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    Raise your hand if your car had one of these:

    My first truck had one of those. AM only. Then I updated to an AM, FM & 8-Track. Technology is great.
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    Impact of Tariffs on PCB Fab

    God only knows what happened. The Tariffs should have been only on the PCB not on the shipping. It is clear the 100% tariff was on everything. I have been shipping out with an invoice for just the product (hardware). Then a separate invoice for the labor and shipping. Customs does not see the...
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    Selection Guidelines - Convert DC Wall Wart to AC Wall Wart

    In 1978 I had a clock used in factory automation that uses 60hz from the power line. The clock did not keep time well. I tracked it down to every time the elevator motors turned on there was an extra pulse added to the time. 60hz See link to a good stable 60hz without the power line. I made the...
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    Curved lines in PCB design

    Do you want a board that works, or do you want that exact board?
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    Curved lines in PCB design

    A single sided board has a problem that the coper may come off the board if you mechanically stress the parts. A double sided board will have pads on top and bottom, and most importantly there is a "via", metal tube through the board. Mechanically the board is much stronger.
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    Curved lines in PCB design

    I have made boards like that many years ago. 1970s Single sided and double-sided cost the same now. I would put the "jumpers" on the top side copper. I did this in Paint.net just to make a point. The green is topside and replaces a jumper. In any CAD there is an "area fill" command. The +12B is...
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    im looking for a simple 8 bit dram refresh circuit

    Years ago, I had the CPU refresh every 1mS. Set up an interrupt for the timing. I think I did 256 sequential reads as fast as possible. Don't remember the details.
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    Why is my l298n dragging down the supply voltage

    12V into the regulator 8V out. 1A current 4 watts. Is the regulator very hot?
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    Is there a better way to make elliptic holes in a proto PCB?

    Today I used a file to make the pins smaller. Not good but worked.
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    Back to the old BASIC days

    HPBasic was/is used by many companies. During the HP-Agilent-Key Sight shuffle, many of the servers that held the old files were scrapped. People did not understand that test equipment lasts for years and needs the files to work. I remember when they came for all the old manuals in the building...
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    Behringer MX 1602 mixer - reading block diagram

    Years ago, I switched from R-R tape recorders that were too heavy to lift, to digital recorders. I know what a 2 channel and a 4 channel tape deck is. My first two digital recorders clearly are labeled 8 channel. They can play back 8 channels but can only record 1 or 2 channels at a time. It...
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    Back to the old BASIC days

    I have a 68HC11 with BASIC burned into it. In a homemade Al box. It has not seen power for 35 years.
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    Behringer MX 1602 mixer - reading block diagram

    You got this from ebay for cheap? It looks like the meter has the option to read stereo or mono. (phones also)
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    Trail camera

    Inside the can is a crystal that resonates. Just like a tuning fork. Most likely yours is12mhz. (not certain) Corrosion is probably OK. Dose the camera work?

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