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Old Book Teardown #3: Vest Pocket Guide To Electrical Testing And Troubleshooting (1987)
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Silly Job Title: Charge Charmer
This video is part of the Old Book feature of my video blog.
In this video we take a quick look at Vest Pocket Guide To Electrical Testing And Troubleshooting by John E. Traister published in 1987 with 130 pages.
In the video I also wish everyone a happy new year, talk a little about upcoming Xin1 projects, and mention how expensive it will be to upgrade my scope to 350 MHz.
And if you’re interested the Wikipedia page for Logic Analyzer says that the first commercially available instrument to be called a “Logic Analyzer” was the HP 5000A Logic Analyzer, introduced in October 1973.
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Interlude #3: Demo Of The New Studio Cameras – Now In 4K! | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Charge Charmer
Old Book: Vest Pocket Guide To Electrical Testing And Troubleshooting by John E. Traister published 1987 with 130 pages.
Today is just a quick video to demo my new camera setup made possible by my new studio workstation ‘verve‘.
In the video I demo the new mat/bench camera which supports various zoom levels. Then I demo the iPod touch camera for showing some of the bench equipment. Then I demo the HDMI system which supports two microscopes, the MSO5074 oscilloscope, and the AV switch which usually would show the Xbox among other things (but I couldn’t get the Xbox to work in this video, drats). Finally I demo the thermal cam.
Sorry for the dodgy audio in this video. I will try to make sure that doesn’t happen in future videos.
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3ELIGHTING 14″-42″ VESA Wall Mount |
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Extra Content #2: Motherboard upgrade from ASUS PRIME B550M-A to ASUS ProArt B550-CREATOR
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This is a long and unedited video of me upgrading my computer from ‘longing’ https://www.jj5.net/sixsigma/Longing to ‘lore’ https://www.jj5.net/sixsigma/Lore
As I said today was computer upgrade day. I made a video of me doing the upgrade, it runs for about two hours: Motherboard upgrade from ASUS PRIME B550M-A to ASUS ProArt B550-CREATOR. It was pretty uneventful and so far it seems to have been successful too. Yay.
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aToolTour Black Hexagon Deburring Drill Bit notes |
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Interlude #2: Mail Call! Plus Two Old Books And A Floppy Disk | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Ohm Oracle
Old Book: Electric Circuits by J. Richard Johnson published 1984 with 888 pages.
Today we pop open a few bags of stuff that has arrived in the mail.
I mention about the trouble I had with my Western Digital Purple drives.
I mention about my new Western Digital Black 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD WDS100T3X0E drives.
I mention about my Educational 555 PCBs which have arrived from PCBWay. The website of the designer is given as: basitelektronikprojeler.blogspot.com.
The systems of units mentioned in the old book Electric Circuits are discussed at MKS system of units and Centimetre–gram–second system of units.
The 256GB M.2 NVMe drives I got to use as my ZFS L2ARC cache are these: TOSHIBA KIOXIA 256GB BG5 NVMe SSD M.2 2280 – NEW GEN4.
The automotive fuses I got are these ones: Car Fuse Blade Fuse Kit Fuses Automatic Truck Blade The Fuse Insurance Insert Insurance of Xenon Piece Lights Auto Accessories.
The test clips I got are these ones: 10X Universal Chip clamp micro IC clamp SOP SOIC TSOP MSOP SSOP SMD IC Test Clip pin Socket Adpter Programmer for logic analyzer.
The book which arrived in the mail was The SCSI Bus and Ide Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition) by Friedhelm Schmidt published 1997 with 396 pages.
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OULLX NSS-681HDMI-RJ45 Cable Tester notes |
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Happy
Hello friends. Take some time to watch this. It will brighten your day. <3
Capacitor Markings and Codes
I was watching PART 3 : All You Need To Know About SMD Capacitor Markings Codes To Fix Stuff and I discovered this web page for capacitor markings and codes.
Generate Gerber file from Kicad
Today I am going to follow the instructions to Generate Gerber file from Kicad for the first time. Wish me luck!
Update: I also needed to know how to do this: KiCad 6: Add Board Outline to Edge Cuts.
Electronics Project #2: Teardown of Homemade Continuity Tester | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Grounding Genius
Old Book: Industrial Electronics Reference Book by Electronics Engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation published 1948 with 680 pages.
Today we teardown a homemade continuity tester which I put together for use before I had a multimeter, so that was in the early days of my new lab, circa August 2021.
While I was preparing the links for this blog post I discovered that the plastic case I used for the continuity tester was the HB5610 Black Hand-held Electronic Enclosure from Jaycar. I purchased one of these for AU$9.95 back in August 2021, which was around the time that I made this continuity tester.
I subsequently purchased a ten pack of similar plastic cases from AliExpress for AU$64.55 (inc shipping) in March 2022. I went to find the AliExpress listing so I could link you to it, but it’s an old listing and has been taken down. I did search for an equivalent product but didn’t find what I was looking for. The dimensions are roughly 70mm x 135mm x 24mm and there is a facility for 2x AA batteries built in.
The multimeters I use/mention in this video are:
- OWON XDM1041 Bench Multimeter (notes, AU$188.51, February 2022)
- ANENG AN-999S Bench Multimeter (notes, AU$157.04, February 2022)
- DigiTech QM1323 Multimeter (notes, AU$64.95)
- DT830B Digital Multimeter (notes, 5x AU$5.45, July 2023)
The multimeter I mention I want to get is this one: EEVblog 121GW Multimeter.
What I say in the video about active vs passive piezoelectric buzzers is correct. The active buzzer will do the buzzing for you, all you need to do is supply some power. The passive buzzer will need an input signal in addition to power, so some sort of oscillator if you want to generate a tone.
I knocked up a schematic for this continuity tester, something like this:
I’m gonna try getting some PCBs made for this circuit from PCBWay, because I’m still trying to learn everything I can about that process!
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FNIRSI M328 Component Tester |
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Interlude #1: Mail Call! Cheap Stuff From China! | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Science Officer
Today we’re gonna take a look at what arrived recently from AliExpress. They were having a sale so I purchased some natty tools and a few consumables. Details below. I made some notes at the time of purchase if you’re interested in what I paid for this stuff.
In the video I refer to the workstation I am planning to buy for the studio. When I get this new computer I should be able to improve the quality of my YouTube videos. If you’re interested in the details the new computer I’m planning is ‘victory‘. In the video I say this new computer will cost me AUD$6,000, but it’s looking like it will cost more like AUD$7,500 (roughly USD$5,000), so I will have to save my pennies! The Dell OptiPlex computer that I am presently using is ‘wonder‘.
In the video I refer to “box openers”. If you know what these things are actually called, please do let me know!
The spider who popped up on my bench during the recording of this video was found later. He, um, didn’t make it…
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Sudake SDK08 Test Clips notes |
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