Hobby Electronics Basics

Thermostat

Best to ask here or ? My gas furnace is a Holly. It has an old mercury two wire thermostat. I want to change the thermo...

6 comments posted 5yrs

posted by Olden

6 comments posted 5yrs posted by Olden

Really Basic Power On Question

This must be a really really common problem and the only reason it is diffi cult to find on youtube is the wrong search...

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posted by bretcahill

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3 phase AC to DC

I am running 3 phase AC into a set of transformers, Y config, and thence into bridge rectifiers . One leg of the output...

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posted by fritzo2ster

5 comments posted 5yrs posted by fritzo2ster

Use resistor instead of regulator?

I can put a resistor after a voltage that's too high for the circuit? Of course the resistor must handle the current. A...

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posted by always.look

7 comments posted 5yrs posted by always.look

Ten 860v Electric Eels Wire Themselves In Series

"For The First Time, Electric Eels Have Been Seen Hunting And Zapping Prey as a Group" https://www.sciencealert.com/for...

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posted by bretcahill

1 comments posted 5yrs posted by bretcahill

Full wave rectified source for DC motor

I need a sanity check - I think I understand, but there's doubt. If I rectify AC with a bridge and use the full-wave ou...

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posted by BobEngelhardt

6 comments posted 5yrs posted by BobEngelhardt

Even After Musk Tried To Dump Tesla the Market for EVs Was So Overwhelming It Still Put Muck On Track to Become the World's First Trillionaire

Earlier last year B-H dumped airline stocks because no one was calling up for a loan. Buffet/Munger figgered that if th...

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posted by bretcahill

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Why So Many Products With Poorly Designed Parts Still Do the Job

At first you wonder how they got the difficult part correct and screwed up the easy part. The parts that fall apart are...

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posted by bretcahill

2 comments posted 5yrs posted by bretcahill

Cheap Chinese rubbish

An LED striplight. After 1 month, BANG! A puff of smoke and a hole blown in the side of it. What I think used to be an...

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posted by CFKinsey

28 comments posted 5yrs posted by CFKinsey

Remote On Switch for Devices

I don't want to have to be there to turn on the cam. Instead it needs to be turned on by a relay. If necessary I will i...

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posted by bretcahill

2 comments posted 5yrs posted by bretcahill

Rope Light Circuit

The sealed-up-in-plastic power supply comes with the plug, 110v U.S. or 220 v EU. On a 110 v AC U. S. plug the output a...

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posted by bretcahill

4 comments posted 5yrs posted by bretcahill

Power Routing Switch

Working on a gadget that uses a 12 volt motor (10 amp peak) and misc electr onics running on lower voltages. It is powe...

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posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

1 comments posted 5yrs posted by gnuarm.deletethisbit

EV Stocks On Fire

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-xpeng-other-ev-stocks-are-on-fire-this-is-why-51605901707

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posted by bretcahill

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Amateur alarm circuit problem

I built an alarm circuit from a book I bought called Make Electronics by Charles Platt. https://drive.google.com/file/d...

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posted by rob

23 comments posted 5yrs posted by rob

PCB Motor: 97% Efficiency and 12 kW/ kg Power

Also easy to retool the plant for different size motors. https://insideevs.com/news/453557/infinitum-electric-pcb-motor-...

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posted by bretcahill

0 comments posted 5yrs posted by bretcahill