 Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here. Today we're going to talk about this FM transmitter that I had a suggestion on that video about running off the boat battery or I could get one of these. So it was Brian, I told Brian, I said well that's a great idea too. Now I got to thinking I have one of these but if I remember right I had a cooler plugged into this right. I plugged it into a cooler it worked alright for like a day and I unplugged it and then when I plugged it back in something popped in here and then if I remember right it quit working. Now if it's what I think it is it's it's probably a voltage regulator but we're gonna plug this in check the output it should be 12 volts so if it's not it's probably a voltage regulator but we're going to crack this open. I ran a razor knife down the sides of it on this crack here and it seems like it's going to come apart pretty easy because there's no screws. This is a Coleman so we're going to see if we can fix this if not I have another fix that we can do and for the same cooler I was talking about the end of it is broke off so let's check this out first if it if it needs a voltage regulator I'm not going to have one and I'm probably not going to buy one for this so I got monkey's little thing out here so we can look at it and see what we can see so anyway thanks Brian let's see if we can get this fixed I doubt it but if not we're gonna try to fix the cooler stick around I'll get you pointed down here we'll get into it okay I'm probably gonna have to change the lighting because I've got this light over here and there's a lot of shadowing but here's here's the device like I said it's a Coleman it's a center pin is positive for indoor use only blah blah blah it is a input 120 volts 60 Hertz at 1.2 amps output is 12 volt at 5 amps so what we're gonna do and this does it powers on there's a light there's a little light down here on the bottom that will power on so I'm going to this was her dad so I don't know how long it's been used if ever it's been used I might have had it for his boat or camper or something so what we're gonna do is we're gonna plug it in I'll show you you know that it does have power if I can get it in there we go all right now let me get you down here so you can see we do have power we're at lights on okay so we do have power but do we have enough power I doubt it now earlier I was checking it out with this and when I would plug this in it would turn blue for a second and go off I don't know if it'll do it again or not but when I would do that I cleaned this up in here with a piece of sandpaper now it's not doing it man this light let me turn this light off guys it's really I know it's not the greatest now but I mean I got it as high as it'll go high up as it'll go but okay anyway I can try let me let me get my light for this camera and put on top okay guys so sorry we're gonna have to deal with that big light sorry about the shadows but anyway my other light the battery is dead so yeah it's not earlier when I plug it in it would flash blue and then off so what we're gonna do first let's check out I didn't check the output but like I said it was getting something it would kick it on blue and off so got my it's an automator it does all kinds of neat stuff if you guys are in the cars and stuff you know I got a two cylinder three cylinder four cylinder five cylinder six cylinder and eight cylinder I can do the tack and dwell I can do our pms I can do all kinds of stuff with it but right now we're just going for voltage center pin is positive I did clean this up with a piece of sandpaper though looks like 1.3 volts so yeah my guess is that this thing is gonna it's gonna have an issue with the voltage regulator there's a little tiny chip in here that's a voltage regulator now I'm just gonna go down this side here well focus it's a little crack right along here all the way around I'll speed you up alright so we're in so I'm just trying to see if I can see anything because I know I remember this thing made a pop and I'm not seeing I'm not seeing anything right off the bat looks like it's blown the capacitors look good I'm sure how this comes out because I need to look at the bottom yeah I'm trying to find is maybe a little fuse in here and I'm not sure that might be the voltage regulator there I'm not sure I've never had one of these parts so I don't know and I'm getting power into it so I don't need to check them but I need to find out where they go if I remember right I think I did hear a pop so what I'm gonna do I'll shut you guys off I'm gonna look through this magnifying glass here and I'm gonna see if I can find anything that looks strange and if I do I'll be back with you guys and I'll let you know if I found something but yeah something's not right I'm betting it's in here there is numbers on that thing but in order to I got to get this out of here in order to check this out first look you know what let's just go ahead I mean it don't work now right so it's not like we can break it I don't know if that's supposed to be hooved up like that I got to be careful because there's a number on here that I'm gonna try to look up here in a minute see what that is right now I'm just checking to see if I can find anything blown I'd like to really irritating me it's alright for just straight-on shots of filming or something but something like this it's not whenever that is I just screwed it up we'll just put that back MTRZ alright let me get my phone and look this up okay guys what I came up with is I went on to a couple sites and everybody's having trouble with this on these these things here nine times out of ten this is what goes bad I was hoping to just be a capacitor or something I do have a couple of these laying around I don't have any of these you can still get these but I mean with shipping and everything it would be more than this whole unit so what I'm thinking like I said it's broke right why can't we take this input 120 volts AC 60 Hertz 24 watts the output is 12 volt DC 500 milliamp let's check this see if this is any good had it plugged in but I wanted to show it to you I don't know if you guys can see this or not put it on volts the white when I believe power negative should be the all-black one can't get shocked it's DC I just don't want because this thing is so sensitive if I hold it with my fingers it might not read right may have to I know that's not right I know it's not 60 volts that's for sure let's just hold it on here I know it's not 65 volts there is no way that's 72 volts it's impossible it don't have the components in it to make it that much there's no way maybe my meters not working right could be better I haven't put a battery in a long time there's no way that's 93 volts all right let me see what's going on there's no way that's 93 volts hi here we go I don't know if you guys can see that is reading 12 volts okay so I think what we should do now I know which one's positive which one's negative so let's hope we don't blow this thing up let me turn this light off here and positive on here negative on here I think it should light up and it's not let me see if I got another one of these it's not lighting up see that so let me see if I got another one of these that's 12 volts I think I do somewhere I just gotta look for it okay guys I found this one it is output 12 volt 500 milliamps this should work because this came out of one of those jumper boxes so I know you're not gonna be able to see this real well but I'll plug it in set this on the volts and how much do we have here says 19.9 volts this thing sit right okay so let's try something here I'll turn you over this way might blow something up but let's see here let's see this will light up trying to get it where you guys can see it searching for Bluetooth okay all right well so now what we're gonna do is this thing doesn't work I did check it off camera and out of here down inside there where these wires come from I did check it off camera and one time I checked it read 6.3 volts another time it read 11.6 volts and then seven point something so this is bad like I said I'm not gonna replace that part so what we're gonna do we're just gonna cut this off I'm gonna shorten this up a little bit about right there we're using these kind of bigger wires here we'll solder these together because that is for this so I could use a a charger for laptop but I really don't like cutting them up if I don't have to so in case you know we have several laptops so these are awful small wires here really small wires going into bigger wire so that shouldn't it shouldn't mess with me too much whoa now I gotta go find that our monkey will step on and go what the hell's this and I gotta find that all right so now if I remember right these have lines on them one will have lines on them and one will have numbers on them okay see that and this one has I don't know if you can see that lighting sucks there is see the lines this one has numbers I believe the one with lines is is the positive so let's check to make sure let's go on to continuity should beep okay so if I go on to the one with lines and put it in the center pin down in here should beep did once so the one with lines is the positive one which will go on here and I checked this one to off-camera did I not check that other one off-camera but the other one the one with the white stripe on it was positive so my guess is so this one so what I got to do now is get my soldering stuff out here and we'll solder this up bring out a little bit got some of this stuff let me get this plugged in so many times I can burn myself on I need a new tip for that thing I need one of those soldering stations and things are like a hundred bucks but I would use it a lot okay so what I'm going to do is we're going to find some of these so I want to find one that's going to fit over top of both of these okay that should work move it down here and I'm going to find one for each size of this on here and that looks like it long enough to cover it just throwing these things everywhere on it well that'd be nice if I could get that all the way up on there I don't think it'll work if I once I get the solder on it might be a little too big but so we'll do one at a time this is positive what I like to do is open these up so I don't know why twist these together and I just stick them in there together like that and then twist them together and then I'll solder them I gotta tend this up first if it'll tend look at that that's bad and it gets like this is my fault because I don't have a sponge should have a sponge and it keeps that from happening so I have another one in there but it's not where I thought it was it won't take much to get down in there and get that little wire okay so that one scoot this up here I don't like doing this but my lighter is not very cooperative I showed that down too far and I did there we go alright I need to see if we well let's go ahead and we'll we'll sort of this one too and then they're pretty nice I did well now let's slide this over here you know what let me get my torch I decided against the torch we're in the house so I'm just gonna use matches there we go yeah that'll be alright it's not quite all the way down there on that bottom one but it's fairly close pull this up here I don't know how well that'll work either but let's try it I know it'll be fine on this thing but I can always put some tape around it tape just looks tacky but it works fine now let's let this cool down and we'll plug it in we'll plug this in let me shut this off I don't want to get a false reading you know go wow that's too hot you know what I mean go oh that's really hot shouldn't be all right let me unplug the curly iron whatever I'm in plug the soldering iron there I set my soldering down iron down on a lighter one time it said poof no big deal so I got some matches did the same damn thing except I had the matches you know sent by the box or by the iron and I walked away just for a minute and I heard let that whole box of matches on fire that was a my dad was there he thought that was pretty funny I I didn't think it was very funny yeah this cool enough now I know all right nothing blew up yet now let's okay so we're getting nothing wonder why it was working earlier maybe the wires are too big let's check and see what we got here voltage wise okay well I think I got the wires mixed up I do I gotta do that again off-camera this time all right here we go again I'm gonna roll it back and I want to know which one you guys saw me do that didn't stop me here we go all right just looking for Bluetooth I think I found my phone but anyway there it is so that's what I'll use instead of that battery just just a little deal right here there's nothing out of here that I can use other than them capacitors but I've got some of those and I'm gonna get more since I get the extra money there's I've got a an old Windows I think it's a 98 in there I don't it's monkeys and she's got the original keyboard the original mouse she's got the original think her parents bought it for back when that was updated you know I mean it was in date whatever but she's got the original monitor that's awesome so yeah what I'm what I want to do is rebuild that it's got a whole bunch of balloon capacitors sometimes you can get it to kick on but you know it's really slow of course but it's just it would just be neat you know that she bought that new that's from what the 90s I think I'd have to look at it but she got a brand new so that's pretty cool I don't think I'm going to do the other project tonight that's already 1250 and I'm running along a battery here I have another battery I've got three good working batteries but I can only find two I don't know what happened to the other one but anyway so yeah that should be that support I don't have a radio in here or we will try it but still on 89 3 I don't I don't think I've got a radio let me see okay guys on 89 3cs look for Bluetooth but I'm gonna put a card in here there's reading so let's go out to the car and I don't know how what's gonna pick up being that this is in the house but let's find out it should be playing jolly old st. Nicholas hang on a second guys she may have something all right 9 what was it 98.3 or 89.3 I think okay it is picking it up let me go in the house and change you know what let's bring it out here plug it in right there how's that let's do that okay let's plug this in oh I heard it there it is and changed all right so that's gonna work thanks Brian Brian gave me that idea okay guys well that's better add to take my head off it's hot in there and if I turn air on you guys can't hear you guys can't hear me so there that's better all right guys so again thanks Brian for that was a great idea and you inspired me so it'll be a lot easier just to plug that thing in and hooking it up to the battery I knew I had something I knew I could come up with something so I got enough electrical stuff around so thanks again Brian I appreciate that his channel will be linked down below and without being a say guys tomorrow night I got a cooler we're gonna try to fix it I think all's wrong with it is the end but I don't know it sat out back and got a bunch of water in it so it might not work we just have to see all right guys thanks for watching she barely met the man alleged I'm gone for now and we'll see you guys in the next one hopefully y'all have a good Thanksgiving is coming up so something over in them woods we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys and take care