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Death By SARS-CoV ARDS Is NOT Pretty
Description by a frontline worker:
 
1206 pads -- 0805 parts?
If my boards have 1206 pads and the assembler wants to use 0805 parts, do I need to change the PCB art or will the 1206 pads be ok? Anyone run into this? THANKS.
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Understanding Exponential Growth, re: Cornoavirus
Well, this is really about logarithms, but I like the video so much it's worth posting here. Her voice and manner are almost ASMR. Maybe a few here can learn enough to know what to expect from the...
 
Rydberg Atoms
I thought this might generate some interesting discussion. Speff, are you there :) Clifford Heath
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OT: Peanut Butter
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the legume is not as popular. It's also probably a solid...
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"high voltage" MOSFET
Looking for a MOSFET with a 100 or 150-200 (would be better), Vds N-channel that can switch a couple amps at a couple MHz, preferably in D-pak or something for ease of compact Manhattan-prototyping....
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a break from disease
We were talking about BFT25 somewhere. The junctions look logarithmic from about 100 fA to 10 mA, as far as I went. Must be a really tiny thing.
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What They're Not Telling You About COVID-19 Infection
Even if you survive, your quality of life may be real bad with severe lung damage and loss of function that even makes walking a challenge: The worst-hit coronavirus survivors could be left with lung...
 
California's brilliant governor
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
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50 Billion Dollars
And they are starting to spend it. IN the last few days we got orders for quantities that we would normally get in 6 months. Theres big orders that the company that I work for just cannot fill, but we...
 
Tantalum capacitor ESR
Gentlemen, I took a crazy risk and got some axial Kemet tantalums off Ebay (purportedly genuine). These are visually identical to the originals out of one of my HP boat anchors. And the ESR figures...
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Weaver's method
Does anyone have any experience of designing an SSB modulator using Weaver's Method (AKA The Third Method). I have some thoughts on it that I would like to bounce off someone with a better knowlede of...
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No more PolyZens :(
All discontinued by those rotters at Littelfuse. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics,...
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How to select shunt capacitor for class E amplifier
Could some electronics guru please help ? I am trying to do some SPICE simulations for class E amplifiers. How is the shunt capacitor value calculated ? Any hints, suggestions would be helpful. Thanks...
 
Current Boost for Op Amps
It is hard to find an op amp with good drive and a reasonable GBW product w ithout a high idle current. I was looking at an old design that might get a do-over because of an obsol ete part and I...
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