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14:08
What is the thing you need to determine if a circuit is closed or broken? I am looking to connect this to rasberry pi gpio and do the "testing".
perhaps an ohmmeter or continuity checker ?
Afraid that if I simply use a wire to connect the two pins the motherboard might short circuit... 😶
If you do use ohmmeter or continuity checker, only do that when all power is turned off. Otherwise you need to use a voltmeter if power is on
hey there @Marla
hola @Shalvenay
14:11
how're things going?
rainy season for us here. DrizZe Drizzle
ah
I'm trying to figure out this test leads thing myself
What test leads problem ?
trying to figure out what to get/build for power supply test leads
rest assured that whatever you choose, it won't be the right thing for ALL situations :)
14:26
@Marla heheheh
my current plan is to make up banana-banana, 2x banana-barrel plug, and 2x banana-2-pin header plug leads
I just buy gold-flash Hirschmann leads. Couple Euro, no work. Couple test clips of several kinds, probably also Hirschmann, big bag of crocodile clips, no need for anything else
@Asmyldof Audio quality ?
@Marla No, normal Banana leads, but they are gold-flash finished on the banana bit
 
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15:44
I liket those from hirschmann, they are still the same like those in the 80s
@PlasmaHH They did also add the HV types with the yellow boot around the lead
But they are pretty much unbeatable as a fine lead tool
For some applications I wanted to try these parrot clips, but they are even more expensive, and it looks like you can't fix the banana plug with a screw in them
16:33
I have the HV parrot clips. Higher current capability. But not really easier to use
@Marla no it's more like programming my pi board to be those things...
the election suspense is killing me yawn
wtf is this?
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17:03
hey there @ThePhoton
@Shalvenay hey
how're things going?
@Shalvenay Trying to decide whether to go to a music thing this afternoon.
alright here
pondering soldered-on vs set-screw-clamped banana plugs here
and also threadlocking for setscrews in electrical connectors
17:57
I buy ready made leads, no idea how they look internally
amazing
now I'm left with not one broken lamp, but two
an accessory LED on my motorbike was wired so badly that it just burned the cabling
hopefully I'll just have to reroute some cables and call it a day, but f**k whoever put that on there w/o a fuse
18:19
does anyone know if its possible in vhdl to instantiate a module twice but with different values?
if I have a ROM module that im reading input from, is it possible two port map two different instances of the ROM and be able to change the values inside each ROM?
18:42
o/
does anyone know how to run a WU3538A-01 LCD?
@pingOfDoom I don't know VHDL (I use Verilog), but if it wasn't possible to do that, what what would be the point of having modules with parameters?
19:12
also
@ThePhoton I dont know how
@ThePhoton Also is it possible to access the signals in a component without needing to go through an input port
Like I want to initialize a component without needing a control signal. I want to do something akin to whats possible in c where you can access data members of a struct
like data.value = x
 
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22:19
BAH!
Weekend gone emptying closets and whatnots in stead of cleaning up and listing stuff, because someone decided the flats need new sewer pipes
@Asmyldof . old clay pipe?
@Marla Iron Alloy
Possibly lead in the concrete, but the only one I can see is Iron alloy
Oh, iron. If they were clay, new ones are pulled through the old pipe
22:57
@Marla There's not been clay pipes here for.... probably literally ages
And also, they're not allowed to reuse old pipes either, something to do with waste stuff and things
@pingOfDoom In Verilog, you'd just give different parameters each time you instantiate the module. I expect it's very similar in VHDL.
For initialization, in Verilog, I'd put the initializing code inside the module, but use a parameter to tell it what value to initialize to.
Most Verilog simulators (ModelSim, etc) will let you "reach down" into a module and read or force a signal, but I'm not sure if that's a feature of the Verilog language or a convenience offered by the simulator.

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