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Transfer function request
Is there a filter topology to synthesize the following transfer function (with omega normalized to 1): s*(s^2 + 2*zeta*s + 1) A zero at the origin, and a complex conjugate pair of zeros. Bode plot...
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Semi OT, new overhead LED lights in T-8 size tube
So a week or two ago they put new LED T-8 (4') bulbs overhead in my lab. Today I was doing some noise testing and I wondered how 'bad' the new bulbs were. They are great, a quick survey and I could...
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Texas power prices briefly soar to $9,000/MWh as heat wave bakes state
Unbelievable 75GW peak demand due to heat wave, almost nothing in reserve. And this is just the warm-up, it's going to get much worse. Electricity prices in Texas soared to $9,000 a megawatt hour as...
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Nuclear battery
Not terribly innovative on its own, but given the DIY aspect and price, it can be a viable "eternal" auxiliary power supply for some hi-rel devices: The tritium pipes are available on Aliexpress for...
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OT computer USB Beep at connect.discounect
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the Not necessarily T, can be any letter. Recently the badump sound that...
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App: Battery Package Calculator
Hello I would like to suggest you to try free Android application: Battery Package Calculator. Quickly & easy calculates the basic parameters - voltage - capacity - energy - maximum continuous...
 
Another Profession In The Dirt
We don't need architects anymore, we have CAD. Notre Dame: Why do architects write such nonsense?
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Mealy vs. Moore FSM
I was in another discussion on FSM because of a research paper that used th e two terms. I've never liked the Mealy machine because the state diagram (a directed graph) doesn't properly describe the...
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AD8515 vs TLV9064
can anyone spot the reason to use the single AD8515 low-voltage RRIO amp over the quad TLV9064? In most areas it looks like the TLV9064 has superior performance to the AD part and you get four for...
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National Semiconductor AN-125 for LM378/LM379
Does anyone have the National Applications Handbook #2 from 1977 that contains (I think) AN-125 - LM377, LM378, LM379 Dual Two, Four, and Six Watt Power Amplifiers? Usual and even unusual suspects...
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AoE x-Chapters is down to the wire
The door is close to slamming shut on the new Art of Electronics, x-Chapters book. We appreciate all the comments and advice given so far. Paul enjoyed reading much of it too, that I pasted to...
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Negative Cap Clapp oscillator
If you massage this old bus-terminator speeder-upper negative capacitance idea: into a Clapp oscillator topology you get the Negative Cap Clapp which sounds like a very bad type of venereal disease to...
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seeed ?
Anyone checked out these guys? RL
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OT: My daughters binaural pure tone audiometry test, opinions, reproducing it in lab
Hi My daughter at 10 years old has some challenges in hearing a message from t he teacher in a noise environment (could just be that she just don't want t o listen) Anyway, we found a clinic doing...
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Better supercaps.
Today in Science Daily an article about improving supercaps with soapy electrolytes. Link: