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@@pacificpational2626 If I remember correctly then it just pulsates. Nothing else. It's difficult to see on the video.

@@pacificpational2626 what do you mean sir?

@ im working on my own siren controller btw

@pacificpational2626 What's that brother? 🤔

@pacificpational2626 I need one of those because the neighbours dogs are annoying. 😆

@@englishrupe01 No I haven't. "Crap and clunky" I know what you mean. Chinese AliExpress sellers sold me a camera with no instructions, no software. I'm losing count of all the shitty things I bought that didn't work, or had bugs, or I struggled to get it to work. That second last project (the Nvarcher FM radio) was like that sigh. Lack of documentation. Some times you get boards without proper symbols. That's why it was so difficult to assemble. Add the Chinglish which can be very difficult to translate. "Too cold in your workshop" it's like that in my workshop. Hopefully I can insulate it this week and reclad it. My current issue is sporadic back pain which is affecting my upper body. All sorts of strange pins and needles like some witch doctor is stabbing me with a hot needle and laughing at my pain. 😂 "Great reception" it sounds interesting. I must look into it. Did you buy a DIY KIT from AliExpress? Talk Radio. Okay. I'm thinking of getting another short wave radio kit although I already have another kit to build. No, not yet. Still after I finally finished my renovation I might look into it. There are still 4 sections to finish which seems kinda endless not that I actually do much when I do clad a wall but the next wall is a reasonably big wall which means I need to start it early and work reasonably quickly to get it finished before the sun sets. Night. It's 4AM here. I need to try to get some sleep. Night. Thanks for you comment. 🙂🥱

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Thanks for the reply. Hey, don't ever feel you have to reply quickly...or even at all, if you don't feel like it. I won't take offence, no worries. I didn't mean to wake you at 4 a.m....darn..sorry, mate. On the parts for the radio..no kit, just a few needed parts including ESP32, any small screen of choice, and a VS1053 module. There are loads of examples in Instructables, All About Circuits, etc and RUclips video's to follow with these. They are very cheap to make but more expensive to buy a specific radio (just rip-off's really). About your back...very sorry to hear that. I have similar, only about 15 years on. I injured my spine when i was painting the upper floor window about 30ft up, on my roof. I pulled hard on the sprayer line, but there was no more line and i was lifting the entire sprayer & 5 gal paint. My leg went numb that night, and, researching, i read that peripheral neuropathy was on its way.Took about 12 years and several pointless surgeries but now i have constant back pain, treated with opioids, and gabapentin, which does help the neuropathy burning pain in lower extremities. But i am old, and supposed to be in pain anyway, i guess. ;-) Mind you, i don't mean to say that is what you have....just that i can sympathise. Pain is shit, though, eh? Don't let them operate/experiment on you. My last one i asked my wife to smuggle me in one of my guns, sorry to say. Shouldn't have asked her. But it was v bad. Never again. Anyway, the radio is pretty easy to make, plus any speaker you have around. Then, you just upload a sketch plus a link to a file with all the many stations. And you get FM level reception on thousands of stations. Really clever, Hope your pain subsides soon, mate.

Oh, i forgot you also need a PCM5102A for the internet radio, too. But, all in, it would come to less than 20 bucks for everything...pretty good, plus fun to make.

@englishrupe01 It's okay, I haven't been sleeping to well lately. I rarely sleep properly these days especially if its a warm night. I appreciate your messages because as I'm getting older I'm becoming more isolated. I rarely hear from the last two members of my family. I'm lucky if I get a phone call once a month from my eldest sister. My niece is the same; she does her own thing now. Anyway I guess you're in front of your wood heater toasty warm.🔥 😊 Have you had any snow? ☃️ Anyway take care and all da best.

@englishrupe01 I'll respond to your other points later. I'm not feeling too well. My bodies aching and there is no relief anymore. I miss the opiates in a way. Lol 😅

@@englishrupe01Yeah, still here. 😀 I built a Nvarcher TA7358 radio and the destroyed an IC after plugging a 3.5mm headphone jack into the headphone jack instead of the line out. Don't ask me why I did that. Sigh. I've ordered another IC and I'm still waiting for it to arrive. It's already been way over a months now. It should be in Australia but who really knows what happened to them. Kinda annoying. I'm currently recladding my house which is burning through most of my money. It's a very expensive endeavour and I still have two major walls to do and two small sections. Financially I'm struggling. I ended up getting my gas cut off. Too expensive. I'm still wondering what I will do when winter comes around again. Cold showers are okay in summer but winter. I guess I'll reluctantly get it put back on. Same to you sir! (The New Year.) Thanks for dropping by; its nice to hear from you again. 🙂☃️ Bye for now ! 👋🏻

@@englishrupe01 I wrote more but half my comment is missing? Wtf? Sounds toasty warm sir. 😀 I like the idea of snow in winter. Although -20 C is a but brutal. Workshop? Yeah its finished although I still haven't got it organised yet.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Sorry you lost some, but i didn't delete it. Maybe YT up to their tricks again. That's a rough deal on the cladding. It's prob the darn high price of oil for making the cladding. Maybe it will drop in a bit, hopefully. Yes, cold showers are tough. Maybe hang up a can and fill it with warm from the kettle, instead? We do that, when the power goes out here, and warm the water on the wood stove. We also have an artesian well here, which gives us free drinking water running out constantly. We are very lucky for that. Just an accident, really, from when we drilled our well. That's a really cool project, on your radio. Hope you get it fixed. Have you experimented at all with the Si7842 radio's? I have a couple now but want to make more, and other IC's i have, too. Yes, that was a tough mistake (the wrong jack) that i have made before, although i managed to skate through on mine without damage. That's crazy it takes a month? It only takes ten days to USA now from China with AliEx stuff. Anyway, all the best mate, and hope things improve.

@@englishrupe01 "I didn't delete it ..." I don't know what happened? I answered your statements and sent the comment only to then realise half of what I had written was missing. Anyway. YT ? I don't know. "In regards to the wood" yes ocean freight is definitely more expensive than it was years ago. I read they use two types of oil. The thick tar like garbage oil and sweet crude oil which is very light and thin. They're not allowed to use the thick oils in port because its dirty and it damages the environment. It has high sulfar content which makes it burn black like coal. In Port they use good quality diesel out of port the rubbish. Venezuela has the thick low grade oil. All the good stuff is from the Middle East and strangely Malaysia. Malaysia has the best oil in the world apparently. The problem is 1/3 of the world's timber was coming from Russia. They're probably sanctioning Russia on pine. Or maybe there is now a monopoly on pine. The good thing is I bought more than I could afford which forced me to take some drastic measures. No, I expect the price to rise not drop. A lot of building companies have gone broke. Timber is obviously a big reason for the cost blow-outs. Another is the cost of the U.S dollar. Our dollar is plummeting against it. This really hurts us as fuel is incredibly high now. We prop up the U.S dollar. Our xrate means the U.S gives us 60 cents for 1.00 AUD. So that means our fuel is expensive. The problem is endless wars. Any country using the U.S dollar is supporting this parasitic currency. Add in oligarchs are paying no tax. They're stealing our resources. The Liberal government policies have essentially destroyed this country. High debt 2.2 trillion debt now. High energy costs gas, fuel, electricity all private now. Immigration (competition for housing) Oligarchs buying up houses which drives up the price. Outsourcing jobs Insourcing jobs Globalisation (foreign ownership of our land) Military policy being tied to NATO means our puppets agree to U.S imperialism. As a colony of America we are paying for very expensive subs, fighter jets and other military hardware. We lost our sovereignty and our democracy is quasi-democracy which could flip at any moment. Hot water. I leave the hose in the sun and purge the hot water out to wash the dishes. I get at least 10 litres like that. Cold showers are fine for the summer. Winter will become the problem. No hot water. The good thing is the insulation in the walls now and the white paint which reflects the radiant sunlight. 10-20°C degrees cooler. The bad is in winter it's actually colder unless I heat with gas. I was thinking maybe I could make a wooden box and sleep in the wooden box like a coffin. It sounds really wacky but maybe I'll be forced to take these extreme measures to solve the heating problem. Water is a problem here also. It's toxic now because they added fluoride to keep us dumb and docile. The Nazis and the Soviets did it to their prisoners drinking water. The artesian well sounds good. Hopefully it's safe to drink. I guess you've had it tested.

@@englishrupe01 Yeah my big radio is a thing of beauty and I thoroughly enjoy building it despite the chinglish they use on the instruction pamphlets. Some how I manage to work out how it was supposed to be assembled. It was a slow drawn out process. I basically had to go through every single component to make sure it was the correct component and the correct orientation. It was a painstaking process. Still in the end I was excited to finally fire it up. The joy was wonderful! I don't really understand why there are so many components. I think they call this a discrete radio or discreet components. Maybe you'll remember. I guess one day I'll understand the different areas and what they actually do. I also bought another smaller diy radio kit which I haven't started yet. It's better in that it has better documentation. I'd like to build a nice wood panelled box for my Nvarcher TA7358. One thing that I find disappointing is the LED is not backlit. I could have looked very nice at night if it had a backlight behind the LED. Si 7842 hmm I'm not sure but I very vaguely remember some radio boffin talking about different fm radio chips. I assume that's what that chip is. I don't know much about that particular chip and what it's capabilities are. Still I will explore it at a later date.

@@TommyCaleb what do you mean it does nothing?

Are you saying you bought the RandomHacks kit and installed it but then later it failed?🤔

Yes the QUICK 861 is very popular and I thought about buying it myself but then I bought the BST because it was cheaper and I preferred the design over the QUICK.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 yes the last time i turned it on it was set to around 300 and as i worked with it the heating element was glowing af so i turned it of but next time i turned it on the heater was gone... now i dont know if it was a bad heater or the board has a problem i tried to ask randomhacks i hope he is replaies soon :/ i dont wanna buy a new heater for 60 bucks and blow it again XD

@@ecoer1c It's the stepper motor project. www.elegoo.com/blogs/learn/tutorial-control-a-stepper-motor-with-a-joystick-arduino-beginners Check it out ! :)

@@ecoer1c To be honest its been so long that I can't actually remember. 🤔

I know it's tricky and it took me ages to figure out how to program these clocks. If I'm not too lazy I'll write the instructions for you.

I have no idea whether its suitable. Current and Voltage? I guess it will either work or it could damage the headphones. Hey if it works then let me know. 🤔

You've tried it and it works!? That's great. I might try it myself later. Thanks for sharing. 👍❤

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, it works 100%. Just tested it and this is why I have written here. Maybe someone else will find it useful.

I don't know. The voltage would need to be right. Also height and width. It might be worth looking into new batteries of the same size and voltage. That's pretty much the issue now. Getting good quality South Korean or Japanese batteries. 🤔

SONY SP70A

Hey Dude! 😁 Yes it is and I wish I was over there in Canada 🇨🇦 ! Your from Canada right or was it Northern USA? Yeah I know don't remind me ha ha. I remember watching a YT video of some dude in America driving home for Christmas 🎄 listening to that song by Chris Rea "Driving home for Christmas" 😁 ☃️🎶 🎶 🎶 I'm busy doing a small renovation to my workshop which has spread to the rest to my old house. Hopefully I can get it all finished soon and move all my junk back into the room. Anyway, nice to hear from you again sir. 😀

Thanks for the comment.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Hi....yes NE USA. Glad to hear you are still plugging away over there. Cool....renovations? Hope you get them all squared away soon. All i ever seem to be doing is cutting, splitting and stacking firewood, here. All through the summer and autumn. Hopefully we will have enough for the coming freeze-up. Take care over there, mate, in your sizzling summer.

@@englishrupe01 North East? NYC? Yes the workshop is getting a final coat of paint albeit a bit sloppy. 😄 Squared away, hmm America term. Yeah its getting there slowly. Do you have a log splitter? Anyway it's good for you. We all need exercise to keep us strong and to burn off the fat. 😄 I'm just waiting for the final coat to dry before I rip all the masking tape off. 🤔

@@englishrupe01 Sizzling summer ☀️ yeah I hate summers. Already I'm sweating as the Western sun streams through the window. 🪟 It's good because it speeds up drying. You too buddy, 👍 take care and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year if I don't hear from you again.

This one was faulty. 😀😄

How have you been dude? 😀

@@decem_unosquattro9538 LoLs I hope so buddy.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 In a word.. knackered. Been doing some gardening and painting with a m8. I'm back now, ready to start decorating my own place. How's things your way?

@@Elecifun Well finally I got my bro'in- law to help me with the plasterboard sheets. After we attached them (two 3.8mx1m) sheets, one above the other. I screwed them in place. Over the last 2 weeks I've been plastering the joint. 1st coat. 2nd coat. 3rd coat which is finer or what is referred to as "finalcote". Each coat needs to be sanded flat which is a pain .... You end up with this fine white powder everywhere. After that the paint. I've just finished the second coat. The first coat was patchy. The second coat is maybe acceptable still I shall access it today. If it's okay I shall be painting it a light beige. Then I'll be adding some pine shelving on one side. After that a big clean up because the fine white powder is every friggin' where. I'll transfer all the crap on one side to the other side and vacuum all the white dust from all the shelving on one side. After that I'll transfer it back. I've had some health issues as well. After this job I'll hopefully be replacing some weatherboards, and insulating the walls. I bought some new tools which like everything these days is insanely expensive. So yeah that's what I've been doing. I'm looking forward to some other interesting projects down the track. I really want to build some speakers which are very expensive. Also the amps going to be expensive. On top of that I have no idea how to build amps. Anyway we shall see what happens in the near future I hope.

There does not appear to be any moisture. 🤔

Anyway thanks for the advice.

Water or oil ? What and where do I clean? 🤔

​@@decem_unosquattro9538 if you open it out as big as it can go and just dry the shaft you might get away with it but it's been like that for too long it might be fucked

Get a refund through AliExpress or whomever you bought it from. If you bought it using a Visa card then contact your bank and do a charge back. They'll want dates etc so make sure you email them the info. Good luck. 👍

Usually the bank will put pressure on AliExpress to offer a refund and usually AliExpress will give you a refund. Just remember you're protected under the law of your country or at least we are under Australian Law. I hope that helps. 😊

@decem_unosquattro9538 Definitely helpful. I am grateful for your response. I will pursue the refund under buyer protection of aliexpress. That usually always goes smooth without any hassle with the supplier. Thank you so very much and have a lovely day.

@@taimurchoudhry. You're welcome. Send a small video showing the fault which proves that there is a problem with it. 🙂👍

Yes I'm doing a small renovation in my workshop.

Where have you been Konstantine?

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Oh renovation, that's good, but usually takes so long. We have a saying, repairs can be started, but they cannot be finished. It can only be paused :)

@@decem_unosquattro9538 I'm still where I was. Just now at this time there is not always a mood to do something and shoot. We have air raid sirens every day, sometimes they sound along with rocket explosions in the city, so you yourself understand my condition.

@@Константин-м6д ha ha so very very true. I'm held up now. I need a hand but no one to help. Anyway hopefully my mate turns up soon.

www.amazon.com.be/-/en/Replacement-Headband-MDR-100ABN-Headphones-WH-H900N/dp/B0BRKNPNFZ?language=en_GB#immersive-view_1681459620096 This is the only thing I can find regarding the Sony 100ABN headband pad. Facebook might have a tutorial on how to remove it with more detail. Thanks for commenting. :-)

87.6 ~108.1 FM only

ITU 1 Australia & New Zealand

@@decem_unosquattro9538 too pitty i need below 88mhz, any sugestion mr?

No idea sir 😀 sorry I just buy kits and build. Unless you can buy a Japanese diy kit ? I think they have these lower frequencies. I only just discovered this myself minutes ago. 😆

Russia also has lower frequencies but whether you can get I don't know without researching it myself. Also sanctions probably not easy.

What's up? BJ180 what do you mean?

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yep....there's three S8050's and one that says, maybe: BJ180 or something....but mine is obscured after blowing out.

Weird little transistor?

How long did you have it running for? Did you build it recently?

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Maybe an hour or so, off and on occasionally.

@@englishrupe01 Thats strange because I ran all of mine for hours. No issues. 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Glad to hear it. Yep, i am sure it's just a faulty component, that's all. I may build another, later. It's a cool effect.

What do you mean? 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 The white stripe on the knop from the potentiometer has the wrong position. For me, bottom left would be low and right bottom would be high. on your device, the end point is in the middle of the scale. I find that irritating. Excuse my bad English. my German would be better. 😉

Yes you are probably right. I wasn't sure how this should be positioned and I just put it in the middle. Sorry if I bum steered you. 😆😄

Whatever your comment was is no longer. 😐😒

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yep, it's a shame that they delete them. I think only the creator is allowed to post links.

Sigh.

What's the new firmware do? 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 I think it gives it lots more pattern variations, as far as i know.

Oh 🤔 okay. I wish I knew how to code. I could create all manner of interestingly projects.

Yeah this clock is one of my favourites but for me this was a very difficult build. I still don't know why a few of them don't work properly. I'm wondering whether I cooked the crystal oscillators? Also the vibration motors don't work in most of them. Why? I change the resistor in one of them and that fixed one of them still I'm told that that wouldn't make any difference? I went over to another seller and the ICStation has a much better tutorial. I downloaded their instructions which is in a pdf file. Anyway looking through the shematic I noticed 4 resistors with different values. IiRC it was R10, R19, R12 and R? I'm not sure. One replaced resistor fixed the vibration motor. A 1.2K resistor fixed it. It was a 1K resistor. IiRC.

This clock if you can get it to work is a very nice clock. I encourage you to build it. It has a countdown timer and a stop watch. Also the vibration motor is kinda interesting. I'd be curious to know whether you can get it to work properly.

The clock with the nearly 400 0603 LEDs is a thing of beauty. The video doesn't do it justice. It looks truelly beautiful with the aluminium pcb. Those pretty green LEDs look like the green in opal green is so intense as is the brightness. If you haven't built one yet I encourage you to try it. It probably my favourite clock. I ordered green and I don't regret it. I've ordered more but red this time. Anyway thanks for the comments. You're a real gentleman. 🤝

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Cool....yes i think ICStation has their act together in giving better information on any kit they sell, so even if you don't buy it from them it is worth checking out their directions and schematics, etc.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, i agree....it does look beautiful, especially with those tiny LED's......almost understated. I really like the green version.

Okay, yes you are correct thanks for noticing that. I turned it around I hope it's not damaged.

I don't use Wechat still later I shall install.

P2 I don't think I've used it yet. Thank you sir.

The blue adjustable potentiometer (trimmer) - ah I see now thank you.

Okay Wechat QR code added to my banner. 👍

Are you saying this board is not the original and in fact it was you that designed and made this board?

This makes me angry because what I think I bought was or is a bait and switch product. It's like a counterfeit product which is most probably inferior to the original board. In this case maybe it was you that designed the original geiger counter which is what I thought I was getting. 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, I happened to see the video you released and found that it was not the board I made, but it was highly similar in appearance. The material may not be as good as mine, but it can still achieve the desired effect. After all, the electrical schematic diagram is the same. In addition to the cover tube, the most expensive component on the board is the power switch. My kit uses copper switches. The resistance pin made in Taiwan is copper with a diameter of 0.5mm. Other components are also of high quality and reliable performance

I don't understand what you mean by cover tube? Geiger tube? I liked the original pcb and its a pity they didn't send me what I thought I was buying. It's despicable and it just creates bad feeling and maybe reluctance to buy more diy kits and other electronic components. Shematic - I don't know because I didn't get the legit one advertised on AliExpress. :( This radiation detector is okay I guess. I like the switch on this one it looks like good quality.

"Copper switches" I guess you mean the internal mechanical contacts. 🤔

Yeah you're right it is a squeaker Konstantine :) ha ha and yeah it would be much better if they had good instructions with the kit. :-D I wandered where you got to. I hope you are okay. I read some bad things about what's happening in UKR.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, unfortunately, good things rarely happen to us now. But we try to be happy just because we are still alive.

I read every day the situation in your country. I just assume that everything that is black is actually white, and everything that is white is actually black. I've given up on mainstream media. I imagine you are living without pwr, and without gas. It's not good here either. The costs of living are getting higher and higher. More businesses are going bankrupt and things we buy are getting harder to get. I bought timber yesterday which was bowed and not square. A large trucking company went into receivership which supplies food to our three major supermarkets. 1500 jobs maybe lost. That's on top of three or four big housing builders that went broke. Sanctions are hurting us because timber is harder to get now. I read one third of timber comes from RUS. Despite the gloom I manage to keep soldering more kits which is always interesting and fun. I'm building small digital clocks. Three so far are partially working but time doesn't advance. I downloaded an instruction manual from ICStation (TJ-56-619 4Bit Digital Electronic Clock DIY KIT). Looking at the shematic in the instructions it appears 4 resistors are of the wrong values. 😕 R2, R3, R19, R10. R2 is 1K in the kit I bought. It should be 1.2K. This SMD resistor is connected to the two smd LEDs which is connected to TP5400 U1 IC (lithium battery management chip). As we know this would lighten the brightness of the two SMD LEDs. R3 is 1.1K but on the ICStation shematic it should be 1.2K ohm. How this will affect the battery charging circuit I don't know? R19, is again 1K but in ICStation shematic it should be 1.2K. This resister is connected to Q2 which is S9012 transistor that switches vibration motor of and on. If current is too high how does it affect the transistor? Maybe its okay and within tolerances but if it's too high how will that affect the transistor? R10 again is connected to another S9012 transistor which is connected to the clock buzzer. I think it does work but not very loud and doesn't stay on for long enough. :-? I'm now wondering whether maybe I destroyed all three 32.768Khz crystal oscillators? Probability is low. I haven't destroyed any other crystal oscillator on any other digital clock kit. I tried replacing two 22pF smd caps on my kits thinking maybe the smd caps supplied in the kit were not the correct values. 🤔 These 2pF caps are connected to the crystal oscillator. Everything appears to work except the time doesn't move or doesn't advance. It just stays at the set time e.g. 14:28 and never moves. Hours later it's still 14:28 (24 hour time only) Auto brightness and manual brightness work correctly so that the 4bit digital tube functions as intended. **Stopwatch** is setable and works correctly. **Countdown Timer** is stable and works as it is meant to. **Fu-1** works its sets the time correctly. **Fu-2** sets the date **Fu-3** it's sets first alarm **Fu-4** it sets the second alarm **Fu-5** it sets hourly chime, and display brightness manually 1~15 or automatically using the photo-resistor. **Fu-6**Vibration Motor off or on. **Fu-7** temperature calibration (assume it works) Things that don't work or don't appear to work correctly. - buzzer short duration? - LEDs are a bit too bright. - time doesn't advance forward? Anyway I shall modify the resistors to the shematic not the kit list values. Try to prepare for the worst Konstantine. Take care and hopefully this war will end sooner than later. Dec ❤️

I'm in Australia buddy ! You've googled it and can't find batteries? That surprises me because the U.S of all places you should be able to find batteries although it's been awhile since I last checked for these batteries. Sorry I can't help! Edit* www.speedyspares.com/shop/home/4054-sony-headphone-battery-for-mdr-100abn-s0185321812.html I got mine from here in Australia. Just remember that these batteries are not brand new and its debatable whether or not they're worth buying now. I'm still using my ABN100 headphones but mostly I use my wired which is becoming difficult because my new phone does not have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Go on google they still appear to be available albeit its a risky venture trying to find fresh reasonable batteries. Thanks for the reply. Dec ❤

I have a few linear power supplies as you may have noticed. 😅 I like building them. I want to test them but I haven't gotten around to learning how to do it. I shall test them one day. Yeah I read they aren't very efficient.🤔

I'll take your advice and buy one because as we both know the printed diodes are so small that it's almost impossible to read them without some form of magnification. Also never assume anything. 😅 Thanks for the reply and advice. It's nice to hear from you again. Hopefully the snow has melted.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Hey, you're welcome. Yes, thanks.....snow mostly gone and having a very easy winter so far. Hope your summer isn't too blistering either. I am looking forward to spring.

Our summer hasn't been too bad thankfully. Same here I'm looking forward to Autumn and Winter. Dec.

Thank you sir, you're a scholar and a gentleman. 😀👍

I must have done 20 takes before I felt it was good enough to upload. I'm exhausted after all the hassle I had to endure. It took 3 hours to upload.

Ha ha I had forgotten all about alpha, beta and gamma radiation and how far they penetrate through materials. Yes you are correct it's not going to give a very high reading on Americium because of the type of isotope that it is. I funny that you commented today because yesterday I walked past a shop and thought I wonder if they have any old radioactive ☢️ watches, or crockery that I could use to to test my geiger counters. 🤔 Anyway thanks for the comment. Most appreciated. 👍

The M4011 Geiger tube can't detect alpha. Alpha can't even wear a piece of A4 paper. 4011 can only capture beta and gamma. A large amount of alpha can be detected with mica window tubes, and the alpha measurement in the smoke sensor is very powerful

@@decem_unosquattro9538 In the 1960s and 1970s, aircraft instruments or dials of military equipment would use a mixture of radioactive substances and phosphors for luminous effects

yes I read years ago that alpha particals theoretically cannot penetrate a piece of paper or human skin. I didn't realise my folly until much later after I had made the video. 😄😆

Mica tubes okay that's interesting. 🤔

I can't, I just realised I only ordered one transmitter. 😑 I'll try to fix this one but it might end up in the too hard basket especially if the cause of the issue is the IC. I'd be surprised if it was because usually I can get the soldered IC without issues. Still who knows whether or not it got damaged or not. Anyway I'll have another look tomorrow.

Oh thanks for the reply buddy. 💙

Oh, sorry about the audio I was half drunk when I did it. 😅

Hey. Do you know how i can get it on the 3,5mtr band below 87.5mhz with a little modification

No, I'm just starting to teach myself about electronics. I think you need a Japanese radio. I think they have these lower "frequencies" that you are wanting. Anyway thank you for commenting on my channel.

I can't remember whether it was my fault or the sellers fault. One feels a little stupid when one unpacks a diy kit only to discover its already assembled. 😅😒 The only reason I bought it was to enjoy the challenge of building it. Sigh. Now it sits in a corner gathering dust.

Yes, its quite a handsome little radio and I like that it has an arduino 16x2 display. Of all the kits I built I like my 7 colour clock diy kit the most. It's the most practical build and its most interesting and fun to build. Also it has a nice display with nice numerals and I can see my soldering which I look at and think hey I soldered those components. 🤔😄 I just finished soldering my 14th SMD LED chaser. I bought 10 pieces of LED chaser running water LEDs. Which is half through hole components and half SMDs. Nearly every one of them didn't work. The next 20 LED chaser running water LEDs was all 0805 LEDs and resistors. Except for one all are working so far. So yeah my soldering has improved immensely since I first started soldering SMDs. On my profile picture you can see old Soviet style neon bulbs on red pcbs. I soldered 2 x 1206 SMDs on each side. So yeah I getting better at soldering SMDs. I've started on 0603 SMDs which aren't that difficult still the next levels are getting much harder. Rather than solder SMDs on those big pcbs which are designed for smd soldering I thought why not build these LED chaser lights. At the very least they actually do something. Anyway thanks for you replies. Decem.

Hey Dude, How is everything in Pennsylvania? I watched a video on RUclips with a pretty disturbing looking thumbnail. I'm not sure it was real it looked pretty surreal and apocalyptic. Anyway I hope you and your family are okay. Here it's the opposite. It's 39°C ( 102°F) here. Hot and dry my trees and plants are suffering under the intense heat. 🥵 Any all da best Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and hopefully a better year than the last two. Dec.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Hey, ?Dec.....yes, fine here, thank you. We get very prepared for even weeks with no power, in the winter if need be. This one didn't hit us too hard, luckily, and the cold only got down to -4F here, so we coped well, keeping 2 wood stoves burning 24 hours a day. It was toasty inside but pretty arctic out. Sorry to hear of your intense heat, too. Stay hydrated. Best wishes and a Happy New Year to you, too.

Well prepped that's wise ! Didn't hit too hard that's good I read it's pretty bad in Buffalo. -20C wow I've never experienced weather as cold as that. Toasty inside - yeah two wood heaters that would be very nice. I'd like to get one myself. Problem with wood it's scarce here and expensive. Big fines for gather wood illegally to. Arctic out yeah I saw some pretty amazing videos on YT and read that one substation was buried under 18 feet of snow. 🤔 The heat yeah I hate the heat and I'm really dreading the next three months before autumn or what you call "the fall". Hydrated, yeah I always keep hydrated during the summer months. Ice blocks and pomegranate juice with cranberry juice. 😋 Seeya Dec.

Konstantin! What do you mean? How I collected it? 😀🤔

If you mean how I welded it ! Then it requires quite a lot of welds. 20 or 24 welds plus extra for the coin batteries, and the welds to hold it together. Hmmm I shall think about this. 🤔😀👍

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Sometimes they write to me under the videos that it’s bad that my assembly is accelerated, people don’t have time to enjoy it. As one viewer wrote, I won’t collect it myself, but I like to watch how others do it, and you speed everything up, no pleasure. 😁

Hi Konstantine, if I was to solder the Christmas tree it probably would take half an hour to maybe 45 minutes. The components are so small. 0603 resistors. Sometimes I peel back the strip's of LEDs and the fly off like flea's 😅 I frantically look around for where it landed most times I find them but sometimes they lost forever. I would have to do a lot of editing to create videos like that which would cost me money. I'd have to learn Adobe Premier or something like that. I'd need to cut lots of little segments and weld them all together. A very time consuming process. That's the only way I could do it. Otherwise one long 45 minute video would take 3 hours to upload and would anybody watch it? I don't know. I already do maybe 10 takes or more. Often I make mistakes. Forget to put something into the video. Forget something critical then I need to redo it again. It can be quite exhausting sometimes. Anyway I shall consider your comments. 🤝 Decem.

Thumbnail was very difficult to do. The tree is only 65mm high. How does one capture such a small tree 🌳 🤔? 16:9 vertical only, landscape too much empty space. Vertical black bars either side not so good. Anyway good to see your still around it's bit sad I must say all the news not good. I don't know which side you are on. To be honest I don't care either way. People are caught up in situations like this some narrow minded people take sides. I realise it's not quite as simple as one might think. We as citizens are just pawns in a bigger game. Things are not good in this country. Our freedoms cannot be taken for granted. These are scary times whomever you are wherever you live I just wish all nations could live in peace. Strange how Russians and American's are best of friends in space. Cosmonauts shake hands 🤝 with astronaughts in space yet on earth its different. Anyway see you later. 🥃🥃🤝 Decem.

HA HA I don't actually know what it is !?? 😄😆 Tx and Rx ? I have no idea amigo HA ha. I bought a book about electronics. Slowly I'll start to have a better understanding of what everything does. I know roughly what components do but how it all works in conjunction with all other components remains a mystery. I think some one ...ed up or it is deliberate. It seems strange how the sell these kits yet offer little or no support. Sometimes the instructions are very good. Sometimes they're completely useless. It might be English but it's more like Chinglish which to be honest is kinda useless also. Some guy with a better understanding of electronics knew where the fault lay. A follow up video of what?? 😆

HMM Well if I discover anything new I might consider it. Maybe I could do it on a bread board.🤔 I'm enjoying fixing problems and learning more. It's a fascinating topic electronics. Sigh. I'm still waiting on stuff. I guess you know the feeling. It's been over a month on some of the stuff. Sigh. 😕 I tried to make this vide shorter. I noticed people get bored very quickly. I try to just say what I need to say and get out. I'm still trying to get used to making videos and improving my channel. Anyway thanks for commenting and I look forward to your next video.😃

Okay I made another one ( demo alarm video) amigo.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 I know I watched it hours ago 👍

Oh Okay thank you sir. 😊 Oh incidentally my internet connection sucks. I'm watching your video then it starts buffering on 1080p. Sigh. Makes me angry because not far from me like 100 feet away is big thick fibre cable. My telco has 50% of Telstras' infrastructure which is slow. Pisses me off that they maintain a monopoly and gouge us on prices. Sigh. Anyway...

I agree, there more I learn the more I want to learn. My place is starting to look like the bridge of the U.S.S Enterprise. Lights flashing, light chasers, clock radios in every nook and cranny of the house. 😄👍

Yeah, I remember a guy from H.K that sent me a small parcel for $2.00 ~$2.50. AUD You can't buy a coffee for that price here. Yeah I'm learning more and more still there is much to learn. I haven't even scraped the surface yet. 🤔

Good morning sir, I bought the GS1299 Stereo FM radio 📻 diy kit. In hindsight it is a problematic kit. The components I think are a little too close for comfort. The USB port in the kit is the wrong one. Sadly I could not get this fm radio to work correctly. It wouldn't search, nor could I find a radio station. One of the legs on the 1299 IC was either dry soldered or I damaged the IC. Because the usb port was the wrong size I could not charge the battery. Which fm stereo diy kits did you buy and what was your experience? 🤔 I'm a little peeved off that it didn't work. 🫤 I don't take failure to well. 😆😅 Anyway I look forward to your response. Have you built anything interesting recently? Also are you affected by the snow storms in the U.K. I watched some videos on RUclips and it looks pretty bad. Hopefully you are warm and not sitting around a candle shivering. 🥶🥺

@@decem_unosquattro9538 The better kit, i have found, is the RDA5807 kit with the blue circuit board. It is actually the cheapest FM radio kit, too. It works really well. And no, i am in USA but thanks for asking. I emigrated from UK about 20 years ago.

@@englishrupe01 oh, I see, okay. I shall look for it if I haven't already built it.😄👍 Oh your from the states. I heard a big snow storm is heading your way. Stock up on food and stay home. Ride it out.

Thanks Elecifun.🤔 Most appreciated your comments.

My running water lights are even nicer. I lay awake with them running at night marvelling at the pretty lights and how little power they consume. It's amazing how small the components are yet how bright the lights are. Kinda cool how these tiny little devices work. I've ordered more colours: "red" to replace a few dead ones I damaged whilst soldering them. The other colours are pink, green, orange, ice,-blue, blue, violet, emerald-green, purple and yellow. It'll be interesting soldering the other pcbs with different colours. 🤔😁

PS I mean the "vintage" stuff, not modern, of course.

Are you allowed to import radioactive waste? 😄

Yeah, I know what you mean. 👍

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Well, it doesn't actually qualify as nuclear waste so shouldn't be any problem. After all, they are allowed to import & sell godawful rapper music. It's way less toxic than that ;-)

@@englishrupe01 😄👍 Yeah I know what you mean. I don't like it myself.

Yes I agree. It's all so interesting and I'm like a rabbit caught in a bushfire. I can't decide in which direction to go. That radiation detector via arduino was an interesting project. I like tinkering with the code and it really leaves me feeling some what lost. Unfortunately my education suffered terribly as a teenager. Now I wished I'd had the opportunity to get a proper education.

Yes, that 3.3V or 5V. That was my journey into Arduino.🤔

You're welcome ! 😊 A variable -conductor- inductor. I'll have to do some research on them. 🤔 I know what a inductor is but that is new to me. A variable inductor. What do you mean as a regular fm radio I thought that was it's intended purpose. Ohhhhh ... 😉 You do you mean the blue one? That's another kit on AliExpress? A single 18650. Okay. I'll remember that. 👍Anyway, thanks for the info and the comment. Most appreciated.

What's the other FM Receiver Kit? 🤔

Is that the HEX3653 ? 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Ah...no, a variable INDUCTOR. You know....really just a wire coil, like a regular inductor, but the core can be adjusted, as you did, by winding it up and down inside the wire coil. Well yes, it is intended to be an FM radio but here it is being used as an FM receiver for whatever you transmit. You could also use a regular FM radio as the receiver, instead, if you wanted.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yes, that's the one. Pretty good performer as well as a fun kit.

220V here in Australia. 🤔

I assume there are different versions of the BEST H/A workstation. The American version 110V 60 Hertz with an American plug.

Yeah you're right. I didn't realise just how interesting and fun they are to build. It really is rather satisfying when one finally finishes the "build" and adds power to it and it works. One gets a feeling of achievement and success! Although I haven't had much success on SMDs. It's still an interesting challenge.

I don't know what was wrong with it. I think I got ripped off on that tool. 🤔 I think I got a discount on a replacement but I think AliExpress sided with the seller which meant I got the short end of the stick.

Your not wrong I'm already on my 8th or ninth SMD kit and none of them work. The last one I assembled worked perfectly for 30 minutes and when I returned from a coffee break it was no longer working. I'd love to know which component failed? Was it a IC? The 555 timer? Maybe one of the caps? Anyway that's what I'll try next. Diagnosing components and desoldering. 🤔 I just woke up after a rough night.

CC CV ?? What do you mean?

You have heaps of these boards right?

I assume its 80VA but hey who knows? There is still much I dont know about transformers.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Nice job, there. He means Constant Current and Constant Voltage.......can you preset the max current and/or the max voltage so that when it hits that preset limit it doesn't exceed it? Referred to as CC and CV.

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Yep, i see that it does. Cool.

Hi amigo ! 😃

I think the LEDs are fine, still I could be wrong. I'll check them later or tommorow. I'm okay on THT but on SMDs not so good. I'm trying hard to improve. I guess only practice and time will improve my skills. Thanks for the comment amigo.👍 I'm working on my last diy psu kit video. I suddenly feel tired and I'm nodding off. I might leave this till tomorrow as I have eaten yet. Chat later amigos. 🙂

Oh before I go. One question. The D1047 transistor- does it need a rubber spacer? I have not put one on anyone of my diy psu kits. I hope that's okay. The last thing I want is to cause a short to ground or some other problem. 🤔

@@decem_unosquattro9538 Its good practice as it eliminates some issues caused without one

@@decem_unosquattro9538 we can only do our best and hope to improve