Good morning, all what's in my cpc delivery, what's in this cpc.co.uk box, let's find out in here, we've got stuff i'll, just take the paperwork out and we have some orange cables. We have some red cables with fuses attached to them. We've got a black box uh. Oh yes, those and what else we got ah ring terminals, oh they're, very large diameter.

Aren't they right? Let's start with the two items that i actually placed that order for um and those are these some solder lugs, which are uh m3 hole and these which are crimp blues and they say on them: uh 2-6. So it's a six millimeter hole in there and the other marking is where is it 16-14 and i think that's probably an american wire gauge for what wire will fit through the hole. The color defines the diameter of the uh the hole which you either crimp or in my case i generally solder these, and actually the blue uh strain relief. Here works a bit like heat shrink.

It closes up a little bit when you heat it up, so that works as a strain relief. So both of these items are for my bike battery rebuild it's going to be a desktop battery for a few months and then it'll go back into the bike. So this is where i've got to um. I've put the balance lead on this one.

This is a five-way connector for four cells. I've got my uh very neat wires running through holes, so all the wires are in the center of the cells. I've come up with this black insulation tape and two black cable ties running around there to create a really nice strain relief for the balanced charge, lead i've put on xt 90 onto my paws and neck terminals. So i kind of went for xt 90 because when i built bigger batteries, obviously this takes higher current than the xt60, but it's also to remind me that this is ultimately going to be 24 volts, not 12.

I don't want to accidentally plug this directly into something that should only take 12 volts, so these um are to go on these terminals. These are six millimeter bolts. I managed to find a few of these, so i made my xt90 connector and the lovely thing about xt90 is that these um terminals in here rotate, so i've got them both flat down against here. But ultimately, when this battery is finished, it's going to have one terminal coming off there and another terminal coming off the opposing battery, so they they'll come off there.

So i will need to rotate these terminals in order to rearrange this plug. But fortunately you can do that, so that's rather good, so this is for all of these m6 screws. These little solder tags are for my balance, leads which i'm putting on these well they're kind of m3 bolts, i've soldered them onto the underside of these bus bars. As you saw in the last video - and so these are to do, the remaining balance leads because on the second pack, i'm working on right now, um i've got my wires coming out, but i don't have any tags, which is why i ordered these.

On this battery. You can see, i went for the four uh wire connector, same stream relief arrangement of insulation tape and two cable ties so that can't really pull out um. So this is an add-on to this one. When you put these two on the bench positive and negative, these two will be linked together, and actually i made this with a piece of brown wire, because i kind of figured brown's halfway between red and black.

Isn't it kind of so that'll go across there and then my xd90 will actually come out that way, and i will have a total of nine connections to my various cells, which i will then create another lead, which has a five and a four plug and goes To a nine way, socket not on my bench at the moment. Also in my cpc order are these fuses. Now, some time ago i bought these red ones, which are quite nice because they're red, so you can put them in the positive of your 12 volt system. Um i've put xt-90s on each end of this fuse in between here i could put a piece of black wire and this would just be a fuse attachment extension sort of thing, but i might also put my bms connections in there.

So i saw these and i thought well. I need to pad out my cpc order to 17 pound 50 because that's the threshold for free postage, which i also which i always do like to hit. But these look pretty good they're rated up to 30 amps. Do they come with a fuse? No, they don't.

I have to supply my own fuses, but they look pretty chunky uh. That wire looks, looks like it's about four square millimeters, possibly so 30 amps yeah sounds about right, and actually it's just occurred to me that in the bike battery box, there's this really horrible fuse what's horrible about it. Well, let's have a look uh. I think at this end, yeah, this sort of brass terminal looks really flimsy.

I don't know if you can see the two pieces of brass running back off that top pad yeah. You can just about see them there, but they look really thin, not much thicker actually than the hugely thick blade of metal that runs through this 40 amp fuse so yeah this few of the fuse holders a bit horrid. Now, if i unsolder it from my iec connector, this is the one with the funny earth pin that runs sideways so that you can't accidentally plug mains into there and replace it with that um yeah, actually, 40 amp fuses a little bit over the top, because this Thing is 25 volts, um 250 watts to the motor, so that's 10 amps, so i mean you could probably get away with a 20 amp fuse 30 amp fuse, i think, is more than adequate. Yeah put that in there put one of those new six mil ring terminals on there and solder it down onto that connector replace it with that.

Quite like that idea, um. Yes, i bought five of these fuses. Okay, what's next a couple of these, so these are iec plug to cloverleaf socket. I suppose that is, and that's because i've got a number of power supplies that came with the various power banks, the jackery, the freemo that have this cloverleaf connector, and i can just immediately adapt it to a more standard iec.

So i'm not constantly looking around for cables and it padded out my order to bring it up to 17 pound 50.. So here's one of those power supplies um. This one is 24 volt, 180 watt. I think this came with the explorer 1000, the 1000 watt hour, but that's got cloverleaf plug in that and it turns it into iec.

I love little adapters like this. I think they're excellent fun. Next up is this: it's a little iec uh plug to four sockets, and i have in previous cpc orders bought these lovely little half meter, iec extension leads, and so what i can do with these is daisy chain. These uh distribution boxes together and i've got a few of these.

This one actually is a four-way. Previously i bought six ways and i've got a few of these in the shed. In fact, let's take the camera out and have a look. Yes, you may have spotted in a recent video, this sort of curtain of hanging incandescent lamps, and you can see what they're plugged into they're actually plugged into the six-way versions of that same distribution box with the little daisy chain.

Jump leads, and the idea of this is that it was well going to be. It may still be um. I'd have lots of those dangling incandescent lamps and you could load up these sorts of things power banks for doing my um test. Reviews of the ac inverter in those portable power stations now nobody's actually sent me one for a while.

So when the next one will be, i don't know but uh. Yes, i wanted to build this adjustable load and you can see on these lamp sockets that they're all switched. So i can switch on more and more of these lamps until i load up the inverter sufficiently that it cuts out. That's the idea and finally, in my cpc order, are these um.

These are again half meter. I got quite a lot of one meter. Um of the black extension needs, which i've had for many years, but i'm quite enjoying collecting the half meter ones now. So i thought i'd get a couple of orange ones um and that's so that if i've got a cable draped across the floor, i'll probably have to show you this.

Actually so recently, i've taken to making sort of bespoke length cables so, for example, from the ac 200 there over to one of my ant miners, which has just come on because i've connected it um i've got three sort of half meter lengths of iec with connectors. In them well now, of course, there's a doorway there. So now i can have a little section of orange inserted into my cable across a doorway um, which kind of indicates that it's a bit of a trip hazard or i can have a cable with alternating orange and black segments. Yeah that looks fun.

Doesn't it so? That's what was in my cpc farnell order, cheerio.