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Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard pointsComment
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post(As the teacher said: 'mock up then cock up').
Doing a prototype did not prevent us cocking up our circuit boards; it merely reduced the amount of cockups.
One of my projects was a variable output power supply. It had a 16 pin chip in it (for some reason, I forget why).
I had misunderstood the pin-out diagram in the RS catalogue and spent a scary hour very gently binding all the pins on the chip to go up instead of down so I could solder it in the wrong way up.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard pointsComment
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Morning everyoneBazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View PostI had misunderstood the pin-out diagram in the RS catalogue and spent a scary hour very gently binding all the pins on the chip to go up instead of down so I could solder it in the wrong way up.
And I did the same thing back in the black tape days with a voltage converter chip... though the datasheet for that gave the topview rather than the bottom view of the pinout.
Not only that, but CadStar did it last week... for some reason if you mirror the component (a transistor) on the schematic (circuit diagram), it thinks you want to mirror it (put it on the other side of the board) on the pcb...
I was ever so please to find that it had done that to a transistor on my dtmf decoder thingie that I built on Friday.
Most schematic capture packages wouldn't do that... there's no link between the orientation of the part on the cct diagram & that on the pcb.
Ho hum.Comment
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Originally posted by cailin maith View PostMorning everyone
Haven't we forgotten something?Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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Bored now.
Again.
I may have to do something more interesting.
I've already rewired the charger for the B&D versapak batteries coz the plugtop part had burned out... I wondered why the drill was getting slower & slower...Comment
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For my next project I was thinking of designing a dual axis suntracker for a solar panel.
Sadly I can't understand all this azimuth and elevation stuff...
Should be easy enough if I can get my head around the maths.
So.
What's this "cos" thing then?Comment
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