silvestrons bits and bytes | Lots of piggy backed power strips? Fix it with overkill! @silvestronsbitsandbytes | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 minutes ago.
Having entirely too many piggy-backed power strips under my desk was getting to me, so I came up with this hair-brained scheme to DIY my own safe power distribution box. This is especially important to me as I'm undertaking more electronics projects, and using new tools of dubious safety standards.
There are many unsafe elements in this video and mains voltage should ALWAYS be respected and only handled by trained professionals, so I do not recommend you do what I do here.
Any feedback is welcome. (and sorry for the fan whirr in the background, it's hot here!)
Disclaimer!
I am NOT an expert, I have genuinely NO idea what I'm doing, and mostly just glue things together and use a lot of Google-fu until stuff works. I've been tinkering with electronics since I was a kid, but have no formal training and will probably do things incorrectly. If you learn something from this, that's awesome, but trust me - I'm learning too!
Having entirely too many piggy-backed power strips under my desk was getting to me, so I came up with this hair-brained scheme to DIY my own safe power distribution box. This is especially important to me as I'm undertaking more electronics projects, and using new tools of dubious safety standards.
There are many unsafe elements in this video and mains voltage should ALWAYS be respected and only handled by trained professionals, so I do not recommend you do what I do here.
Any feedback is welcome. (and sorry for the fan whirr in the background, it's hot here!)
Disclaimer!
I am NOT an expert, I have genuinely NO idea what I'm doing, and mostly just glue things together and use a lot of Google-fu until stuff works. I've been tinkering with electronics since I was a kid, but have no formal training and will probably do things incorrectly. If you learn something from this, that's awesome, but trust me - I'm learning too!
