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Anthropogenic Solar Minimum
I stole the subject line, because I thought it was funny :-) I'm sure others will be offended. Mikek
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high voltage blinker
This might work. The idea is to build a static Schmitt trigger that switches on its own supply voltage. Q1C is low below VK=4 volts, high above 12 volts, has hysteresis between, and doesn't depend on...
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Favourite op amp for driving ADCs?
So I'm building this board that has a very nice shiny ADS8319 ADC (16-bit, 500 ks/s, good specs). The input is capacitive, of course, so it needs some fairly beefy driver. For slower things I usually...
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OT To: support@biostar-usa.com
Please give full, complete, *working* instructions to modify / update / the BIOS boot screen. Firstly, please do NOT refer to the motherboard PDF manual page 20 as it is useless. Start from scratch,...
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OT: Congratulations Australia on doing away with CO2 tax!
Congratulations Australia on doing away with CO2 tax: There is more correlation between sunspot activity and the ended warming a few years ago, than between warming and CO2.
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OT: In spite of Slowman.
...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | | |...
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Picaxe: The Crappiest, Best mcu out there!
The Picaxe is an mcu that hardly deserves the name, as it runs on a basic interpreter and is slow. But what the basic interpreter does is to make simple usually complex needs, like ADC. It's a 90% of...
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Deep Neural Nets out-do classic HMM speech reco approach
Yu and colleagues managed to improve on hidden markov model (HMM) automatic speech recognition (ASR) by 20-30%, which is impressive, considering HMM has been under development for 40 years now. FYI...
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How ATT Lost Their Monopoly
This is a story worth repeating. It's one of the most famous business law cases ever. A trucker wanted to talk to other truckers in Illinois, so he started a microwave network to do that. ATT heard...
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OT: 14 yo sails around world by herself - despite socialists
There is an interesting movie Laura Dekker made about her trip around the world. in Holland, she was determined to do it. In reaction, the government there: -Tried to have her declared insane and put...
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Voltage adjustment on buck 12V power supply
Naively buying a 12V power supply from an ebay supplier, rated at 15 Amp, I note that the voltage drops to 10 v under load. Obviously junk, but I wonder if the voltage adjust pot's range could be...
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Serial Fans Push Harder?
Has anyone just put cooling fans in series by stacking them spaced from each other? Fans (as opposed to blowers) don't like back resistance. ?
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How measure differential current in SPICE ?
Could some SPICE guru please help ? I use HSPICE and Ngspice, both text input based. I wish to measure differential current output from a test circuit. For each output node, I can add a zero voltage...
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Re: 3SK166A dual gate GaAs MES FET replacement?
Crossposted and followup-to . wrote: Just from Googling, one broker claims to have stock on a 3SK166, 3SK166-1, and 3SK166A. I have never dealt with this broker before. Brokers like this one buy up...
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EM question
Suppose I have a coil, and I apply an alternating magnetic field through the center of the coil. This induces a voltage by Faradays law, and I can calculate that. But let's say I then want to attach...
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