 Digikey and Adafruit present All right, this week is from Marauder power solutions lady to yes Marauder, okay. I didn't take you on a journey. This is gonna be a great IMP. I'm gonna learn all sorts of stuff that you didn't Expect to learn about so this week's IM MPI is for the MHM series of ionizer Modules from Marauder. These are chassis mount ionizers and ozone generators Okay, so this is what it looks like It basically it's got this little the blue thing is like the actual like ionizer I guess it's got like some ceramic or something that will actually generate the ions and then the PCB is you know this the high voltage PCB It's got you know a high voltage power supply with it looks like a I guess flyback transformer and all that all the control circuitry To to generate it and you basically just plug in 12 volts and like boom You get ions out which is awesome this is part of the Ionissimo Which sounds like a character and in some cool opera that really likes capacitors, maybe And basically they have ionizers and ozone isers We're gonna talk about the ionizer, but this is part of they have a series of boards and they all look as you see kind of similar So the MHM series they've got these really lovely data sheets And yeah, I mean the character thing it's actually kind of easy to use you just plug in the power There's a monitoring pin as well if you need like a feedback loop to make sure it's on and the high voltage is being generated And you get about five million ions per cubic centimeter Typical and you have ozone and it's either like point six milligram Or like point one six, there's also one that does negative ion one does positive ions There's three there's three different ones in this series And so you'll like they all look identical So to really tell which one you have be sure to open up the data sheet and then look at the negative ion amount and the ozone Amount because that's what's gonna vary even though mechanically they are Like the same size Okay, so yeah usage is really easy There's a V monitor and pen gives you 2.5 volts out Let you know that it's you know the high voltage is being generated because it's high voltage It's like 200 volts or something or who knows what like some some very high amounts is there's a fuse here That says 250 volt one amp. So I'm assuming it's it's about that high But that's that's the dangerous part. So just don't touch the bottom And you know keep the high voltage part away from your chassis And of course earth ground your chassis if you want to use this What I thought was interesting is there they released a few months ago a press release about using these ionizer modules to Deactivate SARS-CoV-2 otherwise known as the coronavirus and It said it was a scientific experiment. It was a you know a lab based experiment that they worked with a University to do so they have the some papers with graphs showing how you know the purple is the control and then if you have a Lot of ozone It will deactivate the virus. I guess this is like a well-known thing ionizers tend to be used for like air freshening Static removal You know disinfection and stuff. So these sort of showed like yes, you know in a lab The you know COVID virus gets deactivated when you blast with ozone now how this actually applies to real life You know would you use this to maybe make like a mask? Sanitizer you'll have to do your own experiments to you know Make sure that what you're doing what you're using this ionizer for is actually doing what you expect So I wouldn't like to keep make sure people keep that in mind that this is just a lab study It wasn't a like in real reality like you know every day use study Which is can be different that said for scientists and engineers who want to like generate a bunch of ions or ozone This is like the cheapest way to do it like compared to the other modules This is like you know a half or tenth of the price of other ionizer modules. It's really easy to use It's really cheap. So like definitely scientists engineers who want to get some ions going positive or negative This is your jam. Okay, so now I went to the marauder website You're like why what's this comic book? I read the marauder website and I click about the company because I really read a little bit about the company And they've got this awesome manga that they wrote and it's available in Japanese English and Mandarin And it tells you like the history of the company and like the ceramic capacitors that they made and like how this guy Invented them by going to university and studying really hard And it's like look there's like ceramic capacitors with like manga lines on them How can you not love it? I check out this This comic book. It's free off the marauder website. I thought that was a charming way better than like a boring PowerPoint for sure And it's better than one of the Justice League there. Yeah, that's true We're gonna get the Zack Snyder cut of the marauder capacitor manga soon Next up I They also were one of the companies. This is like Phil you talked to me about this like, you know 10 ish years ago a lot of Japanese companies started making their own robots So they made a robot and their robot was like a humanoid that would ride a bicycle And this is actually that tall. I think this is like maybe a foot tall So it's not like human size, but it used marauder sensors and you know wireless modules and motor controllers To make like a little robot that could Ride a bicycle back and forth and here's another cool thing it can balance on the bicycle So it's like not moving here and it can balance like side-to-side which is like pretty impressive. Check out the video Yeah, there was Sony that had curio and then Han had as a mob Yeah, and then there was a whole suit of others and it was this humanoid robot race to figure out who could have like kind of the most interesting demo and then Festo came along and they had these more organic ones and you haven't really seen it It was like a a humanoid robotic Competition worldwide unsaid and then later on with big dog and like Atlas you've seen some of those as well Yeah, and it's just showing you they have a they have some Tutorials on how it works too. So they're inside. There's like a flywheel and the flywheel Helps it retain its balance. It's look. It's not easy to make a balancing ball like this So I'm impressed that they did it and you know, they they have a couple of videos about Morata boy and then if you're wondering, well, what about more on a girl? We gotcha There's also a unicycle balancing robot same deal. It can balance on a single wheel and it even has a Whole history including a zodiac sign. I'm kind of surprised that there is no like, you know Blood type or whatever. I guess a backstory, but so check out these two robots What I just thought is cool is that these are friendly happy robots These are robots that would like to ride bicycles and and have fun. They are not robot enemies They are robot friends. So I'm I'm always a fan of that. So I thought that was cool to check it out But back to the ionizer so you can pick these up from did you key again? There are three different kinds One is like positive high ozone one is negative low ozone. There's a couple different kinds used for different purposes so You check out the data sheets to compare them also check out the ionissimo page on the Morata website There's also did you key has a little video? We're not gonna show that video. There's a different video that did you key has about these? So you can watch that as well and for like 30 bucks. You can have an ionizer tomorrow morning Yeah, chart your old code is digiki.com for such art for 3 3 fp 7 and the code is 490 14 864 Andy Yeah, let's go to the overhead real fast and then we'll go watch the video so I can just I'll just yeah The video doesn't any sound so you're gonna have to talk over it anyways. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're right. Yeah Yeah, it has a text. Okay, so this is the ionizer module You know, I probably didn't but like you don't you can't see anything. It just you if you smell it You're like, oh, that smells like ionizee Ozonee But powers here you connected JST Connector here and I have the part number in the blog post It's also in the datasheet and then this is the high voltage section. So yeah, do not touch this part I you would want to you know mount this off of your board and then green I believe is earth ground connected to this ground and then this is the high voltage pin and then Inside here, you know what actually maybe I'll try to open this But there is this little protector and I guess, you know, I didn't quite read about this But there's like a little wire and I guess this is what the ions are flying off of this little piece of metal here There's like a very very thin piece of metal and then there's this I guess a ceramic isolator or something So interesting stuff, but yeah for 30 bucks. It's like how do your own ion generator? Why not? All right, so let's check out the video. Yeah, you might have to do a little narration Yeah, all right. We're out of innovator electronics. So yeah, they basically released these, you know, they released these before Covid came about so they weren't originally designing these for use with like viral deactivation it was initially for like anti-static usage or for I guess they're used for anti-static usage in Dryers, which is kind of cool idea. You say blast ions or ozone in and They have the ionizer and they have ozonizers. So check out the ozonizer if you ever need those You just talked about the ionizer. Oh, yeah for 4.3 kilovolt. Sorry. Did I say 250 volt? I meant 4.3 kilovolt So yeah, definitely don't touch it Yeah, and they're often used I see them also in People have like portable air fresheners. They're used as well or like, you know, if you have smoke Like things you if you smoke you have one of these and it removes the smoke from the air So that's what these product these ionizers and those anizers are good for all right, and that is this week's