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Ferrite ID

Rheem tankless water heaters, fed with dual 40A 240V circuits, are driving all the Leviton and other brand dimmers bers...
3 comments posted 10h
posted by wb8foz
3 comments posted 10h posted by wb8foz

Protections against faulty music pressings (Liz?)

What sorts of "data errors" can creep into digital music releases (CD/DVD/MP3/et al.) *and* what protections do the pla...
49 comments posted 3d
posted by blockedofcourse
49 comments posted 3d posted by blockedofcourse

More bad design decisions

IVR for bill pay. "Your confirmation number is eff six bee pee ess three oh four" Um, was that 'eff' or 'ess'? 'bee' or...
3 comments posted 3d
posted by blockedofcourse
3 comments posted 3d posted by blockedofcourse

proposal

I propose an opt in to freeze an AIs development. It would be very good. AI is currently claiming to be smarter than hu...
90 comments posted 5d
posted by cactus_DAC
90 comments posted 5d posted by cactus_DAC

A bit of cosmic? ellectronics

I was reading this: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260917003725.htm A $100 detector can see invisible pa...
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posted by alien
9 comments posted 6d posted by alien

Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail)

> It didn't stop him getting an international patent on > counter-current continuous cooking, where you convert wood ch...
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posted by ldo
5 comments posted 1w posted by ldo

AI coding

We have a new product, a 4-channel tachometer with USB and Ethernet interfaces. I thought it would be cool to have wave...
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posted by jl
37 comments posted 1w posted by jl

you old curmudgeon

Here's a blatant hallucination I'd like you to look at. If requested, I will provide the prompt. Due to its ability to...
1 comments posted 1w
posted by cactus_DAC
1 comments posted 1w posted by cactus_DAC

"No update" FLASH

My design executes entirely out of RAM, fetching the binary at IPL (so the "boot rom" has fixed/unevolving responsibili...
5 comments posted 1w
posted by blockedofcourse
5 comments posted 1w posted by blockedofcourse

Ham shack satellite communications

It seems best to start with the receiver. Here's one simple receiver schematic: eggbeater antenna -> LNA -> LMR 220 ->...
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posted by g
18 comments posted 1w posted by g

Top mount D-ring hook

Few choices but this appears a potential (durable!) alternative:
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posted by blockedofcourse
0 comments posted 1w posted by blockedofcourse

Re: PCB VERIBEST 1998 - 2002

I am crossposting as a person who reads a different newsgroup might give a better answer. Awe74 wrote in comp.arch.fpga...
1 comments posted 1w
posted by thanks-to
1 comments posted 1w posted by thanks-to

Fluke 6060A/AN Pin diode

Theres a youtube video out there of a tech locating a bad Pin Diode, CR104 on the output PCA section in the SM, Pg 8-17...
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posted by techforce
0 comments posted 1w posted by techforce

Discharging a cap through a saturating inductor

Thinking about John Larkin's problem of discharging a capacitor fast in an LCR network, I was reminded of a scheme that...
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posted by bill.sloman
52 comments posted 1w posted by bill.sloman