Dave shows you how he built his own acoustic sound absorption panels for his recording studio using Tontine Acoustisorb 3 material. Data on the material is here: http://www.tontineinsulation.com.au/technical-data
Mailbag galore.
Dave screws up and releases the magic smoke on the best mailbag item ever! - the time circuits from Back To The Future. Turns a light bulb on with his mobile phone, and goes underwater in a submarine.
And a cameo appearance by everyone's favorite.
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Dave shows some techniques on how to build and mount usable PCB based front panels user interfaces with LCD displays and push buttons and capacitive touch buttons onto small cheap extruded aluminium enclosures.
Also a discussion of mounting TO-220 package to such cases to use the case as a heatsink, and using isolated internal heatsinks.
In particular for the µSupply project. This is Part 14 of that series.
The uCalc project gets another look in, and does the Sharp Memory dot matrix LCD.
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Dave tears down and attempts repair on a 1989 vintage Acorn Archimedes A3000 Computer, using the very first ARM processor, the Acorn RISC ARM v2
Service manual: http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_A3000SM.pdf
Reference Manual: http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_A3000TRM.pdf
Schematics: http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_A3000TRM_drawings.zip
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Agilent responded to the U1272A problems within 3 weeks, and have a nice present for all current owners to boot.
Mini rant time too - Manufacturers take note, this is how you respond to problems and keep customers happy.
Here is the Agilent notice:
http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/U1272A-02.pdf
FLUKE RESPONSE:
No surprise really, Fluke have responded.
I got a call from them and they have not only fixed the GSM problem (official explanation, they found a few RF sensitive components), but a new revision board is being tested as we speak.
I'll hope to have a lot more on this a later date...
So although they didn't get back to us on the progress, they have been head down bum up fixing it. Good to see!
30 minutes of Dave twiddling knobs on a 2nd hand 50MHz Tektronix 2225 analog oscilloscope - it's right here!
Who else can get so excited about a 500uV/div vertical scale?
Teardown Tuesday.
What's inside a 1980's vintage 8.5 digit multimeter, the 6047 from Prema. Or did Dave diddle himself?
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-613-prema-6047-multimeter-teardown/
EDC Voltage Standard Calibration Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onqsjDJq4I0
High res photos: http://www.eevblog.com/2014/05/07/eevblog-613-prema-6047-multimeter-teardown/
User manual: http://www.ko4bb.com/manuals/index.php?dir=09%29_Misc_Test_Equipment/Prema
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A bumper mailbag, the last one for 2014!
SPOILERS:
A car dashcam and custom automatic LCD video player from:
http://eve-radio.com/
Girl time!
And old GPS unit, and a PIN Calculator from Gemma & Liz a.k.a Annierak and Hoofbag
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Blood Glucose meter
Crappy calculator with secret construction technique - cardboard!
High voltage Victor power supply modules
PicoPSU ATX Power Supply for embedded automotive computers:
http://www.mini-box.com/M3-ATX-DC-DC-ATX-Automotive-Computer-car-PC-Power-Supply?sc=8&category=981
Bubble memory from an old GRiD laptop computer.
I Dream Of Wires documentary DVD about the development of the electronic synthesiser.
http://www.idreamofwires.org/
The Human Comparator:
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http://www.spitzenpfeil.org
Precision electronics knives from:
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https://www.youtube.com/user/Ghlargh
High altitude ballooning PCBs from Chris Stubbs:
http://chris-stubbs.co.uk/wp/
https://www.ukhas.net/
And an awesome drawing of Sagan from That Crazy Indian Bloke
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Doug Ford, former head designer at Rode Microphones explains 48V phantom powering of microphones and how it works.
There is a ton of stuff here:
Electrostatic and electromagnetic noise, differential amplifiers, common mode noise, transformer magnetisation current, JFET differential driver circuits, balanced impedances, phase splitters, miller capacitance and how it matters, and he explains how the Schoeps amplifier topology works.
Forum here: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-616-how-microphone-phantom-powering-works/
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