Why Every Car Owner Needs a Jump Starter Like This — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've got a lot of stuff to do this week.
2. 0:02But, uh, project man's just come around.
3. 0:05He wants to do an oil change on his van.
4. 0:08Is that it?
5. 0:11Is that for me?
6. 0:13Parcel delivery, folks. Hold on. Bear
7. 0:15with me. Anyway, you're going to take my
8. 0:17mond.
9. 0:20>> Yeah.
10. 0:22Oh, listen to that, folks.
11. 0:25>> Just had four new tires on it.
12. 0:29Where's that? Hey.
13. 0:30>> Hello.
14. 0:31>> Yeah. Hello. He just broke coming in.
15. 0:32Hold on.
16. 0:33>> Oh, well. He was all right, was he?
17. 0:36>> Nice chat. He said, "Oh, what a lovely
18. 0:37car." He's had to rev it up, and he
19. 0:39might
20. 0:40>> I got it sounded like that.
21. 0:42>> Unbelievable. Go on then. Put it. Move
22. 0:43it over then.
23. 0:44>> Be careful. You ain't going to put it
24. 0:46there because we've got some French
25. 0:47turning up today.
26. 0:48>> I'll be over here about 2:00.
27. 0:49>> Oh, okay. Whatever. Whatever. Go on
28. 0:52then. Off you go. Let's hear the old
29. 0:53Mondo.
30. 0:55Here we go, folks.
31. 0:58Yeah. When I took it to get the older
32. 0:59tires done, the B said, "Oh, you don't
33. 1:01see many of these ones about now." The 3
34. 1:02L,
35. 1:09four new tires, folks.
36. 1:13340 quid, I think, which I didn't think
37. 1:15was too bad. That's about 90 quid each,
38. 1:17I think.
39. 1:20There you go. Happy days.
40. 1:23Yeah, you'll be seeing a bit on this
41. 1:25coming up soon, folks. I've been very
42. 1:26busy and we're going away now. So, um,
43. 1:28we're starting to put the engine bits
44. 1:30back together. I've ordered a new water
45. 1:32pump there and, um, thermostat housing
46. 1:34as well, I think. Thermostat. So, that's
47. 1:36going on pretty soon. And then that's
48. 1:38not too far off of being able to fire it
49. 1:40back up again once I've done a service
50. 1:41on it. Anyway, he's got this van. He's
51. 1:43Vivaro cuz he's going off to the aisle
52. 1:46of white and um, obviously needs to do
53. 1:48that as well. So, uh, oh, Sharon also
54. 1:51needed two new tires on her car. And
55. 1:53then she took it in and the rear ones
56. 1:55are perished as well. So that means four
57. 1:57tires on that. Here we go.
58. 2:03[music]
59. 2:03Happy days. There you go. What are you
60. 2:06doing? Just service on it.
61. 2:08>> Just an oil change.
62. 2:09>> Yeah. Now I don't know you people with
63. 2:12these Vavaro vans. Do you have problem
64. 2:13with the top mounts? You've had a few
65. 2:15problems with these.
66. 2:16>> Yeah.
67. 2:17>> You've had quite a few top mounts on it,
68. 2:18haven't you?
69. 2:18>> I'll show you now.
70. 2:19>> I don't know whether when he's had them
71. 2:21changed. He has he has had the genuine
72. 2:22ones on there, but uh they went within a
73. 2:25year.
74. 2:26Then you had took it down to a place to
75. 2:28repair and they probably put pattern
76. 2:29ones on. They went as well.
77. 2:31>> I've just sold another set off eBay. Not
78. 2:33offline.
79. 2:34>> Yeah.
80. 2:35>> That are from a company recommend
81. 2:37stronger. So
82. 2:37>> Oh, right. But it is a common problem on
83. 2:39these apparently.
84. 2:40>> Yeah. Everyone says it online.
85. 2:41>> So where are they?
86. 2:43>> You see up back there?
87. 2:44>> Right. Yep. Right back there, folks. Let
88. 2:46me get you in there. Look. There you go.
89. 2:48Them top mounts there. You've changed
90. 2:50them a few times, didn't you?
91. 2:53>> That one's all right, though. Is it?
92. 2:54That one at the moment. It is sitting a
93. 2:56bit high. It is squeaking that one.
94. 2:57>> Right.
95. 2:57>> That one I'd replaced in Scotland over
96. 2:59there.
97. 2:59>> That one there. That was done by a
98. 3:01garage in Scotland. Was it apparently?
99. 3:02>> Well, that was sitting high when you
100. 3:03done it. So,
101. 3:04>> what is the um
102. 3:07what one's gone now again?
103. 3:09>> This one's making a racket.
104. 3:10>> All right. Okay. Well, there you go.
105. 3:12Anyway, so he's got to do an oil change
106. 3:14in here. Is that it?
107. 3:16>> Just an oil change today. Yeah. I've got
108. 3:18the um R six now ready. We got We're
109. 3:21just getting the seat recovered on that.
110. 3:22So, um, this is more of a sort of an
111. 3:24update video to show you what we're up
112. 3:25to sort of thing. And, um, I've got to
113. 3:27do the the Wis F750 oil change and
114. 3:31change the oil sensor at the bottom. So,
115. 3:35that's something which is going to be
116. 3:36coming up maybe even today. I'm not too
117. 3:37sure yet. What's that you got there?
118. 3:39>> Oil
119. 3:41and a new sump plug. See,
120. 3:43>> always change them. And that is the
121. 3:44motor one that you buy that in bulk.
122. 3:45It's about 50 quid in it or 60 quid.
123. 3:47>> About 50. Yeah, 55 quid.
124. 3:49>> Buy in bulk, which is a lot better way
125. 3:51to do it, folks. That's what we use. The
126. 3:52man man oil. I think it's recommended
127. 3:55for Fords, isn't it?
128. 3:56>> This is a Vox, mate.
129. 3:57>> Yeah, I know. It's recommended for
130. 3:58Fords, isn't it?
131. 3:58>> Fords, Voxels, and something else. I
132. 4:00can't remember the other one.
133. 4:01>> Yeah, keep it there. I might put
134. 4:03something into that as well.
135. 4:05>> Unbelievable. Well, I've done one change
136. 4:06on it. So, there'll be about quarter of
137. 4:08a barrel left.
138. 4:08>> There you go.
139. 4:10>> I told you.
140. 4:11>> Right. So, while Gary's out here doing
141. 4:13this, I've got this, folks. And um we do
142. 4:16have a another jump start pack, but this
143. 4:20one is a lot more compact. Let me just
144. 4:23open the box for you. Bloody noise. I've
145. 4:26got to carry on.
146. 4:38[clears throat] So, this one is the top.
147. 4:41I think it's a JS 3000. Let's have a
148. 4:43little look inside it. But um I've been
149. 4:46quite impressed by these. I've had a
150. 4:47little look online and uh this looks to
151. 4:49be the dogs basically. So let's show
152. 4:51you. So it's a 3000 amp jump starter
153. 4:54there. I've actually charged it up as
154. 4:56well. And one of the features I like
155. 4:58with this is that um normally you get
156. 5:00these leads on here and they normally
157. 5:03have a boost button on on the actual
158. 5:05handle which is a little bit
159. 5:06inconvenient sometimes because you can't
160. 5:08really see it all that well. But the
161. 5:09boost button before you start is
162. 5:10actually on the unit itself. So, um,
163. 5:13what I'm going to do, I'm going to take
164. 5:15the battery, my good battery off my
165. 5:17Mondo, and I've got this rubbishy little
166. 5:19dead battery here, and we'll see whether
167. 5:21or not this thing can actually jump the
168. 5:23Mondo. They reckon they can go up to
169. 5:24five and six liter motors and stuff like
170. 5:26that, tractors, all sorts of stuff like
171. 5:28that. As I say, we've had one for the
172. 5:30past four or five years, and we've been
173. 5:31so impressed with it. But, uh, this one
174. 5:33come along now, and we're going to give
175. 5:34it a go. Right. Okay. So, I know for a
176. 5:38fact this old battery is probably about
177. 5:4214 years old, something like that. So, I
178. 5:43know I went over that actually cuz that
179. 5:45come off of that old vintage car which I
180. 5:47got there, that Morris Miner. So, this
181. 5:49thing is totally flat, dead, whatever.
182. 5:52So, I'm going to take my battery off my
183. 5:53Mondo,
184. 5:56which I know, well, this is a brand new
185. 5:57battery, so it's not worth doing the
186. 5:58test with this one. And we can see how
187. 6:01good that um tool is. So, let me let me
188. 6:05just take this off and I'll come back to
189. 6:06you. Right. Okay. So, I've taken the
190. 6:09bracket off. Let's get this battery off
191. 6:11now, which is uh I think they're 10 mil
192. 6:14to undo these. So, let's get that taken
193. 6:16off.
194. 6:18Yeah, this engine is quite a big engine,
195. 6:20folks. This is a 3 L V6 engine Ford.
196. 6:25Yeah, I just realized my battery was
197. 6:26clamp was loose as well. Look at that.
198. 6:28Look,
199. 6:30that's unbelievable, isn't it?
200. 6:32It's been starting up all right, mind
201. 6:34you. But there you go. Lift this out the
202. 6:36way.
203. 6:40Get that off there first. There we go.
204. 6:43Get that battery out. That's the good
205. 6:46one. And this tiny little battery. What
206. 6:50one's a positive? That goes that side.
207. 6:51We'll just drop that one in there for
208. 6:53the moment.
209. 6:55And no way is this designed for this car
210. 6:56anyway. This one, folks. Right. So,
211. 6:59let's get this thing uh connected up. Is
212. 7:02that long enough? Oh, that's a bit hard
213. 7:04to get that on there, is it? Look.
214. 7:08Let's tip that over that way a little
215. 7:09bit.
216. 7:11Don't want to go on there, is it? It's a
217. 7:13taller battery by all accounts.
218. 7:16This battery is definitely dead. No,
219. 7:19let's take that cap off of there as
220. 7:21well. No spark at all there. Look, let's
221. 7:24undo that.
222. 7:27Push that one on there.
223. 7:32and just tighten that up.
224. 7:35And I'll show you me turning the uh key.
225. 7:40There we go. So, that's connected now.
226. 7:42Right, let's get these tools off of
227. 7:43there. Put them down there. Let's get
228. 7:46the keys.
229. 7:48Get into the car.
230. 7:54There we go. In the ignition. Now, these
231. 7:58lights shouldn't even come on. I'll be
232. 7:59very surprised if they do. Absolute
233. 8:02look. Absolutely nothing. Look, totally
234. 8:05flat.
235. 8:07Not even no indication on the dashboard
236. 8:08whatsoever. Have a look at that. Look.
237. 8:10Right. Okay. So, let's get this jump
238. 8:11pack out.
239. 8:14I'll leave the door open for the minute.
240. 8:17It's like basically not having a battery
241. 8:19in to be honest with you. Let me go and
242. 8:21get the jump pack.
243. 8:23Okay then. So, here we go. Now, I've not
244. 8:25used this. As I said, I did charge it up
245. 8:27and it al also comes with a a little
246. 8:30light on it. So, you just power it on
247. 8:32from there. Apparently, got a full
248. 8:34charge there. If you hold the power
249. 8:36button on, you got a bright, very bright
250. 8:38light there. Press it again and it
251. 8:41flashes. Press it again. I think it does
252. 8:44the SOS, which is handy, I suppose. Then
253. 8:47press it again, and that turns the light
254. 8:48off. Uh, these are your DC out there. So
255. 8:52you got another DC socket there and you
256. 8:53can have a USBA socket in there as well
257. 8:56to power other stuff as well. Come
258. 8:58around the other side of it. These are
259. 9:00your inputs on here. So you can actually
260. 9:01input it via USBC or USBA.
261. 9:05So that's handy that you can do both. So
262. 9:06you can actually use this not only for
263. 9:08jump starting your car as a backup power
264. 9:11supply as well, which is handy. [snorts]
265. 9:13That's where you plug in the engine
266. 9:14start connector. So if I just pull that
267. 9:17over here, it can only go in one way.
268. 9:20So, uh, you won't mess that one up. Just
269. 9:22push that in there. Now, let's connect
270. 9:24it up to the battery. If if I'm right as
271. 9:27well, yeah, you've also got a hanging
272. 9:28hook on it there. Look, which you can
273. 9:30hang up, which is handy. Or you've also
274. 9:32got a little stand there here just to
275. 9:36Oh, just ping it out and you can use
276. 9:37that stand it up basically on on a flat
277. 9:39surface, would you imagine? [snorts]
278. 9:41There you go. So, you can do that like
279. 9:42that. Um, right. Let's connect this up
280. 9:44now. So, I'm going to go positive on
281. 9:47first.
282. 9:49Nice substantial clips on these
283. 9:50actually. And then this negative
284. 9:54on that bar there. Let's go on that bar
285. 9:56there. Right. Okay. So, just turn it
286. 9:59around this way. I'm going to power it
287. 10:00on.
288. 10:02And I'm also going to hit the boost
289. 10:04button. You should hear it click.
290. 10:07There you go. That turns it all on. So,
291. 10:09I'm going to leave that like that. Let's
292. 10:11take you with me.
293. 10:13Come around here
294. 10:16now.
295. 10:19Now, you know, this was totally flat,
296. 10:21folks.
297. 10:23Right, we've got ignition lights on.
298. 10:25Everything's come on in here. Let's see
299. 10:28how easy this starts the car.
300. 10:31Oh, first time. Look at that. You can't
301. 10:33grumble at that, folks.
302. 10:38Happy days.
303. 10:46And there it is. Now, we're obviously
304. 10:49running off the alternator now, but that
305. 10:50started that no problem whatsoever. And
306. 10:52that's still on 100% charge there. Look.
307. 10:55So, plenty of power in this thing.
308. 10:58I'm happy with that. Now, as I say, it
309. 11:01will do engines up to, I think, 6 L,
310. 11:03something like that. Maybe even bit more
311. 11:04than that. I'm not too sure. But, um,
312. 11:06this is the biggest engine I've got
313. 11:07here. But it's going to be so handy for
314. 11:09us cuz we are a twoc car family. And uh
315. 11:12we like to keep one in in the car, which
316. 11:14is Sharon's car normally, which we have
317. 11:16which we got hers in there. But now this
318. 11:18one can stay in this car cuz um you
319. 11:20never know there. And it's so much
320. 11:22better than having the old like leads
321. 11:23you used to jump leads and all that
322. 11:25which you used to have. Anyway, that's
323. 11:27the uh JS 3000. Does what it says on the
324. 11:29tin. I like the boost feature on the
325. 11:31unit rather than on that cuz nine times
326. 11:33out of 10 you're fiddling about trying
327. 11:34to press the boost button in and you
328. 11:36can't really see it. there. Just a
329. 11:37matter of pressing that as well. There
330. 11:39will be a link in the description below.
331. 11:41So, do check it out. It' be one of the
332. 11:42best ones you can get at the moment.
333. 11:44Definitely of uh this model anyway,
334. 11:46which has been about for a few years,
335. 11:47but it's still got a very good track
336. 11:49record anyway. So, anyway, let's move
337. 11:51on. Oh, here we go. Look.
338. 11:55>> Oh, here we go. Look
339. 11:57>> what's going on here.
340. 12:01>> He's got the R1 out. Look. Smells,
341. 12:04doesn't it?
342. 12:04>> Yeah. What are you doing to it?
343. 12:07>> Giving everyone up a
344. 12:09nice
345. 12:11deer them pipes. Acropovic.
346. 12:15>> Yeah.
347. 12:18I saw him
348. 12:27there. choke on still.
349. 12:28>> Yeah.
350. 12:31>> Oh, here we go.
351. 12:34Yeah,
352. 12:36>> very fast.
353. 12:36>> What's that? Stabilizers. Is that
354. 12:38stabiliz?
355. 12:40>> The old on there. Look, the old damper.
356. 12:45Got
357. 12:45>> a nice old end can that I must say.
358. 12:48Titanium. Very, very light. Yeah.
359. 12:55>> So, he's giving that a bit of a run up
360. 12:56coming in here, folks.
361. 13:00>> Oh, I still got to do the fizzy as you
362. 13:01can see.
363. 13:03progressing a bit with the wiring.
364. 13:06Um,
365. 13:08there's the tank over there for the
366. 13:09fizzy. There's the wiser F750. I've
367. 13:11still got to do an oil change, coolant
368. 13:14change, um, and put change the sensor on
369. 13:17it underneath.
370. 13:18There's the old RD there sitting there.
371. 13:20Needs a good clean up now. It's been
372. 13:22sitting there for a while. Coming in
373. 13:24here.
374. 13:26The wires are there. Still got the belly
375. 13:27pan off at the moment. Better to change
376. 13:29the jubilee clip on that. But Jimmy's
377. 13:31scanned the paintwork now. the code.
378. 13:33He's done the paint scan on it and he'll
379. 13:35be taking the tank off and that'll be
380. 13:37repainted as well. So, that's all coming
381. 13:40up. We've got to change the thermostat
382. 13:42in it because we run it up to um
383. 13:46I think it was 104 105°
384. 13:49and the fan wasn't kicking in and the
385. 13:51hoses were cold still. This hose here
386. 13:54was cold still. So, we don't think the
387. 13:56thermostat was opening on it. So, as a
388. 13:58result of that, we've ordered the
389. 13:59thermostat and uh we'll be changing the
390. 14:01thermostat on that. That's the other
391. 14:02reason why we haven't um done that. So,
392. 14:05that's all coming up as well. Coming
393. 14:07into the back here, there's the other
394. 14:09row of bikes. You can see there's a bit
395. 14:10more room in here now. He's got his one
396. 14:11out. So, we got the FSR 600 there. We
397. 14:15got the Suzuki 1200 Bandit there. We got
398. 14:18the Suzuki 600 Bandit there. We got the
399. 14:22GSXR 750 slabside, whatever you want to
400. 14:25call it. Suzuki GSXR 600. That's the
401. 14:29SRAD version. Uh down here we've got the
402. 14:32little Honda 75.
403. 14:36Um coming over here
404. 14:38in this corner here we've got the mobile
405. 14:41moped which someone was asking about
406. 14:43still there.
407. 14:45Trotter van up here down there.
408. 14:49We've got the new exhaust for the fizzy.
409. 14:51We've got the RSX100
410. 14:53fuel tank up here and the seat. New
411. 14:57pipes for the RD.
412. 15:00Coming back out here, we got the TZR125
413. 15:04under there. Under that cover behind the
414. 15:06FZR, the YZF, we got the RD250DX under
415. 15:10there. So, uh, plenty of projects. Just
416. 15:11haven't had the time to get in here
417. 15:13again. Been so busy as you well know.
418. 15:15But, uh, yeah, there we go. The old
419. 15:19Trotter van.
420. 15:22>> Got all that wood to cut take out of
421. 15:24there and cut it up. pods there, they
422. 15:26>> Yeah, I've seen them.
423. 15:27>> Yeah. Put another pod there.
424. 15:29>> What's that?
425. 15:30>> Yeah, that's where I'm going to put
426. 15:31them.
427. 15:33>> That one there.
428. 15:34>> On there. I'm hoping they're going to go
429. 15:36on there.
430. 15:39>> Hey, well, the sun's that way. Look, the
431. 15:41sun's over there. So, it comes from over
432. 15:44there. Ideally, they'd love to have it
433. 15:46up here on them panels there, but um
434. 15:50that's where I'd like to get it up there
435. 15:53on them two like that's that piece of
436. 15:56roof there.
437. 15:58>> That would be ideal.
438. 15:59>> Yeah.
439. 16:00>> But um I don't know yet. If they're too
440. 16:03big for there, I might consider putting
441. 16:05them up there.
442. 16:06>> What the brackets What do the brackets
443. 16:07screw into though? Were they
444. 16:08>> You take the tiles out and they fix to
445. 16:11the uh rafters underneath apparently.
446. 16:13>> Oh, right. Okay. But I've got to look
447. 16:14into that. There's videos on YouTube
448. 16:16about that.
449. 16:17>> Thought you I
450. 16:19>> Yeah.
451. 16:21>> Anyway. Yeah. So, what I was talking
452. 16:22about there, folks, I've got this um
453. 16:25system which I've just bought two solar
454. 16:28panels which I've got there. These are
455. 16:30two 500 W solar panels. So, you buy
456. 16:33them. You get this control box here
457. 16:37plus this lead here to join the panels
458. 16:39up with. Let me get this out. Hold on.
459. 16:41Let me show you.
460. 16:44I've never seen these systems before.
461. 16:46>> You get this connector box.
462. 16:49You get a lead that comes out of this
463. 16:51box. So, the solar panels connect into
464. 16:54here, goes into this little box here.
465. 16:56And then the other side of it, this
466. 16:58plugs into this side somewhere. And then
467. 17:00you get a plug
468. 17:02that comes out.
469. 17:04And then you plug that, believe it or
470. 17:06not, into one of your 13 amp sockets in
471. 17:08your house. and it feeds into the grid
472. 17:11to lower your bills. But you can only
473. 17:14let in 800 watts apparently for the U in
474. 17:16the UK government uh state that you for
475. 17:19this system you can only put into the
476. 17:21grid 800 W. So these systems are are
477. 17:25becoming more prevalent now especially
478. 17:26for people trying to lower their energy
479. 17:28bills. And I paid 450 quid for this
480. 17:31setup with them two massive panels. And
481. 17:34not only that, let me put that over
482. 17:35there for the minute. You also get the
483. 17:38fitting kits as you can see there. These
484. 17:40are quite substantial fitting kits and
485. 17:41all I don't know how they're doing it
486. 17:43for the money
487. 17:45there to actually now got one box for
488. 17:48one panel, one box for another panel and
489. 17:50all that lot come as I say about 450
490. 17:52quid. Gary got this system a while ago
491. 17:56and he paid 380 quid for it. But now
492. 17:59because they're becoming more prevalent
493. 18:00and what with this um fear of the power
494. 18:04outage and the grid going down and stuff
495. 18:06like that, they're starting to realize
496. 18:07and they're starting to put the prices
497. 18:09up a little bit. So I've jumped on the
498. 18:10bandwagon pretty early. Got one of these
499. 18:12now and I'll be basically installing it
500. 18:15outside there. Maybe on that roof as I
501. 18:17said to the hot tub room or failing that
502. 18:19the main room there. But this panel any
503. 18:22the these panels or this system can be
504. 18:25installed by anyone because it plugs
505. 18:27into your 13 amp socket. If you start
506. 18:29putting uh or you buy the panels where
507. 18:32you have battery storage, then there's a
508. 18:33set of regulations involved in that or
509. 18:35something. I can't remember. You'd have
510. 18:36to Google it. But I will I will leave a
511. 18:39link to this system below. As I say,
512. 18:41I've actually purchased this myself. So,
513. 18:43um this is something which I'll be
514. 18:44showing you maybe on this channel, maybe
515. 18:46on me Butler's Empire channel. I'm not
516. 18:48too sure. Anyway, let's get outside and
517. 18:50see what they're up to.
518. 18:51>> So, what's happening then? I saw you I
519. 18:56had it
520. 18:58worth it.
521. 18:59>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
522. 19:01We're sorting business.
523. 19:02>> Business.
524. 19:03>> I wrote business mate. I told you.
525. 19:05>> Oh, be careful. Mind that. Look. That's
526. 19:07a sabotage.
527. 19:08>> Dangerous out here, isn't it? Yeah.
528. 19:09>> Yeah.
529. 19:10>> Burglar alarm. All the car.
530. 19:12>> Yeah. Well, if a cook,
531. 19:14if [laughter] a cook comes down there,
532. 19:16he he'll stumble. If especially if you
533. 19:18got no shoes on like a cat burglar, they
534. 19:20don't wear they got pads and they on
535. 19:21their paws. Cat burglar. Yeah. Failing
536. 19:24that. If they get in the house ash, then
537. 19:25we got a Rutweiler.
538. 19:26>> Rottweiler burglary. That is, isn't it?
539. 19:28>> Yeah. But we're all cameraing up as you
540. 19:29know, JP. Like a lot of people got the
541. 19:31camera there. We got cameras around the
542. 19:33corner. You got to have them nowadays.
543. 19:34>> I've got hundreds indoors. I've got I've
544. 19:36got five indoors and about six or seven
545. 19:38outside.
546. 19:40>> And they're so cheap to have now. Blink.
547. 19:42Eink.
548. 19:44>> I got blink ones.
549. 19:45>> All the blink ones. Yeah.
550. 19:46>> And Rio link.
551. 19:47>> I don't know them ones.
552. 19:48>> Yeah. Good. Got them in the van.
553. 19:50>> Yeah. Anyway, that's what we've been up
554. 19:52to, folks. So,
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