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Stanford University researchers have made a solar panel that works at nighttime! It will reduce or eliminate the need for battery storage! TAKE THAT Big Oil! You can probably guess how it works… Let’s BUST this impractical boondoggle wide open. The research paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0085205 Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1466-stanford-solar-power-at-nightime-busted/ 00:00 – Pulitzer prize …

It’s been a while since the dumpster has delivered a computer. Today we get a HP Proliant ML350p Gen8 xeon server. Does it work? Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1466-dumpster-dive-xeon-server/ Youtube: Odysee: Utreon: Podcast: Download

How you can use your multimeters capacitance range to measure inductors, using the reciprocal method. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1465-measure-inductors-using-a-multimeter/ Podcast: Download

The TOP 5 Jellybean comparators, plus a bonus and special snowflake choice. 00:00 – Jellybean Comparators 01:20 – Traps for young players using Opamps as comparators 04:43 – Is the old School LM311 still THE jellybean? https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm311-n.pdf 11:17 – TS391 Small single comparator https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/389/cd00001660-1795546.pdf 16:33 – LM393/LM2903 Dual comparator https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm393a.pdf …

What’s in Dave’s Mailbag? Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1463-mailbag/ SPOILERS: 00:00 – Mailbag Bonanza! 03:24 – 3M IDC Crimping tool 04:57 – Bulova Accutron Watchmaster battery tester 06:52 – The best button EVER! 07:24 – Continentak Specialties Corporation breadboard 07:53 – Moving Iron AC ammeter 09:29 – Analog Devices power brick 09:57 – …