Hi and welcome to everyone's favorite segment Mailbag Monday where I open my mail tada every Monday is like Christmastime I Got six items here today. Let's crack them open and see what I've got. This is the segment where you can send in stuff and I open it on here and well I just rant about it I Guess is that the segment I think so let's get to it and first cab off the rank here I've had this one for quite some time now. it's from our lower B thinks our Larrabee from Littleton MA which I assume is Massachusetts in the United States of America sorry everyone complains about my ridiculous American accent which I can't do anyway.

let's have a look in here. let's see what our Larrabee wonder what R stands for? We have a letter. Let's have a look dear Mr. Jones How polite.

I Currently work in Facilities management I've been watching your videos for over a year now I Want to thank you for helping me get started and setting up my shop. I'm sending you this Ez Flush device and hope you find it useful for a video. Thanks! It's Rick there we go Rick Larrabee Thanks it! What is a Ez flush I Have no idea what an EZ flush? Is it some super duper toilet flushing mechanism I Have no idea Thank You Meryt very much Rick And there's Rick's business card. He's actually Richard or dick do you call you dick I Don't know.

Chief Engineer at Building Technology Engineers an M core company. It's an easy flush. It is a century since I was right. It's a sense at retrofit kit for automatic flushing of urinals and water closets.

88 compliant for he's got the little La little wheelchair symbol down in there. so I guess it's a I Don't know what idea is, but it's compliant I like compliant stuff. Alright, let's take this out and never look at it. That's bizarre.

I've never gotten anything to do with toilets before I Look at Yeah. it's one of those sensor head you see when you step away from it. So this actually would be interesting. tear down to actually see what's inside.

One of these reduces maintenance, eliminates odors from unflushed fixtures. Retrofits to zoom one model for both urinals and water closets. Awesome. There you go.

It's one of those ones where it detects how close you are to the urinal and as soon as you're finished it. I Guess it's got to have a timer on it to time how long you've been standing in front of it. you know? So it doesn't get people like walking past or walking in there for a couple of seconds and deciding not. I'm not going to use this Danny I'm going to use the one next door because this one's atrocious.

so it's got a detect that you've been there for. You know you've stood there for 10 or 20 seconds and then you've stepped away from it. so it's got a proximity proximity detector. oh I can already see, probably can't catch that on camera but I can certain I can see myself I'm funny looking but then again, that's me.

Let's crack this thing open and check it out. I Don't think I'm going to wait for a teardown. Tuesday for this one. I think we'll crack this open right now.

Whoo! Check it out. You can see my lens. look at that. that's the lens of my Canon HF G10 camera and they've got one of these security hex screws on it.

Really quite annoying. The bottom of it had a standard dive Phillips so taken that out but it doesn't seem to come apart so let's I probably got one of those bits somewhere. Let's have a look now. Unfortunately, the only thing that got us into is the battery compartment.

There's a it looks like there's no forearm see size batteries in this thing. I don't have any see size batteries in the lab I Don't think bummer. Anyway, look I know there we go. Ah that was actually easy piece of cake.

Tada there it is. Now that we got hey I'm gonna motor I've got some cogs which just activates the plunger there and see that spin around and yeah, it doesn't go in that direction. only goes one direction and then Lunger comes out. Bingo! I Assume that goes to some sort of pipe work or something to do with the toilet I Have no idea about the physical.

What's that that looks like it's a tool and it's just built in there for. Oh, it's a little. It's a little screwdriver. Check it out.

little flathead screwdriver so it's designed to obviously are There we go. It's the adjustment tool for that pot up there. There you go to adjust the sensor range is is rather neat. There we go adjust the sensor range up and down.

Audio on or off. Didn't know these things. Beep and sounds as a - I guess activated if it's a manual flush. There he tells you is model flushes after each.

use rather the range test button. There we go so we can adjust the range on this thing. So let's take these screws off and we've got a couple LEDs There we've got a little looks like a red diffused filter on the front and we've got a green and yellow. LED Let's take that off and see what's on the board.

just a little micro, nothing more. and check it out. It's very old-school It's got a big 22 pin point three inch dip package which is a TC 302 four and my internet in the office isn't working at the moment so I can't check that I Have no idea what that is off the top of my head and there's another a pin chip we'll check out up here and there's a couple of status LEDs and obviously an infrared transmitter or transmitter and infrared receiver there, so it measures the distance based on that time period. There's a couple of internal factory set trimpots there and it's all through-hole stuff.

discrete transistors, tio 92 packages. there's an ISO ringed seal around the outside as you'd expect in this sort of environment, and not much or so, and not much else at all. So there's got to be some form of microcontroller and the other chip is a Hitoshi h a 17-3 5:8 I'm going to assume that is Hitachi's variant of the Lm35 eight Op-amp now. I Want to power this thing up? but I don't have any C cell batteries? Well, there's nothing you can't fix with a pair of side cutters.

So we'll just hack into this thing and we'll hook that up to our supply. Bob's your uncle now. unfortunately I haven't actually been able to get this thing to do the business ie. if you pardon the pun, detect the you know anything in range and activate the motor there.

There's a manual flush override. There it goes. Ah, it's you have to wait a time period before I can do again, but that's manual flutter flush override. There's another tactile switch over here which seems to reset the thing or something like that.

and really, yeah. I can't get it I've followed the instructions to sort of set the distance trim pot here and the mode switching. I just can't seem to get it to actually detect anything. They're like you're supposed to hold it there for five seconds.

So it discriminates against people just walking past but haven't been able to get the damn thing working. But we can take a look at some of the signals, so let's do that. Now, what we've got here is the two infrared LEDs here these clear ones and they're driven by these two dropper resistors here. So I'm just tapping off a point there that'll go to channel two on the scope.

that'll be the green Channel you'll see on the scope so that's the transmitter. and then we've got the infrared receiver LED over here. and then we've got the infrared receiver here, the dark colored one and I've just tapped off the signal from that so we can measure that. And of course, it comes with this little IR filter.

so it doesn't seem to actually make any difference whether or not we have this on or off. But for the purposes of today's experiment, I'll just leave it on there. Alright, let's take a look at the waveforms. The top one here is the transmitter, so there's a very small narrow pulsing there.

We'll zoom in and take a look at that. And here's the receiver down here. Now, let's actually well, single-shot capture that actually. So let's let's go in there and we can see that the time period is 200 milliseconds.

So we'll single-shot capture That bang. we're in there 200, 400, 600, 800 odd milliseconds every 800 milliseconds. So let's say roughly once a second, this scene outputs a pulse there. and this is the receiver.

So what we're going to do now is just try different distances I will cup my hand over this thing. This is right. There's nothing in the way at the moment the roof is about. you know, a meter and a half above this thing or something, or at, like, you know almost about that and we're getting no return pulse on the receiver here.

But let me cup my hand over it, maybe an inch away. and bingo. We get a return pulse like that and the horizontal stuff or remains the same. The width of this window where it detects that remains the same.

but we get that little blip in there that obviously it's a it's some, probably, you know AC Coupling that and it's able to detect that level. And if I put my hand right over it so my hand is touching like my hand is, actually, you know it's right over there. It's cupping the whole thing, then that seems to be the maximum signal level that comes out of it. So what's probably happily in there is there just AC Coupling the output from that receiver led there, just amplifying that, and then the adjustment pop which sets the range here, just sets the threshold limit of that detection range.

So if you put your hand right over it like that that I was doing it, you know it couples the maximum amount of infrared between the transmitter and the receiver in there, and that's pretty much exactly what you'd expect with one of these distance sensors. You just expect there to be a different level pulse out of this thing depending on how high you are or how far you are away from this particular object. So pretty basic operation. Unfortunately, I'm not able to get the damn thing working I'm able to do the menu override.

but III don't know there could be something wrong with this or maybe it is a Peb CAC thing and I'm just not setting it up right or something. but we can see those signals which is rather interesting. but that microcontroller does other intelligent stuff like it has a power on mode, so when you first turn it on, it'll continuously flash the yellow LED apparently, even though I haven't got it working for the first 10 minutes during operation, so that you can just manually test the thing after you install it. Then after that first 10-minute window, it switches to normal operation where the yellow light only flashes three times when you move away.

And of course, there's probably some finer detail going on there as well in terms of discrimination of ambient light and various reflective surfaces of various people. Whether you're using you know, a black shirt, or whether you walked in with a you know, a reflective, a safety vest or something like that. So yeah, there's that. There might be a bit more devil in the detail there.

And next up we have Joseph Medved Thanks Joseph Ah, he's a Redmond in Washington haven't been to Redmond Washington home of Microsoft isn't or was or something like that SMED Vidcom Thank you very much And remember, if you want to send stuff in, send it to that crazy Ozzie Bloke Pierre Box 7 9 4 9 Baulkham Hills New South Wales 2 1, 5 3 Australia You know it's not Austria A lot of people complain about that. Geez. I Keep saying it. Get over it.

Ah, unbelievable. It's joke. geez, so let's have a look. It's pretty pretty hefty actually.

What does it say? Broken. Oh, here we go. broken. GPS GPS Cable broken GPS Wonder It's heavy and a broken cable so is.

Josip Yes I Oh, it's a neat wrecks legend. There we go. Etrex Legend: I've done a video on the original Etrex Yeller the yellow version. That's there you go I've never had a genuine Atrix cable actually.

Um, yeah. I Sort of to one-up myself a long time ago. As you already see, this is well-worn Garmin Etrex Legend. I had it for quite a while and I didn't spare it of any challenge.

Surprisingly, it did survive and should be in working order. that is, unless United States Postal Service and I suppose did their bidding. You may use it and abuse it in any manner you please thank you very much. Joseph So it's actually a usable Etrex legend Bruin That's actually better than the Atrix yella I've got.

Ah, it's got the joystick. Love it. Um, yeah, I don't It's almost a shame to were there we go. It's um, still got thee.

He's got batteries in it so it probably is a go. let's turn it on. This is: Hey look at. this use of unit belongs to Eevblog.

Press return. Ah, brilliant, well done. Ah I Don't think I could destroy a perfectly good Etrex legend? No way. I I Think this is a keeper.

It's an absolute keeper. I Think there are a real dog to take apart. actually worn it. Yeah, the old firmware didn't have this.

What least for the Hhcl. Oh, it didn't have this ridiculous warning and stuff like that. You know the GPS is for your car. Yeah, you've got to press an extra button.

say saying you accept liability and all that sort of crap. and it's not going to find satellites in here of course. But ah no. I couldn't possibly destroy in any way.

And Etrex legend I Love the see-through I Didn't know it came in this see-through transparent or translucent case like that, you can see some wiring in there can see I had a connector in there and you can see the GPS module in there with its patch antenna. There you go. So yeah, I'd love to take it apart, but I've heard they're a real dog because well, you can take it apart of course, but you'd never get it back together because all this rubber surround is all glued and you can see actually some of the probably some of the glue oozing out there. I Don't know why it's been subjected to heavy use.

My Etrex yellows had all sorts of things horrible things done to it. Uh-huh And yeah, this rubber surround, you've got to totally unpeel it off to separate it. It might even be heat sealed the case or something like that, because there's as far as I'm aware, there's so I've never taken my Etrex yellow apart, but there's no screws in this thing at all, so you know you can see some of the circuitry through the translucent case there. But anyway, thank you very much.

Joseph that is brilliant. Maybe I'll take apart my Etrex yellow now and I'll upgrade to the Etrex legend I Can certainly use this for a canyon in and geocaching and maybe in some future videos. Thanks Josip It's brilliant! And the good thing about the Etrex legend over my Etrex yellow is that this one has downloadable topo maps. I think it isn't even has Australian maps available? so I might see if I can download an Australian topo map for this and give it a go.

Endor You can tell it's had a hard life. The lanyard strap here is broken off. There's supposed to be a bar in there for putting your lanyard strap through and that's obviously broken off in some manner. And if you haven't seen the look at that, yeah, this is really.

it certainly has had a hard life. He wasn't wasn't kidding but certain this is still a very capable GPS and it's got this custom Garmin cable and at the time when the 8-track series was probably the most popular GPS in the world has probably sold in like in terms of an outdoor unit like this is before he could buy car. GPS is when you know you basically had these handheld unit. The Etrex series was I believed like the largest selling GPS in the world.

It had this custom connector and somebody I'm not sure who it was but this was before you know open source hardware came about. They basically you know crowdsource funding and all that sort of stuff. Somebody actually reverse engineered this connector and made a duplicate of it and sold it. They sold like you know, tens of thousands or a hundred thousand of them or something.

So he got a huge I can't remember the guys name or what the project name was I'd have to actually Google that to find out. but he made this site custom connector and he basically gave it away almost. It was like you know, a free thing, you just did it for the kudos or something like that. Hang on, let me Google it.

I've got to google it it. It is a real good example of you know, a sort of like a hardware thing. Before all this crowdsource funding an open source hardware came along and I just Googled that and of course it's up. The famous Sappy Frank connector Larry from P Frank Dot-com I'll put the link in below and he's manufactured over 800,000 of these you know, work alike compatible Etrex connectors in the last fourteen years and he's some.

He didn't actually sell these. what he did is he'd send you 2 of these for free. He'd you know at no questions I said send it to you for free and he just asked that you you know basically donate if you want. If you found that the service was good you would.

You would pay him something for it and he would leave it up to you. So it was something like the you know, the old dump shareware principle or something like that in terms of hardware. So this was before Open-source Hardware came along. This is not a P Frank This is not a P Frank won.

By the way. this looks like a genuine Garmin Etrex won. but there you go. Frank from Pete P Frank Calm pioneered giving away hardware like that.

It's free, only pay what you think it's worth and the next one comes from Maxim EC Is it or a see Maxim I've been taken to task about getting you know last name, first, first, initial, second, kind of thing. wrong before so uh anyway from Canada Hi to all my Canadian viewers I Love Canada One of my favorite countries in the world and look at some lovely stamps there. Check it out. Beautiful little flying insect thing and there we go.

We've got the Queenie good old Queenie because that Canada is part of the common ball. So let's open this sucker up and I see what we've got. Very thin, very flat and ah these are a bit of a these are a bit of a pain to let's just go and like that. here we go.

that's easier. What do we got? Ah, some postcards. I think we've got some postcards folks. I'm sending you these postcards because you are helping hobbyists like me.

Thank you very much. Maxim Clairmont Excellent! Oh is that is a forum username expert Max One fees on it Montreal There we go postcards that will go into my postcard collection I'm going to have to put these up on the wall. maybe in you know, so there behind me in the main video or something. but please people are send me postcards because I haven't been to these places that Montreal haven't been to Montreal looks beautiful.

look at that Cathedral there and some statue of some important dude in Montreal Beautiful! And here's some of the other imagery from Montreal Home of the World's Best Comedy Festival. By the way, that's a hell of a lot of snow. The poor bastard who owns that red car under there woohoo sucked in and looks lovely I'd love to go to Montreal especially to the comedy festival. More cars covered in snow that seems to be the order of the day in Montreal In wintertime, hope it doesn't get that bad in summertime, that's for sure.

So there you go. Thank you very much Maxime, that's brilliant And what do we have here? We have an air sensor and interface or forty Euros. Is it? There you go and we have I'm Slovenia I have hide all my Slovenian if that's a corrector to viewers I Don't think I've had something from Slovenia before that's that beautiful looking flower there and something to do with fire I'm not sure what that is. go figure.

There you go. Is that like a fire extinguisher or something? Not quite sure what, sir, what's going on there anyway I'm sure someone will correct. correct me on that and this is from Matine's baz. Mack if I'm pronouncing that correctly I'm horrible at pronunciations.

sorry people if I get it wrong I do apologize from Slovenia Let's crack this sucker open and see what we have here. Sorry if my voice is all froggy I can't do much about it. Geez, you know people have complained about that I clear throat, etc etc. Jeez, you know, give me a break Here you go: I've got my own sort of user name and password for their system here for a Kazem feed.

so let's have a look at what this is all about. Hi Dave I Noticed that you're enjoying your new office space and what I figured I would do is send you one of our devices with an SH T21 sensor. Ah, I've used that range of our sensors before if memory serves me correctly. there in: I squared C Oh yeah, Yep.

there we go. I squared C in a face sensor I Think it is a high-resolution relative humidity sensor and as such measures both humidity and temperature of the air. Awesome! Thank you very much. Device that the sensor is attached to, The Poky is a highly versatile IO Interface: Fifty-five configurable digital inputs and outputs Wow Seven analog inputs, six PWM outputs or how twenty-four digital counters our encoder pairs.

It's got everything. device you received is configured to read the SH T21 sensor and output the values to both the web interface or accessible in your local network and cause a web service available worldwide. Oh Excellent. A web interface sensor.

I'm gonna have to try this I may be you. hopefully. I Can leap to a dart down below if it works and you can get a real-time update of what the humidity and temperature is in my lab. That'd be cool no pun intended.

If you need to reconfigure the device, use the Pokies already. He's already created an account for me. Excellent! I'm going to go. It needs three hundred milliamps at five volts.

Assume the summer is coming or yeah, it's coming. That's so what is it? Now it's not quite November yet, but summers coming in December Helping to establish proper climate in your working environment. Thank you very much. Whatever matures if I'm pronouncing that correctly and here it is.

Check this out. This looks pretty awesome and all guys had it. Look at all those screw terminals. Ah, I'm liking.

ah, it's barely fits in the bag. Oh, I'm liking this I'm liking this look at all those lovely screw terminals. The first thing I noticed is that the alignment is slightly off. There one is closer I presume deliberately closer to the edge of the board.

That's rather unusual. I'm not sure why that's the case. this one down the bottom looks to be relatively aligned up, but that is. This thing is absolutely chock-a-block interface here, with a micro which we'll have a look at and a battery backup for presumably for date and time there and another external interface.

but this sucker powered this external 5 volt interface their voltage regulator clearly and this looks really neat. Pokies I Like it. Check them out at post scope dot-com this I think could be fun and there's the main device on this thing. It's an NX PL PC series arm process of this 1764 FBD 100 And then we've got another National Semiconductor device there that's presumably the Ethernet interface chip.

because there's the Ethernet interface there. So you go. There's not much else on there. There's a there's an oscillator.

Well, there's actually two oscillators down there. By the looks of it as a 50, it's out 50 meter. There's a 50 megahertz and another one down there. Is that a 32 kilohertz crystal? perhaps for the real-time clock? Ah, I Like this.

This is really neat. I Just like the form factor and stuff. I'm going to plug this in. and here's the tiny little sensor board.

obviously. Yeah, hand-assembled and there's the Sh T 21 temperature and Humidity sensor. These are really neat art devices I was using these I Geez. So I'm not going to say ten years ago, but probably not far off.

and they're really neat devices I believe I squared C interface And we've got a Double One Seven low dropout voltage regulator there and the Sh T 21 sensor. And of course that just plugs in to the expansion bus on that board. and that allows us to measure temperature and humidity. But this board is capable of an awful lot more than that.

This is just one of it's capable capability. So the idea is you hook up a whole bunch of sensors to this web interface board and well, only one way to find out if it's any good. Plug it in and see if it works straight off the bat. So apparently all I've got to do is hook it up to a Thern Ette Network here, which I've done and plug in the sensor board temperature, humidity, sensor board.

Apparently the account has already been not set up for me, so let's go to the website and see if we can access it just via the web page. It should just work. I would have hooked up five volts externally here as well, and you can see that the status LED is blinking there. So presumably that's a good thing and it's sending data I Guess each time it flashes, Perhaps something like that? So let's go to the web and sure enough, look at this.

It works instantly out of the box. I've gone to the web H-here Kazem Dot-com feeds 78 to 80. It's not very descriptive, but presumably that's the individual serial number for my device and bingo, it's already been not labeled and set up for setup for me. But I'm sure that's a relatively easy to setup and change, but bang, it seems to be working.

It's currently twenty Five Point Six one degrees or so it claims at Thirty Nine Point Five Seven Oh SuperDuper Accurate there. Lots of resolution on the on both the temperature and the humidity there. So basically almost forty percent humidity I Don't know that'd be about right? I Don't have the aircon on at the moment, which is why it is twenty Five point six one degrees. So let me go switch the aircon on and see if it makes a difference.

But anyway, here's the it gives you a map as well latitude and longitude and no, this is not the exact location of the Eevblog office. it's probably the near enough to there. like the exchange, you know that my internet connection is at or something like that, but as it is certainly within the vicinity of Baulkham Hills which is where I reside in Sydney there so it knows that knows my general location, you can see that I'm in Northwest part of the sitting part of Sydney There there's the entire Sydney area. If people haven't seen it before, it's pretty done.

Huge. There's a Blue Mountains up where I go Canyon in and that's Sydney and that's Australia not Austria And there's a rest of the world aren't we? Pretty well isolated, but let's see how that compares with the my thermometer on my fluke meter for example. and it was saying 25 point six degrees on the web interface there. but it's actually you're according to my fluke, it's twenty five Point three.

This is like plus minus one percent accurate. so you know you include the accuracy of this one the accuracy of this one. They're not exactly spot-on but let me turn the aircon on and let's see if we can watch this thing ramp down in temperature and I've turned the aircon on and you can see it dip in down like that. It's currently 23 point four degrees and that's actually what? Exactly What? my pretty much exactly what my fluke temperature probe is now saying.

but it looks like this. only sort of like saying I'm not sure how quickly it samples but doesn't like every minute or every couple of minutes. I'm sure I can set this up somehow so show trigger events I don't know. There's lots of graph builder.

There's all sorts of stuff. duration, add a scale to fit. There's all sorts of stuff you can do. It doesn't look like we can actually set the time period here because this is I Think this is just the public feed so this is the one the user you can access.

You can just go to this page. End: As long as I've got the power turned on and I've got it connected, you'll be able to see my current lab temperature and my lab graph in real time, which is really quite neat. I Like this and if we go into the I've logged into my account. Kazem I Don't think this device is actually affiliated with Kozma in any way.

it just happens to use this Kazem Internet of Things stuff. you know it's a here it is about the Internet of Things Kazem makes the world more connected Internet of Things is happening blah-blah-blah-blah-blah insert Internet of Things link word and but apparently this sir, this device has been designed to interface with the Kazem website and here you go: I've set this up and we can just add data streams here. it's already been. He's already set up a couple of the relative humidity and the temperature for me, but of course this thing is capable of measuring and acquiring a lot more data than that.

So you can set up any sort of data stream. I'm not sure you can give it an ID Yeah, I Haven't looked into the details but you can add all this stuff and it looks like you can push and pull data as well so you can go so you can select no. I will push data to Qasim from my device, will push data to the website or you can set it up. so Qasim polls the device and pulls the data in there from that and you can have a you can set up the occasion of where your device is and all sorts of tags and or your public and private info.

It's really quite nice. And here's the PO Labs device. And as I said, I don't think they're affiliated with Kazem in any way, they just start using this service but I'm willing to be corrected on that. and here it is: I'm 60 euros for the one I've got.

this is the Ethernet interface one. They also have a USB interface one as well the Pokies 56 you but the one I've got, 256 II I. Kind of like the the Ethernet one because it just then just connects directly to Ethernet internet network your router which I pretty much leave on all the time here and it can just send data. No need for a PC or anything like that, but you know some people might find use for the USB one.

They've also got some. Looks like they've got a USB scope and spectrum analyzer and some other stuff here as well some basic type stuff. basic to know it's not actually basic as in the programming language I don't think could be wrong. Anyway, they're going to whole bunch of stuff here.

Check them out post scope dot-com Now if we check out Kazem here, this is like my console and I can add devices and feed. So if I've got more than one device Hey Twitter Status there you go. Twitter Stats: Create a test feed by adding your Twitter stats. I Guess can we announce that the relative humidity on my Twitter account I might give that a try and it supports Arduino There you go are using the Ethernet shield something else.

So I guess they've got a driver I'm not sure how they've set this thing up I guess I'd have to read the documentation I Won't go into it. This is not going to be a review or anything like that full-on review. It's just a thing it worked out of the box. Um, it.

was already set up for me. Sure, but I Don't think it would be that hard at all. Well, this Pokies 56 device sounds really powerful. Check out the feature set here.

It's got: 55 digital inputs 55 software controlled digital out words with pull-up resistors seven analog inputs 12 bit resolution adjustable low-pass filtering 26 encoder pairs 3 axes 25 kilohertz pulse engine digital counters a 16 by 8 matrix keyboard interface 2 8 by 8 matrix LED displays support 6 high-speed fully configurable PWM outputs 25 Meg PWM timer it's got a standard Hitoshi LCD support for by 20 characters Man, just crazy Modbus Support all sorts of things. Our support for up to 10 sensors on the I squared C bus 1-wire bus analog sensors It's got the web interface stuff and it's all happenin. and you can also download their complete protocol specification that seems to have bloody well everything. Man, it's pretty huge, so all the data you need to configure and talk to this thing looks like it's all there as you'd expect.

and I'm not sure what the discrepancy was before, but the I've let it settle here in the web is showing twenty two Point Eight, One degree Celsius And my fluke here is showing twenty two Point Well, washing. twenty two, Point eight, Twenty two Point nine. So it's pretty much bang on, so thank you very much for that. But tents, that's a Bruin I Really like this little Luck Pokies Fifty Sixty device and I can probably hook up a whole bunch of other stuff.

Look at this, it's just begging to be hooked up. All sorts of stuff I can add to the layout I can add to this thing and people can monitor stuff I'm not sure why you'd want to, but you can see things happening in my lab I can add all sorts of stuff to this. It looks massively versatile, you know, ADCs and Pwms and all sorts of stuff, and presumably I'd be able to control it from the web interface as well actually control outputs from this as well. I'm definitely going to have to read more into it.

Have not read the manual for this yet, but seems incredibly powerful. Thanks Matthias And by the way, for those following along on my Twitter account, you'll know that I had a aircon failure here in the lab a few days ago and her cost me a little bit of money to get it fixed and this was the culprit. This Italian I car I car brand this is a run capacitor for the compressor used in the aircon up in the roof here. look at this.

this is spewed its guts out. Lovely. that absolutely brilliant. It just blew the arse out of itself.

and yeah that cost me a couple hundred bucks to fix by. Gah. So in the end it was a pretty easy fix because this that run capacitor just stopped the compressor from working. Very easy fix, but it took the aircon guy an hour to I find that this run capacitor was tucked away in a very difficult to access location so they had to rule out everything else.

first. Inverter yeah cost a little bit to get it fixed, but that's all it was. Dodgy Cap: So there you have it, there's the mailbag. I Know a lot of people have been riding in ya letters and asking me, you know when's the next mailbag They can't seem to get enough of it.

So there you go I hope you I Thought that mailbag was enjoyable and if you want to send me some unusual stuff and get on the blog here, then you know the address to send it to. And if you like my old bag. Monday Please give it a big thumbs up. Catch you next time.