A quick rant on T4 fluorescent tubes, and a small upgrade to replace a T4 tube with a LED strip. Previous video on LED lighting Dave’s back deck Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #727 – How To Kill An Opamp
It’s all fun and games until an innocent opamp gets hurt! Dave proves he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed by killing an opamp in his µCurrent calibration test jig, whilst checking the calibration of course. Doh. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #726 – Dual Xeon Video Editing Machine Build
Dave builds and tests the 24 core dual processor 2.6GHz Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 video editing machine and benchmarks against his current 8 core i7 3770K machine at 3.5GHz. This is one hour of PC building and software testing, if you find this stuff boring, DON’T WATCH IT! Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-726-dual-xeon-video-editing-machine-build/ …
Read More »EEVblog #725 – LG Plasma TV Teardown
Dave takes a peek inside the 50″ LG Plasma TV found in the dumpster. The Dumpster Dive video was on the EEVblog2 channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPK1_hy4KMU Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #724 – Home Solar Power System Analysis & Update
Dave looks at his 3kW home solar power system after being in operation for 18 months and analyses the results. How much energy was produced? How does net and gross metering work? What is the payback period? What is solar insolation? The 3kW system uses 12 x 250W LG MonoX …
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