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Is a wrist worn multimeter actually useful? A review of the CZDANG K8 https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_opDFvin Use coupon code “doesntsuck” for 10% off the EEVblog 1980s pocket multimeter EEVblog 1980s Pocket Multimeter Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1706-k8-wrist-worn-multimeter-review/

The world's first desktop personal computer wasn't the Apple 1 or the Altair 8800. It wasn't even the HP 9100A, it was the Olivetti Programma 101 from 1965! Computer Teardowns don't get much more vintage than this. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1705-the-worlds-first-desktop-computer-teardown/ Links: http://www.oldcomputers.arcula.co.uk/calc3.htm https://bellini.it/portfolio-articoli/mario-bellini-designer/ http://www.curtamania.com/curta/database/brand/olivetti/olivetti%20programma%20101/index.html https://ub.fnwi.uva.nl/computermuseum/delayline.html https://ub.fnwi.uva.nl/computermuseum/p101dl.html https://avvocatostella.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Il-primo-personalcomputer-lOlivetti-La-Programma-101.pdf https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/c-programma101.html https://www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it/en/p101-cecam/ https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/ https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/olivetti-programma-101-documentations-and-experiences.1239428/ https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Programma_101 Service manual: https://vintagecomputer.ca/files/Olivetti/Programma%20101/repair/RepairManualP101.pdf Reference …

WTF is this design? The ANENG 626 Smart Multimeter Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/aneng-626-multimeter-hell/ 00:00 – ANENG 626 Unboxing 02:14 – Charging + USB isolation test. CAT III 600V LOL 03:32 – Power on and UI 05:20 – UI Design Hell + Chocolate Wheel mode. Every child wins a prize! 06:26 – Continuity mode 07:13 – Screen angle …

A repair of this Tennismatic T1000 remote control was way more interesting than I expected. https://tennismatic.com/main/page_products_ball_machines_t100_series.html Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1702-a-most-interesting-repair/ 00:00 – Tennismatic 1000 Tennis ball machine remote control 00:53 – Battery snap ohms measurement 01:17 – Battery current measurement 02:29 – It's a row/column thing 02:57 – Teardown 05:20 – Membrane inspection 06:44 – Membrane keypad …

The $599 Moku:Go from Liquid Instruments is an Australian designed and manufactured USB/Ethernet/WiFi instrument, with 14 instruments in 1, and a 4 channel power supply. Oscilloscope, Voltmeter, Logic Analyser, Waveform generator, Frequency Response Analyser, Lock in Amplifier, Laser Lock Box, Spectrum Analyser, PID Controller, Digital Filter, FIR Filter Builder, Data Logger, Pattern Generator. https://liquidinstruments.com/products/hardware-platforms/mokugo/ 00:00 …

Part 1 of the µTimer project, a versatile benchtop lab timer. Choosing the LCD, and getting two sample LCD's running. One using a demo board, and one that needed to be hacked onto a Raspberry Pi. 00:00 – Benchtop Lab Timer Project 01:19 – It's all about the choice of LCD 03:14 – ERC19624-1 192×64 …

I scored this GW Instek APS-7050 Precision AC Power Source on Ebay, let's check it out. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1698-awesome-ebay-ac-power-source-gw-instek-aps-7050/

A short tutorial on the maximum efficiency and power you can get from a wind generator. Also applies to water turbine generators. Also deriving the industry standard wind power formula from first principles: Power (W) = 1/2 x ρ x A x v^3 Don't let any wind power marketing scams fool you, you canna' beat …

Why does this Uni-T UDP6731 PSU use different brand LM358 opamps on the same PCB? All about Bill Of Materials, SMD pick and place machines, suppliers and specifications. Links: Jellybean Opamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq1DMWtjL2U NESS Factory tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTij7Juj5qE http://www.artschip.com/pdf/LM358.pdf https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/datasheet/61/46/87/01/98/ed/44/c5/CD00000464.pdf/files/CD00000464.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.CD00000464.pdf Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1697-whats-up-with-different-brand-op-amps/

More mailbag! 00:00 – Nifty USB Knob from Tiny Little Gadgets https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TinyLittleGadgets 03:38 – Reference Circuit PCB books https://www.boltind.com/product-category/reference-circuits-books/ 09:57 – Robin RCD/ELCB Tester 20:57 – Geekom IT12 i7 Mini PC Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1695-mailbag-robin-rcd-tester-pcb-book-usb-knob-geekom-it12-mini-p/

A teardown and design discussion of the Scarlett Rae heater for females, with the designer Scott Williams from Xentronics. Recorded at the Electronex exhibition in Melbourne https://scarletperiod.com/products/rae https://xentronics.com.au/ The Amp Hour discussion on design consulting: https://theamphour.com/624-design-manufacturing-consulting-with-scott-williams-from-xentronics/ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1694-scarlet-rae-teardown-and-design-discussion-with-xentronics/

A teardown of the Uni-T UTE 310 Digital Power Meter, and an example meausing the power consumption of the new Brymen BM786BT multimeter in bluetooth data transmission mode. https://uni-trendus.com/products/ute310-digital-power-meter Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1693-uni-t-ute310-power-meter-teardown-practical-demo/ 00:00 – Uni-T UTE310 Power Meter 02:44 – Teardown 06:54 – Power supply 07:47 – FPGA and ARM processors (plural) 09:23- Seperate isolated volatge …

Is a US$130 Fluke multimeter any good? A review of the Fluke 17B MAX Multimeter Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1692-$130-fluke-17b-max-multimeter-review/ Why are Fluke meters so expensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9wFQAW19Y Fluke 17B multimeter teardown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEtcpM0RGc Fluke vs Brymen Teardown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hlmq57FQQk 00:00 – US$130 Fluke 17B MAX Multimeter 02:32 – Construction 04:52 – What's in the (China Only) box? 06:14 – New …

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. More Command line fun: downloading a podcast In the show hpr4398 :: Command line fun: downloading a podcast Kevie walked us through a command to download a podcast. He used some techniques here that I hadn't used before, and it's always great to see how other people approach the problem. Let's have a look at the script and walk through what it does, then we'll have a look at some "traps for young players" as the EEVBlog is fond of saying. Analysis of the Script wget `curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*ogg' | head -1` It chains four different commands together to "Save the latest file from a feed". Let's break it down so we can have checkpoints between each step. I often do this when writing a complex one liner - first do it as steps, and then combine it. The curl command gets https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ . To do this ourselves we will call curl https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ --output tuxjam.xml , as the default file name is index.html. This gives us a xml file, and we can confirm it's valid xml with the xmllint command. $ xmllint --format tuxjam.xml >/dev/null $ echo $? 0 Here the output of the command is ignored by redirecting it to /dev/null Then we check the error code the last command had. As it's 0 it completed sucessfully. Kevie then passes the output to the grep search command with the option -o and then looks for any string starting with https followed by anything then followed by two forward slashes, then -o, --only-matching Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each such part on a separate output line We can do the same with. I was not aware that grep defaulted to regex, as I tend to add the --perl-regexp to explicitly add it. grep --only-matching 'https*://[^"]*ogg' tuxjam.xml http matches the characters http literally (case sensitive) s* matches the character s literally (case sensitive) Quantifier: * Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy] : matches the character : literally / matches the character / literally / matches the character / literally [^"]* match a single character not present in the list below Quantifier: * Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy] " a single character in the list " literally (case sensitive) ogg matches the characters ogg literally (case sensitive) When we run this ourselves we get the following $ grep --only-matching 'https*://[^"]*ogg' tuxjam.xml https://archive.org/download/tuxjam-121/tuxjam_121.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam-120/TuxJam_120.ogg https://archive.org/download/tux-jam-119/TuxJam_119.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_118/tuxjam_118.ogg https://archive.org/download/tux-jam-117-uncut/TuxJam_117.ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_116/tuxjam_116.ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://ogg http://tuxjam.otherside.network/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/10/tuxjam_115_OggCamp2024.ogg https://ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_114/tuxjam_114.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_113/tuxjam_113.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_112/tuxjam_112.ogg The last command returns the first line, so therefore https://archive.org/download/tuxjam-121/tuxjam_121.ogg Finally that line is used as the input to the wget command. Problems with the approach Relying on grep with structured data like xml or json can lead to problems. When we looked at the output of the command in step 2, some of the results gave https://ogg . When run the same command without the --only-matching argument we see what was matched. $ grep 'https*://[^"]*ogg' tuxjam.xml This episode may not be live as in TuxJam 115 from Oggcamp but your friendly foursome of Al, Dave (thelovebug), Kevie and Andrew (mcnalu) are very much alive to treats of Free and Open Source Software and Creative Commons tunes. https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-oggcamp-2024/ https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-oggcamp-2024/#respond https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-oggcamp-2024/feed/ With the group meeting up together for the first time in person, it was decided that a live recording would be an appropriate venture. With the quartet squashed around a table and a group of adoring fans crowded into a room at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester, the discussion turns to TuxJam reviews that become regularly used applications, what we enjoyed about OggCamp 2024 and for the third section the gang put their reputation on the line and allow open questions from the sea of dedicated fans. OggCamp 2024 on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024, Manchester UK. Two of the hits are not enclosures at all, they are references in the text to OggCamp what we enjoyed about OggCamp 2024 Normally running grep will only get one entry per line, and if the xml is minimised it can miss entries on a file that comes across as one big line. I did this myself using xmllint --noblanks tuxjam.xml > tuxjam-min.xml I then edited it and replaced the new lines with spaces. I have to say that the --only-matching argument is doing a great job at pulling out the matches. That said the results were not perfect either. $ grep --only-matching 'https*://[^"]*ogg' tuxjam-min.xml https://archive.org/download/tuxjam-121/tuxjam_121.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam-120/TuxJam_120.ogg https://archive.org/download/tux-jam-119/TuxJam_119.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_118/tuxjam_118.ogg https://archive.org/download/tux-jam-117-uncut/TuxJam_117.ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_116/tuxjam_116.ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://tuxjam.otherside.network/?p=1029https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-oggcamp-2024/#respondhttps://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-115-ogg https://ogg http://tuxjam.otherside.network/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/10/tuxjam_115_OggCamp2024.ogg https://ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_114/tuxjam_114.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_113/tuxjam_113.ogg https://archive.org/download/tuxjam_112/tuxjam_112.ogg You could fix it by modifying the grep arguments and add additional searches looking for enclosure . The problem with that approach is that you'll forever and a day be chasing issues when someone changes something. So the approach is officially "Grand", but it's a very likely to break if you're not babysitting it. Suggested Applications. I recommend never parsing structured documents , like xml or json with grep. You should use dedicated parsers that understands the document markup, and can intelligently address parts of it. I recommend: xml use xmlstarlet json use jq yaml use yq Of course anyone that looks at my code on the hpr gittea will know this is a case of "do what I say, not what I do." Never parse xml with grep, where the only possible exception is to see if a string is in a file in the first place. grep --max-count=1 --files-with-matches That's justified under the fact that grep is going to be faster than having to parse, and build a XML Document Object Model when you don't have to. Some Tips Always refer to examples and specification A specification is just a set of rules that tell you how the document is formatted. There is a danger in just looking at example files, and not reading the specifications. I had a situation once where a software developer raised a bug as the files didn't begin with ken-test- followed by a uuid . They were surprised when the supplied files did not follow this convention as per the examples. Suffice to say that was rejected. For us there are the rules from the RSS specification itself, but as it's a XML file there are XML Specifications . While the RSS spec is short, the XML is not, so people tend to use dedicated libraries to parse XML. Using a dedicated tool like xmlstarlet will allow us to mostly ignore the details of XML. RSS is a dialect of XML . All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. The first line of the tuxjam feed shows it's an XML file. The specification goes on to say "At the top level, a RSS document is a element, with a mandatory attribute called version, that specifies the version of RSS that the document conforms to. If it conforms to this specification, the version attribute must be 2.0." And sure enough then the second line show that it's a RSS file.

The Uni-T UDP6700 series UDP6731 360W slimline Bench Lab Power Supply REVIEWED https://instruments.uni-trend.com/products/dc-power-supplies/UDP6700 https://uni-trendus.com/products/udp6731-360w-basic-dc-switching-power-supply-80v-15a 00:00 – Uni-T UDP6731 PSU 01:30 – Beware of thermal stacking 02:55 – Teardown 07:35 – Sneaky fan 11:24 – Remember the Riden RD6006, also 350W 13:10 – Power up 16:04 – The display and UI 18:14 – Instantaneous knob 19:16 …

Another Colour A3 photocopier in the dumpster! Is this an upgrade? Fuji-Xerox Docucentre V C4476 Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1689-another-dumpster-diving-a3-colour-photocopier/

More Mailbag! 00:00 – Zifnu K-16 Kickstarter LED light https://www.zifnu.com/ 11:02 – Qoool Sensing: Diamond Quantum Fluorescence Demo https://qoool-sensing.org 16:41 – Logic Gate Educational Demo Board https://logicgat.es/ 20:15 – Beelink ME Mini 6 x M.2 Slot Home Storage NAS https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150?ref=OKJKQ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1690-mailbag-zifnu-led-quantum-diamonds-logic-gates-m-2-nas/

DC Constant Current sources explained and demonstrated. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1688-constant-current-sources-explained-demo/ Voltage and Current Source Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQK7RyecVW0 DC Circuit Fundamentals Playist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHtVLq2MDPIz82BWMIZcuwhK 00:00 – Constant Current Sources 11:08 – Practical uses of constant current sources 14:00 – Circuit examples 19:13 – TL431 Example 20:25 – LM317 CC circuit 21:42 – Low Side Source vs High Side Current …

The repair of alkaline battery leakage in this Keysight U1177A Bluetooth mulitmeter adapter was, well, pointless…. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1687-a-pointless-alkaline-battery-leakage-repair-462018/

A complete walkaround of the Electronex 2025 exhibition in Melbourne Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1686-electronex-2025-melbourne-walkaround/

A walk around the Australian Manufacturing Week exhibition in Melbourne 2025, looking at mechanical stuff Dave has no idea about. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1685-australian-manufacturing-week-2025-walkaround/

Test Controller is an awesome free logging and control software that supports a ton of multimeters, power supplies and loads, including the new BM2257. https://lygte-info.dk/project/TestControllerIntro%20UK.html https://lygte-info.dk Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/program-that-can-log-from-many-multimeters/

Sun-Ways actually went ahead and installed Solar Freakin' RAILways in the Swiss village of Buttes at the cost of US$700,000 ! References: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-change/switzerland-turns-train-tracks-into-solar-power-plants/89227914 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/swiss-solar-railway-project-gets-back-on-track/87707181 https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/sun-ways-opens-world-s-first-rail-ready-track-mounted-solar-power-plant https://www.youtube.com/@sun-ways https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/04/09/italian-startup-testing-pv-sleepers-on-railway-line/ https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php Paper on railway dust: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971401451X?via%3Dihub https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25461038/ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1683-sun-ways-solar-freakin-railways-part-2/ Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vItnxhWRqw

One of my 14 Enphase microinverters failed and they sent me a new one under warranty, lets install it… Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1682-enphase-microinverter-fail-warranty-install/

More mailbag! 00:00 – A really really nice DIY Constant Current Load 07:55 – Whatever happened to sloped folded metal instrument cases? 08:46 – The amazing Stamp Breadboard Replacement prototype boards (Link coming soon) 13:35 – A look at the Stamp documentation 21:14 – Ian Scott Johnston's Multimeter Continuity Speed Tester! https://www.youtube.com/@UCtiK8QrcCrsjDXpKzB1PO1A https://www.ianjohnston.com/ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1681-mailbag-nice-diy-cc-load-amazing-proto-boards-ian-johnston/

Why does the Uni-T UTG9504T abitary function generator cost US$5800? A teardown and detailed BOM cost analysis of how much high end product designs costs, and the margins involved. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1679-why-does-this-uni-t-awg-cost-$5800-bom-cost-analysis-458562/ 00:00 – Why does this Arbitrary Waveform Generator cost US$5800 ? 02:17 – 2.5x BOM Cost multiplier 03:02 – Teardown 06:02 – Power Supply …

New research shows you can extract a tiny voltage and current from a stationary tube in the earth's magnetic field. Is this real? It is scaleable to be useful? Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013285 IEEE article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/decarbonized-future Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1680-free-energy-from-the-earths-magnetic-field/

Oscilloscope have a pre-arm trigger period that can cause confusion if you aren't aware of it. And how different scopes operate and indicate this in different ways. Also some potential bugs in the Keysight 3000 and HD3 series scopes. 00:00 – Slow timebases can be problematic for triggering 02:13 – What happens when you press …

Our Ninja blender blade failed. For a warranty replacement they wanted us to DESTROY and DISPOSE OF the old perfectly working base unit before sending a new one. Let's see about that… The first ever EEVBlog video with zero commentary, just memes. My breakfast smoothie: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-2mf1mqZVQ0 Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1675-ninja-blender-repair-because-why-(right-to-repair)/ Credits: “Our Story Begins” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) …

Modifying a lab timer to automatically trigger when a fuses blows, for automated fuse testing. Fuses video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG11rVcMOnY Jellybean Transistors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdmX8w8xwI Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1676-lab-timer-hack/

An experiment to test an interesting effect with fuses. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1677-an-interesting-effect-with-fuses-(experiment)/

A quick follow-up to the JBL Partybox 310 speaker repair and speculation on WHY the fault happened the way it happened. Contains SPOLIERS, so watch Part 1 first! Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1672-jbl-repair-youll-never-guess-the-fault/

A big dumpster diving find! What did Dave score this time?

Repair of a JBL Partybox 310 speaker. Follow along as Dave goes down the repair rabbit hole. Try and guess the exact fault before Dave does, it's a doozy! 00:00 – JBL Partybox 310 Speaker fault symptoms and initial failure speculation 02:57 – Teardown 06:23 – Is it a firmware lockup issue? 07:17 – Checking …

How can the same sh!t happen to the same guy twice? And a trap for young players with LCD's. And a giveaway for the young whippersnapper in Australia. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1670-bm786-multimeter-battery-leakage-repair-giveaway/ 00:00 – How can the same sh!t happen to the same guy twice? 06:27 – Zebra strip elastomeric connector 09:40 – It STILL doesn't work? …

A mailbag replacement custom LED display for the Agilent U53131A VFD display frequency counter. www.hubequip.net Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1669-agilent-u53131a-vfd-to-led-display-upgrade-mailbag/

Horrific alkaline battery leakage in a rare prototype EEVblog 555 Multimeter. Can it be repaired? Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1668-horrific-alkaline-battery-leakage-in-rare-prototype-multimeter/

Reverse Engineering the Brymen BM2257 Multimeter front end to understand what changes have been made from the BM235 in the Low Z mode. DaveCAD time. Also some testing of the LowZ mode and how it works. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1667-reverse-engineering-the-brymen-bm2257-multimeter/ MOV datasheet: https://www.cnr.com.tw/cloudSpace/CNR_D.pdf How to reverse engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJVrTV_BeGg Multimeter Input Protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhnGp5vh60

Repair of a Keithley 2302 battery simulator with junk bin parts. But it did put up a fight! Teardown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LK8wduZsy0 Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1664-repair-with-junk-bin-parts!-keithley-2302/ 00:00 – Faulty VFD display in a Keithley 2302 Battery Simulator 01:22 – Teardown 03:14 – The Display driver PCB 04:30 – Solder Sucking Sucks 05:26 – The VFD display module, a …

Part 2 of the Keithley 2302 battery simulator repair of the VFD display. Just a follow-up on testing the actual VFD display itself to see if there is any fault that's not the VFD vacuum. 00:00 – Having another look at the failed Newhaven VFD dispaly module 05:37 – Measurign voltages 07:32 – Oscilloscope probing …

Let's find out what this blown SMD part is, sent in by a viewer. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1666-blown-smd-component-identification/ Component Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHtdQF-m5UFZ5GEjABadI3kI

This was going to be a repair of a vintage Tandy 200 Portable Computer… Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1662-vintage-tandy-200-portable-computer-claytons-repairteardown/ 00:00 – I sear this Tandy 200 had a problem… 02:54 – Teardown 03:57 – The new BM2257 Multimeter 05:25 – I think it's the buzzer 08:06 – Microscope teardown 16:20 – They don't make service manuals like they …

Repairing a customers Brymen BM786 multimeter, and investigating the cause of the InEr error message on the input jack alert feature. Plus a giveaway to a local youngster. 00:00 – A returned BM786 Multimeter with InEr error message 03:23 – Split jacks and input alert circuit 05:19 – In-Circuit probing TIP and Low Ohms mode. …

The difference between Time Domain and Frequency Domain in AC circuit analysis. AC Theory Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHvD6M_7WeN071OVsZFE0_q- Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1661-ac-basics-tutorial-part-5-time-domain-vs-frequency-domain/

Part 4 in the AC basics tutorial series. AC applied to resistors, capacitors and inductors, along with Capacitive Reactance and Inductive reactance. AC Theory Playlist

Review of the new Quick 861 Pro hot air station compared to the original 861DW. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1659-quick-861-pro-hot-air-station-review/

It's important to understand the difference between Mean and Median, not just for engineering, but for everyday life, so you don't get manipulated by people with bad intentions. UBS Global Wealth Report: https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/assets/wm/global/insights/doc/global-wealth-report.pdf Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1658-tutorial-mean-vs-median/

Almost 30 minutes of tearing down a Samsung 75″ QLED One Connect dumpster TV and trying to power it up to see if it's busted or not. QA75Q7FNA 00:00 Dumpster Samsung QLED 75″ 04:46 – Teardown wasn't easy as expected… 08:11 – What is this cable retention BS? 11:26 – I'm still at it… 14:22 …

More Mailbag! 00:00 – DPS Ultrathin DIN 5V PSU's https://digitalpowersystems.eu/de/standard-produkte/ 01:15 – The Knife 06:16 – USB-C Isolator https://digitalpowersystems.eu/de/schnelle-und-sichere-usb-zu-uart-kommunikation-dank-digitaler-isolierung-und-esd-schutz-fur-ein-und-ausgange/ 07:34 – Zubax FluxGrip FG40 Electropermanent Magnet for Drones https://zubax.com/products/magnets/fluxgrip/fg40 11:55 – Testing the magnet 14:04 – Drone delivered multimeters? 14:53 – Why did someone send this? 15:46 – Wireless Freakin' Road Charging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sisD61ohzK0 19:37 – …

You can use almost any decent modern multimeter to safely discharge high voltage capacitor banks WITHOUT a LowZ function. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1655-multimeter-tip-discharge-capacitors-using-any-meter/ Transistor Zener Clamp video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGcKjy_UNQ4