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new Silicon Chip website buggy
The new Silicon Chip website is a pain in the arse. If you select a particular preview page it takes ages to load, it seems to be loading EVERY page along the way.
 
Anyone use electronic hourmeters as mercury type replacements?
With mercury type hourmeters now banned in EU, ineed to quickly find an alternative. I have seen brands such as curtis and ENM but neither have exaclty what I am after. Prefer not to go custom made or...
 
hilfe uber 18150Z SOP6 SMD?!?
does anyone knows what component is 18150Z, SOP6 package SMD (2 x 3 pins) its in circle of power supply of portable DVD player...i guess it could be some voltage buck converter....cant find any...
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Futurlec MiniUSB controller
Has anyone used the MiniUSB board from Futurlec for controlling some opto isolators using MS Excel VBA as software ? Thanks Charles Harris
 
replacement batteries for old appliances
I've just purchased a replacement Li-ion battery for my 8 year old Canon powershot G3 from a digital camera outfit, to prolong the life of what is an excellent piece of kit. Does anyone know whether...
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Overpriced crimp-lugs
Dropped into J R Turke today, to buy some forked spade crimp lugs, a bit like there but with a 6mm gap. I took the bag of 50 to the counter. The asking price was $47.50. That is, nearly $1 per lug. I...
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X Jayucar stock
Hi I have started listing a collection of components I have left over from when I owned a Jaycar store. If anyone wants anything I have plugs switches cables resisters caps semi conductors and...
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security ?
Hi , you should try in the particular case of the light; Beyond this, When considering the light, I guess that we should study also the remote surveillance of the colour efficiently; what did you do...
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CFL autopsy.
The CFL in the kitchen is left on 24/7 - sometimes they last a very long time, this one not so much. At first glance it looked as if the windings insulation on the feedback toroid had incinerated, on...
 
Smart phones
Now that smart phones are now mini-computers, and connected to the internet, we're starting to see the same problems associated with PC's.- freezing, crashing, bugs, and all the rest of it. (sigh) I...
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Flat Screen Demos
Hi, a friend is in the market for a 42 inch LED / LCD TV - however, he is very annoyed that all the stores all seem to use Blue Ray players and animation to demo the screens. It sure sucks all the...
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Lights flikering and meter failure
A goodly few years ago, I had a problem with flickering lights, and was trying to diagnose it. I had a scope looking at the mains, and was turning on and off a fan heater. I had done this a few times,...
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DTV reception problem
Hi, as the date draws near ( December 3 in Sydney) for all analogue TV transmitters to be switched off, many folk are now electing to finally ditch their old CRT sets in exchange for a modern, LED/LCD...
 
Looking for quality 128Gb USB stick
I'm looking for a good quality 128Gb USB stick. Some of the smaller (ie 8gb, 32gb) sticks that I've purchased over the last year or so have become faulty, or the connector (tin, held on with solder)...
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Cheap Battery Tester
I bought a cheap battery tester from ALDI recently, a Globaltronics GT-BT-03. This may or may not be available in Australia yet (I live in Europe) (If it comes to ALDI in Australia, it may be rebadged...
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