17 discussions on ElectronDepot about the HP HP185: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.
You can't fool Mother Nature. When a few hundred million people chooseto not work much, not breed much, and consume a lot, you just can'tspend your way out of the problem. This is the leading edge of the European demographic crisis...
If I have a source terminated transmission line (think of a length of coax with a 50 ohm resistor to ground at the source.) and it goes into an open circuit. (say into an unterminated 'scope input.) Then is there a reflection from the...
Anybody got one? Do they suck? Will it last thru 10 years of off-and-on hobby usage? Any horrible "features" that didn't make it to the marketing brochures?Since all my stuff is ancient and I'm tired of being publicaly embarassed (;-)...
Anybody got one? Do they suck? Will it last thru 10 years of off-and-on hobby usage? Any horrible "features" that didn't make it to the marketing brochures?Since all my stuff is ancient and I'm tired of being publicaly embarassed (;-)...
Looks like NXP is discontinuing their SOT89 RF bipolars, like BFQ149 and BFG31 and such. Bummer. I just designed them in. They have equivalent SOT23s that they rate for 600 milliwatts. SIX HUNDRED MILLIWATTS! Maybe I can get by with some...
Folks, After John Larkin sent me SMS7621 Schottky RF diodes I played around with them in the lab. While they perform nicely at room temperature everything goes to pots at a slightly elevated temperature. At ballpark 50C the leakage current...