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Need source for CHEAP 10-32 microdot connectors
Usual suspects charge $50 to $100 each. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: email: Please visit my GURU's LAIR...
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fet driver
8 channel fet driver I'm looking for an 8 channel fet driver with input range to 5 volts and output to 10 volts? Sink & source current of 25 ma. or greater is adequet. The 74ac541 has worked well with...
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a couple of good books
This is hilarious. This guy is a great writer, and he names names and calls most of them very bad words. Lots of SF and SV lore, including burgers at Zeitgeist [1]. Anyone thinking of founding or...
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engineering lore
Actual electronic design includes a zillion details of actual practice. I have a new PCB layout guy, so we're showing him how we do things. How are drawings named and numbered? During development and...
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Simulated inductor with 100:1 current range
Hi, all, I'm up in the Adirondacks sitting on a deck above a lake, so for R&R I'm de signing a transistor noise tester to stand in for the late lamented HP 4470 A that I can't find for sale. I'd like...
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JFET vs MOSFET
I am mostly an RF engineer , but our analog guy moved on and I am doing a l ittle bit of sustaining of his stuff. In looking at one of his circuits I have gone back to the basics on JFET and MOSFETS....
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The intern
Assume you are an intern working on a SETI program at a somewhat advanced civilization on Iota Rectuli IV. Strong evidence of rocky planets have recently been discovered nearby in a minor arm of your...
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Solar Panel Voltage Regulator
I know a desert rat who lives off the grid and uses a 180 watt solar panel to charge two 12 lead acid batteries in series (24 volts). The panel delivers about 5 amps at 36 volts which overcharges the...
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SMD help please
Here's a part for example that says the package is "8-SMD" I'm a novice at SMD and the IC stuff is driving me *&% crazy. My software has a ton of SMD packages but nothing that says "8-SMD" and I'm...
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Swiching Power Supply question
Just recieved a Mean Well quad output power supply. After powering it up and testing output I get drastic flucuations on all outputs, a ticking sound and the green indicator light flashing. I have...
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night vision toy
This is pretty neat. It's some sort of CCD or CMOS color imager. It's not as sensitive as a Gen1 tube, but it's pretty good. It seems to be very sensitive to near IR at 850 nm, and also to my UV...
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Wireless headphone to listen to music from computer
I am looking for a way to listen to my CDs from my computer without using wired headphones. What are my options ? __________________ Thanks, Andy
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line trigger
This is sort of goofy. Given some isolated/grounded AC voltage, 3 to maybe 12 volts RMS from a transformer, I want to derive a line trigger. The 1N914s represent the ESD diodes inside the Schmitt. The...
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Analog buys Linear
For $14.8b ? The article is not clear. Cheers
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Centroid file ? -- assembly newbie
Thought this Fritzing program I've been using may have it but being the mas ochist I am went ahead and did most of the PCB anyway without really checki ng. It generates gerber files of course and a...
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