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EEVblog #331 – Mailbag
Posted on August 10th, 2012 12 comments
Another Mailbag.
And it involves, well, Playboy magazine!
Check out http://zeptobars.ru12 responses to “EEVblog #331 – Mailbag”
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Why wouldnt you be able to sell the usb charger in australia without the ground pin? It says on the back it’s double insulated?
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That USB charger looks like it’s for an iPhone or something, except it looks a lot lower quality, oddly (it has the green dot, which is to do with a recall on an earlier model so they all have green dots now). So I’m guessing it’s a cheap ripoff adapter.
When you do your teardown of it, compare it to the real thing – someone tore the real one down and found it to be of extremely high quality.
See:
http://www.arcfn.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html
He also tore down a crappy one for comparison
http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html
Would be nice to see what you have with the real thing and how it fits in between the crappy ones and the well designed ones.
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Bob LeDoux August 11th, 2012 at 04:16
Check out the Cypres device carefully. Some parachuting safety devices use a pyrotechnic charge to “cut the cord.”
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it’s probably the case here.
The older xilinx spartans may be of use, older FPGAs have the advantage to need less power suplies and to be native 5V.
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What Special Edition of Playboy magazine (month, year, contries) had the mutimedia Martini unit?
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Playboy : June 2011, Russia
Vogue: December 2010, RussiaDon’t remember which had which advertisement. There is a chance that this martini one was actually from Vogue. Anyway, Playboy sounds better
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I jumped several times with Cypress. I would love to see the teardown. Great!
Btw. I takes about 100m to open the parashute, so 700feet should easily be enough… if it opens correctly. -
To Michail & Ian.M, thanks.
The Vouge and Playboy advertisements were the same. It appears that the one for Vouge was exclusive to Russia but I have not found anything yet confirming the same for the one for Playboy.
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@4:28, notice it’s not a power adapter, it’s “Power A dapeer”.
It’s also made in China twice!
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The Cisco cards with the edge connector and network sockets are plugin cards for enterprise-class Cisco routers. Neat
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Vegard August 11th, 2012 at 00:41