Resurrecting dead power banks from Russia.

Mikhail, generously sent some Russian treats and a couple of dead power banks for our entertainment. One of them is quite unusual in its use of a microcontroller.
The Sbiten is an interesting thick sugar/honey syrup flavoured with powdered spices.
It's nice that many of the Russian flavours are similar to those of European countries.
When attempting to explore or repair lithium power banks, keep in mind that if charged they can suddenly let rip if you short something out. Keep a metal bin or tray on hand to throw it into if things go wrong.
If a cell has discharged too low it may recover fully if gently charged up to its base 3V level. I wouldn't recommend using them for a high current application though. A faulty lithium cell will tend to discharge itself when not in use, and at that point it should be recycled.
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[@Vokabre]

Thank you for the video, it was a great watch! Nice to see nothing exploded during shipment. Glad to be a provider of nice tasty and engineering goodies for you and youtube! The caramel inside of the pryanik, i forgot to mention, is indeed baked condensed milk. For Cellevo the processor crash sounds more plausible, i tend to keep batteries charged. (Or, the rate on which the unit self-discharges must be really high for that particular power bank) Surprised how simple was the issue with Xiaomi, quite a fail considering the higher than usual price.

[@thebraziliangardener8481]

you need to oganize a party to celebrate 100 years of that power tower :)

[@scottgibson7534]

You will have to get, "Big Clive" to send you some scotish tablet, tunnoks caramel wafers and logs, and teacakes, and some cloutie dumpling now.

[@Vokabre]

Scott Gibson i actually was planning to go to Wales, England and Scotland myself this May, and eating local curiosities always is a part of the plan, but the home office denied me a visitor visa.

[@scottgibson7534]

@@Vokabre Appeal against it. good luck.

[@Vokabre]

​@@scottgibson7534 i'd do that, but there is no appeal process at all, i only can apply again

[@thomasherzog86]

the "design" of the letter is awesome. very reasonable and technical. a smart mind i assume.

[@Vokabre]

Thanks!

[@5roundsrapid263]

Vokabre The map is very nice, also. I’ve drawn maps by hand, and it’s very difficult!

[@Vokabre]

@@5roundsrapid263 Thank you! I suppose i like maps, on some paintings i spend some time to make everything look right if there's a map in the background : 3

[@wich1]

Agreed awesome letter! Very creative, lots of attention to detail and who does not like an attractive map.

[@mahound9]

Check out Vokabre's channel. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Already subbed to him.

[@Nono-hk3is]

Mikhail, that was a wonderfully drawn map, and a lovely painted(?) postcard!

[@Vokabre]

Thank you! Sending little watercolours on postcards is one of my little specialities : 3

[@ghibliinu6616]

They're beautiful!

[@Vokabre]

@@ghibliinu6616 Thanks!

[@MD4564]

@@Vokabre Awesome work Mikhail :)

[@Vokabre]

@@MD4564 Thank you!

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

Complimentary MOSFET: "My, that's a *lovely* shirt you're wearing today!"

[@TheRealColBosch]

No, no, it's a complEmentary MOSFET. It goes well with your shoes and and necklace.

[@Bluscream]

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[@devlad]

This is why I love this channel. You get fun electronic stuff, but also get to see interesting foods and drinks from all over the world. I loved the little painting and letter drawings too, a great personal touch

[@olegvelichko1659]

Thanks for the video, bigclive! A couple comments, although I may be late to the tea party... I am Russian, long time viewer, sometimes commenter. So the guy’s name is pronounced “Mee-ha-eel”, it’s the Russian variant of “Michael”. The chocolate brand is a quite popular one around here and is indeed rather low on cocoa oils and whatnot. In general most decent Russian chocolate brands take pride in the low amounts of cocoa solids in them. The cranberry candies are an excellent choice by Misha, I recognize that box of pure bliss! Now the pryanik is in fact from the capital of pryaniks, Tula (pronounced “Too-la”) and goes great with a nice hot cup of tea (a dash of thyme for the pot makes it even more gooder), and us Russians are pretty serious about our tea, I prefer mine with a bit of milk most of the time. This dolce leche you speak of is a staple of Russian tea-time and most likely is the flavor you’re tasting on the pryanik. Many varieties come with this type of filling. Indeed it can be easily made at home by putting a sealed can of sweetened condensed milk in boiling water for some time, just make sure to not over cook it. The clean up is no fun. At all... So there... A little excursion into Russian sweeties and culture. Love your content! Thanks again for all the work you put into keeping us entertained!!!

[@larsihasi1986]

I have the exact same Xiaomi Powerbank and it had the exact same problem. After soldering the wire back on it worked flawless for the past two years now.

[@larsihasi1986]

In m, opinion the Xiaomi powebanks are one of the better solutions from Asia. This was the one and only time I had to put in some work to make them "good"

[@twocvbloke]

Xiaomi has had their powerbanks ripped off so many times it's nice to see the originals, my trio of their "10,000mAh" ones are still working well 4 or 5 years after buying them, containing 3x Panasonic 18650 cells a piece, really good powerbanks, and rather cheap at the time (when the $-£ rate was in our favour!)... :)

[@devlad]

Yeah mine are still running strong 5 years later

[@DavidBTB]

I fully endorse the Big Clive Food Channel. Occasionally Hot-dogger / SodaStream enhanced

[@repairupdaterepeat5815]

The hotdogger now that was a classic episode

[@KernelLeak]

*Ashens note-taking intensifies*

[@ICountFrom0]

The fact that you know how to do this, would make you the most valuable person in a mad max distopia.

[@JerryEricsson]

I do envy you for all the great things folks send you from all over the world, it looks very interesting.

[@TheSpotify95]

Nice to see those Russian treats! Though I cannot speak a word of Russian to be frank... Also good to see that you managed to rejuvenate those power banks :) I've got a "300,000mAh" power bank that has a broken USB port, a non functioning solar panel and a broken LED so that may be worthy of a teardown just to see what the real capacity of the cell is (obviously not 300Ah!).

[@felenov]

Привет из России! Hi from Russia!

[@oldbatwit5102]

About forty years ago or less, when they still did a lot of trade with Cuba, Russia had the biggest and possibly the best chocolate industry in the world. Their chocolate rivalled that of Belgium, Holland etc and was, reluctantly, accepted as being every bit as good. PS.... Excellent video. I learned something both new and useful.

[@Vokabre]

It often comes down to the fact that a lot of the manufacturing lines were either bought in the west in 1920s-1930s or were brought from the axis countries as post-war reparations. The technological processes on a lot of lines thus might've remained the same as in 1920s-1940s, with less corner-cut innovations, that might've boosted the economy and the availability of produces, but might've had some negative side-effects on the quality. Even now some of this remains, note how Alyonka chocolate still uses foil, while this type of packaging is generally seen as outdated, the factory converted it into being a sort of trademark packaging. Stuff made for export was also generally of the highest quality.

[@previousslayer]

@@Vokabre Кстати, было очень жаль, когда буквально годик-два назад тройка Бабаевский-Красный Октябрь-Ротфронт в своих конфетах перешла на пальмовое масло и схожую дичь((( (Насчёт Крупской не знаю, но она была раньше даже ещё натуральнее.) Ладно Польша, Украина, даже наша Литва, они давно сдались и сдулись. А вот "шовинистические" российские конфеты у нас скупали весьма охотно, отчасти и благодаря составу (правда, и сейчас спроса хватает 😄) I'll be more than happy to repeat this in English if anyone cares.

[@Vokabre]

​@@previousslayer Всё же те же глазированные сырки Karums из Литвы замечательные. В наших краях всё сейчас упирается в сложность конкуренции в сегодняшних условиях - нужно поднимать цены или снижать качество.

[@previousslayer]

@@Vokabre Karums Латвия тащемта)) Вечно вы нас путаете 😹 Есть литовские сырки Pasaka, мне нрав :) Хотя самые популярные у нас всегда были простые с какого-то маленького комбината, назывались просто "Varškės sūrelis", самые дешёвые, по начинке как все. Сейчас, что странно, они одни из самых дорогих и делаются из г и палок, в отличие от остальных. Короче. найду Karums в магазе - гляну, из чего их сейчас делают 🙃 И извините, если нагрузил 😅

[@Vokabre]

​@@previousslayer Если бы был импорт, то не путал бы, хех, а то довольно давно не приезжал и не пробовал, а в памяти осталось как сырки откуда-то между Клайпедой и Резекне. Российские сырки какие-то или слишком унылые или слишком помпезные.

[@Qoow8e1deDgikQ9m3ZG]

the first one is Xiaomi powerbank, cheap but very high quality among products in China. The logo is so funny "MI", you can look as Chinese character "心" if inverted. Lastly, i want you to explore Xiaomi usb charger, with comparison to other chargers, because Xiaomi usb charger get a high recommendation from our Hong Kong Consumer Council.... i really want you to explain the circuit they design 🤤🤤

[@Lucien86]

Personally I think they should make gluing batteries in like that illegal. It makes recycling the battery at EOL almost impossible. - Sooner or later there will be large scale recycling for lithium ion..

[@406nova6]

Hey faquoka you too !!!!!! clive. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@xuNsh1ne]

1:34 Yeah, fukutoo

[@cherrieaulait]

That ginger bread cake looks delicious... I love things like that which aren't too sickly or sweet!

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

Good job Mikhail! That Pryanik had some cooked sweetened condensed milk inside.

[@SigEpBlue]

Good thing you took up electronics, Clive. If you'd been a surgeon, you'd have a house full of zombies by now. ;)

[@NightlifeSux]

Hey Clive, the reason why some American chocolate tastes different or has a different texture is because it's not actually milk chocolate - it's called "compound chocolate" which is chocolate, but instead of cocoa butter, they use other vegetable fats (usually palm oil) for the "solid fat" aspect required to make chocolate.

[@crimsonhalo13]

"The batteries are glued in." *Bring me a heat gun and a stick.*

[@MD4564]

We need Big Clive Merchandise now. It's a great video once again, and thanks for Mikhail for the postcard and otherbits, awsome job there! :)

[@rogersmith9808]

"The laying on of the hands" from our hero, Big Clive has done it again!! 😉 👍

[@alexmarshall4331]

big Big BIG👍Absolutely love this channel!!...technical...personable..international...and Mikhail..beautifully composed letter...and the picture of the tower in Moscow...is that an off the shelf or was it something you had created...really enjoyed the attention to detail Clive with the confectionery...keep it up mate..a big shout to all Big Clive fans from south east London LALALA 💎👍👜☢☣🕺💥

[@xKatjaxPurrsx]

My usual workaround for over-discharged cells is to just hook them up to a powersupply that's at about their nominal voltage for a few minutes and then put it back on the regular charger. Similarly overcharged batteries get to power a fan for a little bit until their voltage is back under control. Of course take all pie tin related precautions :)

[@ayuchanayuko]

I do that too to discharged cells, but IMO ones that have been like that for long lose a lot of their capacity to the point of useless most of the time. Still good for USB fans though or if you have those box 1-cell usb powerbanks where you can easily change the cell.

[@oldmanhuppiedos]

A nice post, especially the extensive letter and gifts.

[@darrelwillman3158]

Clive, you should send the poor sod his banks back, having provided foodstuffs and great content! Nice video. :)

[@Skybird_]

Chocolate-corner with Large Clive is something I would pay Netflix for.

[@MD4564]

With Explosions :)

[@charlc]

Awesome video, Clive, enjoyed the intro section and main dissection!

[@emptyone2054]

I Shukhov tower is a design classic. Circular without a straight beam in in. quote "The Shukhov tower is a hyperboloid structure (hyperbolic steel gridshell) consisting of a series of hyperboloid sections stacked on one another to approximate an overall conical shape. The tower has a diagrid structure, and its steel shell experiences minimum wind load (a significant design factor for high-rising buildings). The tower sections are single-cavity hyperboloids of rotation made of straight beams, the ends of which rest against circular foundations. "

[@Vokabre]

It really is a beautiful piece of engineering and just looks beautiful.

[@KOTYAR0]

Greetings from Russia! Was a subscriber from 2016, I think, not sure, enjoying your works A LOT

[@mikemike7001]

Too many of these videos make me quite hungry and/or thirsty. 😊

[@FerralVideo]

This story reminded me of my trip from the US to the Philippines. On the main trans-pacific leg, our plane had power inverters in the seats, but the ones on my row didn't seem to work. The guy beside me needed a charge, so I let him boost up off of my *absolute unit* of a battery bank. Specs below the fold. 127,000 mAh @ 3.7v new, fitted with a 5v1A, 5v2A, and a variable DC 9v, 12v, 16v, 19v, 20v 3.5A out for laptops. Is old and holds ... somewhere around 65Wh last time I tested it, probably less by now, and the status LCD is utterly rekt.

[@soberhippie]

It's quite fun to watch the things one is quite accustomed to being discovered and tasted for the first time by someone else )

[@meladath5181]

Fukuoka is pronounced Fu ku, oh, ka. Your pronunciation of Russian and Japanese are both amazing! Thanks for the great content!

[@jeffflowers5489]

I was born in ‘65 as well. I celebrated (mourned) my 54th on Monday.

[@ninjabuddy1]

This is my favourite food channel.

[@OlliWilkman]

Those sugared cranberries can be nice, but just thinking about how it the feels to chew on the sugar makes my teeth itch. And every now and then you get one where the berry has gone bad inside and tastes fermented. Here in Finland I see them mostly around Christmas time.

[@Vokabre]

That's curious, never actually seen sugared cranberries in Finland (but then again, i usually go for salmiakki and fazer after crossing the border not noticing much else). Those Belarus made ones are quite decent.

[@OlliWilkman]

Vokabre I mostly see them at christmas markets and such. Wouldn’t call the traditional here, though.

[@Vokabre]

(All the cranberries are probably spent for making cranberry Finlandia)

[@DerHeilendeLotus]

Those Xiaomi power banks, at least the newer ones with QuikCharge, are quite good - they have very low ripple on the output, have a feature to keep the output on on low load, and even understate the battery capacity..

[@DooMMasteR]

jupp, that is also the reason for the complex circuit. It allows to be charged with quick charge… and the output also offers quick charge… which results in it accepting and outputting 5-12V at ~1.5-3A…

[@KOTYAR0]

Huh. So even if I will need continuous 50 mah load, - the powerbank will not switch off?

[@DerHeilendeLotus]

@@KOTYAR0 yes, usually it works by long-pressing or double pressing the button. For some of the power banks, they specifically advertise it for charging fitness bands, headphones, etc which sometimes charge at 25ma or less

[@AceStrife]

If we discovered immortality but were limited in the people that could receive it, this guy would get my vote.

[@unregistredhypercam]

I like the Russian confectionary. If I get the chance to go there again I will stockpile even more, muhaha. I'm not sure about the exact bar you've got there but in my experience it tends to be dark chocolate more than milk there. Even in siberia in every shop you can not only get russian chocolate, but also all the same stuff you get in england too (minus cadburys, in place they have milka, which I prefer anyway)

[@KOTYAR0]

Hey there) glad to hear that, I can even mail you some.. those sugar balls, what clive got, if you're interested

[@Vokabre]

Dark chocolate is seen as more "fancy", and milk as more "simplistic", that's probably why it looks like that. Imported chocolate (or, actually, foreign brands manufactured for Russian market) is often considered better, and honestly, stuff like Milka and Ritter Sport have more variety than most local brands, although some smaller manufacturers also enter the game with unusual flavours, but these kinds of chocolate are usually on the expensive side. Cadbury is mostly limited to imports sold in very fancy shops, i've seen a small Wispa in one of those shops for like 1.5 euros, but there's one exception - Picnic is quite common and affordable.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Thanks for the offer. I'm trying to limit the amount of candy I eat. I'm putting on too much weight.

[@GreatJoe]

The input range on that TI chip going up to 17 volts is probably to accommodate one of those new USB-C power delivery modes.

[@heiwa3713]

Finally someone actually pronounced the word Xiaomi right

[@whitehoose]

The MI is a usb powerbank with quickcharge 3. Useful for powering a ts80 soldering iron to 9v. Also works with A+ 6 phone (and all te others I've tried it with. Seems to be qc3 compatible "by the Qualcom book" unlike so many of the reverse engineered chinesium knockoffs. Not found anything it's not compatible with.

[@ЕвгенийБорисенко-ю3т]

приятно что уделил внимание и россиянской аудитории твоего канала

[@zh84]

12:22 The data sheet for the TI component apparently talks about a 9A output! Am I misinterpreting this?

[@ThePr0Br0]

That 5000mah xiaomi powerbank takes me back to the good old days, it's the first generation of xiaomi powerbanks, in that same size now they have 10000mah ones....

[@ElectronicYouth]

Сувениры прямо как в поле чудес.

[@repairupdaterepeat5815]

"I tried this last night" Half of it already gone.....

[@lawrencecole6527]

Wow what a viewer! Love your channel.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

Hey Clive! I know you're into electronics more than old school computers, but CuriousMarc has a series on restoring a Apollo Guidance Computer, an old computer before microprocessors. Truly fascinating. At least for geeks like me... :) Got any comments in general on Space? (The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing is in a few days...)

[@alpcns]

The CuriousMarc series of videos on the AGC is nothing short of spectacular and simply brilliant. I cannot recommend it enough.

[@rayg9069]

In a previous life I used to service electronic controllers for heavy dump truck automatic transmissions, nothing special about that except this was the early 1970's, everything was done with discrete components. It processed two analogue inputs, throttle position and vehicle speed, digital inputs from the shifter, starter, and a few others and produced digital outputs to control the shift valves on a huge auto transmission that weighted around 5 Tons by itself. Fully modulated current limited shift points with protections to stop drivers doing dopey things and trying to break the gearbox. God I hated those things.

[@japonicaren]

NASA have, on video, admitted the following. 1. They destroyed the technology required to get back to the moon. 2. They have yet to engineer a method to safely pass through the Van Allen belts. It's all on KZbin. We never went to the moon.

[@alpcns]

@@japonicaren: Oh, it's all on KZbin, so it must be true. Friend, NASA has "admitted" to nothing of the sort. It's all hogwash and cheap propaganda. You've been had.

[@cambridgemart2075]

@@japonicaren Can't believe the flat earthers have made it to Clive's channel, this is indeed a sad day.

[@plane8462]

Sugary balls lol.....I'm glad I'm still a young boy in some ways

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

Cool thats some nice chocolate I had some when I was in Moscow last year !

[@jasbindersingh2441]

Flown 2 Moscow plenty of times - and have always bought bk a bar of alenka chocolate and a bottle of sovietski "champagne " - great souvenirs and tasty 2

[@00Skyfox]

True about Hershey’s. Their plain milk chocolate is very harsh and leaves a sharp burning feeling in my throat. I like their other variants though, especially their dark chocolate. Some of the best chocolate I ever had was Belgian chocolate from one of those roadside discount stores that specialize in gloves, tarps, and random crap. It was huge bars for $1 each.

[@Darieee]

Amazing card! Love the map!!

[@williambuehler2784]

Clive, thanks for another great video. How might I be able to send you some solar surge arresters to take to bits?

[@fredrickrari9338]

Id love to see how they work

[@TheAmpair]

"Solar surge arrester", known around here as clouds. ;-)

[@MikinessAnalog]

Fukuoka (foo koh kuh) Kyushu (kee you shoo)

[@josephking6515]

My wife murdered her powerbank by not recharging it when the power was either really low or drained. I replaced it with the exact same Xiaomi as the first one. I must now ensure she treats it a tad more gently (to avoid the teeny tiny wire from breaking) and to keep the charge up so it doesn't die like her first victim. Maybe I will attempt to explore the dead one but the case appears to be glued together and I would likely destroy it when disassembling it which would null and void a usable repair. I purchased the Xiaomi one because it has a Mode C charge connector and the idea was to eliminate the micro USB cables from her travel case (her phone is also Mode C). The Xiaomi is also a lot lighter than the previous one which has, I believe, the 1822 (or was it the 1865) "laptop cells" in it.

[@thebeststooge]

WOW, I always wondered how old you were so we were both born the same year. Gen X.

[@MickeyD2012]

Tula is where they make most of the Russian ammunition, too.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I was just going to say this. They’ve been making weapons there since the reign of Peter the Great.

[@DarkAvatar1313]

I buy lots of TulAmmo branded ammo, it great for cheap target shooting. You can't reload the casings since they are steel rather than brass but I don't do that anyway. The only downside to me is that I have to put more effort to clean my Valmet M76 after shooting lots of the dirty ammo.

[@5roundsrapid263]

Darkavatar I’ve reloaded the steel before on a whim. It does work, but not as well as brass. They make good primers, too.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

ah good old communism brands

[@rolfs2165]

@@DarkAvatar1313 Can you sell the spent steel casings to scrap dealers (if you got enough to be worth it)? Or do they not want them because there might be unexploded stuff left that could blow up in the crucible?

[@SimpleElectronics]

Americans will be confused on your "smarties" reference! Americans: imagine if M&Ms tasted good and you have Smarties!

[@Lumibear.]

Remove the grit and half the sugar, add actual chocolate: smarties

[@5roundsrapid263]

The US has dark chocolate, white chocolate, and hazelnut creme M&Ms now. They’re amazing!

[@Lumibear.]

5Rounds Rapid in that case I need to get my friend who brings me American candy to get more creative in his choices cuz all I get are standard M&Ms, Hershey bars and Reeses Pieces

[@HiddenWindshield]

@@Lumibear. Oh, yeah, if *that's* all he's sending you, you definitely need more creative friends.

[@Lumibear.]

HiddenWindshield I’ll have words! I must say I’m always amused by the confectionary that’s purely shaped and coloured sugar with e-numbers a go-go to make it taste of something, they’re very... interesting.

[@AntonioClaudioMichael]

Great video Big Clive

[@jayc2469]

The word -Fukuoka- 'Fukuova' springs to mind

[@richardwilliamson3624]

@vokabre. What a beautiful handwritten note.

[@Vokabre]

Thanks!

[@flandrble]

I have one of those Xiao Mi Pro powerbanks since new (over 3 years now), it's a great product, I use it as a parking battery for my dash cam as it allows pass through charging, so while the car is on the Xiao Mi charges and powers the camera and while the car is off the camera is powered seamlessly. If it ever stops working I'll know where to start looking!

[@flandrble]

@Matthayi Naalaaman I typed Pro to diffirentiate from the non pro Mi Power Bank

[@AR-rb1le]

Well thanks Clive today I got up and said to my family today I going on a diet... Now I want chocolate.. dang it!

[@blackdragonx1186]

Tula makes some great ammo as well:)

[@TheSkytherMod]

Eating off the bench, I see you got a chance to take your lithium.

[@nickf3242]

Possible glued battery liberation technique tip. I know a pro trick to remove car brand badging attached with double-sided tape is to get behind them with a length of dental floss and use a sawing motion while pulling across or down releasing the badge without damaging the car paint. If you can somehow get a line of floss behind a glued battery on a product you really want to repair or inspect without damaging the battery, you should give it a try. Hello from scorching hot Florida. If we're not getting burned like ants under a magnifying glass, the thunder storms are trying to kill us.

[@Cammi_Rosalie]

Clive, your pronunciation of Fukuoka may trigger the dreaded bots. For future reference it is like "Foo-koo-OH-kah" (emphasis on the "oh" bit) Keep up the wonderful videos. I would love to see you get a Halo Bolt 58830 Jump starter / power pack / inverter (mine has a 65W 115vac, U.S. outlet on it.) and "take it to bits" then offer your opinion of it. I'd send you mine, but it still works great, and I use it all the time when going to garage sales and yard sales to test small appliances or radios etc, that I'm interested in. Lil' bugger even started a Chevy 350 (5.7l) V8 with a stone-dead battery.

[@juststeve5542]

I remember an Eastern European friend telling me about what they called "communist chocolate" from the USSR era, which contained no coco solids at all! Still sounded preferable to Hersheys!

[@DanaTheInsane]

Steve Evans I’m an American and I won’t touch Hersheys.

[@juststeve5542]

@@DanaTheInsane an English friend of mine married an American girl. She brought us all chocolate... She couldn't understand why we all hated it, so when he did the American side of the wedding in the States, he took cadburys and galaxy chocolate with him as a missionary. Oddly enough, all the American guests loved our offerings!

[@fieroboom]

Man I’d love to see some update videos on some of these reanimated/resurrected simple fixes like this one, the neighbor’s tv, etc... Maybe you’ve already done them & I just haven’t made it that far yet, but if not, it’d be great to see if these failed again or not.

[@sweetpeaz61]

I love your videos Clive, and i especially like your 'spudger'. What a brilliant tool with a brilliant name, except with your accent you should be calling it 'The spudger of doom!' thanks again for some great and informative videos :)

[@Detroit8V92tta]

Nothing worse than having your "package pulled up your pouch" 😂

[@staticfanatic6361]

Your reviews of candy are interesting although most of us will never get to sample them, the same goes for a lot of the battery packs you review. Only a select few will ever be able to design or build their own. What would be useful is a honest and through review of name brand battery packs, hopefully obtainable from both sides of the Atlantic. Someone that would see thru the false claims of capacity and quality and provide a real performance test.

[@fredlllll]

fixed such a powerbank that had liquid damage. opened it, washed the pcb with water and then alcohol to get the salts off and dried it with compressed air. started working again

[@MidnightMechanic]

If you keep drinking that liqueur, it's gonna have you speaking fluent Russian in no time!

[@KOTYAR0]

Funny that, it doesn't have alcohol in it =) The bottle literally says *How to use* : Shake, add 2 or 3 teaspons of sbiten on a glass of tea, milk or water. The sbiten is universal, try adding it to sauces or marinads.

[@michaelthibault7930]

A little further along, you start _singing_ in Russian. Apparently.

[@baroque_engineer]

No. :))) Sbiten should not be mixed with vodka. :))) In fact, sbiten (сбитень, sbe-e-tjien') is much older than vodka, and is THE true traditional russian drink, along with kvas (квас). Vodka has been produced in Russia starting from somewhere in XV sentury, and some say that it was actually imported from Poland. Anyway, sbiten and kvas were produced almost forever - for example, kvas is known to be well appreciated and mass-produced as early as in XII sentury. Speaking of traditional alcoholic drinks, these were called "mjod" - which literally means "honey", as it was the base for them. Unfortunately, by XVII sentury this traditional beverage was almost completely replaced by vodka, which was cheaper and easier to make.

[@The_Keeper]

Mead is called Mjød in Danish and is made from honey. Makes sense I suppose. There is a story of a tribe of vikings settling near the Volga river, the tribe was called The Rus, and the story *claims* that this is where the name Russians came from. Now, I don't know just how much of that story is true, but the fact that Mjod is a word for a traditional honey alcohol in Russia seems to indicate that at least some of it is true. It could also explain why Russians tend to be batshit crazy, descending from some nasty mix of Vikings and native warrior tribes. 😁

[@KOTYAR0]

No, this is a weird, concentrated, 12 healing herbs concentrated sbiten. Tbh, it looks more like бальзам, but without alcohol. What I mean, - the bottle literally says *How to use:* Shake, add 2 or 3 teaspons of sbiten on a glass of tea, milk or water. What you said is true, regular sbiten is like kvas, - you just drink it like sod. This one isn't like that, so he can mix it with whatever he like.

[@baroque_engineer]

@@The_Keeper To be honest, Russia is extremely large country, and your experience will vary greatly depending on what part you are visiting. :) Even native russians often find some traditional stuff from remote (relative to them) regions weird, especially those who natively live in the european part of Russia. :) By the way, my friend from Denmark, who works as a translator from/to russian, once told me a story of how she was hired to translate a conversation with a "russian", who in fact turned out to be chechen. :) Oh yes, Chechnya is part of Russian Federation, and many of chechens do speak russian, but not all, and, unfortunately, the person in question was not one of those who do. :) The fun part was to convince her unsuspecting danish clients that indeed, a person can come from Russia and be unable to speak russian. :)

[@baroque_engineer]

@@KOTYAR0 Um... Did you mean "drink it like soda"? :)

[@geoffgeoff143]

That 60s was full of great events

[@objectivelense1006]

Everything taste better with Vodka! and we all wonder what the cold war was all about :) and your videos as next to none :)

[@Vixus]

1:34 is the moment the omnipotent KZbin AI decided that a naughty word was said, and this video lost any and all monetization. ;)

[@jkobain]

Yeah, «fuck you vowka»?

[@albear972]

Good one fellow furry! 🐻

[@Vokabre]

Pretty sure that mentioning the airport code of Fukuoka alone can be a trigger. (Especially if mentioning with a flight to/from Fukuoka to Helsinki).

[@Lumibear.]

What about when Clive bites on Mikhail’s chocolate dusty balls?

[@restorer19]

My thoughts on the sugared cranberries, never having tried them and only just now looked up a recipe: since cranberries are hollow - they're filled with air, so they're harvesting by flooding the field and corralling them on the surface - there's enough space to fill with the sugar syrup you coat them in before rolling in powdered sugar and leaving the outside to dry. If the berries don't perforate, osmosis alone should leak sugary liquid into the cavity (though that leaves me the question of air pressure). But then it depends on who makes them and what exact recipe they use. Maybe that particular version/manufacturer aims for that result. I should get ahold of some of these and examine them closely. ;) (Or wait another month and start buying fresh cranberries on sale to make my own variations.)

[@benwinkel]

Dutch gingerbread is called "Speculaas" and sometimes: "Peperkoek", and traditionally served around "Sinterklaas" and Christmas holiday's.

[@benwinkel]

@@Okurkaarrgghh This is true. They share a lot of the same ingredients though, especially the spices. Speculaas is a cookie that is eaten year round, where peperkoek is eaten mostly during the holiday season.

[@benwinkel]

@@Okurkaarrgghh Yet, that's sometimes how it works in the world. Don't blame me.

[@benwinkel]

@@Okurkaarrgghh I will also be the one saying that you are a pathetic little urk! If that and other cases of misnomers disturbs you, i suggest you go hide in a dark corner under a blanket.

[@vaelophisnyx9873]

Hershey's also is processed with Butyric Acid, which gives it that characteristic flavor that most europeans seem to loath

[@crashk6]

Yes, taste like arse.. not in a good way.

[@jmonsted]

Clive, have you ever taken a look at the battery packs for ebikes? I bet you can pick up a dead one from your neighborhood bicycle shop!

[@TakeMeOffYourMailingList]

I have a dead 36V 10Ah one from my dad's ebike. I don't have spot welding kit and I'd rather not hold my cheap soldering iron up to all those lithium cells to try and take them apart. Unsure if postage to the IoM would be feasable, though.

[@ec8107]

Here in the US, our "beloved" Hershey's chocolate is awful, not only due to the texture, but because the recipe is based on spoiled milk. Fortunately, we can get good stuff at independent shops. It's also not hard to find European chocolate here.

[@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154]

that explains why it tastes like vomit !

[@stephenbelcher]

Cambridge watching✍️✌️🤪👍

[@BerndFelsche]

I'd also like to thank the Russian contributor for the interesting powerbanks ... Along with the unusual treats.

[@Vokabre]

Thank you!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

I have a semi-dead powerbank here (OK, a couple years ago, it was semi-dead, now it'll probably be dead all the way) which was once a 10,000mAh unit, but only delivered something like 200mAh, while taking bout ten times as much for charging it. Unfortunately, it's in a case that is welded shut, so there's no way of accessing it without total destruction.

[@chuffpup]

That radio tower is actually quite amazing, and iconic. I think I remember hearing they were going to pull it down? But there was a lot of opposition because of its historic and aesthetic value. Is it still standing? Not sure.

[@Vokabre]

There were plans for demolition five years ago, those were halted, but the tower in Moscow exists in a precarious state as it desperately needs a restoration, but no one wants to properly do it. I heard the saying was that to properly restore the tower you'd need to demolish it and built it again, but only Shukhov could do that. (One can never be so sure about demolitions, current Moscow administration loves to demolish stuff, and there's no real civil control over them, it's not like there's an election or anything).

[@Visiorary]

1965 was a special year for you and me and Charlie Brown and Charlie Sheen and the Super Bowl.

[@TheDarkKl342]

А я всё ждал когда ему пришлют что-нибудь наше

[@Vokabre]

Вот не дождался и отправил.

[@antkoos]

То-есть ты понимаешь английский, верно?

[@D__x]

@@Vokabre Шли ещё 8)))

[@previousslayer]

@Student Gary Smith Google Translate does too 😜 (jk)

[@Vokabre]

​@@D__x пока ничего интересного по интересному ещё не сломалось

[@brendasaurusrex]

Love the video! I would like to know what system you use to provide a battery with a current limited supply. Have you built your own PCB for charging or is it a device that I can buy from eBay or Amazon which regulates current flow? Thanks!

[@TheRealKuif]

I"m curious what the capacities are, especially for that second pack after it has sat at such a low voltage. You hear people screaming left and right about discharge protection, etc. But what is the actual, measurable effect? And does it really "kill" the cell beyond being usable? Clearly it was still holding _some_ power after you slow-charged it..

[@Somgosomgo]

Upvote to the top. I'd love to see a followup.

[@kjur18]

Well, I'll bet on one of the cells discharging the rest. Reason? This integrated protection/mosfet ic should cutoff battery when voltage on it falls down below 2,5V, and chips like these are designed to draw very small current, somewhere about few uA. For a cell of this size a few years at least. I think if left for longer period of time, they would discharge to 0V.

[@jpdemer5]

Big Clive is going to get even bigger if we keep shipping him all these treats!

[@chrismueller8861]

@7:35 ahhh.... poking around in a power bank with a spudger, lol bigclive you always make me cringe. But great entertainment. Keep up your excellent work. I am sure a lot more folks are waiting eagerly for you to produce some nice sparks, explosions or smoke clouds when dismantling something :-)

[@rbottomley]

It wasn't the spudger part that made me cringe, it was pointing out things with a screwdriver that got me.

[@Furiends]

I've looked at a lot of these types of devices. The chips on the back are likely current sense chips. A battery bank like this will have a chip for each function and they add up. A microcontroller for input logic and integration Monitoring, current sense and overload protection on the battery. Current sense and limiting on each USB-A port or USB-C port Boost converter for output sometimes controlled by the microcontroller but usually separate Fast charging handshake. Not really sure why these aren't built into the microcontroller but they are typically standalone.

[@xcbrr50]

"Hersheys which is like wax" You must try some chocolate brands here in Philippines theyre like candles 😂

[@bluestone-gamingbg3498]

They basically pump it with oils, so you can technically use it as a candle since wax are simply just hardened oil