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Test Equipment / Re: Agilent 54845A Failing all trigger self tests
« Last post by MarkL on Today at 12:39:48 am »
Look back in this thread to Reply #20 on May 09, 2018, 12:48:59 pm.  You will find the pin mapping.
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Test Equipment / Re: Oscilloscope Music on DSOs- Post your Results
« Last post by joeqsmith on Today at 12:38:15 am »
I recorded my demo by playing the youtube video into my 'scope.

I don't know if youtube audio compression would have any effect.


If anybody has an mp3...

Yeah, you need better quality. You can download wav files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UHvGC6-TDywFri7am8YJl5G6svK33qhC

PC sound card to scope good enough?  Wouldn't think with audio, we need much?   Seems I tried it before with miserable results.   PC scope software out performed it by a mile. 
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I hope he had some kind of refund from the seller. Finding a replacement motherboard (with pcie/104 and LVDS onboard) is not going to be easy nor cheap.

If I were the seller and saw someone pulling my equipment apart like this with total disregard to basic ESD practices, I would not only reject any claims, but most likely would make a video rant about wannabes.     :-DD


Most likely his problem is a contact issue. FR4 boards are sturdy and can take quite a bit of bending. But it is possible the previous owner messed it up doing the SSD upgrade and sold it on.

I had a very similar symptom crop up with my cheapo Diglent ARTY board that I was using to test a scope I was looking at.  Touch the USB and it would take down the PC.  Under the microscope, there was a solder ball down under the connector.  I would have started by inspecting the connectors. 

I would like to have that scope.  Newer MB than my old one.  Guessing much faster.
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Maybe reading this book would help the wife

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Poops

Then again, maybe OP really gives the thunderbox its name.

In either case it would be remiss of me not to say that you definitely want brown noise to mask it :D

We have a Dohm Classic (for assisting with sleep, not household peace at pooping time), these units are good for masking sounds, and they have a real fan in them not some awful speaker making a jarringly useless attempt at producing broad spectrum masking.

http://thedohm.com/

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When I built my house, I had the bathroom walls filled with fiberglass insulation.
The builder thought I was nuts until I told him why.  No more bathroom sounds.

It would mean tearing into the walls though...

Or.  Just turn on the exhaust fan.
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I typically order about 400 boards at a time, so not big, not tiny.

I'm just re-shopping around the non-Chinese PCB fab houses, see if I'm still happy where I currently go (U&I in South Korea usually). I handle my own assembly.
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A quick/ugly hack could be to use an MP3 player board. Admittedly over-the-top in terms of the underlying tech!, but cheap(ish) and easy to try different sounds etc. Or maybe just a bathroom/shower radio, tuned on AM to no station.
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Repair / Re: SMPS over voltage?
« Last post by xavier60 on Today at 12:25:01 am »
Can you check for output ripple or have you replaced the output capacitors including C106? What is the value of C106?
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Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff / Re: Buck loop stability tuning
« Last post by zphaze on Today at 12:19:57 am »
Well, I suppose I got my answer somewhat. If you guys don't readily see issues I guess I wasn't too far from what I thought was about right for a start.
Phase margin is >60° and gain is high for smaller phase values, so I guess I'll take this as "good enough" and go ahead.
I'll still plan for added capacitance in case of unexpected/stronger derating.

As for the transient model I don't have models from TI for this controller so I'll stick to the bode plots for now.
Simulation makes thing easier I'm 100% with you on that.
UseCFF adds a pole and a zero obviously, so I would suppose its 3rd order at least.
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