Who doesn’t love these GreatScott! movies the place he buys, checks, and charges components and merchandise he purchases from AliExpress? And I can by no means get sufficient of Scott’s meticulous schematics and explainer graphics that he at all times attracts in his movies.

On this installment (half 6) of his AliExpress gems movies, he seems to be at 7 totally different merchandise: VFD shows, T-splitter connectors, a photo voltaic panel multimeter, a battery charger/booster, broken screw extractors, an ESP32 LCD board, and an ATX energy provide board.

The VFD shows, photo voltaic panel multimeter, battery charger, ESP32 board, and energy provide board all get a thumbs up. The T-splitters and broken screw extractors have been a bust.

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