About

David L. Jones is an electronics design engineer based in Sydney Australia.

In this blog he shares some of his 20+ years experience in the electronics design industry in his unique non-scripted naturally overly enthusiastic and passionate style.
Bullshit and political correctness don’t get a look-in.

Dave started out in hobby electronics over 30 years ago and since then has worked in such diverse areas as design engineering, production engineering, test engineering, electro-mechanical engineering, that wacky ISO quality stuff, field service, concept design, underwater acoustics, payment systems, security systems, ceramic sensors, military sonar systems, red tape, endless paperwork trails, environmental testing, embedded firmware and software application design, PCB design (he’s CID certified), power distribution systems, ultra low noise and low power design, high speed digital design, telemetry systems, and too much other stuff he usually doesn’t talk about.

He has been published in various magazines including: Electronic Today International, Electronics Australia, Silicon Chip, Elektor, Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE), Make, and ReNew.

Few people know Dave is also a world renowned expert and author on Internet Dating, a qualified fitness instructor, geocacher, canyoner, and environmentalist.

Comments, feedback, and ideas for the next blog are appreciated!, but PLEASE, use the EEVblog forum for suggestions, not email.

SUPPORT:

Producing and maintaining this blog takes a massive amount of time, and it is now my FULL TIME JOB, yes, no kidding, I’m a full time video blogger. If you like it and would like to help support, there are several ways you can do this:
1) Buy some of the products from my STORE
2) Buy anything from Amazon.com by clicking through through here first (I make 6% on every sale, even from 3rd party sellers)
3) Buy some of my Merchandise (I only make a few bucks per sale)
4) You can donate money direct

All support greatly appreciated!

MANUFACTURERS:

Step up to the plate and send your product in for one of Dave’s famous tell-it-like-is no bullshit product reviews.
The EEVblog is highly indexed on Youtube and Google, with a well established brand and audience of professionals, engineering students and hobbyists, so your product will get the highest profile coverage on Youtube and Google.

Do your own review and upload to your own Youtube channel and you might 100 views in a year.
I upload a review to Youtube and it gets 7000+ views in a week, plus independent credibility, and people start talking about it and linking to it on forums and other blogs. That’s the difference a high profile blog can offer.

Fluke, Agilent, Gossen Metrawatt, BK Precision, IET and Extech are some of the big players brave enough to take on the challenge so far, so are YOU game enough?

Please note, the EEVblog does not do paid reviews, and does not accept just any product for review. It has to be interesting to me personally, and appropriate for the EEVblog audience.
e.g. I’m sure your $50,000 power line analyser is a really great product, but it’s not an appropriate product for a general interest review.

WARNING: I love to point out everything negative I can about a product as well as the positives, and that is one of the reasons my reviews are so popular. If you can’t handle that and having your product rightfully called out when something is wrong with it (or can’t handle strong opinions), then send it to one of the established magazine sites and they’ll bend over backward to simply regurgitate your marketing copy to a dwindling audience.
And if your product fails in some way, it will make it onto the video for all the world to see, I won’t hide it and let you secretly fix it as if nothing happened. That has happened to many of the major manufacturers. But what most PR people would consider a marketing crisis has in fact turned into a massive positive result for the company when customers see the company pro-actively responding to any issues. Things fail, and mistakes are made, engineers understand that. If you want exposure on the biggest electronics blog on the internet, you have to take a risk and believe in your product and your customer service.

I also do not allow suppliers or manufacturers to see the review before it goes live, that is the rule, no exceptions. You send your gear, and you take’s your chances.

So you want product “placement” on my bench so it gets in nearly every video, and used in tutorials etc?
That’s great, who wouldn’t, but it’s gotta earn it’s place. You can’t buy product placement. I only use what I personally like. If it’s a good product and I like it better than what I already have on the bench, then there is a good chance I’ll use your product instead of your competitors.
Giving your product to me and allowing me to keep it after a review gains you absolutely no favor at all. But it does obviously increase your chances of having it used in my other videos if I actually have it to hand to use it.

EVENTS & MARKETING:

If you have an electronics industry event or marketing campaign you want to share with the nerdly world, don’t put some lame-arse in-house marketing guy in front of the camera, engineers can smell marketing BS a mile away. Let Dave blog your event, or appear in your marketing campaigns to add that much needed touch of real-world credibility in his uniquely engaging style. Contact me for a discussion.

SO YOU NEED SOME PERSONAL ADVICE?

My videos get 6000+ views PER DAY, EVERY DAY, not to mention my other web sites, so that means I get MANY emails EACH DAY asking for personal advice on what meter or oscilloscope to buy, or circuit design advice, questions on my projects etc.
It used to be a manageable level but now I can’t keep up. If I answered them all and your “simple” technical enquiry I would have no time to make videos, earn a living, see my family, or have a life. So I am now simply refusing to answer any such emails for personal advice.
I like helping people, it’s why I do the blog, I’ve been helping people for 20+ years before email when I had to hand write reply letters and lick a stamp. But volume is now too much, I have a life, I have a family, and I have to draw the line somewhere, sorry.
Serious emails only PLEASE!

If you want my advice on something then ask in the EEVblog Forum, and then I or someone else may respond to your question. You’ll get a better response and quicker. I might even do a whole blog on it just for you!

EMAIL: dave@eevblog.com

If you feel the need to send me stuff by old fashioned snail mail:
Baulkham Hills BC
PO Box 7949
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153
AUSTRALIA

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