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Tektronix 2% Ag Solder
Why ? I know it is for their proprietary (probably) ceramic connector strip s. They indicate you can get by with regular solder once or twice but too m uch and it breaks the bond. So does that mean...
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relay test
This seems pretty fast for a DPDT 8 amp 250 VAC relay. I think this is public. Dropbox makes a positive effort to be confusing.
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Huge savnings for all, collaborative ASIC
Just a good idea, my humble opinion: ASIC is expensive, and the chip companies earn good profits on selling commodity chips Commodity chips: opamps, regulators, diodes, transceivers etc If we go...
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Hamamatsu thermopiles
So on this science listserve, I said that Hamamatsu makes cheap thermopiles, like these, Reading the fine print these all come with 3-5 um AR coating or even narrower BP at 4.5 um. They plot the...
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I thought I was smart enough
I'm try to help the guy with the LDR triggering a 555. I'm slowly walking him through it and now just triggering it with a wire momentarily to grd, to pull Pin 2 low, through a capacitor. But it won't...
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Question regarding class F amplifier efficiency
Could some electronics guru here please provide some hints. I am SPICE simulating a class F amplifier with 3, 5 and 7 harmonic tuning and an operating frequency of 500 MHz. I am using VFR92A as the...
 
250A electronic load
Folks who have been paying attention know that I've nailed the EE-lab techniques of designing high-amperage current sources. My associate, Rob Legg, has extended measurements above 1kA. Now I'm...
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2 GHz buffer with 2N390x
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
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Lets go back to POTs
Damned kids and their POTs. I want to go back to dial phones and make and break calling. No number tones. Yeah, that'll put folks back to work. Build more of these...
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pHEMT model tweaked for 1/f noise
Hi, all, In one post on the 'purpose of precision' thread, I noted that the ATF38143 model I posted awhile back predicted way, way too much low frequency noise. The real pHEMTs tend to have a pretty...
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OT dynamite
Nice new plaque: -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
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OT: Chinese Authoritarianism
Man who tries to know everything ends up knowing nothing: "In many ways, his hand was forced by his own system. Under the conditions of massive surveillance and censorship that have grown under Xi,...
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pcb signal integrity check
This is the control board of my alternator simulator. I think we are getting close to receiving a purchase order! It has high power, relay drivers, uP, FPGA, dram, ethernet, USB. It goes close to the...
 
Ping Jeroen
Looks like you were right, mate. Your shortcut for dbm appears to work! :-D
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Shunt Reference Problems 2
A few days ago I posted Shunt Reference Problems re. issues I was having with ADR530 shunt regulators. Thanks for many suggestions, prize to Phil Hobbs who pointed out two issues: 1) most (maybe all)...
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