at my new place there's a lot of stuff for me to charge everything from
batteries to controllers to
my freaking car so anchor sponsored this
video where i'm going to be showing you guys all the really cool solutions we've
come up with to charge all of my devices efficiently and safely and
we are off to a really really good start
here as you can plainly see
obviously not everyone needs a solution to charge their high-powered electronic
water guns but as a parent i can tell you whether it's a water gun or some
other electronic gizmo it's a pretty crappy feeling to have your kids come to
you and say dad can you play with me can we play with those
and you go oh they're not charged can
you wait four hours well right it's not real it's not
reasonable so the solution we've come up with here is nick callanan printed out
these 3d printable holders for the spiral water gun i mean shout out
thingiverse by the way because you can find freaking anything on there
okay there's a slight flaw in the system
there we go then this is where it gets genius so the
cable management for all of them is run right along the length of a gun so you
barely see them and one of the things i noticed about these is that they always
retain a little bit of water and it gets freaking
nasty so we installed this little water
trough obviously it's not going to run the water off outside the house or
anything like that but it gives it somewhere to just sit and evaporate
where it's not going to stain the wall or cause a puddle on the floor that
could be a slipping hazard pro tip by the way if you're using LTT cable ties
or any other hook and loop style fastener on a braided cable like this
one you want to put the soft side in that's actually why we have logos on
both sides because otherwise the hard side will just kind of pull it out and
cause little little fuzzies and then the whole thing won't like look nice like
this does the cherry on top for the water guns is less about charging and
more about battery management this little smart outlet will allow me to put
a little battery powered switch right here that you can press to activate this
entire circuit so that way they're not just sitting at a hundred percent charge
constantly being charged all the time which could cause the batteries to swell
and die coming around to the back of my media center i think i did an okay job of the
cable management okay look you can't see it from the front all right um but it's
pretty clear that we can do better step one is going to be replacing my existing
power bar with one from anker that has more plugs and step two is actually
going to be salvaging back some of my plugs by replacing multiple power bricks
with individual ones this right here is from anker's gan prime lineup it's a 65
watt charger that's super small thanks to its gallium nitride design and it's
got two usb-c's and a usb-a allowing me to charge my switch as well as for my
harmony universal remote receiver now obviously when it's sitting behind my
media console i'm not going to be moving it around but one of the key benefits of these gan chargers is that they're super
portable compared to something like a 65 watt apple brick it's literally half the
size anker also offers their 737 gan prime charger which will deliver up to
120 watts
and that is why i hate
attaching power bars to things
because you either try and line up the screws on the little keyhole things and
it like never quite goes in right or you hot glue it this is
actually with like extra strong hot glue and it eventually comes off anyway
fortunately i have a new solution this
particular one isn't from anchor this is from LTT Store but i'm sure they won't
mind me talking about it this is what i'm going to call the grand piece of our
upcoming cable management lineup basically it's a little universal do
data majig that fits into any one of these keyholes
you tighten it on like this and
boom magnetic mount i mean assuming there's metal here we'll put a metal
thing there yeah
the goal was to have it be so strong that you can plug and unplug things
without it taking it off but when you need to move you can pull it off
magnus baby how do they work the LTT
store power brick holder ah
okay wait for it if you have like a ton of like power bricks and cable power
bars and power bricks and stuff like
this just changed the game and probably the coolest thing about this is jacob
from engineering spent literally months probably longer than i would have
allocated to it optimizing the magnetic field orientation whatever so that these
things would have just wild strong
pulled strength look at this
that's what it takes to pull it off so once it's on there it's on there a few
moments later and we're done there's obviously still a
lot of cables back here but we were able to consolidate everything that was
plugged into the wall behind me all six of these outlets into this one power bar
and everything is strapped up to the back of our media console including an
extra lan cable that's you know super convenient to just grab down and run to
wherever we need it in the future and
oh so much cleaner
there we go now controller charging same thing as
the guns kids want to play games they don't want to worry about charging
controllers adults too rather than settle on just a
place to charge double a's and triple a's i've created the ultimate charging
station these little wire shoe racks are available for next to nothing at places
like ikea home depot or even on amazon
and what's great about them is that they allow for adequate airflow for your
chargers and your batteries while also reducing the risk of fire one thing that
i would like to improve about this setup is getting rid of this little bit of
carpet here and actually screwing a metal plate to the wall right here
because while double a batteries are unlikely to catch fire some of the types
of batteries that i'm charging here could say for example the lithium-ion
batteries for my tools or these 18650
based tesla batteries for the kids radio flyer tesla
ride-ons those are not nearly though as dangerous
as these any diy batteries live inside
separate metal enclosures because even under
ideal conditions these lipo batteries can cause some
wicked wicked fires anker's contribution to this one pretty
straightforward another one of their very well spaced out power bars and then
LTT Store contribution and little cable management clips anytime we need them
just you know yeah let's take another crack at this uh
okay good i didn't want my car charger just you
know lying across the floor because you never know kids could run over it with
their bike or you know you could accidentally roll a piece of equipment
over it or whatever so with a simple spring balancer and some aircraft cable
we were able to suspend the car charger up above me i think there's still a bit
of fine tuning to be done with respect to the lengths of the aircraft cable or
whatever else but boy is that ever better than having it
dangling along the floor right sometimes as is admittedly the case with these
ninebot go-karts there's not a whole lot you can do to achieve perfect cable
management nirvana i mean i guess we could build some kind of like
two-layer stacker with all the bricks you know power managed into it or
something like that at the very least we have this a 3d printed enclosure that
allows me to take two power bricks and turn them into just one while also
offering some protection from the bangs and scuffs and scrapes that are
likely to well probably not do much to them okay
this wasn't really necessary but whatever the go-karts are here and they
plug into the wall a little something like this
for my nightstand my before setup is actually pretty solid i've got a total
of eight usb ports with these two right here i've got this non-slip mat here
that prevents anything from being accidentally tugged off the table and then i've got this single wireless
charger that'll do a phone airpods an apple watch if i had one of those thank
you apple for not making it the q standard as well as having a usb-c here
that i put my little urine charger on i can pop on there but that's not to say
that we couldn't do better these don't do fast charging and i've got
a fair bit of mess under the desk that i think could be improved as for my wife
Yvonne set up she just has the one of these quad-port usb-a things she
honestly doesn't really charge much just her phone and then her air pods which
are not plugged in oh my goodness yeah i didn't
even notice this this needs to be replaced yeah i think anchors probably
got us covered there though now technically the adhesive i used on
these is temporary it's actually the same as this stuff but when it's clean
it's literally micro suction cups boy does it ever grab
ah there we go and the adhesive that's on the other
side of it is wild this is this is the intended
side you can kind of stick it place this if you want oh
that's better we're all anchored up we've got their power port cube coming
off the wall over here this will do usb as well as ac power that goes straight
into one of their gan chargers here this puppy will do a total of 150 watts
through a combination of three usbcs and one type a so two of these usbcs are
going up to the top we've got one of them here this is probably going to be
for phones and random devices and then one of them is dedicated to this side and
that's for my io neo or steam deck or whatever flavor of the month handheld
gaming console that i'm going to be using so that'll sit right about there
obviously we've got more usb ports up here so two type c's one micro b and one
lightning connector and those are all
easily accessible but
here we go we tuck it in a little something like that without taking up space on top of the
desk and without being an eyesore
oh so much better not much we can do about how messy
Yvonne's nightstand is other than just put it all in a pile and
hey hope this is how you wanted it put away hon
but hers is great because there you go you can easily see and access it if you
need to plug in more cables say if she wants you know this micro b or whatever
else and the one that she actually uses in bed is a type c that'll reach right
over to around here one of the coolest things about anker chargers is their
power iq4 which will automatically detect the devices that you have plugged
in and then distribute their total power budget accordingly so if i were to add
another type c over here say one for the io neo and
one for my laptop which i often charge
my backpack right here just a little something like this it'll automatically
distribute the power as needed my problems here in my office are twofold
one is that i didn't have enough RGB before as you can see we got that sorted
out but number two is that my cabling situation is a messy
and b in some cases downright dangerous
this is the ac power cord that was running to my subwoofer
step one is going to be to pull off my existing far too long xlr cable although
it was conveniently managed with this LTT magnetic
cable holder and replace it with this custom perfect length one from the one
and only Dan who built it for me thanks Dan
that's why we call him Dan the guy
and i don't this one i can't get perfect no matter
what this fiber optic cable just can't be coiled up tightly or
jammed in anywhere you got to be super super careful with it so i'm just going
to take one of these and then accounting for that needs to be height adjustable
i'm going to leave a little bit of extra coilage there and then i just need one
of my little cable management arches boop also
i hit away my displayport cable here i'm using an HDMI tv right now but i'm
probably going to switch to displayport monitor at some point so i'll just leave
my cable here and then it'll be ready to go for me when the time comes if i was
willing to settle for wireless headphones this wouldn't be a problem
but i'm going to have to accept at least one hanging cable under the desk and
that's the one for my headphones let's just go ahead and put this magnetic arch
here these anchor usb hubs are super handy they have a combination of data
ports and fast charging ports and while i wouldn't normally recommend
strapping them in the way that i'm doing right now because you'll probably give
up at least one of your ports yeah you can see that spacing i give up one of my
data ports um the benefit
is that it hides under my desk and i never have to see it
well it might not be the cleanest setup in the world but
considering how much is going on with this setup cameras microphones lights
other more different cameras other more different microphones
there's just a lot to it i am very happy with the result
oh did we ever power it on ah
okay it's on now so that's good i went
to show you guys one of the coolest features which is that everything's
magnetic which means that even though i never use a standing desk if some butt
head were to come and standingify it it would just rip the
magnets off rather than actually breaking anything because this fiber is
extremely fragile i'm not gonna go out of my way to test this theory our
magnets are also like crazy strong um
but theoretically it's a fail-safe that does exist
in the boys room we get to check out one of our coolest products yet this is the 727 charging station this is part of
their gan prime lineup and it's got a number of things on it two type a's two
type c's these are pd type c so you could try something like
that oh shoot where'd i put all the laptops ah yes say for example uh a
chromebook for school or
other more different laptop for doing anything other than school and
this is really neat it's also got these super cool duplex receptacles look at
this it pops out when you plug it in so that's how it can stay so slim if you
want a tighter form factor they also have the 615 usb power strip in their
gan prime lineup with 65 watts distributed between two fast charging
USB-C ports two ac outlets and a usb a
port this last one's really cool this is their 733 power bank it's part of their
gan prime lineup so it has the same active shield temperature monitoring
that checks like three million times a day or something like that to make sure
nothing is overheating and this is going to replace two things in my backpack
lttstore.com um my 10 000 milliamp hour power bank which
you can see it's actually not a dissimilar size to
that's that's gallium nitride for you and
my i believe this is a 65 watt oh this is a 100 watt charger
damn i thought it was you know what i'm switching back to the framework anyway
so it'll be the 65 watts that i need for my
framework laptop it actually replaces both of these pieces plugged straight
into the wall and just uses a standard type-c cable love that dual purpose and
that way i never have to think about charging up my power bank separately it
just charges whenever i plug in my laptop oh and you know what else i don't have
to think about a segway to our sponsor because the video was brought to you by
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