Dave plays with his new Sony RX100 Mk4 high speed camera that can shoot 1000fps. Blowing up capacitors, fuses, and LED’s. And what does a multiplexed VFD display look like? Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #856 – Mailbag
More Mailbag Monday Forum HERE SPOILERS: Qiktag Indiegogo Apple iMac Power Supply Victorinox Minichamp Swiss Army Knife Caran d’Ache pen Kübrich Ingenieure Hose Clamp aren’t the Dodgy Brothers HF Splitter Teardown from Bitshift Dynamics The finest Audiophoolery from Nordost, the $50,000 Odin reference speaker cable And a package for Sagan …
Read More »EEVblog #855 – Ceramic Capacitor Piezoelectric Effect
Dave investigates the piezoelectric effect in multi layer chip capacitors (MLCC’s). In this case, on the backlight inverter on his own BM235 multimeter. Forum HERE LCD Driver DATASHEET Capacitor Tutorial VIDEO Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #854 – B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
What’s inside a Kollsman Instrument Corporation MD-1 Automatic Astro Compass mechanical analog computer from a B52 Bomber? Part of the star tracker inertial navigation system that calculates the altitude and azimuth. Thanks to The Geek Group Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #853 – How A Multimeter Works
This was supposed to be a repair video of a Fluke 17B multimeter. But embarrassingly turned into an impromptu How a Mulitmeter Works video. Dave goes through the Fluke 17B schematic and explains how stuff works. Forum HERE Teardown video HERE Thermocouple Tutorial HERE Podcast: Download
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