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12:35 AM
@ThePhoton No, I mean designing uV and/or pA sources, selecting cabling, etc
Up to about 50V/10A-ish
 
 
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1:50 AM
Working on a Darwin award project?
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Q: please help me with this circuit components

ala khemiri simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab hi .. this circuit is how to stepdown a 220v to 5v so you can mesure voltage using microcontroller .. my question is how to know the value of each resistor and capacitor and what is the equation for it and i want to know why he use...

On the one hand, connected to mains with no safety isolation.
On the other hand, they did design in some redundancy so a single component failure isn't going to make the whole circuit hot.
 
@ThePhoton Also really hope this is an "end of studies project" for a Webdesign study, else.... wtf, once again
 
2:58 AM
I'm using two high power MOSFETs to toggle two simple sensors and I see leakage currents. What could be happening?
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Q: MOSFETs leaks current between two water sensors

Devin R. OlsenGoal: I've got a set of EC and pH water sensors that need to sit in the same batch of water / capture values real-time for a Arduino project. However my sensors cancel each other out when both are submerged cause it's creating a circuit in said water. So I've been trying to utilize these MOSFE...

 
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3:08 AM
Anyone interested in Maple software can join us here
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/107315/maple
 
 
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7:09 AM
Hi
anyone there
 
7:38 AM
@Asmyldof colour with that microscope is really bad, but it definetly is a light green not a copper sulphate blue, but its probably some mix of stuff. whatever the battery leaked reacted with things under the gold plating, which is mostly copper and maybe a bit nickel
 
8:01 AM
@PlasmaHH Or, it's a nickel battery
 
9:01 AM
@Asmyldof an NiMH/Cd rechargeable? hm, maybe, I don't know how they look when they disintegrate, but other stuff like the shields have ordinary rust on them (or at least it looks like that) where it got hit by battery liquid, and what was left of the battery was all rusty brown too, don't know NiMH/Cd battery chemistry enough to have an idea what it is... maybe it would be mentoned ni the service manual, if therw as one
 
9:13 AM
@PlasmaHH NiCd has Nickel Hydroxide in its medium at depth of discharge, you sure it's bright green, or could it be more grass green?
Well, it might be there's nickel and copper hydroxide mixing to make mint green, I suppose
The brown of Iron Hydroxide could be the brown stuff
Iron would get the majority of hydroxide in the mixture, so it'd be relatively dark
Probably slightly poopier in colour than rust
One good reason to never use NiCd standard cells in stuff you want to be reliable
Unfortunately not many EE engineers attempt at broader knowledge, nor did they in the past
 
9:32 AM
if you walk thruogh my garden you would realize that "grass green" is a very wide spectrum, including yellow and browns ;)
 
@PlasmaHH Same goes for hydroxides, so that's probably it then
 
Even when they were state of the art, I never like NiCd batteries
 
You were alive in the 1900-1920 span?
 
it certainly feels like that :P
NiMH really took of at the end of the 80s here, maybe start of the 90s, they have been quite expensive, as a kid I still had a big bunch of NiCds
@Marla any opinion on a good metal detector?
 
Make one!
 
9:43 AM
I did, as a plugin to my oscilloscope, not very portable ;)
 
It;s not hard to make one that beeps
 
hello evereybody
 
probably not. I want to look around a bit, playing with the thought of taking one with me on vacation in the summer to go "treasure hunting" with the kids on the beach
 
10:02 AM
AHOY!
 
11:01 AM
To illustrate the kind of people they give engineering degrees this century:
A group of three people prepares a surprise party for someone in his old city of education and residence, where his parents still live (well, one village over).
These people have most of the preparation clearly in hand and there's no reason to assume otherwise for the rest
A fourth person, graduated "nominally" in Electrical Engineering then sends this person a poorly worded invite to come back to town for a day to do things absolutely out of the ordinary for their relationship at a moment close to the celebrated event. This fourth person is summarily confused that the target of the surprise party was on to it about 5 minutes after reading the invite
Obviously at the event we hear the original team was in league with his mother to have her call him a week before to come over and go shopping in town, which would have been completely believable, as they do that semi-regularly
This person, by the way, is the furthest from any kind of spectrum of the whole group. Unless stupidity comes on a spectrum too these days.
 
11:50 AM
@Asmyldof You were complaining about the missing presence of well written guides made by respected manufacturers. Well after some searching on the net I found a handful.
If it's that the rather low quality ones took over, then that's a different thing
 
12:25 PM
for a 741?
 
12:44 PM
@PlasmaHH . . Metal Detector for on the beach with the kids : Most detectors above beginner levels are very good detectors. Don' spend a lot of money because it will sit in a storage for 364 days a year after the first use.
 
12:56 PM
@Marla yeah, thats two things that don't seem to work well together though#
 
1:46 PM
@DanielTork I never said any such thing. I wrote in an article that manufacturers make the delivery of guaranteed correct information limited and confusing, opening a path for people to find the organised, but badly informed, masses.
@Marla Until the sentient robots rise, then we'll be able to use them as intruder alarms
 
2:07 PM
@Asmyldof I can already use them as an intruder alarm for my mom
 
2:38 PM
every now and then when I switch on my keysight multimeter I get some "message" where it says rHd in the upper right (I think) and displays (I think) 0500 ... switchitng it off and on again makes it work again... anyone knows what this refers to? I could findin the manual the "trigger hold" setup and it has a default setting of 500 but when it is related, why would it do that?
 
3:28 PM
Dunno
:/
 
4:05 PM
@PlasmaHH Is it one of the blue ones? Those were (are?) pretty crap.
 
4:26 PM
@ThePhoton It's one o them orangy ones with the cal report
Unless he suddenly has a whole other Keysight that he didn't get sent by me
 
5:12 PM
Hello everyone
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Q: Calculating values for compensation network (boost converter RC+C network)

Daniel TorkI'm trying to build a boost converter with current mode PWM control, but I'm stuck at selecting capacitor and resistor values for compensation. I'm using a LT1619 as the controller IC: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Datasheet: LT1619 Boost converter parameters...

Can you take a look please?
 
 
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8:16 PM
@ThePhoton no, its a u1242b
I think the blue ones were agilent branded, werent they?
 
@PlasmaHH Probably. I don't know if they are still making them.
 
@ThePhoton a quick google image search says the u1242a is blue and agilent branded
 
@PlasmaHH A lot of model numbers that used to be agilent branded are now keysight branded. Even a few from the HP era.
 
@ThePhoton indeed, but more for the expensive stuff, these handheld meters got a B upgrade in the process of rebranding
 
9:20 PM
Anyone familiar with acidic copper electroplating? I am wondering why so many solutions use potassium sodium tartrate, what is it actually doing in that process? all the sites only say "use it, its good"
 
Any recommendations for the first-time Octave user? Never used Octave before. Last time I've used Matlab was in mid-2000s.
 
probably "forget everything you think you know, it has changed" ?
 
9:37 PM
I wonder if there's a chat room for Matlab or Octave somewhere in the StackExchange ecosystem...
There is one, apparently.
 
9:52 PM
@PlasmaHH Not yet, but if you leave some info I might make time to look at it the weekend and give it a 50/50 I'll work it out before I get bored of it
 
10:04 PM
@NickAlexeev Recommendation: Use Python instead.
 
10:30 PM
@ThePhoton I don't know Python.
 
@NickAlexeev Learning it will be more useful than learning Matlab/Octave (unless, of course, you get handed a big blob of legacy Matlab code).
Or if you want to go all-in with Matlab and invest in some toolkit that solves some specific problem you have.
scipy.org for some overview of what Python can do.
 
11:08 PM
@ThePhoton Well, I'm willing to give this Scipy a shot. Do you have a favorite tutorial on how to get the Python stuff installed?
 
11:26 PM
@NickAlexeev python.org and just download and install the latest package by tutorial
Depending on your OS and all
Just about any OS has installers in a native format
 
11:39 PM
Anyone know how to select all tracks in a given region in Altium?
@NickAlexeev You don't know Octave either, so how is that relevant?
 
11:58 PM
@DanielSank Do you know Octave?
 
@NickAlexeev nope
I know python pretty well.
 
@DanielSank You don't know Octave either, so how is that relevant?
 

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