EEVblog 1490 - Insane Jaycar Dumpster Sale! 2022 

Part of me is jealous I cant get to this sale, while the rational part of me is thinking thank god!

That's EXACTLY why I don't work at a junkyard! I'd take home half of what comes in...

That is downright crazy. I would have been hauling Home Three lifetimes worth of stuff

Not bringing a cart isn't a newb mistake, it's a brilliant strategy to keep yourself from buying enough crap to fill a double B train and entirely deplete your wallet. Hard to buy that much stuff when you have to carry it by hand.

Amazing stuff. In quantity, these Meanwell power supplies are surely worth quite the money. However, one needs a lot of patience to move these products. Quite an excellent video, Dave! Thanks for the excellent opportunity for "Window shopping!"

Damn! I'm a half a world away from the world's best garage sale! 😭 I predict A LOT of stuff available soon on eBay, etsy, etc...

Wow, I wish we had this in the UK. Sadly, good deals are illegal here.

Those Gallagher caps are for electric fencers, and they often fail.. they should be designed with a low ESD to maximize the zappiness to the fence.. Pulsewidth on the fence I think is VERY short, probably milliseconds if not microseconds I had fencer fail and it a bad solder joint on the cap burnt all the solder and trace off, and worked its way up the cap.. globbed solder on it and it works years later

Part 2 ... Dave renting a storage unit 🤣

hopefully there's a part 2 of this video showing off your haul (if any)

HEAPS of great items and deals, I'm mind blown and sad I am not near! I would totally have hired a boxtruck. Components, items usable as intended, and plenty of harvesting opptys. Those high current connectors! If they have the pins for sale to, dang! Jaycar has dabbled in a lot over the years, so I can imagine what else lays hidden!

"Everyone is carting all kinds of things out..." and then someone walks out carrying a kid.. WOW.. You can buy ANYTHING there!! 🙂

I work at a Jaycar across the river, and I can say that we have a corner full of those screw-terminal switching power supplies, that barely anyone buys from. Which is a shame because it’s kinda a goldmine, and they’re all in cardboard boxes so only people who know what they’re looking for ever go there. I mean you sure do pay the Jaycar markup for them, at least the guys with a trade discount occasionally turn up to get one, and you can probably apply for one of your own without too much difficulty. A nice high-current 48V Meanwell would make a pretty good basis for a benchtop CC/CV variable switching power supply. With linear front-end, of course. There’s also a couple multi-tap transformers if you want to go for autoranging linear with relays, but the tap selections aren’t that great, and we don’t have particularly large capacitors. Also see if you can find any of their vacuum fluorescent displays! They’re like $3 normally, which is cheap enough to base a project around.

I can hear the joy in Dave's voice like a kid in a candy store.

Those power supply deals are nuts! I wonder how many people are there to flog the stuff off on eBay for retail prices.

You lucky bastard Jones. Now I know how you operate a profitable business. I'm a hobbyist and struggling financially. Having said that. Good luck Davey.

5:16 Those SB50 power connectors are really good if you do ham radio. They are hermaphrodite connectors so you can use them "everywhere" and combine as you like for the moment. 19:28 Those are constant current power supplies for LED lightning, be careful not to toast anything else with them. 19:55 That's a decent switching regulator, but it seems a bit big - I think that more modern ones are more compact. 20:37 48V - if you want to feed PoE devices or some other stuff needing 48V. 20:50 That's industrial stuff. I like that they are ranging from 200 to 500V which would make them useful where I work - we have a lot of 500V, but you can use them even elsewhere where you have 3-phase power and want 24V with decent current. Likely with a DIN rail mount as well. I could have taken a pallet, but shipping to Europe would have been too expensive. 27:57 Gallagher are making electric fence equipment so there's no surprise regarding those specs listed on that canister. Farmers knows about Gallagher.

If this is the crap Jaycar has to dump can you imagine the crap in the tens of thousands of other warehouses around the world?

I wonder how many manufacturers bought pallets of stuff just to get chips they need during _Bubblegum Tap Shoes_ . BTW too bad they weren't selling trolleys.

"Welcome to everyones second favourite segment... dumpstering!"

Good vid as usual dave. It was good to meet you there. I said hi to you with a small chat. I ended up getting over $500 worth of gear for $60.

Damn... that would take up my entire day, just browsing. The employees may have been lucky if they got a shot at this stuff before the customers!

Well that was 3 hours and 150 bucks out of my life - THANKS DAVE. Many MW PSU's still there right now if you are going

Some of those boxes of resistors seen at about the 25 minute mark would be worth having. The boxes were labelled as metal film 1%.

Sad to see sometimes when you come across finds this good. In my area it usually means a big company liquidated it’s clientele. Bankruptcy… they usually have an auction first then the rest ends up on Craigslist. It’s how I got my esd safe work bench for $50 that usually runs $1000+ new Adjustable height computer table 120 ac for $150 with name brand table part. Aeron chair for $300 Ya it’s used but it’s way better than full price as long as you test them before buying

i am so glad that i live so far away from that place, otherwise i might go broke...

Yeah, I wouldn't know what to get, but those 24V 20A power supplies would be great for DIY CNC machines.

Holy Macaroni, never seen those kind of prices on quality Mean Well PSU. 99% of us only dream to find bargains like this in the world. Greetings from Sweden!!!

Dave is happy and like a kid in a candy store i am jealous of this some things in there would be so useful to me in some cases but i say wow this is huge and useful

Love these big sales full of random crap. I'd love to get my hands on some of those higher amperage meanwell 12v DC converters. It's hard to find quality ones these days. They always seem to be real rating - 1 amp / China Rating© - 6 amps.

Crazy sale. Sad to hear about the warehouse workers being replaced by robots, though.

Wish we had the sales here in QLD, But it looked like it saved me a heap of money.

Thank God we don’t have something like this here in Ireland because I would spend entire my savings on it.

Jaycar normally: Single 10ohm resistor - $2 Jaycar clearance: 3000w 48v Meanwell PSU - $10

Looks awesome, that said I am glad nothing like these ever happens here in the UK as i would be utterly broke lol

Man, I wish so much we had a sale like this in the states! Although...I have limited space currently, so...

It's a shame, but also a relief, that I haven't seen anything like this in the UK - because knowing me, I'd buy enough of bits and pieces to last multiple lifetimes, as well as completely emptying my bank account at the same time! :)

It would be with it to go to Bunnings and buy a trolley!!

The advantage of the Tandy packs was that if you just needed a couple of resistors, you didn't have to buy 50 like anywhere else. The disadvantage was that they COST you almost as much as 50 anywhere else........

I'd love to come along and stock up on components but house replied "error. drive full - deltete some stuff before buying". I'd sure bring home a few boxes of those Meanwells!

One day he'll have dementia, and will just wander around in circles all day in a big box store, utterly amazed at everything on every shelf.

Those HLG power supplies are for indoor grow lights.

I'm going to the airport now and will be there soon.

Those red caps are for SB350 connectors for open weather environments so that water doesn't get in the pins, those are the grey connectors you found later on. You would normally see them in use on golf carts and the like.

Note to self... Next time bring a Cart. 😆

I was just amazed from the biginning till the end. My dad and I would love to come there.

I still have a Zebra 105S that my uncle and I used when developing some warehouse software back in the 90s. Couldn't throw it away. Brings back memories 🙂

Wish we had this in NZ...

The guy that ordered the power supplies did MeanWell but accidentally added a couple zeros to that pallet count.

I am SOOOOO jealous, and to make it worse, I buy stuff like those HLG LED drivers new and pay thousands for just 1 box. Those PowerPole connectors were R20 a piece when I last bought, and that was years ago. Wow. Just, wow.

They don't do this in the US. Companies would rather destroy everything in a grinder than let people pick through this stuff. It's sad. We never get anything cool like this.

thanks Dave I could watch this all day I so wish i was there

Thanks for posting! I'm 10 minutes away from this place, heading down soon

"I found an entire box of a pack of 10", says "pack of 8" on it🤣made me laugh like hell!

I used to work in warehousing and in particular high end clothing. It's insane what tends to gather dust in hidden corners. One section of my warehouse was a room that had 20k mens and ladies cashmere full length coats in either brown or black. Absolutely nothing wrong with them and just not wanted any more.

Loved that at 0:29, a pushchair stacked to the rafters with stuff while the child is carried behind :D

Thanks mate for the heads up. I grabbed the zebra thermal printer.

Check out a product called Ares Life Tune, an anti-EMF product. It looks like such a scam.

Dang what an absolute adventure I’d love to go to something like that

_Big buttons for big projects_ Thanks Dave, got a bit of a laugh on that one :D

I have a side business doing custom LED installations. Seeing those Mean Well 12V power supplies for $10 per box has me absolutely salivating.

Everything is like $1 ~ $10, and I would still spend thousands!!! Wish I were there!

Nothing similar here in Italy! Very interesting...a dream for everybody around diy and electronics

I'd be a bit wary of those portable freezers... they're just generic Chinese things that probably go under hundreds of different brand names around the world. I bought one last year in the UK for my girlfriend's business and it couldn't achieve anywhere near its advertised temperature so I returned it. I'd question the quality of the insulation and the compressor. Still, if you can get one for next to nothing in the last day of the sale...

Wow ! I'd love to be able to grab a trolley load of stuff from there !!

Jaycar used to sell such good stuff, particularly their home/car audio components. sucks they decided to gear towards Chinese trinket toy garbage.

Dave, I got 4 mins into your video before heading right there... even saw you on the corner upon arrival. Parked in Bunnings did we? haha.

You have to make shopping list or you will buy to much for sure..Great deals on good products, very nice indeed!

Makes want to drive to Sydney! I am sure my wife says I have no space left for storage (or brains).

This is a sign of poor inventory management .. they should have better demand prediction software and should have scrapped out the stuff when it was still worth something...

Gee I hope this doesn't mean that Jaycar is no longer stocking this stuff, especially components.

Absolute scandal that all this stuff is manufactured in the first place knowing full well it'll never get used. Absolute disgrace.

This is the only time when Jaycar don't rip you off.

I wish they had companies that sell that stuff with sales like that in the UK. I remember Tandy grab bags full of useful components and those 2 packs of resistors under their Archer brand

Like Canal Street back in the 90's.... And when the last of the Shacks closed... Nothing like his in the US now though.

I love your excitement level (in all your videos) - thank you!

Boat wheels, mudguards and flippers would have been Road Tech Marine stock, also owned by Electus. I work for jaycar here in Hervey Bay QLD, you wouldn't believe how many fridges we sell... Unreal! Most of the stock from that warehouse sale are current items.

Next week we'll see that as a lifehack Dave has built a guest house with Meanwell power supply bricks.

I am so jealous, I have to pay an arm and a leg for these here.

Holy crap, the place is MAXIMUM MADNESS! That Mean Well... well, I mean it was all well meant - I'd get any of these PSUs if I only could. Five bucks for a 24V 20A from a reputable manufacturer, none of that super dodgy chinesium rubbish? Speaks for itself, so much useful stuff. Cheaper by the dozens - just incredible! Are we talking turntables, or turntable-shaped objects? Techmoan did some nice reviews and teardowns of these. Oh, and an overgrown package for a handful of resistors (Radio Shack style) is just soooooo BS.

What crazy land do you live in Dave? How is that place not packed with people throwing elbows?

My wife would kill me if I went to a sale like that. I’d fill my basement, lol

A kind of paradise for electronics enthusiasts.

Those 'gallagher' caps at the end of the video are probably for the Gallagher Electric Fence systems (e.g. Cattle fences)

I'd be picking a bunch of good psu's and resell'em on fleebay as Dave Dumpster Find's ... at 3x markup of course

If those Elo-touch touch panels are about 12" x 9" 4 wire they are getting hard to get in small quantities, you have to buy a min of 100 at approx £70 each. They were used quite a lot in industrial machining centres.

Move the VIC warehouse Jaycar!

Fridge freezers, power supplies, components, more fridge freezers, ark of the covenant, connectors, power supplies...

..... I was waiting for a pallet of 'Couch Feet'.

Oh man I would be in heaven there. I would ensure to fill my pickup truck with stuff that I'll probably never use, but want just in case I ever need it.

You didn't forget to bring a trolley, you forgot to bring a lowbed truck!

Damn holy cow. I would need to sell a kidney first and stock up on components for my hobby project till i die and my grandkids still wont need to buy more. Like 1$ a box i would buy a pallet.

Man what a sight, I'm seriously thinking about flying up from Melbourne tomorrow

You could have borrowed a trolley from Bunnings next door. Sure, you'd have to walk it nearlt a kilometer to Jaycar, but it would have done the job (especially for larger bulky items)

Hello from Boston USA 👍

Tyco is what TE Connectivity was previously named. Expensive connectors and related things like crimping tools

Gosh, i'm on the wrong side of the right country - there's no way i'd make it over there in time to score any goodies lol Reminds me of the time I visited a Dick Smith store just after they dropped their electronic parts from the shelves - on asking where they went, the sales rep went backstage and then returned with a big brown box filled with random stock; with the premise being to rummage through it... I just asked for a sale price on all they had, and was told to come back later, as he would need to ask the boss. I returned a few days later with boot space, and to my delight the boss was fine with selling me *two* big moving boxes of components for $150!

Seems like they could just make a deal with an ebay seller who wants to be set for years of work, and just move everything in one go

Mike would buy all the MW PSU's for led installations..

Hmmm... you didn't seem to mention what happens to the employees who were "manually" picking & packing the orders......replaced by robots???