Thx for you unboxing, maybe I Will buy it 👏🏻

auto mechanic here. Just to clarify, because i've met too many people that think just because a battery reads 12 volts, it's a good battery. Not at all! After years of use, a lead acid battery will become sulfated. That is lead sulfate will build up on the internal plates of the battery. Which reduces it's capacity, but not it's voltage. Nice set up by the way!

Nice ty!

Clever tester design, I like the auto switching and the combination of different power levels. Not sure what your mains voltage is, but the way you handle the alligator clips is frightening. Is there a difference in getting electrocuted with and without power limiting?

Nice setup

wow did you ever here this I was at a cabin and their was no more seats thieir was a drunk girl and with out thinking she sat on the blazing hot wood stove and she got up in a hurry

Just what I needed. Thanks

Would there be an advantage to having the 40 automatically trigger on the 60 and the 60 automatically trigger the 100 with a current sensors or some other switch so that it self adjusts to the current that is being pulled thru it? I'm new to these and it seems you have to know in advance that the device would pull a certain current amount in order to select the right combo for the most protection... However, if you make it so that the weakest of the bulbs had a trigger of some sort, if it were consuming too much current, it would instantly trigger another bulb. Maybe a trigger that measures current and only acts IF the bulb is on. That would make it fully automatic so you don't have to know which combo is best. Also, what gain do you get by using the 40 sometimes vs the 100, is it better protection? Then maybe having an auto trigger setup, you could have 10 20w bulbs in a row, each on triggering the next ONLY if needed.

Great video. The only thing I was hoping to see what the exhaust/smoke outside right after you pack a fresh fire. I would like to add an indoor wood boiler but don’t want to smoke my neighbors out.. or does the the smoke just exhaust out of your chimney?

Excellent video, it helped me!

Man thank you so much for making this video from the direction in the box I was lost and yes now I know it’s a DIY after watching your video

You should have piped it primary/secondary and used a no/nc aquastat for automatic switch over, this would negate heat loss through the unused boiler when sitting idle. You left no way to isolate the expansion tank to check air pressure and ideally you should have someway to maintain a low limit in the wood boiler, a thermostatic 3 way valve would work fine. You are correct about the outdoor boiler, they have tremendous heat loss through the sidewalls and tubing. Also the indoor boiler is pressurized which negates the need for a plate exchanger. Nice job.

What is the formula to calculate the bulb wattage needed related to the device?

Hi, nice video. I was wondering what is your setup. Does your boiler require a hot water storage tank to be recirculated or is the hot water from the boiler run directly through your radiators?

Is there a reason to actually need 3 bulbs? I have a dim-bulb tester with only 1x 100W lamp, and it indicates any piece of equipment with a short circuit (or very low resistance) in its circuitry. So, i'm trying to reason WHY i would ever need lesser resistance filaments in the 40W & 60W bulbs for equipment testing? Obviously the resistance of the 100W bulb allows enough current for fussy switchmode power supplies to startup which also gives me reason to NOT need the 40W & 60W bulbs. Maybe there's a scenario i haven't experienced yet?, but my dim bulb tested has been fine for all the valve radios, guitar amps, vintage hi-fi and computer power supplies over the decades of restoring & repairs that i've experienced. with thanks.

You should be arrested for putting that 💩 music.

Very Cool!

this reminds me of a contraption i made, the "ballast board", in other words i screwed a bunch of different size fluo ballasts on a fiberboard and select em with hairdrier switches, you can configure up to like 200W and limit the current on a load, it has only two wires coming out, it seems silly but it's fairly useful, instead of finding the correct ballast or for adjusting the power finely

I've got most of the parts to build this now, but what LED's did you use, please?

Are halogen bulbs good for this purpose?

need!

Well - Thanks for the Schematic - Finished building this design today - Looks almost identical as I used the same project box. I decided I really didn't want the Banana jacks so I left those out, and rather than the duplex receptacle I used a range type snap in receptacle (Qualtek# 738W-X2/03). I don't have a 3D printer so to mount the 3 light bulbs I simply used 3 Leviton# 8101 Porcelain 2 part Lampholders - they fit perfectly across the top.

That’s so awesome! I love it. Thank you for providing it all for free

I like this very much and want to build one. However, I'm slightly confused. When I look at the diagram vs your list of components. The SPSTs in your list are 2 pin, yet what I assume are the 2 switches on the diagram, those just above the relay, are 3 pin. Could you clarify this, please?

Very nice - Any chance that we can see inside? Would love to see how you have the relay hooked up - I am not quite picturing it from the schematic. The Momentary Push Button Switches and the Contactor got me a little bit guessing. Thanks for sharing...

Thank you for unboxing …😅 I was like how am I going to put this back now 😂”how am I going to get this back in there.” Took the words right out my mouth 😂😂😂 thanks bro!

I picked up one of these recently at a thrift store and drilled holes in the side to poke the battery wires out (protip: top section pulls off, no screws), and connected a larger cell next to the unit (12AH I think). Working so far. I found that it's the older CP1000AVRLCD, but they named a newer 2020 model the same so you have to search a little to find info about this older version from around 2010 it seems.

What’s your square footage?

I like this design. Will the relay still function if you feed the AC through your variac at a lower voltage?

What size cat is that?

Nice videos. Grest place and nature where you live. Can I ask where in the US this is? Looks like where I live in Norway. Greetings😀

Nice video. I agree. I see loads of vids on outdoor units, but very few on indoor. Mine is an indoor Clayton wood/coal-burning forced- air furnace. I do like some of the outdoor boilers, but I got mine just before the EPA new particulate rules went into effect. The rules gave manufacturers 4 months or so to clear old inventory. I got mine 1/2 price. It's a bit big for my house, but not by enough to matter. I just have to control the fire appropriately for the weather, and toggle between 1 fan or 2. But, yeah, I just go outside for 10 mins every other day or so with a wheelbarrow and get 2 loads of wood and I'm all set. All-night fires are nice!Love it. I do want to get a battery back up power station to run the fans if power goes out, but everything else is non-electrical. The install required some know-how, and a few days effort, but even that wasn't too bad. I think this is the 5th year or so, and I'm already way past the break-even point. I'm burning 4 - 5 cords/yr and saving about $100+/mo.

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I want one, right now just use a variac and isolation transformer for vintage electronics

He's so polite that he says sorry when he bumps into his own camera. lol. Nice setup.

nice tool but handling AC mains like that is dangerous. always unplug the power cord when touching live wires (dont trust the on/off switch).

I really like this design. Best part is that it comes up in limited mode. I would appreciate the relay part number and the current limiting resistor sizes for the LEDs. If you could provide those I would appreciate it.

Love it!

They look great!

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Plowing too fast and should plow in low gear also

I just bought mine this Cyber Monday. Excellent camera. I upgraded from the AX-100.

you should sell yours, I would buy one! 😅

Please change the name of your channel. When searching "jmanatee" all that comes up are manatee videos.

why not a bulbs with clear glass so you can see the filament ?

You haven't seen a wood boiler until you've seen my brother's. His is about 5 times larger than your's maybe even larger. His house is about 40,000 sqft and had pipes running throughout the internal walls and floors of the entire house that are heated by his wood boiler. It's pure insanity. You can't see the pipes but man is it toasty in his house. The pipes are also installed within every ceiling just like radiant floor heating. It was 33 degrees outside and that's exactly where I slept outside because I just wasn't that used to that type of winter heat but my wife slept real good😅

I have an indoor wood boiler in my old house. I want to use it more this winter but i have trouble controlling it. With the draft fan off it will still get hot enough to open the water pressure relief. Should i install a chimney dampener to try to control the fire better? I think my chimney is pulling a really hard draft all the time causing the fire to burn really hot all the time.

G,day from Sydney Australia. Wow fantastic invention. Would another way for the same purpose; Bench power supply LCD of V and Amp with a meter between cables to appliance measuring Amps? You could limit or set V and detect if a short exists because no amps are passing through the short? 🌏💫

How are you all getting incandescent bulbs now? All I can get locally is led.

This is the best dim bulb setup have seen! You have a new subscriber!