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    Faulty heat air gun (dc motor) - problem to locate fault due to Intermittent fault [unrepairable]

    If the motor is powered via a tapping on the heater element wire, the tapping connection may deteriorate when the element gets hot, hence reducing power to the motor.
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    Cataract Lens Options?

    I have single-focus lenses for distance vision, which are good for anything beyond about 1 metre. I use a few cheapo non-prescription reading glasses (£1.50 per pair from Poundland) of various strengths for any close work.
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    Electromechanical simulation.

    You can use LTspice to do various simulations, by using Voltage to represent e.g mechanical force, current to represent e.g. mechanical motion or heat flow, etc.
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    Kawai KDP 80 Electronic Piano Dead

    A chunky old-school transformer like you have is unlikely to fail unless something downstream draws excessive current. Have you ruled out all other posssible failure points? It would be a shame if a replacement transformer suffered the same fate.
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    Question i-nears headphones magnetic drivers

    See posts 4 and 5.
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    Question i-nears headphones magnetic drivers

    Unless you know the magnetic coercivity of your ear-phones it's impossible to say. Good luck getting that info from the makers.
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    I built a little robot car

    Glad you got it working.
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    I built a little robot car

    From the LAFVIN tutorial it seems two 18650 cells in series (~7.4V?) are needed as the power supply, plus a buck regulator. The laptop USB port provides only 5V. Depending on the voltage and current requirements of the motors, ultrasound module and servo, the laptop current output may also be...
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    I want a circuit that input 0.7v and outputs 1.2v 1.8v 3.3v and 5v.

    We await your answers to the questions in post #2. Also, what is the 0.7V source, and is any other power source available?
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    Chinese Tarrifs – 104%!?!

    Get the Chinese supplier to ship the items to a penguin on Heard Island, then you can import them from there with only a 10% tariff and no minimum package charge :D .
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    I need to trick a fluid sensor to return a full signal

    From page 3 of this pdf it looks as though the sensor might be one which puts out an analogue voltage representing fluid level.
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    Monitoring a diesel water pump.

    Even if there is no alternator there must be a starter motor, so that running would provide one signal. A vibration sensor on the pump could provide another signal.
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    BEKO AC remote faint response

    What's that hairy caterpillar at the bottom of the pic?
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    Using CD4011BE (NAND) to automate a heating system

    It depends on (1) how the switches are connected to the rest of the equipment, i.e whether they share a common ground connection (as shown in my schematic) or share a common high side connection and (2) whether the relay coil is being switched high side or low side. Because U2a and U2b form a...
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    Using CD4011BE (NAND) to automate a heating system

    Here's one way of doing the logic part, using a couple of CD4011's :-

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