// #eevblog — 2025-08-22
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00:22:55 Quit: ibiza ([email protected]) Ping timeout: 121 seconds
01:03:04 <arch> how do you do, fellow booty lovers?
01:03:40 * arch throws bullion at T3sl41 and Ampera
01:22:29 <MrMobodies> Something doesn't make sense to me
01:22:37 <MrMobodies> https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Procell+aaa&ref=nb_sb_noss
01:22:37 <EEVBot> [url] 503 - Service Unavailable Error | www.amazon.co.uk
01:22:51 <MrMobodies> 100 Procells for £40
01:23:09 <MrMobodies> 30 pack for £12
01:23:15 <MrMobodies> Those prices are too cheap
01:23:27 <MrMobodies> Can they be trusted
01:26:47 <MrMobodies> https://www.amazon.co.uk/40-Pack-Batteries-Industrial-Freshener/dp/B082Y8CQ
01:26:48 <EEVBot> [url] Amazon.co.uk | www.amazon.co.uk
01:26:57 <MrMobodies> 40 for £13.95
01:27:07 <MrMobodies> They have obviously done something to cheapen them
01:27:39 <MrMobodies> now ths sounds more realistic
01:27:40 <MrMobodies> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Industrial-Duracell-MN1500-Alkaline-battery-orange/dp/B00L9IZPH0
01:27:41 <EEVBot> [url] Amazon.co.uk | www.amazon.co.uk
01:27:47 <MrMobodies> 10 for £12
01:28:09 <MrMobodies> weight 25g itsays on those
01:29:08 <MrMobodies> ah that's per batery
01:29:20 <MrMobodies> so that'd be about 200g
01:29:44 <MrMobodies> https://www.amazon.co.uk/10PAK-PROCELL-Intense-Duracell-MN2400-orange-black/dp/B08B4TDRLS/
01:29:44 <EEVBot> [url] Amazon.co.uk | www.amazon.co.uk
01:30:14 <MrMobodies> £5.99 and it is only 120g
01:30:59 <MrMobodies> so that looks like the tell tale sign is the weight linked the price on these batteries. Very deceptive trying to shift brand names to sell me the lowest capacity.
01:31:55 <MrMobodies> damn I need them here tomorrow and that expensive one comes on Saturday oh well
01:34:42 <MrMobodies> aah prime membership expired
01:34:59 <MrMobodies> I'll just go into Aldi tomorrow and pick up some of their batteries
01:56:10 <electrohead> !fart arch
01:56:11 * EEVBot farts all over arch
02:03:55 <arch> fart wars!
02:04:23 <steve30> on the subject of farting, i hope i'll be able to go to the toilet in the near future
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02:28:35 <watcher> !ao https://transfer.archivete.am/BaL7w/bankruptcies-NL-2025-aug21-ssl-error.txt -e "NL bankrupt stuff"
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07:20:53 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/VTvvPnu.png
07:21:11 <MrMobodies> Man on the left reminded me of Tony Blair, that stare and the grey hair.
07:21:39 <MrMobodies> but comparing them the man on the left seems a bit woder
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09:14:30 <arch> how do you do, fellow buttscratchers?
09:20:29 <DHess_US> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gy0eCsPWYAAMLMS?format=jpg&name=small
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11:56:02 <arch> mmmm, smells like lung cancer
12:09:12 <DHess_US> More like sarcoidosis.
12:28:58 <MrMobodies> https://www.fscables.com/other/blog/CCA-CCS-CCC-vs-pure-copper-know-the-difference.html
12:28:59 <EEVBot> [url] CCA, CCS, CCC vs. pure copper – know the difference? - FS Cables | www.fscables.com
12:29:09 <MrMobodies> "CCA does have some advantages over solid copper, mainly surrounding weight and cost. CCA is significantly lighter than copper and in some applications can offer advantages in cable containment and handling."
12:29:33 <MrMobodies> The weight and cost isn't going to matter when it breaks down and intermittently cause problems.
12:30:22 <MrMobodies> like weight and cost are more important of it working properly regardless of trivial things, how it is teriminated and age.
12:30:59 <MrMobodies> I am seeing lots of audio car cca cable selling
12:31:43 <MrMobodies> I came across one earlier in a light. I chopped the plug off to shorten the cables and it was so thin it didn't look right for a 0.75mm cable
12:31:49 <MrMobodies> it wouldn't twist
12:32:02 <MrMobodies> I put it under the stove and it flopped
12:32:43 <MrMobodies> I was going bodge it in the light but the conductors wouldn't twist properly and kept on snapping
12:34:35 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/Mxnx0S1.jpeg
12:35:03 <MrMobodies> smaller than a 0.75mm and thinner/less conductors
12:35:11 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/IBB01HT.jpeg
12:35:13 <MrMobodies> Flame teat
12:35:20 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/BPYH09D.jpeg
12:35:35 <MrMobodies> they just flaked off and perished
12:36:11 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/tCUYA1i.jpeg
12:37:00 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/xKmYNL7.jpeg
12:37:17 <MrMobodies> Notice how they put in connectors for everything else, even one for a fan that isn't even there.
12:37:39 <MrMobodies> but when it comes to the mains input they bodged it, soldered it one and gunked it down.
12:38:08 <MrMobodies> and it came out of a stupid hole in the middle underneath so the thing isn't even level.
12:38:57 <MrMobodies> soldered the cable in there, fits nicely in the inner cover and hopefully the gland should help keep it secure.
12:39:50 <MrMobodies> took me over a hour to realise the cable it came with was CCA and utter crap.
12:40:33 <MrMobodies> CCA cable = Can Create Anger cable
12:46:18 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/B891v0h.mp4
12:46:37 <MrMobodies> just flaked and perished away
13:51:04 <MrMobodies> A thing that really helped was the soldering iron
13:51:12 <MrMobodies> I think it was to the do with the smaller tip
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