10 responses to “EEVblog #286 – Orders Of Magnitude”

• JRR June 5th, 2012 at 02:26

  I thought maybe you were going to add the second “P” in “Dropped” when the blooper at the end came in.

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• Tony P June 5th, 2012 at 02:39

  The drop in order of magnitude is interesting in suppression of RF signals. Drops most off there in vestigial carriers.

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• John June 5th, 2012 at 04:56

  Eh, how many Fluke 87′s Dave exactly has? Half a dozen?

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  • EEVblog June 5th, 2012 at 08:05

    two!

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    • ThunderSqueak June 6th, 2012 at 04:57

      Dang it…. My guess was off by an order of magnitude

      

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• f4eru June 5th, 2012 at 08:15

  just look at in in dB, it’s less awesome. or not

  reminds me of some link budgets to mars spanning some 280 dB =28 orders of magnitude for power (14 for voltage) Plain crazy…
  look at that :
  http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/p5a-to-mars.pdf

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• Salas June 5th, 2012 at 15:28

  Dave has +6dB a Fluke 87

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  • f4eru June 7th, 2012 at 06:15

    And this also costs +6 dB$ )

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• Vot June 7th, 2012 at 02:28

  What a bad blog. It didnt’t cover any advanced topics at all like:

  “Wholy f@#k the boss is going to kick my ass my caculations were out 10 orders of magnitude on that last design we did.”

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  “I totally f&$ked up somewhere im out by many orders of magnitude”

  Start using these advanced use case’s and you’ll sound like someone who’s been in the industry in no time….

  (Disclaimer: Should you require to use these advanced usage’s of “orders of magnitude”, expressly no guarantee is implied or given as to the continuation of your employment)

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• Jeroen Lukas June 9th, 2012 at 09:27

  For cap and inductor values I just remember MUNP!
  m = milli = 10^-3
  u = micro = 10^-6
  n = nano = 10^-9
  p = pico = 10^-12

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