EEVblog #158 – AVR ISP MK2 + LM317 Regulator Tutorial

Who else but Dave can turn what was supposed to be a simple 2 minute AVR ISP hack video into a 30 minute episode on designing and measuring the performance of an LM317 voltage regulator circuit, with a bonus shootout between the Fluke 87V and the Gossen Metrahit XTRA multimeters?

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EEVblog #140 – Battery Capacity Tutorial

Ever wanted to know what battery capacity is? Dave takes you through everything you need to know about amp-hours, mAh, watt hours, internal or series resistance, temperature effects, battery cutoff voltages, and characteristic curves.
Part 2 coming soon.

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EEVblog #48 – Solar Power Hope

Can solar power hope beat out the engineering reality for Dave’s latest project?
Was Doc Brown right?

Solar Cell DATASHEET

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EEVblog #31 – Microcontroller Datasheet Utopia

Dave gets disturbingly emotional about microcontroller datasheets and documentation.

LINKS:
The NEC Micro datasheet(20pin) and datasheet(80pin)

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