provide, and there is no internal memory in this, so without getting an SD card, you won't be able to record anything.
And here, underneath the screen, you can see Menu, Down, Up, and Mode, and right here on the end there's a power on/off, and I think this is for taking photos.
Here's the rechargeable battery. If you're running it off of the car's cigarette lighter power source, I don't know whether you need this, but of course, you may want to use that other plug to charge your cell phone or something.
There it is. Cigarette plug in that goes to a small USB connector that plugs into the device. Very long cable, probably about five feet long,
so you shouldn't have any trouble wherever your cigarette lighter is, reaching wherever you
want to put this on your windshield. There's the suction cup mounting piece.
And another cable, this one connects to a standard USB of your computer, so you can
plug this into the camera and transfer the files over if you don't wanna take out the SD card to do that.
I picked up a 16 gigabyte SD card to use with this.The maximum you can put in is a 32 gigabyte, and with that it's supposed to give you
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