someone broke the stack, pages refuse to load

bad morning today.

@jippie Seems okay to me

now it is, yes.

matter of seconds rather than minutes

hurray

I have breached the 2k mark

represents months of hard work and helping those in need!

everybody, have a cyber-beer!

@KyranF which flavors do you have?

well i'm currently hanging around in Spain, so it can be some Spanish brew

Their beer is very cheap compared to Australia so i'm not complaining!

Congrats @KyranF just cracked a Cascade Pale Ale much better than cyber-beer

@jippie did you ever end up with doing anything with peltiers as per this quesion: electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28634/…. After reading that I thought I might use a high speed PWM and a bit of light filtering as Olin suggested.

Cascade is from Tasmania yes?

@KyranF, yep that's right. Actually don't live too far away from the brewery (about 15 mins drive).

awesome

@PeterJ never ordered the peltier device.

@jippie, fair enough. Just was starting to plan a new small 6U server rack and thought I'd try out a peltier cooler for the odd occasions the ambient temp gets too high. I was about to ask a similar question about controlling them and found it answered already :)

Anybody able to recommend portable soldering station + hot air combined (or even separate, just following having same requirements) that are light weight and portable, not needing to be overly powerful? Temperature control is important. I am travelling around, between Spain and soon Canada, and need to take my stuff with me to continue working. I'm trying to get better than the 6kg combination of Tenma products from Farnell that i've found so far (which are also super cheap)

I have a DSO Quad pocket oscilloscope and a Tenma digital multimeter for my test equipment, but yeah currently i'm trying to find the perfect travelling engineering lab equipment hehe.

@KyranF I use an Aoyue 968, and the base unit doesn't feel that heavy but I don't have a scale

One thing to mention is that the iron holder is solid metal and you could probably find something lighter

morning

@jippie mornign

Anybody used SiLabs programmable clock oscillators in a jitter-critical application?

has anyone been shock or seen someone shock by a high energy capacitor before?

@EwokNightmares I stepped barefoot on a 120V line before.

@ThePhoton did it make you dance?

@EwokNightmares very briefly

did you cry?

@EwokNightmares I don't remember. I think I was about 14.

I do remember it wasn't something I wanted to do again.

I have heard stories of people accidentally discharging big caps and being sent flying in the air across the room

have you heard this?

i think I have heard 3 people tell stories of this type so far and they all say the person is sent flying

@EwokNightmares No, I don't know about that.

@ThePhoton ok i was going to see if it is BS

If they go flying, it's probably just because their muscles twitch, not because there's enough energy in the cap to launch them.

i don't know how it could sent someone flying unless an arc blast