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unfortunate part number

https://www.electronicdesign.com/part-details?part_number=vom1271t&manufacturer=vishaysemiconductors
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posted by jl
2 comments posted 1yr posted by jl

Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource

The latest New Scientist talks about asteroid 2024 YR4 being downgraded from a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth (the 17t...
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posted by bill.sloman
29 comments posted 1yr posted by bill.sloman

Telestrator software

Running under Windows, I want to mark up the screen sometimes but can't find a utility that does this one simple thing?
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posted by fizzbintuesday
5 comments posted 1yr posted by fizzbintuesday

inductor polarity

I need to put 16 of these on a very dense PC board. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/murata-power-solutions-i...
9 comments posted 1yr
posted by jl
9 comments posted 1yr posted by jl

Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

Leave aside the ghosting, which could largely be addressed by having a decent antenna. But my memory of a Philips Colou...
31 comments posted 1yr
posted by sylvia
31 comments posted 1yr posted by sylvia

AD9833 waveform generator

Did anyone successfully use the AD9833 waveform generator chip? Was there anything dodgy in the serial data interface?...
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posted by jeroen
3 comments posted 1yr posted by jeroen

Re: Next mystery disease?

> >> >> >> (and others) >> >> Gotta be hell living in a place where this sort of thing isn't >> unexpected... > > And,...
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posted by bill.sloman
3 comments posted 1yr posted by bill.sloman

Re: 2" F-F F81 coupler

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:07:06 -0700, Don Y snipped-for-privacy@foo.>So far, I can't find anything longer than 1.75"... :<...
1 comments posted 1yr
posted by legg
1 comments posted 1yr posted by legg

Fuzz boxes

Can anyone explain why the best ones seem to use germanium transtors, ( and 'matched pairs' at that)? Why not a simple o...
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posted by kraken.sankey
8 comments posted 1yr posted by kraken.sankey

end of Intel?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/intel_carveup/ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/18/silver-lake-set-buy-majority-...
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posted by jjlarkin
9 comments posted 1yr posted by jjlarkin

Re: IF transformer VNA Characterisation

> > Well, all modern test equipment is normalized for 50 or (more rarely) > 70 ohms. That is the so-called 'system impe...
1 comments posted 1yr
posted by Pimpom
1 comments posted 1yr posted by Pimpom

signal leads that pick up less ambient noise?

Hi, I have a very noisy workbench (lots of digital computers and computer monitors nearby) and it seems like I pick up...
49 comments posted 1yr
posted by christopher
49 comments posted 1yr posted by christopher

OT: A Quiet Night In...

....Monty Python style... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BdYWCbovDI FMM the American Python, Terry Gilliam steals this...
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posted by cd
0 comments posted 1yr posted by cd

OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

As the Munich conference today wound up, JDV gave a *cracking* speech, telling Europe they'd have to fund their own def...
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posted by cd
140 comments posted 1yr posted by cd