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class D amp
I want to build an AC source to test synchros/resolvers/RVDTs. The target is 400 Hz 30 VRMS at maybe 30 VA, but we might want to simulate aircraft "wild power" and drive LVDTs, so maybe 250 Hz to a...
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Proposed way to topple North Korean leadership
I added this to another thread but no one picked up on it. I basically comes down to bringing information to the N. Korean people about the rest of the world in a non threatening way. It can't be just...
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OT: Name of Truss Nail Plates
I'm looking for the truss nail plates they use instead of nailing joints in trusses. These plates have stamped points bent out of the plane of the plate which are driven into the wood and anchor like...
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Rad-hard solder?
The photo of the IC at the bottom of the 2nd page: The chip certainly has some decoupling caps on board, but the solder is also golden. Is it a special solder (namely what?) or do they apply galvanic...
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OT: Human-caused warming likely led to recent streak of record-breaking temperatures: study
What I'd really like to know is this: how can all these studies be based off flawed data? What is happening to our scientific and research institutions!!!
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Jupiter does not orbit the sun
Now that the eclipse has people interested in astronomy again: Never really paid attention to how big Jupiter is, it's pretty huge.
 
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Somewhat OT: Emails vanishing into a black hole?
While I know that our US phone system is beginning to unravel this is new: A fuel supplier (Suburban Propane) sent me two emails to accounts at two different providers. No bounce message on their...
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Congressman Hank Johnson and Guam
Congressman Hank Johnson is wondering, if a nuclear missile is launched from North Korea to Guam, Can we just flip Guam over and let the bomb explode, then flip it back, then bomb will then be...
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So simple, yet I was clueless.
Sister-in-law called, her BMW wouldn't start. I went over with a tow rope to toe her about 3 blocks. When I get there the brother-in-law is there and says no place to connect the rope. I look under...
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Whataboutism
Title says it all:
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OT: Psychology of Denialism
Finally an explanation: "In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to den y reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth." "The terms Holocaust denialism...
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Allowed range of the 60Hz mains frequency
What is the allowed range of the mains frequency in the US? It's pretty easy to find a norm for the EU, but for the US the various specifications I can find are contradictory. So: 1. Is there any...
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OT: Moving to a new PC, Network Question
Replacing the wife's POS hp box, and being somewhat illiterate about networks... What's the easiest way to assign the new box with the old boxes network settings? Going from an XP Pro OS to Win7 Pro....
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Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo
I this up on another group, thought it might spark a thread here! (Reuters) - Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he...
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