HOLY $H!T - A $17,000 (CAD) Man-sized Battery!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,568 words · ~12 min read
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welcome to the third installment of a little segment we call Holy sh and
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today it really is a holy moment isn't
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it because this right here my friends this is a
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battery the size of a man and this right here is all the other
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crap that goes with it oh yeah and did I mention it cost us
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$177,000 holy
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for free at the link in the video description so we'll kick things off
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with what the unboxing experience would be like for a
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$117,000 my okay that's Canadian Rupees mind you but it's still a lot of money a
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$177,000 battery backup this is the pw1
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12s 12K dpd from Eon and it is part of
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their 9170 plus line of formerly known
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as power wear uninterruptible power supplies this baby
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right here is a 12 unit chassis and you
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can actually fill those units with power modules or battery modules depending on
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whether you want to supply more power to the items that you want to back up or
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whether you want the run time to be longer when the power goes out so the
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one that we have is a 12 kilovolt amp
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unit capable of delivering about 10,000
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watts of power cuz we have filled it up with I believe it is four of their 3,000
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kilovolt amp units and then we have filled the entire rest of this 12 12 Bay
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chassis with battery backups allowing us to have this puppy run at full load for
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I think something to the tune of 26 or 28 minutes Under full freaking 10,000
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watt load or at half load for about an
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hour before it actually needs to engage the software mechanisms that it has to
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safely shut down all of our server components you might be asking yourself
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lus you guys had a bunch of UPS units
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what the devil happened with all of those why are you getting an additional
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Tower UPS to uh to take their place well
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we had some issues with the GE ones uh they were refurb units the batteries
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problem something etc etc anyway we're not using them anymore and uh Johnny 2
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our networking Guru guy recommended this
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so we bit the bullet and went you know what with all the data loss scares we've
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had lately and the issues that we've had with power outages in this area we've
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had some serious storms we are not going to screw around anymore we're getting a
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proper proper backup unit and this my friends
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is what something like that might look like yeah I think this is
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just just the chassis so it's actually bolted onto
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this pallet no it is not it is not bolted onto the pallet so we should be
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able to remove it fairly easily but let's take a look at the rear of it
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first okay so at the top we've got a seral port as well as a couple of Bays
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for Network modules one of which we got so it'll be able to communicate over the
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network then we've got 12 and these each have their own 20 amp reset switches in
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them so we've got 12 uh l14 30r Outlets
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then we move down into the freaking like
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heavy freaking duty stuff and we've got three l630r Outlets so those are these
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three prong twisty locky ones right here and finally we have three more of the
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l14 30r Quad quad prong Outlets going on
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here so these puppies are for like super high draw 240 volt equipment that can
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leverage the efficiency of the higher voltage in order to well be more
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efficient so you you might find this in in like very high-end server gear we
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will mostly be using these guys okay so
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the first thing Johnny the network guy and I are going to do is uh move you
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bastard should we twist it twist it this way yeah we should twist it move okay
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awesome so this gives us a look at the front so here's where the uh the 12 like
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Bay module things go in so you can actually see the interfaces at the back
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here they have what look like like kind of smaller ATX power supply connectors
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on them and then they have what looks like about a 24 26 pin um likely
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proprietary connector back here and then a couple more little guys right here so
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the cool thing about this modular system is you can actually put batteries or
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power modules anywhere you want and then the back plane at the back sorts the
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whole thing out you can actually even daisy chain multiples of these together
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however I really don't think we're going to need more than 10,000 watts in our
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server room um for the foreseeable future look at this user's
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guide I mean I don't blame them I mean this thing is not your simple plug into
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the wall and then hum up I guess it works just fine in fact with the 12,000
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KT amp unit that we've got we had to wire up a completely separate ADM amp
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breaker and then we have to hardwire this guy into that if you want to get
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one of the bigger units the 12 or the 15 Kilt amp units you actually need here
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check this out or the the 15 or the 18 you need a 100 amp or a 125 amp breaker
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and then you have to have an electrician come in and wire the thing in I don't
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know what these do well they make that noise I
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guess so here's some more accessories these are
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uh dads that go in
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here that's not how they go on so I probably shouldn't force the
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issue that is how they go on some of you are probably wondering what the point of
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something like this is and here we'll we'll walk and talk we'll walk and talk so I'll take this over to where it's
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going so the point of having a UPS unit that fully loaded is going to weigh
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somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 to 700 lb is that it will not only o act as
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a battery backup but will also actually
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condition the power that is coming into our server room so because this is an
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online double conversion UPS all of our
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server gear will be running 100% of the time off of the batteries and because it
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uses very very high quality inverters that isn't an issue like it would be
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with a consumer grade UPS the other
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benefit of double conversion online UPS
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is is that in the event of a power outage there is absolutely zero delay
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between oh wow thanks Johnny we don't want to run over that network cable
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there is zero delay once the power goes out when it needs to when a when a
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normal ups like a cheapo consumer grade one would actually have to switch
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between AC power and battery power meaning that your equipment is never
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subjected to that kind of stress which leads us very well to where we're going
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to be installing it so Harry Potter thought he was getting an upgrade to his
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closet when the contractors showed up but it was all a lie Harry Potter's
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closet is now this big and we are actually going to be
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sealing the UPS Into the Now expanded
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server room which in addition to its four dedicated 15 amp circuits here
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additional 15 amp circuit here also
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has I believe this is a 100 amp circuit
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that we had wired in and that we're going to directly attach to the Eaton
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ups and then it'll sit right here and plug into all of our gear bity Bop just
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like that this cardboard is both a blessing and a
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curse and slow okay cool now I got the
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weight go ahead and pull the card
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out okay and that's pretty much that all
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right let's check this baby out so inside this second pallet that arrived
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today we are going to find our power
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units and our battery units as well as what what is this
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$350 like 100 megabit network card what
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a scam a freaking scam Enterprise gear
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is well because it's proprietary and we
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uh decided that we're buttholes two skids oh they didn't know
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you were going to be here Dennis they've only got me and Johnny
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covered so how many power modules did we get it was three right Johnny no four
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four four power modules yeah
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I feel like I work at like Fort Knox because I'm moving heavy stuff that
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costs way too much around waa That's Heavy holy crap
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okay okay I'll help
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steer hold
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on Save the network
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cable oh my foot okay I'm okay I'm fine I'm good y that's fine that's good for
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the foot okay this bastard needs to go
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in there I guess so let's just if you're going to you just test one well we
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shouldn't load them first right we should put it in there first and then
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load them right sure yeah okay okay let's do this
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then let's watch that height yeah we're
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good yay measuring tape go team measure
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mons hope for the
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best okay how we doing now perit per
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we're in no big deal okay so let's start loading up some
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modules shall we o who okay I broke a
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thing that was quick oh really it's this
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clip oh the clip where did it go
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inside did you see I heard it trickle down here oh you got to be kidding
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me oh it's right it's
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like what the the
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hell oh this yeah what the hell
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eaten I don't even know how these side panels come off they're like scaled over
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top of each other I see it
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too what the hell
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eaten oh there I got it you got it yeah
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wow okay all right let's do
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this I'm like sweating yeah know right I
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don't know if I'm sweating because it costs so much or because uh this is
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heavy sure oh yeah you take the cool stuff I get to do the stupid
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batteries so this feels like a
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handle oh cool okay I think I no I don't at all actually what oh yeah I see it
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cool so this we should do batteries on the bottom I guess right so the
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batteries plug into these puppies and
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then the power modules plug into the other
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stuff uh what the
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heck I can't tell if that's in or not oh it seems to be in wow is that like a
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zero insertion Force connector that's cool that'll make the hot swap really
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easy so you can actually you can actually hot swap batteries and power
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modules at will assuming that you have enough um enough extra for the power
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modules that you're not just overloading the unit when you you know pull out all
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the power modules over whatever so this is interesting the cooling actually
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intakes at the back and then exhausts on this side over
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here oh that's a good look at uh at the guts of this baby here that's some big
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copper coils and aluminum heat sinks they got going on in there not to
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mention you know the resistors and the yeah wow so oh careful Johnny so that is
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pretty much it we've got all all the
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power modules loaded
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in all the battery modules loaded in and
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all that's left is back here we're going to take three copper wires from our
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panel put them into the back of the unit
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plug some extension cords into our servers and bippity boity boom we are
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ready to rock with our massive 1,000 W
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battery backup and on a totally unrelated note
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Mass drop and this is pretty cool
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they've got the k7xx limited edition ruby red headphones in addition to all
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the other cool stuff over at massdrop.com which by the way you can
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check out at the link in the video description this particular drop though
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and it's the same usual concept the more people buy the better the price this is
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a limited edition of the k7x headphones that I actually reviewed here the only
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real difference is that this run uses red accents on the ear cups and the
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headband please note this is a limited drop with only 1,500 units so if you
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want a pair you're going to want to act pretty fast in terms of spec it was
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configured by mast drop and manufactured by AKG these are open-backed headphones
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with very very large cushiony uh ear cups they've got a flat wire voice coil
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very motion two layer diaphragm genuine leather headband actually that's really
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nice memory foam ear pads with vour covering uh they weigh 8.3 o okay
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there's an awful lot of specs in my notes Here many of which are not
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terribly important to your warranty covered by mass drop and if you're
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ordering from outside the US you can still get it but please note that your
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distribution will be handled through a third party so a $25 fee will be
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assessed to all International orders so if you want to check this out and get
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yourself the ruby red pair of K7 xx's just head over to draws lt- k7xx to see
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that and all the other awesome stuff that they have on Mast
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well don't miss the previous episode of holy we checked out the biggest mouse
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pad we'd ever seen so so far we've done biggest SSD biggest mouse pad and
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