Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Lithium Ion Battery Charging Station!

Adam takes on a bit of shop infrastructure this week to tackle the inefficiencies of lithium-ion battery chargers. Specifically, he needs a charging rack that can store, charge, and organize the cave's set of 3.7V li-ion cells--the kind used for high-powered flashlights and other electronics. Adam builds a portable gang charger that can power eight batteries at once from a single power supply--a simple build you can do at home too!

Shot by Adam Savage and edited by Gunther Kirsch

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Intro bumper by Abe Dieckman

Thanks for watching!

[GeeIWonderWhy]

Sometimes I feel like “one day build” are not “builds made in one day” but rather it is Adam saying to himself “I will one day build this”, and the day it happens they record it lol

[Mijeman]

Most people: "I mismeasured. Guess I'll recut the pieces."
Adam: "I mismeasured. Time to use ALL THE TOOLS."

[CMDR_Scorpion]

You could put batteries in the holes upside down once charged and + side up when uncharged rather than using one end for uncharged and one end for charged

[christophermahon]

A word about nail 'blowout': Many of those brads, pins and finish nails have a rectangular cross-section, which give them a tendency to bend along the wider side. Aligning the nail gun so the wider face of the nail is perpendicular to the outside edge of the board can reduce, but not eliminate, the blowout

[mandofrost]

I feel like by the end of quarantine Adam is gonna have the most efficient shop layout ever.

[erikbinnix]

"It's just not a thing, unless it has a label." This might just be my favorite Adam Savage quote ever.

[AllCooL]

Adam, you need to take one of your old single cell chargers, rip out the charging guts and connect the bases to a digital voltage readout, mount it all next to your chargers so you can quickly check voltages for your cells.

[jeremyruhland]

25:00 A neat trick I learned for lining up nails/screws/drillbits when I'm making blind holes through the backside of plywood into a narrow target is to sandwich some rare earth magnets on either side of the board and butt them up against the piece behind it, it gives a visual dotted line of where the edge of the hidden board is.

[ianmastin]

Adam: One of the most important questions you can ask yourself throughout a build is "am I doing this wrong".
Also Adam: I didn't ask myself "am I doing this wrong".

[flymeetspaddle]

Adam: "im gonna use wire nuts"


Me: "but you built a whole soldering station ??" lol

[chickenbizkit]

During these hard times, it makes it easier being able to watch some great content from Adam.

[Holmesy]

"No blow throughs! I'm getting better at this"
Immediately gets 4, you just HAD to jinx it xD

[torinhalsey]

For someone as brilliant as yourself, I was surprised to see you using that big-ass table saw without a riving knife, especially since you were recently injured on another big-ass machine in your cave. Love your work, loved your book, love your creativity, would hate to know you got a kickback injury that could be prevented. Stay safe.

[vtxrider]

Adam, thanks for being you. I love how Raw these videos have been and they have given me soooo much inspiration to start just making stuff again THANK YOU SO MUCHHH

[spengineer]

Adam, for wiring things together like this you should try out wago connectors if you haven't already. They're great for connecting up lots of things in parallel like this.

[Seraph]

Adam, when you counted to four... "Tha-rhee!". That was from the owl on the tootsie pop commercials. I see you Adam, I see you! <3

[Satchboy]

The branding says Tenergy but it only charges eight at a time...

[OriginalJetForMe]

Adam, I can’t tell you how happy it made me to see you make the mistakes while building this. Not because I want to see you fail, but because I feel like I make mistakes like that all the time. It’s a HUGE relief to know that you, despite all your fast-build experience, also have days where you make a series of mistakes.

And I could see the same emotions run through you that run through me. Except with me there’s a lot more cursing because I’m not on camera.

Thank you for not editing that stuff out.

[chazington]

“It’s just not a thing unless it has a label.” A new savagism

[griffincolin]

Adam did a video specifically to show off his everyday carry apron to he doesn't have to go looking for and then through much of this video he went walking away to get things that were in the apron. Good to see that lasted a long time :)