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Solder station mainly for electronics - recommendations sought
My gas soldering iron has sprung a leak and I need to replace it but it turns out that the range of choices these days is huge so I'd appreciate some recommendations - either on specific products or...
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Re: Rechargeable Calcium Battery?
An almost contentless article. No numbers for cell capacity, energy density per mass or volume, charge/discharche efficiency numbers (except a vague statement it's poor), no power data, not even...
 
Motor Speed Control
Gentlemen, Can motor speed control ever approach the effectiveness of the old style drive belts and pullys approach? Would simple PWM be enough or would there be some additional trickery needed? CD.
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Rigol reset?
I have a Rigol DS1102E, a 2 channel 100mc scope, that is currently showing 2 copies of the expected display, one above the other. Whether this is a bug or a feature is questionable but reseting the...
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Re: Sci-fi solar EV never needs to plug in for a recharge
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:15:45 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs wrote: They have raised $133 million. Not bad.
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Re: Market anomaly
On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:59:18 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs wrote: He posted a followup to my post, in another thread. Usenet occasionally tangles threads. Don't be automatically obnoxious.
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Re: Google Groups On 10 Day Countdown
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:51:52 -0800 (PST), Lasse Langwadt Christensen snipped-for-privacy@fSorry if this has been asked before, but what's to happen to their archives of the groups? Will they be...
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OT: Excess deaths stats - sanity check
<>I just need a sanity check before I raise this with the relevant agency. If you scroll down to "Age specific rates, 2023, 2022, Baseline", and look at the three right hand columns. How can the 2023...
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Re: relay switching circuit
They don't? I guess I'm not using "modern" NFETs then ... :( Or are you just gonna rely on the body diode?
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Re: End of quantum computers?
It is a bold claim but not backed up by any convincing evidence. I can believe that classical computing and in particular NN type AI can be speeded up by making some gross heuristic approximations...
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Re: This isn't working
Your X1 complementary NPN/PNP voltage follower has the bases floating when the button isn't pressed, they could pickup noise. The button current is very low and may not be enough to make good contact...
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OT: The Putin Interview
Gentlemen, Tucker Carlson's lengthy and in-depth interview with Validmir Putin is up on Twitter and well worth a watch IMHO. I'd recommend skipping to 28 minutes in unless you're particularly...
 
Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 06:43:31 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: That's all very impressive, Jan, but if you were *truly* a hardcore programmer, you'd be using machine code. ;-) More seriously, bloat enables...
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What hardware and software for unit testing/SPLD device verification?
Not sure exactly what kind of widgets I need for this task, so any advice would be appreciated. I'd like to be able to run unit tests on GreenPAK-type SPLDs using some kind of unit testing framework,...
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OT: In the Interests of Good Relations....
Those of us to the right of centre of politics are aware that there are an ever increasing number of people out there who are easily offended or frightened by hearing someone else's opinion. Some of...
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