I'm very upset with the title of this video Mr. AvE. When I was a young lad of 14 I went to a football camp one fine summer. On the first day the coach gave us some masking tape and a marker and told us to write our first initial and last name on the tape and put it onto our helmets. I did as ordered and waited for further instructions. The coach then looked at me and said "Are you some kind of wise ass boy?" I was confused. The tape was on my helmet with my first initial and my last name as he had said to do. The coach then said "What's your name boy?". I told him. Tim Watt. I couldn't understand what the problem was. The coach then laughed a bit and said you're alright Tim but lets change that tape out on your helmet.
Judging by your dwindling gloves and the lack of the healing bench, I'd say the wife booted ya out and you and the Dewclaw are living in your tree fort. Happy Holidays!
I don't remember if I learned it from you or my mad scientist shop teacher: "Everything's a thermal fuse. Installing a thermal fuse just lets you pick what burns out first. Make sure it's something cheap."
This is funny but I feel like it misunderstands the purpose of a thermal fuse. A thermal fuse trips primarily on temperature. It is not designed to self-heat, and is not primarily designed to trip due to over-current. Typically you put it somewhere where a malfunction will cause OVER TEMPERATURE without any corresponding OVER CURRENT. You might have one on a compressor or a motor for example. If the compressor malfunctions and stalls, the current may not be high enough to blow a fuse, but the compressor will over-heat, and the thermal fuse will save the day (and make UL happy). It is the difference between a bad customer experience and a multi-million dollar product recall due to fire safety.
40 years ago, the electron flow "theory" did not work in all circuit analysis. We had to use "hole" analysis to study circuits in reverse so to speak. Been analyzing holes ever since. Now, in my prime and after much extracurricular activities, plus a few thousand beers, I have discovered pie holes, assholes and not to mention a few donut holes. Have yourself a Holy Christmas my yard parrot owning friend. Peace!
Retired, 29 state, county, municipality certified master electrician here; I've known about the smoke theory for many years, and I find it more believable than most other electrical theory.
Whatcha mean his here? Your here? My here? I sure as hell ain't smarter, but I ain't much dumber either. Possibly a tadge wiser though, because of goo ol' uncle Bumblefuck. ;-)
A number of the gents that restore and race old British sports cars have have a sticker they'll put on their trailers that depicts a Lucas three position switch and next to the positions it reads, OFF, DIM, and FLICKER. Makes me laugh every time.
Pixie induced smoke is unlike anything else you'll come across. Nothing makes me pucker harder when playing with electronics than that smell and that you have potentially written off an afternoons fucking about!
Speaking of smells ...... at work last week we installed a new line , this guy lets one rip while we’re testing motors making sure the line works , just so happens managers and directors abound and the motor near the guys that shit himself is making a clicking noise and all the higher ups we’re leaning in to get a whiff talking about how they smell something electrical burning, I bout fell out but didn’t say anything. Turns out someone had dinged the fan cover on the back of the motor and they got a sniffer full of shit!
Electrons don't always flow from negative to positive. They go from the higher potential to the lower. Ever charged a battery? Ergo, current flow goes both ways. Which, is very handy on a Friday night.
Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Something said only by lovers of old English sports and sporting cars. Such a treat to hear Ave say it. Not just a deeply knowledgeable engineer, a polymath in everything technical, and a brilliant raconteur, but also a very cultured man.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 that went right over my head. But I do have a conjecture for why electroboom gets so many views. He performs in front of the camera. But you're like an Islay Malt. Inaccessible for most people. But you do you. The world is a much better place because your channel exists, and I can't say that about even one other content creator. Cheers.
@@harbirnain excellent metaphor. He really is a dark enigma always smelling strongly of smoke. (First Islay was Ardbeg 10, felt like I was buying a bottle of some arcane druids brew.........I was right!) Slainte!
The reason English drink warm beer is they have Lucas refrigerators. I have a MG B that doesn't shut down during rainy weather. Just have to kill it with the 4th gear and clutch.
That thermal fuse was only in there to get you to buy a new kill-a-watt. You've cheated the great candy rock mountaineers out of a few more hard earned kopecks.
Behind those hands, we all know the truth. Intense, strong, intelligent, and ripped like a pair of Def Leppard jeans. Merry Christmas Uncle Bumblefork!
Just going through my most dearest channels and wishing them a happy holiday. Thank you and your great comunity for teaching me more than i will ever learn at any school and keeping me entertained and sane, all without ever seeing a single dime. Seriously thank you all... and yes i'm quite drunk
Strange that on Christmas Eve the thing that makes me feel the warmest is hearing Uncle BF say thanks for pointing him towards Electroboom's video on the breaker curve shit. Lots of love around here!
Thank you so much for another year of informative/helpful and entertaining videos. I wish you a wonderful 2021. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
@user9823598246 Sure does. And utilities, in my experience, tend to bump up the voltage to rural areas. So if you're in a rural area you can expect to see higher than rated voltage.
@user9823598246 Yeah, I've seen it has high as the mid 130s when the power went down in a good chunk of the city and shit got all unbalanced or whatever.
I pulled the breaker when the UPS told me the mains was 270VAC and rising, and it was not happy. Tealeaves came and liberated the neutral and earth wiring in the substation during the day, leaving the phases to fight it out as to who was going to win. Shop on the corner lost, they went to over 300VAC, while I pulled the building breaker so as to not compete.
Season greetings, to you and your family. Regarding the difference in view count... He's rated G, you my friend (and you Are welcome at my dinner table) are rated NC-25! Sorry, dear Boltr, language, my educated friend, it's all about the language, but fear not, I shall not abandon you regardless how you twist a phrase..
My progeny has been exposed to AvE since the very early days of the channel and I dare say they are not any worse off for it either. It takes a village :)
Shango066 used one of those for ages, never let him down. Great for seeing if the load from the vintage radio/TV is reasonable, and if both the resistive and the reactive circuits are running.
Honestly, the DnD spells reference right at the beginning there hooked me into the video more than anything ever has and I already loved your stuff before
Thanks for acknowledging electron flow direction. I try to think in how the pixies go in real life. So many textbook just suck for sucking on electron holes.
OMFG! My first thought, before I clicked your link was Sir Lucas. I learned all about the Sir Lucas' Smoke Principle of Electrical conduction from my first car, a 1970 Triumph Spitfire. There wasn't a month, sometimes weekly, that didn't go by that I didn't have to use my trusty, AMERICAN MADE, 3M electrical tape to plug the holes that kept letting the Electrical Smoke escape. I was told by an old British car Mechanic that the reason the English drink their beer warm, was because they all had Lucas Refrigerators.
Many moons ago, I let the smoke out of the cooling fan on my welder. I went to the electronics shop looking for a replacement. Told the clerk that I had let the smoke out, and asked if the smoke could be repacked. That cat was the perfect straight man. Telling me it could not, in fact be repacked, with a straight face.
Same process with the burners on the new GE electric range. Thermally protected soze you can't keep water at a rolling boil! Good thing I hadn't yet disposed of the old range. Gotta use the high temp MIG solder, though!
That tiny glass fuse probably only protects the electronics (buttons and screen) in the Kill-A-Watt. There is no way the full 15 or whatever amps are going through that little thing.
@@Fix_It_Again_Tony I don't know, hard to tell dimensions from the video but it seems like it has more glass showing than a 1/4"x5/8" fuse usually does. If it is a 1/4"x5/8" then I think you are right, but it could be a 5mmx20mm fuse and they come in 15 amp varieties and aren't much bigger. It could also be a 1/4"x7/8" which is a regular 15 amp fuse for automotive use but the ratio doesn't look right from what I can see in the video. Could just be I need to get my laser eye-balls calibrated.
@@Fix_It_Again_Tony That would make sense that it just protects the brain. The thermal fuse does it's thing when the shunt resistor for current measurement is served an extended hot supper.
Don't ever change your style . Im glad to see a newer video . Im sorry that I havent been hitting the like button very often , Every video is a thumbs up.. And educational its a win win
Despite the hindrances imposed by my poor grasp of calendarical matters, my decal order came JUST in time for Christmas. You are the man. Also, I wouldn't sweat the Federal breakers thing. That was fixed before I started selling electrickery, which is when N'Sync was still abusing radios worldwide and I had hair.
Oh dear,, you mentioned "Lucas", jokes hens forth the cometh..... Company motto.. Get home before dark. Three position switch, dim, flicker, off.. Or smoke smmolder, fire..
As an apprentice mechanic i was always told by the older senior mechanics that Lucas components were filled with smoke contained in the LBT capacitor. Took a few years to understand that the LBT was the "Little Black Thing" that could have been any part in the Lucas component that failed. Ah the days when you were told to go to the spare parts back counter to get; A rigid reproduction tool. A short circuit A right handed adjustable spanner (known in Australia as a shifter)
I don't trust channels that bleep out their cuss words. That's the whole reason I stay watching. A UA-camr that don't bleep...I'll watch that! I'm a geologist, not mechanical fixin type so....
Masterclass in setting the temp on that soldemy iron. Another trick I learned from the master greybeards in electronics troubleshooting is to tune a couple function generators in "augmented fourth" intervals as a test signal. If your circuit works after that much antagonizing Satan, you can safely move on to a small production run. Merry christamadidlly, AvE and the other bumblefox.
Fixed a coffee maker the same way. Ordered the fizeable things from epay. They are in my parts bin if you need one. I will properly fix the coffee pot the next time I need to go in.
As a sparky, I watch you and Electroboom; Electroboom for the entertainment with a side of practicality and you for the practicality, mechanical aspects, and “roughness” (about 125 Ra).
The chap with the dashing eyebrow has a few more subscribers than you. Or at least, I'm guessing from what I remember it being when you turned off the display.
Electroboom is great. I was unironically shocked when I saw just how many views he gets as well but I'd say he's got a more "normal" sense of humor in his videos. Tech language and high octane verbiage is what us cavemen love.
Ave, interestingly enough... had one of these proceed to melt into something resembling Emil, the toxic waste man from Robocop. For some reason the thermal fuse did not trip when my bitcoin miner was pulling 1800 watts... I caught it before the flames came out to play. I tell you, these things are built to a cost.
Those same thermofuses are used on heat strips in residential air handlers ( usually in conjunction with a heat pump ). Almost any Hvac supply house will have them for 15 times the price of online vendors.
It'll be fine, solder works as a thermal fuse anyway, right? right?
Yep, that's why we don't solder lightning protection systems...all mechanical binding for bonding ;)
In “northe amerika” that is
Anything’s a thermal fuse at high enough temperatures.
Everything is a thermal fuse if you run enough power through it.
@@sithticklefingers7255 or brave enough!
I'm very upset with the title of this video Mr. AvE. When I was a young lad of 14 I went to a football camp one fine summer. On the first day the coach gave us some masking tape and a marker and told us to write our first initial and last name on the tape and put it onto our helmets. I did as ordered and waited for further instructions. The coach then looked at me and said "Are you some kind of wise ass boy?" I was confused. The tape was on my helmet with my first initial and my last name as he had said to do. The coach then said "What's your name boy?". I told him. Tim Watt. I couldn't understand what the problem was. The coach then laughed a bit and said you're alright Tim but lets change that tape out on your helmet.
I though you were going to say you'd wrapped it around the end of your trouser snake.
Insurance adjuster, “I recognize those hands from somewhere.”
Not OT?
Just blame ToT
Sticky bandits
Romain Grosjean, that you in those “nurse’s special” fire mitts ?
Harold Steptoe
Judging by your dwindling gloves and the lack of the healing bench, I'd say the wife booted ya out and you and the Dewclaw are living in your tree fort. Happy Holidays!
Hahahaha
Ah, the replacement 100amp "slow blow".
Works like a charm, until it doesn't.
As good as a old nail found in the garage - or your money back
100amp slow blow sounds like something a horse breeder would have
I don't remember if I learned it from you or my mad scientist shop teacher: "Everything's a thermal fuse. Installing a thermal fuse just lets you pick what burns out first. Make sure it's something cheap."
@@raygale4198 or a concrete control joint.
This is funny but I feel like it misunderstands the purpose of a thermal fuse. A thermal fuse trips primarily on temperature. It is not designed to self-heat, and is not primarily designed to trip due to over-current. Typically you put it somewhere where a malfunction will cause OVER TEMPERATURE without any corresponding OVER CURRENT. You might have one on a compressor or a motor for example. If the compressor malfunctions and stalls, the current may not be high enough to blow a fuse, but the compressor will over-heat, and the thermal fuse will save the day (and make UL happy). It is the difference between a bad customer experience and a multi-million dollar product recall due to fire safety.
I LIKE that saying. I'm going to steal it.
My wife: "Aren't ALL the parts on the car 'WEAR parts'?"
Me: Well, yeah, I guess--if the car lasts long enough, sure... (Scratching my head...)
@@iFixJunk So profound on so many levels.
40 years ago, the electron flow "theory" did not work in all circuit analysis. We had to use "hole" analysis to study circuits in reverse so to speak. Been analyzing holes ever since. Now, in my prime and after much extracurricular activities, plus a few thousand beers, I have discovered pie holes, assholes and not to mention a few donut holes. Have yourself a Holy Christmas my yard parrot owning friend. Peace!
Holy!
Some holes are just not worth to analyse
@@arduinoversusevil2025 hahahahaha!!! I see wot yous did there! :P
@@Nic7320 I'm thinking that's a pretty standard part there, the hole boss.
@@rfmerrill That's deep
It's still a thermal fuse, just a slightly higher tolerance!! ;)
The only thing Lucas made that didn’t suck was a vacuum cleaner.
@@MostlyInteresting Word was they didn't suck, either.......just say'n.
Lucas Norton was a mighty stead. As long as you wore a shin guard starting the thing, it was superb.
I heard that the reason the British drank warm beer is because Lucas make the refrigerators.
Don’t forget the movie...
@@joem1126 I've also heard that the reason the British don't make computers is that they couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil.
Retired, 29 state, county, municipality certified master electrician here; I've known about the smoke theory for many years, and I find it more believable than most other electrical theory.
If its that modern AC smoke, then there is no positive or negative, thats a social construct, the pixies swing both ways. 50 times a second.
60 you brit
@@noohairdontcare - 50 Hz, 60 Hz - do it properly.... and just 1 hurts. Aussie-land uses 50 too - and Higher Voltage.. Probly 'cause we made AC/DC
MERRY CHRISTMAS AvE have a good one. Thanks for your time this year, the world is smarter because you're here!!!
*dumberer* (I fixed it for you) Cheers Alistair Murray Chrustamus to you too, and a happy new beer.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Coming from you, I expected a bumpy new gear. But whatever. Enjoy the holidays!
Whatcha mean his here? Your here? My here?
I sure as hell ain't smarter, but I ain't much dumber either. Possibly a tadge wiser though, because of goo ol' uncle Bumblefuck. ;-)
*you're
Merry Christmas AvE!
Mr Lucas was a fine Enginerd, many's a people left stranded at the side of the road due to his endeavours
A number of the gents that restore and race old British sports cars have have a sticker they'll put on their trailers that depicts a Lucas three position switch and next to the positions it reads, OFF, DIM, and FLICKER. Makes me laugh every time.
Didn't he invent intermittent windshield wipers?
I did no such thing!
Lucas died in Napoli because he drank water and not wine.
Q: Why do Brits drink warm beer?
A: Lucas makes refrigerators, too.
It's a Festivus miracle ...
Pixie induced smoke is unlike anything else you'll come across. Nothing makes me pucker harder when playing with electronics than that smell and that you have potentially written off an afternoons fucking about!
Trust me .... Putting in 400A fuses on a known fault can have a whole lot more pucker than you think!
But you Do get some good stories to tell ;0)
Speaking of smells ...... at work last week we installed a new line , this guy lets one rip while we’re testing motors making sure the line works , just so happens managers and directors abound and the motor near the guys that shit himself is making a clicking noise and all the higher ups we’re leaning in to get a whiff talking about how they smell something electrical burning, I bout fell out but didn’t say anything. Turns out someone had dinged the fan cover on the back of the motor and they got a sniffer full of shit!
I’m looking forward to you load testing the big surplus generator. It may be dangerous, but it will be entertaining.
I like that the North American plug socket even makes the Kill-a-watt look like it's been tortured!
its easier to let the smoke out than to get it back into the components.
Electrons don't always flow from negative to positive. They go from the higher potential to the lower. Ever charged a battery? Ergo, current flow goes both ways. Which, is very handy on a Friday night.
@@SF-tb4kb I don't always change to a higher orbital shell, but when I do I get excited.
Coffee makers what burned down all the VCR rental stores are always willing and able to donate such fusy tings.
I came for the truth but stayed for the cussing.
Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Something said only by lovers of old English sports and sporting cars. Such a treat to hear Ave say it. Not just a deeply knowledgeable engineer, a polymath in everything technical, and a brilliant raconteur, but also a very cultured man.
Since the new pills, it's mostly Candida.
pils. (edited for punny)
@@arduinoversusevil2025 that went right over my head. But I do have a conjecture for why electroboom gets so many views. He performs in front of the camera. But you're like an Islay Malt. Inaccessible for most people. But you do you. The world is a much better place because your channel exists, and I can't say that about even one other content creator. Cheers.
@@harbirnain excellent metaphor. He really is a dark enigma always smelling strongly of smoke. (First Islay was Ardbeg 10, felt like I was buying a bottle of some arcane druids brew.........I was right!) Slainte!
The reason English drink warm beer is they have Lucas refrigerators.
I have a MG B that doesn't shut down during rainy weather. Just have to kill it with the 4th gear and clutch.
"I just smoked a big bowl of Lucas electrical wiring!" Judge Phil of 24 Hours of Lemons Infamy, 2000-something.
its not like you couldnt get the magic smoke back in, the bastards just stopped making the holes to do it.
Last time I bridged a failed thermal fuse, I discovered that a cheap eBay power supply can blow a hole clear through a residential wall.
Thanks for the laugh
I just picture you sitting there looking at your wall and think :holly cow that worked
That thermal fuse was only in there to get you to buy a new kill-a-watt. You've cheated the great candy rock mountaineers out of a few more hard earned kopecks.
Behind those hands, we all know the truth. Intense, strong, intelligent, and ripped like a pair of Def Leppard jeans.
Merry Christmas Uncle Bumblefork!
"He Bleeps Out All His Words" That's Fu****g Bull S*!T!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AvE. Santa gave me the best present ever!!!!!! A broken drum, you just can't beat it.
Always love the shoutouts to medhi, electroboom was where I started for these kind of UA-cam series
Merry Christmas good sir. Thank you for the content and a wonderful laugh in the shop.
Just going through my most dearest channels and wishing them a happy holiday. Thank you and your great comunity for teaching me more than i will ever learn at any school and keeping me entertained and sane, all without ever seeing a single dime. Seriously thank you all... and yes i'm quite drunk
"You don't think he's onto something, there..?"
I laughed pretty hard about that one.
Strange that on Christmas Eve the thing that makes me feel the warmest is hearing Uncle BF say thanks for pointing him towards Electroboom's video on the breaker curve shit. Lots of love around here!
2 views and 6 likes... You'll catch up to that handsome Persian fella in no time ;-)
@MrPitjoey Eyebrow*
The key to increasing views is to show your noggin. Gotta bash the shelf with it on camera for the big kopecs dude.
@MrPitjoey eyebrow, (singular) 😄
Mr. Uni-brow *_is_* pretty entertaining
@@warped2875 The Persian fella is also funny.
Thank you so much for another year of informative/helpful and entertaining videos. I wish you a wonderful 2021.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
My Killawatt was telling me that I had 130 volt electricity. That’s when I found out they only have a six month warranty.
@user9823598246 Sure does. And utilities, in my experience, tend to bump up the voltage to rural areas. So if you're in a rural area you can expect to see higher than rated voltage.
@user9823598246 I put extra tape on my nerd lenses just to make that same comment but ya beat me to it. Well played...
@user9823598246 Yeah, I've seen it has high as the mid 130s when the power went down in a good chunk of the city and shit got all unbalanced or whatever.
I pulled the breaker when the UPS told me the mains was 270VAC and rising, and it was not happy. Tealeaves came and liberated the neutral and earth wiring in the substation during the day, leaving the phases to fight it out as to who was going to win. Shop on the corner lost, they went to over 300VAC, while I pulled the building breaker so as to not compete.
@@SeanBZA you pulled it or just disconnected it?
You easily have the best channel on youtube.
Amen
I've always wanted to visit one of the offshore magic smoke factories.
Season greetings, to you and your family. Regarding the difference in view count... He's rated G, you my friend (and you Are welcome at my dinner table) are rated NC-25! Sorry, dear Boltr, language, my educated friend, it's all about the
language, but fear not, I shall not abandon you regardless how you twist a phrase..
As a preacher's kid I learned to twist a phrase... you dog gammed futher muckin bun of a sitch.🍳😈♨
My progeny has been exposed to AvE since the very early days of the channel and I dare say they are not any worse off for it either. It takes a village :)
The reigning king of "Hobo Code"
Merry winter solstice!
Shango066 used one of those for ages, never let him down. Great for seeing if the load from the vintage radio/TV is reasonable, and if both the resistive and the reactive circuits are running.
Some people just like watching an Iranian guy shock himself
Honestly, the DnD spells reference right at the beginning there hooked me into the video more than anything ever has and I already loved your stuff before
Me: why do the British drink warm beer?
He: Because they have Lucas refrigerators
It's always fun seeing old projects laying in the corner of the screen.
Merry Christmas AvE! Thanks for making me laugh in these tough times. Please don't ever bleep curse words.
That HAKO 888D is a fantastic iron and I have built 20+ drones with it with ZERO PROBLEMS and always has consistent heat👍🏻
666 degrees (I assume) F. Funny how that appeared :)
Ya, I noticed that too.
If asked how to rate that... say10
Three seconds in and we're getting D&D references? That is certainly a Christmas treat.
First a Linus and Electroboom collab now possibly a AvE Electroboom one as well, would love to see it
Thanks for acknowledging electron flow direction. I try to think in how the pixies go in real life. So many textbook just suck for sucking on electron holes.
Bigby's heel of chain lightening - a D&D player...
And a wizard no less!
OMFG! My first thought, before I clicked your link was Sir Lucas. I learned all about the Sir Lucas' Smoke Principle of Electrical conduction from my first car, a 1970 Triumph Spitfire. There wasn't a month, sometimes weekly, that didn't go by that I didn't have to use my trusty, AMERICAN MADE, 3M electrical tape to plug the holes that kept letting the Electrical Smoke escape. I was told by an old British car Mechanic that the reason the English drink their beer warm, was because they all had Lucas Refrigerators.
I want AvE meets zip ties and bias plies. Imagine the conversation.
It'd be entirely unintelligible!
Add any Newfie to the mix for added confusion.
I have heard zipties give references to AvE ..they know about eachother atleast but yes it would be great 👍
AvE knows if he goes to Peg he won’t return, and if Peg comes to him the wife will show him the door
Many moons ago, I let the smoke out of the cooling fan on my welder. I went to the electronics shop looking for a replacement. Told the clerk that I had let the smoke out, and asked if the smoke could be repacked. That cat was the perfect straight man. Telling me it could not, in fact be repacked, with a straight face.
Uploaded 23 seconds ago and someone disliked your video. Must be Big Electron.
Actually they hit the like button but Dominion changed it to dislike! LOL it's just a joke!
They were watchin the vid downside up.
@Ground Hog And Susan Rice is corrupt!
Same process with the burners on the new GE electric range. Thermally protected soze you can't keep water at a rolling boil! Good thing I hadn't yet disposed of the old range. Gotta use the high temp MIG solder, though!
It's like they make stuff "safer" just to kill us with high blood pressure. Merry Christmas!
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Thanks, AvE! I'll be having a lame Christmas! Getting better, though! ua-cam.com/video/udXB4xL1lxE/v-deo.html
How in the frozen wastelands of Hoth did you blow a thermal fuse before the normal fuse? Did you pre-heat it in a foundry or something?
Just lucky I guess...
That tiny glass fuse probably only protects the electronics (buttons and screen) in the Kill-A-Watt. There is no way the full 15 or whatever amps are going through that little thing.
@@Fix_It_Again_Tony I don't know, hard to tell dimensions from the video but it seems like it has more glass showing than a 1/4"x5/8" fuse usually does. If it is a 1/4"x5/8" then I think you are right, but it could be a 5mmx20mm fuse and they come in 15 amp varieties and aren't much bigger. It could also be a 1/4"x7/8" which is a regular 15 amp fuse for automotive use but the ratio doesn't look right from what I can see in the video. Could just be I need to get my laser eye-balls calibrated.
Probably made by Apple. The only thing in a Macbook that never breaks is the fuse.
@@Fix_It_Again_Tony That would make sense that it just protects the brain. The thermal fuse does it's thing when the shunt resistor for current measurement is served an extended hot supper.
Don't ever change your style . Im glad to see a newer video . Im sorry that I havent been hitting the like button very often , Every video is a thumbs up.. And educational its a win win
We used to make up our own fuses using a couple/few strands of copper wire stripings.
Or remake em that way , sometimes a wire don't stay put so you give the fuse a few wrap arounds. Boom, insta - fire hazard!
@@hdezn26 More bester than cutting the fuse out and twisting the leads together.
@@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 Yarr!
Despite the hindrances imposed by my poor grasp of calendarical matters, my decal order came JUST in time for Christmas. You are the man.
Also, I wouldn't sweat the Federal breakers thing. That was fixed before I started selling electrickery, which is when N'Sync was still abusing radios worldwide and I had hair.
Oh dear,, you mentioned "Lucas", jokes hens forth the cometh..... Company motto.. Get home before dark. Three position switch, dim, flicker, off.. Or smoke smmolder, fire..
You will always be my favorite Canadian nerd chris!
Neeeerd! I knew it! Lolth bless your dark magiks.
As an apprentice mechanic i was always told by the older senior mechanics that Lucas components were filled with smoke contained in the LBT capacitor.
Took a few years to understand that the LBT was the "Little Black Thing" that could have been any part in the Lucas component that failed.
Ah the days when you were told to go to the spare parts back counter to get;
A rigid reproduction tool.
A short circuit
A right handed adjustable spanner (known in Australia as a shifter)
I don't trust channels that bleep out their cuss words. That's the whole reason I stay watching. A UA-camr that don't bleep...I'll watch that! I'm a geologist, not mechanical fixin type so....
Cherts to that! I'll never take your advice for granite.
That's aweful gneiss of you!
@@BonnieMCarter (edit: more better) Tuff crowd, these jokes are the schist.
No kidding...maybe my comebacks should be a little boulder
"Safety squint engaged..." - Love it.
I've used that same technique alot too.
after he saw that fuse he cancelled his digikey order. who an i kidding? There was never a time he was going to replace that component.
Always enjoy your videos, just spectacular. Watch everyone of them keep em coming
4:38 Wow, it turns out that I'm not the only one who does the 666!
Love the Scions of Lucas jokes!!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that the New Year brings you only good things!!
"Released from some integrated circuits." Make no mistake kids, discrete components are jam packed fulla smoke too. Ask me how I know.
Some even have confetti :P
Capacitors do smokescreens when messed up. Hermetically seal refrigeration units do flamethrowers
I love the d&d references! It would be great to play with this guy
An AvE--Electroboom crossover would be great, to be quite honest
And photonicinduction..if the guy is still alive
@@leeharris3061 photon got married and she didn't like him burning the house I believe.
@@christopherlenahan3906 He seemed really depressed in his last few videos as well
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you for entertaining and educating me.
Should’ve used the solder as a “spring loaded” thermal fuse.
Masterclass in setting the temp on that soldemy iron. Another trick I learned from the master greybeards in electronics troubleshooting is to tune a couple function generators in "augmented fourth" intervals as a test signal. If your circuit works after that much antagonizing Satan, you can safely move on to a small production run. Merry christamadidlly, AvE and the other bumblefox.
Bad things happen to those who play with angry pixies.
Still beats slinging desiccated tree carcasses
Fixed a coffee maker the same way. Ordered the fizeable things from epay. They are in my parts bin if you need one. I will properly fix the coffee pot the next time I need to go in.
4:38 Sounds like you and ElectroBoom should collaborate!
Merry Christmas!! I appreciate your time!
Why I always keep an array of 1/4-20 no blow fuses on hand, for when those pesky poppers keep a blowin
As a sparky, I watch you and Electroboom; Electroboom for the entertainment with a side of practicality and you for the practicality, mechanical aspects, and “roughness” (about 125 Ra).
Insert; “what the fork?”
On the 3 day old comments even though the videos just posted
Damn Patrons! lol
I believe Patreon (or whatever) supporters get early access to his vids. So they can reply sooner than it gets posted publicly.
Congrats on 1 million subs man :) Love your channel.
The chap with the dashing eyebrow has a few more subscribers than you. Or at least, I'm guessing from what I remember it being when you turned off the display.
Electroboom is great. I was unironically shocked when I saw just how many views he gets as well but I'd say he's got a more "normal" sense of humor in his videos. Tech language and high octane verbiage is what us cavemen love.
I understand that a Penny use to be used to fix one of those “old” screw in fuse. 😳 please don’t try.
@jdwdigitalyt aluminum should melt a little faster then the Penny method
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Looks like a factory approved repair. Next time there might be a stain. You and your family have a Merry Christmas. Thanks for the laughs and Videos.
Prime directive flames are the breaker no fire it’s fine.
Ave, interestingly enough... had one of these proceed to melt into something resembling Emil, the toxic waste man from Robocop. For some reason the thermal fuse did not trip when my bitcoin miner was pulling 1800 watts... I caught it before the flames came out to play. I tell you, these things are built to a cost.
666c on the haiku... It's official, AvE has gone to the Dark Side Muaauuhahahahahhahhahahhhahahh
came here for this
Those same thermofuses are used on heat strips in residential air handlers ( usually in conjunction with a heat pump ). Almost any Hvac supply house will have them for 15 times the price of online vendors.
Why does he keep talking about Quebecois seals?
The non-kaybeckers have no clue what the phoque you're talking about...
@@beezul :D
We really appreciate the adult nature of your channel.
1:05 talking about DMT
That guy ain’t onto shit. Love your content, delivery, phrasing, care for family, thinking and cussing! That’s how doers do.
Merry Christmas to you and your family AvE and thanks for keeping me entertained all year.
Digging the winter “hobo” cotton gloves