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density
Somebody was whining about PCB density. I want to do a board with about 105 relays. I'd prefer 130 but that's not going to happen. Here's a trial placement, just to see what might fit. normally use...
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OT. Quasar Mystery Solved.
Earth has about 5 billion years left if the star gazers are right. <> Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe....
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OT: Geo-Financial Flows in America
This is interesting. A clear trend emerging of people and businesses leaving the worst Blue states for the best of the Reds. Crime and taxes two big factors.... ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline,...
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dogfooding
of my guys want to build a bunch of special test sets to do production testing... of a general-purpose test system! It can test itself! Eating your own dog food - Wikipedia Eating your own dog food -...
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Poor man's TDR
Can anyone think of a cunning quick and dirty way to do TDR on modest length 3 - 10 m cables to look for breaks ideally with resolution 10cm or better and without using an expensive fast sampling...
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Lead Cloud Engineer//Fort Mill, SC//CROP TO CORP (Remote)//+12 MONTHS//
Hi All Greetings from workpath Job tittle: Lead Cloud Engineer Location: Fort Mill, SC Contract: CROP TO CORP (Remote) Duration: +12 MONTHS Job Description: • Build and support progressive...
 
Stalled EV
The first link is to a story about a tow truck driver towing his first EV. This EV driver would've been ok if he had a hybrid. <> Here's a Consumer Reports article about hybrids. <> I wouldn't want an...
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Latest Skype update reboots without hardware lock or user password.
This AM, Skype updated and rebooted without a ctrl-alt-del hardware lock or user password. version 8.97.0.204 on a W7 machine. ? RL
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pick-and-place thru-hole parts?
I'm imagining a board with about 100 small relays. The relays would have ordinary pins poking out the bottom of the can. We could hand place them and then use our selective solder machine. I wonder if...
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Short track and impedance matching
Hi We have a GaN FET that is dumping voltage into a capacitor. The GaN drain is connected to 50V, and the capacitor is connected on the source of the FET. Sort of like this: "To load" is connected to...
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AC coupling caps
Typically, an AC coupling cap is driven from a low impedance source and only the load needs to be factored into the frequency equation. But when the cap is on the input, is it typical to factor in the...
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OT. Michelin Snow Tire Recall
In the off chance that someone here has snow tires: <> It's good old fashioned common sense in my world that vehicles slide around or get stuck in snow no matter what tires they have.
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DVM measuring volts and amps
I wonder if this works: idea being to just ask the DVM to measure the voltage or the current. The DVM would be a benchtop, probably a Keithley 2100 or something. The issue is whether the current path...
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LED in hermetic envelope?
I'm noticing dollar store 120V LED lamps in hermetic glass bulbs. Emitter assemblies are the yellow stick variety (two in series - paralleled)rather than SMD plates. Is this just employing on-hand...
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Good day for the lil guy (hardware design)
Some libs are annoyed that Dominion "sold out" by settling with Fox, that's dumb. They're not regulators and they speak the same language Murdoch speaks (and probably the only one his ilk understands)...
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