Dave and David2 battle to get an old Microchip PICkit 3 working with MPLAB X talking to Dave’s new product. A tale of misery, rabbit holes, Murphy, facepalms, and ultimately success. You get a warts and all journey. A good example of how a tool that should have just worked, …
Read More »EEVblog #840 – Yamaha M3000 Mixing Console Teardown
Dave tears down a monster of a mixing console! A Professional 40 channel Yamaha M3000 mixer designed for sound reinforcement and concerts. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #839 – Mailbag
New 2016 Mailbag Bonanza with Sagan helping out. Forum HERE SPOILERS: A Kollsman Instruments MD-1 Automatic Astro inertial navigation system analog computer for a B-52 Stratofortress bomber! Article on the system HERE From The Geek Group Realistic CB Radio teardown and testing with a spectrum analyser. Silicon Labs Sensor Puck …
Read More »EEVblog #838 – More Dumpster Server PCs
Dave & Sagan score some more server PC’s from the dumpster. Will they work? Will they be Dual Xeon & Core i7 Processors? Asus P6X58DE Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #837 – Reverse Engineering A Valve Headphone Amplifier
Dave reverse engineers the XuanZu X2-U808 Hi-Fi Headphone Amplifier to see if the valves actually do anything. What is the circuit topology? E180F (6J9) pentode valve datasheet Doug Ford’s Microphone design series Playlist Reverse Engineering How-To video Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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