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September 2007
Fluorescent Light Bulb Experiment Part 10
Saturday, 29 September 2007 8:08 P GMT-06
We had another incandescent light bulb burn out today that I replaced with a fluorescent. It was a 50 W bulb, and I replaced it with a bulb with the following specifications.IKEA E26 50 Bulb530 Lumen light output11W10,000 Hour guaranteed lifeHe
Mathcad Example for RC Charging and Discharging Differential Equation Solution
Thursday, 27 September 2007 6:00 A GMT-06
Several times I have struggled to get a seemingly simple problem solved in Mathcad. Yes, I could just look up the analytical solution to this type of problem, but it should be quicker to implement and solve in Mathcad. The problem is the
Category: High Speed Digital Design
Measuring very high Temperatures
Sunday, 23 September 2007 10:02 P GMT-06
How hot was that massive bonfire that we had on our last camping trip? This is the type of question that an engineer ponders. I have been thinking about measurement techniques for several months now about how to measure very high temperat
Category: Home Projects
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Scrap Metal
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 5:54 A GMT-06
I took apart some dehumidifiers recently and had quite a bit of scrap aluminum and copper. I also had some sheet metal and other ferrous metal to get rid of. I decided to take it to a local metal recycler. The value given for the fe
Category: Home Projects
Software Defined Silicon (SDS) Chip
Monday, 10 September 2007 9:54 P GMT-06
I saw a recent article in a trade magazine describing a new device from XMOS Semiconductor. The Software Defined Silicon (SDS) Chip is similar to an FPGA in that it is configurable, however the architecture is completely different. Instea
Category: Digital System Architecture
TDR Reference Articles
Thursday, 6 September 2007 6:50 A GMT-06
The TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer) is becoming a critical piece of equipment for a digital design engineer as bus architectures switch to multi-gigabit serial links. There were a couple of very good TDR articles in EDN Magazine this month.&nb
Category: High Speed Digital Design