General Electronics

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The textbook scam

Spending large sums of money for textbooks for EE is a scam because classical EE is an old discipline and it could be t...
11 comments posted 20yrs
posted by bretldwig
11 comments posted 20yrs posted by bretldwig

help identify these transistors

Hi all, A few years ago (1995) I bought a scoop of plastic transistors from a company called "electronic goldmine". I a...
4 comments posted 20yrs
posted by sreenathbh
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by sreenathbh

Comment on this TV auto volume device?

http://www.tvsoundregulator.com/index.html It seems a bit too good to be true (like those aerials you glue inside your...
8 comments posted 20yrs
posted by pat
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by pat

3 phase motor?

Hello, Just like to know if it was possible to convert from 1 phase to three phase AC ? See I have a motor that will ru...
32 comments posted 20yrs
posted by lerameur
32 comments posted 20yrs posted by lerameur

Which Book on the selection of electric motors???

I want to be able so select the right motors for the right applications. Very often people choose motors on behalf of t...
6 comments posted 20yrs
posted by lucasjensen
6 comments posted 20yrs posted by lucasjensen

video decoder

hi to all! while searching for video decoder i came through this site.actually i am looking for a video decoder if any1...
4 comments posted 20yrs
posted by suruchi81
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by suruchi81

Burning smell

Recently I noticed an odor in my car, smells like burning rubber. Not good! It is particularly noticeable when I am idl...
18 comments posted 20yrs
posted by mark-t2
18 comments posted 20yrs posted by mark-t2

External Rankings of the

External Rankings of the Quantitivity http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Quantum_AI/ Welcome to a Beyond Science. Where not...
0 comments posted 20yrs
posted by zetalimit
0 comments posted 20yrs posted by zetalimit

novice question! Optical mouse...

have just purchased an incredibly cheap USB optical mouse off eBay...it's one of those transparent affairs that lights...
6 comments posted 20yrs
posted by dave_t
6 comments posted 20yrs posted by dave_t

phones that ring british?

I have been seaching for a phone (regular phone, not cell) that would ring British style, without any luck so far. Anyon...
8 comments posted 20yrs
posted by bamboo
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by bamboo

Never heard of this

I'd guess you guys'd know about it, but it seems a little strange to me. Friday evening we had a lightning strike just...
8 comments posted 20yrs
posted by rev_otis_mcnatt
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by rev_otis_mcnatt

Using a Karnaugh map I need to

I wants to convert my old hot tub controller, wich is currently using relays, to more reliable TTL gates (solid state)...
25 comments posted 20yrs
posted by Lost
25 comments posted 20yrs posted by Lost

RS485 opto-isolation

I am working with a RS485 serial bus. AFAICT, an RS485 bus works on a 0-5V volatge differential. The problem we have is...
4 comments posted 20yrs
posted by yan
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by yan