The first mailing house envelope has arrived, in Sweeden of all places, and then Singapore: No Australia on the return address, and they said they would print a barcode but didn’t. Perhaps that delayed the delivery?

Dave tests the myth that plugging a PCB VIA with solder does nothing (or not much) to improve the current handling capability. Is manual wire feed-through any better? Does the industry rule of thumb of 0.5A per VIA have any basis? What is the typical plated VIA/hole thickness? http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm Previous …

The live drawing of the giveaway for the Fluke CNX3000 Multimeters, Gossen Metrahit World Multimeter, and Chronovu Logic Analyser

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