Latest threads in Electronics Designshow only best voted threads
| Subject | Author | Posted | Replies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Agilent, err Keysight DSO scope
Late last month my Agilent DSO2024 scope would not boot up. Just some front panel LED's would light up and stay lit, the scope never booted up. (trigger led's and the serial, digital, math and ref...
2
|
7 years ago
|
2 | |
|
|
Power supply Loop evaluation
I am using a linear Technologies power supply chip 8616. I have used LTpowe rcad and ltspice to try to get a handle on the closed-loop response of this power supply. I don't think I believe the LT...
6
|
7 years ago
|
6 | |
|
|
Transmission line query
Puzzled, probably a simple answer. The velocity of propagation for a transmission line can be expressed as Vp = 1/sqrt(LC) where L and C are the per unit length inductance and capacitance. Obviously,...
37
|
7 years ago
|
37 | |
|
|
Old-timey design from not too long ago
The Yamaha TX81Z, circa 1986: Big transformer, linear regulators, two-sided board, bunch of DIPs. Looks like the power switch is on the left at the back, and they've routed some long piece of metal...
17
|
7 years ago
|
17 | |
|
|
Elon Musk
Is an amazing guy. He went to Stanford for a Ph.D in physics but dropped out after two days to start Zip2 where he made his first millions. He then leveraged his economics degree to found X.com which...
6
|
7 years ago
|
6 | |
|
|
OT: revisitng the social cost of CO2 emissions
From the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's a trifle comical. One of the more predictable costs of global warming is sea level rise. There's about 10 metres of sea level rise...
—
|
7 years ago
|
— | |
|
|
analog failures
My experience is that we find a lot of bugs and documentation problems with the digital parts of mixed-signal chips. Devices Threatened By Analog Content? With few measurable methods to assess analog...
88
|
7 years ago
|
88 | |
|
|
Top Science Rule
1
|
7 years ago
|
1 | |
|
|
Eudora Email Problems
I don't typically have any trouble with Eudora... it just works. But once in a while the handshake with the server will stop working. I end up having to contact my web hosting provider and we change...
6
|
7 years ago
|
6 | |
|
|
gumdrop source
The web site is still a tad flakey. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
25
|
7 years ago
|
25 | |
|
|
OT: Coming soon to America
heres what happens when you import a violent foreign culture into a peaceful native one...
11
|
7 years ago
|
11 | |
|
|
How to increase the volume of a metronome?
Greetings, Comments are sought on additional circuitry to increase the speaker volume of the circuit shown between the lines. Comments on circuit simplifications are also sought. (Maybe a 555 with a...
30
|
7 years ago
|
30 | |
|
|
Long term stability of matched resistors?
If I select metal foil resistors with 1% tolerance so that they match to 0.1% can I expect that the matching keeps stable for a longer time or will the values drift sooner or later to their 1%...
33
|
7 years ago
|
33 | |
|
|
Driving Helmholtz Coils - Best Practice
The following questions are with regard to driving two coils arranged in a Helmholtz configuration. By convention, is a bipolar or unipolar signal applied? It would appear the former would have the...
4
|
7 years ago
|
4 | |
|
|
The "Experts" are up to their old tricks again
Lying assholes.
5
|
7 years ago
|
5 |