Werewolf VFLEX Adapter Review
In a world full of power bricks along comes something that provides power with far less clutter. If you are currently using a bench power supply to provide power to your gizmos the Werewolf VFLEX Adapter system may be for you. I recently bought several items from them and hope to share what I’ve learned.
But first let me give you a real world example. I’m a photography nerd. In the mid-2000’s I bought a device called a Nikon Coolwalker. It was designed for the days of low capacity Compact Flash cards. Fill up your card on a shoot and then dump the photos into the Coolwalker. Format your card. Shoot. Repeat.
That device had some crazy battery in it called the Nikon EN-EL6. It was only made for the Coolwalker. And of course after 20 years that battery is deader than dead. And there are no 3rd party EL6’s available even today.
I needed to feed it around 6 volts to start it. At first I did it with a bench power supply and some barrel connectors and bread board wires. It was ugly, messy, and probably dangerous (to the Coolwalker). Then I saw a review video from Jeff Geerling on his “Level 2 Jeff” YouTube channel showcasing the VFLEX system. If you don’t know who Jeff is, it is worth your time to check out his channel. He’s probably one of the world’s best Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes geeks and he isn’t constrained by those two things at all. His network timing and atomic clock and GPS synchronization videos are awesome to me. Especially, since I play with GPS modules and Pulses Per Second (PPS) while getting time sync from GPS satellites.
Got Me Again, Jeff
As soon as I saw his video I ran to the Werewolf website and ordered all the things I saw on his video. And after receiving my order I immediately set out to hook that Coolwalker up and retrieve a thousand or so pictures that were stored on it. Recovering those long lost photos made this purchase worth it to me.
Along the way I accidentally learned a few things and I hope to impart some of that knowledge on you here in this blog.
What I Ordered
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