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240V AC In the USA, Interesting but Dangerous

Added 2021-03-10 13:19:18 +0000 UTC

This video is the epitome of things not going how I expected. I have been working on the second part of the SCSI2SD stuff, but realized that was going to take a while and was feeling like I was on a bit of a roll with videos and wanted to keep up the pace. So I thought I would record a quick mail video comparing two calculators I was sent. But I forgot one of them was from the UK. So I figured, "Oh good, I'll just swap out the power cable on the Step Up/Down Transformer I bought last year and be good to go" , ha. No.

Originally, I wasn't even going to make a video on this, or at most a small second channel video just showing using something like this to power a UK device in the US. But almost nothing went as planned for this video. I spent way more time on this than I should have for multiple reasons that are covered in the video. But in the end I think the video is important if you are interested in one of these, it just didn't go how I thought it would.

One thing that isn't is that isn't covered in the video, I finally gave in to my better senses and used Blender for an animated section. This was one of the many things that took a bit longer than I planned(I had to get re-familiarized with Blender's new UI and some other quirks), but turned out every bit as good as I could have hoped. I'm very happy with how that section of the video turned out. Future videos will absolutely be using Blender for pure animated sections in the future.