High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com Welcome to a new InTheMail, the series that will touch both your passion for electronics and your bank account at the same time. Checkout the items I received in this mailbag which include: Crappy Telephoto Lens, ATGM336 GPS Module, Paper Insulating Washer, Cable Management Clips, J-Clip Test Lead Set, USB To Alligator Clip Test Lead Set, M8 Cable Gland, IP68 Waterproof Connector, Solder Paste Syringe Booster, Dual Coil Latching Relay NEC Japan, MT8870 DTMF Decoder, Audio Transformer 600:600, KS0835F RING Subscriber Line Interface Circuit, PCB Speaker 0.5W, RT9400 PoE Module 802.3AF
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00:05→Crappy 8X Telephoto Lens
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/6n1id
01:19→ATGM336H GPS Module
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/to0d5
Banggood https://voltlog.com/y/conuy
03:20→Paper Insulating Washer
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/ktizc
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/d4qru
Banggood https://voltlog.com/y/vgk3y
04:00→Adhesive Backing Cable Management Clips
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/ct1r4
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/sfoxn
04:43→Test Lead Set With J-clips
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/qteb7
05:35→USB To Alligator Clips Test Lead
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/nd9si
06:01→M8 Cable Gland
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/3oyvb
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/j87gc
06:42→3-Way Waterproof Connector IP68
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/ed9xi
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/0x8zh
07:44→Syringe Booster
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/ryh94
09:46→Dual Coil Latching Relays
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/x3nls
10:46→LiPo Batteries
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/pcshj
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/sy509
12:21→MT8870 DTMF Decoder
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/pcn6i
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/a3o2n
13:21→Audio Transformer 600:600
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/90346
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/7ougr
13:39→KS0835F RING Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/vpfac
14:15→0.5W PCB Speaker YZ2308
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/haevq
Amazon https://voltlog.com/y/2mdsr
15:34→RT9400 PoE Module
Aliexpress https://voltlog.com/y/cu9gl
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Welcome to a new InTheMail, the most popular segment hosted here on the channel. Lots of interesting good and equally bad products have been piling up in my special mailbag bin so let’s take a look at them.
I’m gonna start with an absolute garbage product, this smartphone telephoto lens which I thought is going to be great for attaching to my iPhone and shooting videos at let’s say a meter away from the subject but be really zoomed in, like when soldering on a PCB, I don’t want the tripod and the phone to be in my way. I got the 8X variant, because there is also a 12X I believe, I paid like $5 shipped for this and this was probably the worst spent $5 in recent times, this is absolute garbage. All I can get is a blurry image, I’ve tried removing the protective case on my phone thinking this might not be the correct focal length because of that but nope it doesn’t make any difference. Other users report similar things in the product review.. So please don’t order this crap.
I seriously don’t understand what were they thinking? Why did they make this and package it?
Next up I got one of the newer GPS modules from China, this is the ATGM336H which presumably is the part number for the original module Zhongke Micro electronics, but this particular one is rebranded as AiThinker GP-02. Comes with a ceramic GPS antenna so it’s good to go. The SoC used inside this module is the AT6558 and it supports a variety of satellite navigation systems, including China's BDS (Beidou Satellite) GPS in the US, GLONASS in Russia, GALILEO in the EU, QZSS in Japan and I think their main target is to replace ublox max series with something that is the same size, possibly same package but lower cost. I thought I’d give this module a try, keep it in my GPS modules bag waiting to be used in a GPS project. One mention though is that it doesn’t necessarily mean this particular module that I got from Aliexpress supports all of the functions.. This depends on the variant of the chip used inside the module because as the datasheets shows in this table it can have different config levels. A link for this will be provided in the description of the video.