PlaneCrazy
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Hi all
I'm a mechanical engineer. I live in South Africa and am employed as an aeronautical engineer. I have recently developed an interest in electronics and power electric/eletronic systems.
I am also a musician. I play the piano and (surprise, surprise) guitar. One of my hobbies is to develop an effects board, since no one effects board I can buy gives me all the featrues I want - I would even need 6 different compact pedals to give me only all the possible distortion and overdrive sounds I want, while all of these can be built into one pedal.
Although I am a mechanical engineer, part of our curriculum focussed on electric machines and some analogue and digital systems (transistors as amps, transistors as switches, differential amplifier, non-inverting amp, inverting amp, binary twos-complement calculations etc.) However, all this theory seems to help me zilch at the moment, so I'm hoping to get some practical advice. I am especially interested in three-phase induction machines and variable speed control of these in motor and generator mode. But I can't even make a bar graph voltmeter! Clearly there are things to consider when ordering electronic components that we never learned...
Looking forward to your company!
I'm a mechanical engineer. I live in South Africa and am employed as an aeronautical engineer. I have recently developed an interest in electronics and power electric/eletronic systems.
I am also a musician. I play the piano and (surprise, surprise) guitar. One of my hobbies is to develop an effects board, since no one effects board I can buy gives me all the featrues I want - I would even need 6 different compact pedals to give me only all the possible distortion and overdrive sounds I want, while all of these can be built into one pedal.
Although I am a mechanical engineer, part of our curriculum focussed on electric machines and some analogue and digital systems (transistors as amps, transistors as switches, differential amplifier, non-inverting amp, inverting amp, binary twos-complement calculations etc.) However, all this theory seems to help me zilch at the moment, so I'm hoping to get some practical advice. I am especially interested in three-phase induction machines and variable speed control of these in motor and generator mode. But I can't even make a bar graph voltmeter! Clearly there are things to consider when ordering electronic components that we never learned...
Looking forward to your company!