Recent content by Stickman393

Fair 'nuff.

Aite, sorry. My bad. I gotta rephrase that. WHO only orders ten resistors from an E3 series value in an order from Tayda?

Selling the revolution back to us. Tale as old as time.

Boy howdy that's a pricy little component.

Who gets just ten resistors from Tayda?

I dunno man. Like I said before: Humans are instant gratification eat sleep fuck murder primates. I don't see that trend as anything more than commercial interests hacking our evolutionary imparatives for their benefit. We like to think we're evolved. We aren't. We know some math and...

It's designed to be that way. Anybody remember the early days of facebook? It wasn't all paid promotions, influencers, instant play videos, etc? You remember the facebook wall? Actually being able to see posts from people that you had friended? It hasn't always been as dystopian as it is...

Peltiers are solid state: build a big enough heat sink and it can passively radiate. No need to deal with the potential of back EMF with a fan motor. Buttttt....well. big heat sinks are fragile. You could always use a small 12vdc fan with its own isolated power supply. Hell, you can...

Thermal mass. It all depends. So...yeah. You can bond these things to a heat sink, but the device itself generally isn't putting out much heat. The second law of thermodynamics is the guy you'll be fighting here: a heat sink will only increase the rate at which your device adapts to ambient...

I'll tell ya what, that certainly seems like the sort of thing Stephen Crowder would believe and argue with college students about.

I prefer to think of it as a void.

Its gonna be a multi-device tester using the RG keen method. Basically...pop in four different devices. Power em up, let em stabilize. Test leakage on one, flip a switch to test gain. Remove, replace, let that one stabilize as you move on to the next device in the line. Should make testing...

Honestly: I think part of the problem is that humans are predictably irrational. Advertisers and propogandists have known this for near on a century. Pluck the right strings and you can get the majority of folks to buy whatever it is that you're selling. In that regard: human beings are...

Whelp, I gave this specific variety a shot recently (3ax31c). Got 100 of em. The quick and dirty tc-1 test is promising. Good gain, between 60-130 from what I've seen so far, under 300mA (though this is pretty often inaccurate on the TC-1). We'll see how they do once I get my mega-tester built.

Watch with the audio probes on that one.