Electronics Down Under

Dangers of LI-ion batteries

These things are seriously dangerous, from exploding phones to exploding kids scooters, to exploding vape-cigarettes Te...

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posted by jonahreal

2 comments posted 7yrs posted by jonahreal

Old-Fashioned 3D TV

Reading a copy of Radio, Television & Hobbies (Electronics Australia) from July 1958 I was surprised to find an article...

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posted by not

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Repurposing LED TV backlights from thrown out kerbside TV's

Considering repurposing backlight LED's from discarded broken TV's into a large LED lamp built into a picture frame & r...

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posted by jonahreal

18 comments posted 7yrs posted by jonahreal

Pretzel Huawei Camera

I can not find the thread, but this seem the most appropriate place to post. the pretzel posted about some super dooper...

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posted by news18

8 comments posted 7yrs posted by news18

anybody here familiar with 3D printers from ALDI/office works?

I have a auto. coffee machine with a busted Gear & was wondering if it was possible to replace the gear by 3D printing...

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posted by jonahreal

26 comments posted 7yrs posted by jonahreal

variable speed single phase AC capacitor motor

Sounds kind of wrong. However that's what's in my Breezair evaporative Aircon, and it has a short. It is what appears t...

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posted by nomail

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Found elsewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlM6PE2kKVY&t=11s

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posted by haggisz

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High fashion crystal oscillator?

https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/crystal-oscillators/1485663/ $142.20 Is this the crystal oscillator equivalent of those a...

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posted by sylvia

2 comments posted 7yrs posted by sylvia

IBM Model M Keyboard

Anyone tried reassembling these things? I've got an M2 which had the common faulty capacitor problem. Caps replaced and...

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posted by not

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Aldi charger

I have a few Aldi intelligent chargers and they blow up, has anyone else had this problem? The older of the two I can f...

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posted by haggisz

9 comments posted 7yrs posted by haggisz

current carrying

I am getting befuddled, I asked google about current being constant for a given cable for differing voltages it goes on...

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posted by haggisz

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Current carrying capacity

No, it is *not* the same at different voltages, not by a long chalk. The voltage drop for a given current at a given le...

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posted by haggisz

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Electric Mushrooms

A bit more complicated than with lemons, but: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20181112-bionic-mushrooms-covered-in-3d-pri...

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posted by not

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Samsung LA19R71B not accepting antenna input

The Samsung LA19R71B is a 19" LCD TV. I was using it with the RF output of my Commodore C64C. Channel search works but n...

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posted by LuciferMorningstar

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Ponder this.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/

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posted by haggisz

4 comments posted 7yrs posted by haggisz