Has anyone received their rulers yet *outside* of Sweden? If so, could you please report in and if possible post a photo or let me know if it has a Swedish post mark on it like this. You can do this via twitter, this blog, Pozible comment, or this forum …

Dave replies to a youtube comment that you can’t learn much practical design stuff from vintage teardown videos. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside a vintage Fluke 5450A Resistance Calibrator used in cal labs to calibrate multimeters? Schematic HERE Coto reed relay High Resistance measurement with a relay matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2MfTW4o_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mavHYV-H6o Forum HERE Podcast: Download

The first mailing house envelope has arrived, in Sweeden of all places, and then Singapore: No Australia on the return address, and they said they would print a barcode but didn’t. Perhaps that delayed the delivery?

Dave tests the myth that plugging a PCB VIA with solder does nothing (or not much) to improve the current handling capability. Is manual wire feed-through any better? Does the industry rule of thumb of 0.5A per VIA have any basis? What is the typical plated VIA/hole thickness? http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm Previous …