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[0:00] Hi, this was originally set into the mailbag segment

[0:04] But I thought it'd spin it off as a separate video because it's rather interesting from company called werewolf

[0:10] Thank you very much for sending it in. I don't know why they call themselves werewolf like you can't search for that

[0:16] It's not a unique spelling or something. Anyway, this is the V flex

[0:21] System it's not labeled that but it's the V flex system. I'll link it in down below. It is super novel the idea is that you can use

[0:28] USB your USB-C power delivery product and they included this power brick here

[0:34] It's just has single USB-C power delivery output and you can program these are little adapters here that we can program

[0:43] using a

[0:44] shoe phone app here to any

[0:48] Voltage supported by USB power delivery and yes USB power delivery is not just a set

[0:55] Voltage not was just like 512, you know, whatever you can actually program in

[1:00] Essentially any voltage up to the maximum are compliant limit and the whole idea is that you get one of these little adapters

[1:07] You program it for whatever voltage you want and then you use one of these little V flex adapter

[1:14] Cables here to for example, we've got these like Wago type connectors here or all these different sized barrel jack connectors

[1:21] The whole idea is that you plug these in and they are keyed so you can only you know, you can't goof it up

[1:27] You can't goof up the polarity you put it in like that and it converts any power delivery voltage source into

[1:33] whatever voltage you want and whatever

[1:37] adapter you want it's brilliant

[1:40] Downloaded the Android app V flex app the world's best power supply

[1:44] Continuous Google continue with Apple bugger that

[1:47] Continuous guest sign in I don't want to sign in I want you to just work. Oh

[1:51] There we go. Um, five volts tap to my lead always on is the lead there. Oh, yes, there is look at that

[1:59] so we can

[2:01] Turn that off and on no, it lead always on

[2:05] Hmm, so if we tap to modify we can set that to say 12 volts and

[2:12] Boom so now

[2:14] Presumably this will output

[2:16] 12 volts or we can modify it you know, let's say you want a 12.12 volts

[2:23] Boom so it's programmed that which we will negotiate that voltage from the USB power delivery

[2:31] Device which you plug it into and sure enough if I plug it into the power brick

[2:36] There you go that one I just programmed and showing green there

[2:40] So presumably ready to go 12.1 volts doesn't have the resolution so program for 12.12 and

[2:48] Let's have a look 12.1 you know, it's within the error margin

[2:52] That is just fine. I'll do something oddball like 17.8 volts for example, so that's programmed

[3:02] Take it out work it in there and

[3:06] Should be yeah

[3:08] 28 volts

[3:10] This is the greatest things in sliced bread

[3:13] Seriously, that's great and your current handling capability

[3:17] Presumably based on what your source over here your power delivery source is capable of actually

[3:24] Delivering there

[3:25] You know, there might be some cable and connect to limits and stuff like that, but yeah

[3:30] Wow, then we can think get things like you know, just the bear wise

[3:34] He can solder directly onto your board you can as I said let the Wago like lever lever connectors or just a whole bunch of

[3:42] barrel jack adapters

[3:44] It's insane. I would have supplied like some stickers that are designed to go on here

[3:49] And you can just like handwrite whatever voltage you've got in I mean you can get your own stickers

[3:54] But it just would have been a nice touch to include like a sheet of matching stickers that you can put on and then you know

[3:59] Write on whatever voltage of programmed for this particular unit rather than having to check and these ones that we've got here

[4:06] These aren't programmable ones so if you plug that in that one

[4:12] Ain't gonna work because you need that's what these little do the hikki adapters are full

[4:17] So these are just nice little just a you know convenient adapters you can get from anywhere

[4:22] So we can do is just have a nice set of these a complete set and you can have them pre-programmed for whatever

[4:29] Common voltages you want or any odd bore voltages like that ones. Yeah, they've been factory set to five volts

[4:35] But you can change it anything you want beautiful

[4:38] So I've programmed this one here for 9.5 volts and they also sell this very cool little

[4:45] Magsafe

[4:46] Thing that just you know magnetically connects under the back of your shoe phone and charges your shoe phone

[4:52] There it goes

[4:54] Fantastic little battery pack. It's very slim and cute 5,000 milliamp hours are perfectly small and lightweight

[5:00] For taking around with you 20 watts capability. So I've programmed it to 9.5 volts. So we just plug that in

[5:07] We'll turn green to show you that it's output in its programmed voltage and

[5:13] There you go 9.5 volts is gonna be you know a little bit of tolerance there. It's neither here nor there

[5:18] Great for the USB power delivery spec the maximum is 48 volts

[5:23] So it allows me to set 48 but it won't allow me to set 49 volts for example

[5:28] I don't know why it even tries. I don't know why the app just doesn't say no the maximum you know

[5:33] Inform me please that the USB power delivery standard is 48 volts

[5:37] Anyway up you can go through inventory here and you can add a new device and you can have photos and primary names

[5:44] So, you know you can get really complicated and what you know whether it's center positive or send a negative and all sorts of things

[5:51] Really groovy or you can add a new power source for example you can take a photo of your own, you know

[5:57] particular power source whether it's a power bank or a

[6:00] War war or whatever it is and model and power maximum power rating and stuff like that

[6:06] Now when you're programming this if unless you select a power source here

[6:10] It's not going to know what particular USB power delivery device is what one you're using

[6:17] What that's actually capable of so it just allows you to go up the maximum

[6:21] But you can actually select those are pre-progared power sources. That's pretty cool

[6:26] But I won't muck around with that. I said it for 24 volts for example, so we've programmed that yep

[6:32] No worries take the same adapter. We plug it into here. You'll see and it's gonna flash red

[6:38] So this power bank the compliance voltage is not capable of delivering

[6:44] 24 volts, but let's try that on the big power brick over here and

[6:50] Nope can't do that either and in that particular case

[6:53] It's going to default back for safety reasons back to five volts

[6:57] Beautiful and we can give our individual units a name

[7:02] So I'm gonna call it Dave and I've plugged it knows that I've plugged in Dave and it knows Dave is set to

[7:09] 48 volts

[7:10] Cool bananas. It's just brilliant and they also sell these very cool magnetic

[7:15] USB-C to USB-C cables as well look

[7:19] Oh, they're magnetic it's got a magnetic thread in them. Beautiful and

[7:24] I'm not sure if these are on the store or not, but these are the actual thing that's inside

[7:31] The V flex adapter here, so we'll get the macro lens out. We'll take a closer look

[7:36] Oh, there you go. They've got their own werewolf branded chips upside down all the electrons are gonna fall out

[7:42] There you go, so I don't know maybe someone can reverse engineer the pin out there to figure what that

[7:48] About what that is I doubt they've developed their own custom ASIC that would just be like an off-the-shelf

[7:54] You know a power delivery

[7:57] negotiation

[7:58] Process a thing and they've programmed it with their own firmware of course to you know talk with their own app and

[8:05] Everything and looks like they've probably done their own spring system there because I doubt that's off the shelf

[8:11] And they've just you know and the custom arm aluminium enclosure for it and that's what's inside

[8:17] One of those that is very cool

[8:20] This is one of the coolest things I'm seeing in quite some time

[8:24] So there's little individual parts that they've engineered and that's just a great design

[8:29] I'm I just thoroughly impressed by that and just by accident

[8:34] I discovered that these ones with the orange on the end most of them are white, but I in my kid

[8:39] I got two orange ones and not sure if that's normal

[8:42] These are negative these are these are

[8:45] Center negative

[8:47] Adapter so they should be labelled like warning will Robinson sent a negative because you can blow your product with that

[8:54] So that's a bit of a downside

[8:56] So if I take that out and then I work in a white one like this

[9:01] For example this one will be center positive there it is, but I didn't RT FM of course

[9:08] I just just found that out by accident

[9:11] And you don't have to use your shoe phone to program these you can just use your web browser here

[9:17] You go to vflex.app and fortunately

[9:19] Um, well, well, well, it doesn't support firefox. So fire up chrome sure enough

[9:25] It works control and reprogram your MIDI devices don't have any MIDI devices, but okay

[9:31] I'll allow the world's best power supply like I don't know why you want to log in

[9:36] Um, oh because you maybe you can store all of your different devices and stuff like that perhaps but anyway

[9:42] Continuous guest no walkers

[9:44] Come on you can do it plug it in

[9:46] All right here it goes. I've got a going through just into a USB a adapter

[9:51] I'll plug it into my little box up here

[9:54] And

[9:56] Sure enough bingo look at that we can now set the voltage and as I said like we can set it to maximum of like 48 volts or whatever

[10:05] but it's

[10:06] Dependent upon because it doesn't know which supply that we're using it with

[10:10] So it just assumes that you can do the maximum. What is the minimum? No, you can accept that

[10:15] 3.3 volts

[10:17] Well, it do three it'll do 3.3 really

[10:21] Didn't know power delivery could do that. It learns something new every day 2.5 volts

[10:26] No, that's not gonna do it

[10:28] And I do believe the increment is like a 20 milli volt steps as well

[10:33] So I think 3.3 is the lowest it won't probably look way yeah, it won't let us do 3.2

[10:39] There you go

[10:40] But unfortunately this magsafe power adapter which they are self you can see it's maybe it's

[10:46] Flush in the red lead there so even though you program this with 3.3 volts

[10:51] It tries to negotiate 3.3 volts from here, but this power bank ain't gonna do it and

[10:56] There's supply dark power brick here

[10:58] It also will not negotiate 3.3 volts as well, but you know

[11:03] It's probably very few power delivery devices

[11:06] That a capable of negotiating 3.3 volts out so you know

[11:11] And this was a kickstarter. I thought I had seen this I mean, you know someone probably you know send it to be ditched the brick

[11:19] Power everything with USB-C and they got almost 1800 backers here

[11:25] 141,000 and they have delivered on their product. I can verify that they've delivered and it's real

[11:31] So yeah, that's fantastic. Um, that's just fairly recently March

[11:35] 2026 so yeah, you missed the early bird one at 30 bucks. That was a bargain

[11:41] Anyway, yeah, so they've got all these accessories and everything with it and I'm thoroughly impressed

[11:47] I'm thoroughly impressed they have pulled this off. So who's behind this thing does it say endless possibilities?

[11:53] Oh, that's a musician edition

[11:57] That's the Centenegative right? Yes because

[12:01] Centenegative adapters are very like used in like those fuzz boxes and all that sort of thing I believe so

[12:07] Yeah, that's a thing. I've done a video on Centenegative

[12:12] Empower like adapters and power supplies and then the

[12:16] V-flat and then the like the Wago type connector and it's made in the USA

[12:21] USA uncle Sam uncle Sam

[12:24] Fantastic. No, it's a 2025 kickstarter. That's when they launched it

[12:28] So yeah, I thought it was a while ago, but they've just updated it recently, but yeah anyway

[12:34] Um doesn't say who's behind it, but hats off

[12:38] That's fantastic. They they delivered on a unique product. I'm very impressed

[12:43] I reckon she every lab should have one. It's just so handy

[12:47] You never know when you're gonna need it all right, so I'm gonna power a special snowflake here

[12:51] This is my end electronic balance FX 400 for those playing along at home

[12:56] And it's a special snowflake. It needs 12 volts Centa negative

[13:02] So I've got my centa negative adapter and I programmed it to 12 volts there. No wakas. All right

[13:08] So let's plug it in so let's see if we compare our electronic balance from

[13:14] Our yep green there it is. So it should be good to go and

[13:20] Ha, I'm here a week get it and oh sorry

[13:23] It's really hard to see with the steady lights here, but trust me that is yes

[13:28] Yes, the readout is there. It's all vacuum fluorescent

[13:32] Tube thing it's very low, but trust me that works beautiful odd ball centa negative

[13:40] Great the only thing I think it's missing is the ability to actually set a current limit because

[13:47] The USB power delivery standard actually as well as adjusting having a just a voltage from 3.3 to 48 volts

[13:54] You can actually adjust the current limit

[13:57] I think it's in 50 milliamp steps as well, but I don't think I've ever seen a power bank or a power brick or anything like that

[14:04] actually

[14:05] Be capable of doing that so that there's maybe that's why they haven't implemented that but technically

[14:11] It's there and technically this could do it because it's got the negotiation chip in here

[14:17] It's just got to negotiate the correct command over to your power delivery brick over here

[14:23] And in theory should be capable of constant current as well and that would have been really cool

[14:29] But yeah, even their supplied power brick like doesn't go to 3.3 volts for example

[14:34] So there you have it. That's the werewolf V flex system and that is really something else

[14:40] That is worth having in your lab just to pair up oddball things or if you're on the go and you need to pair up various

[14:47] You know oddball boards and things and products

[14:50] You know using barrel jacks or soldering straight on with the wires or you know bear wires with those wire go connectors or whatever

[14:58] This is just an amazing thing. I think every lab should have like a little mini kit of these these are great

[15:04] I'm gonna give that a huge thumbs up very innovative idea

[15:08] Werewolf very impressed you just need a more innovative name I think anyway

[15:13] Thanks for sending that into the mail bag. I'll link it in down below

[15:17] Catch you next time