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[0:01] Okay, I have a device here from a company called werewolf and this was a Kickstarter campaign and the device is called VFLEX
[0:11] And what it is is a little adapter that allows you to program the output voltage and
[0:19] I'm in the Chrome base browser here and you go to VFLEX.app and
[0:26] Then the page that pops up is the configure page
[0:29] And we can see that it's connected because I have it plugged in to a USB source
[0:36] The other end of the USB connector here is plugged into my Mac mini one of the front USB ports
[0:43] So I'm connected. I'm going to modify the output voltage. I'm going to set this to nine volts and
[0:52] You'll see the light blank a couple of times and
[0:55] And that means we are ready to hook this thing up to a device to power something up or charge something
[1:06] Okay, I'm gonna demonstrate how this VFLEX system works in my last video
[1:13] I programmed the VFLEX device to be a nine volt output. I have this brother PT 210 label maker
[1:24] They cost about 20 bucks, but the rotten engineers over at brother
[1:30] Made the power connector reverse polarity which means the center pin is
[1:35] Negative in the outside of the barrel is positive and that's just about exactly the opposite of the rest of the entire world
[1:45] so
[1:47] This thing has no batteries in it. It's completely dead and I am going to plug it in
[1:53] To this power brick right here that I bought also from where wolf and let's plug it in and
[2:02] You might see
[2:05] Let's make sure we're focused entirely on the screen here. It's putting out 9.09 volts at
[2:13] 0.04 amps
[2:15] So it works. We're ready to roll
[2:19] I am going to move this and then let's pull this into frame a little bit turn it on and
[2:27] It does power on so I can save myself a lot of grief
[2:35] The power brick that comes with this thing. It's like 20 bucks
[2:39] The power brick is like 20 or 30 bucks because it's a reverse
[2:44] polarity device and that's ridiculous
[2:47] So
[2:48] Not only and then I spent a lot more money on this stuff here, but not only can I program this?
[2:55] I can also program devices like this
[2:58] This is a Nikon cool walker. I bought it in about
[3:02] 2005 and that was back in the day when we had low capacity compact flash cards and the concept here is
[3:11] to plug your compact flash card in the bottom
[3:15] Transfer your pictures to the mechanical hard drive inside this device and then
[3:21] You know
[3:22] Format your card and shoots more pictures and then put those into this device now this thing has some kind of weirdo freakish
[3:32] proprietary battery from Nikon. It was called the
[3:36] EN-EL6
[3:39] Nikon doesn't make them
[3:41] They're not in any other device and
[3:44] No third-party vendor sells them to this day
[3:48] So this thing needs five to six volts to power up
[3:52] So even though I spent more money on this than the power brick for the
[3:57] Thing here for the label maker here. I can also program this to be five or six volts and put it into the cool walker here
[4:07] I have a multitude of ham radios that I like to charge on the fly and that's great for these little power bricks right here
[4:15] Also, I have a jackary
[4:18] Portable power station. I don't know if I can quite get it in a frame here, but the PD port on this thing
[4:26] Only does nominal values like five volts 12 volts 19 volts, which is popular for laptops and 24 volts and
[4:36] It's limited these things you can program it to five point two volts or whatever you want to
[4:43] so that's it this little thing works beautifully and
[4:49] I can just I can operate a whole bunch of devices with this thing and
[4:55] Know exactly what voltage I'm pumping into it with this little
[4:59] inline USB voltage reader which I also got from
[5:05] V flex the werewolf folks. So that's it. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something
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[0:02] Okay, I have a device here from a company called Weirwolf and this was a Kickstarter campaign and the device is called VFLEX.
[0:11] And what it is is a little adapter that allows you to program the output voltage.
[0:19] And I'm in the Chrome base browser here and you go to VFLEX.app and then the page that pops up is the configure page.
[0:30] And we can see that it's connected because I have it plugged in to a USB source.
[0:36] The other end of the USB connector here is plugged into my Mac Mini, one of the front USB ports.
[0:44] So I'm connected. I'm going to modify the output voltage. I'm going to set this to nine volts.
[0:51] And you'll see the light blink a couple of times.
[0:56] And that means we are ready to hook this thing up to a device to power something up or charge something.
[1:05] Okay, I'm going to demonstrate how this VFLEX system works.
[1:11] In my last video, I programmed the VFLEX device to be a nine volt output.
[1:19] I have this brother PT 210 label maker. They cost about 20 bucks, but the rotten engineers over at brother made the power connector reverse polarity, which means the center pin is negative in the outside of the barrel is positive.
[1:39] And that's just about exactly the opposite of the rest of the entire world.
[1:45] So this thing has no batteries in it. It's completely dead.
[1:51] And I am going to plug it in to this power brick right here that I bought also from Werewolf.
[2:00] And let's plug it in. And you might see, let's make sure we're focused entirely on the screen here.
[2:09] We're putting out 9.09 volts at 0.04 amps.
[2:16] So it works. We're ready to roll. I am going to move this.
[2:22] And then let's pull this into frame a little bit, turn it on.
[2:27] And it does power on.
[2:30] So I can save myself a lot of grief.
[2:35] The power brick that comes with this thing, it's like 20 bucks.
[2:40] The power brick is like 20 or 30 bucks because it's a reverse polarity device.
[2:45] And that's ridiculous. So not only, and then I spent a lot more money on this stuff here, but not only can I program this, I can also program devices like this.
[2:58] This is a Nikon Cool Walker. I bought it in about 2005.
[3:03] And that was back in the day when we had low capacity compact flashcards.
[3:09] And the concept here is to plug your compact flashcard in the bottom, transfer your pictures to the mechanical hard drive inside this device.
[3:19] And then format your card and shoot some more pictures and then put those into this device.
[3:28] Now this thing has some kind of weirdo freaky proprietary battery from Nikon.
[3:34] It was called the EN-EL6 Nikon doesn't make them.
[3:40] They're not in any other device. And no third party vendor sells them to this day.
[3:48] So this thing needs five to six volts to power up.
[3:53] So even though I spent more money on this than the power brick for the thing here, for the label maker here, I can also program this to be five or six volts and put it into the Cool Walker here.
[4:07] I have a multitude of ham radios that I like to charge on the fly. And that's great for these little power bricks right here.
[4:15] Also I have a jackery portable power station.
[4:20] I don't know if I can quite get it in frame here. But the PD port on this thing only does nominal values like five volts, 12 volts, 19 volts, which is popular for laptops and 24 volts.
[4:35] And it's limited. These things you can program it to 5.2 volts or whatever you want to.
[4:44] So that's it. This little thing works beautifully. And I can just I can operate a whole bunch of devices with this thing and know exactly what voltage I'm pumping into it with this little inline USB voltage reader, which I also got from V Flex the werewolf folks.
[5:08] So that's it. I hope you enjoyed it and hope you learned something.
