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Ta Da!
Ta Da! Title of Invention: METHODS SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR MINIMIZING POWER LOSSES IN LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DRIVERS Filing Date: May 28, 2014 ...Jim Thompson
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self service food vending machine
Hi ! Another post regarding this vending machines :-) Can someone explain the part for releasing the candy/chocolate/juice ? If there are 25 products on those spin able carrier, does that meens that i...
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Chinese phone comes preloaded with spyware
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Small batch PCBs with blind vias?
Hi, all, Anyone have a favourite board house that can do blind vias on a 4-layer board? I've been using Gold Phoenix, but they only do blinds on 6 layers and up. (I want to sprinkle a bunch of vias on...
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NI box
Interesting, depending on what the software lets you do. Can I make a diode curve, using the power supply and the DVM? Do I have to buy LabView to do advanced stuff?
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2N7000 Spice Model
Last time I tested several 2N7000 Spice models (2005), there was huge variance between them, and some down-right non-physical behavior. Has anyone found a better 2N7000 model since then? ...Jim...
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Context effects produced by question orders reveal,quantum nature of human judgments
Hi, Apparently this human judgment effect can't be explained by "non quantum" conventional statistics, but it is explained when applying the quantum principle of
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Ignore, Testing
Ignore, Testing... something's hosed ...Jim Thompson
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OT: Youtube via AT&T, anyone else have problems?
Hello Folks, My ISP is AT&T. Since a few months Youtube has become difficult to impossible to use. More than half of the videos will not start, the data traffic slows to a crawl and then stops. I...
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job in San Diego
One of my customers, a largish company in San Diego, has recently discovered that it has few if any decent analog design engineers. One of the managers asked me to ask around. So I did. Looks like...
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Touch controller to touch screen connection
I have a 5 wire analog resistive touch screen that has touch pins labelled as BL (Bottom Left), BR (Bottom Right), TL (Top Left), TR (Top Right) and SG. The touch controller IC (AR1100) has X-, X+, Y-...
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OT: The Socipath in the Cubicle Next Door
Actually, this should have been titled, "Sociopathy begins in the home." Here is a test to see if you are a sociopath. "A woman went to a funeral for a friend of the family. While there, she met a man...
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Some weird tubes
I was looking through my "essential characteristics" tube book in relation to the tube amp thread, and noticed a bunch of "weird" tubes. Here are a few: OA5: gas pentode trigger tube 5923: argon...
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Looking for DIY kits for LED fixtures
With the availability of low-cost high powered LEDs, I'm interested in building my own lighting fixtures for my backyard patio and security lighting. I'm looking for a source for LED lighting...
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OT: Father's Day.
...Jim Thompson
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