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EEVblog #534 – Mailbag

Sydney Maker Faire Makers at Work BOOK An Engineer’s Guide to Solving Problems BOOK Energy Harvesting kit Jamco Skywriter kit LTC3588 Podcast: Download

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EEVblog #533 – LED Fluoro Tube Teardown

What’s inside a modern 18W LED Fluoro T8 replacement tube from German company Mueller Licht? LED tube design Safety Datasheets: www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/SSL2109T.pdf www.philipslumileds.com/uploads/409/DS205-pdf www.mueller-licht.de/ (too short to be this LED) www.lextar.com/promote/2013_GILE/PDF/Lextar_SMD_series-13.5.pdf Forum HERE Podcast: Download

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EEVblog #532 – Silicon Chip Wafer Fab Mailbag

A look at some equipment and wafers used in the manufacture of silicon chip wafers. 200mm and 300mm wafers, die, dice sawing, lead-frame manufacture, automated testing machine (ATE) probing, clean room bunnie suits, photo plots, BGA chip thermal test sockets, and the worlds smallest active FET probes at 100 nanometers …

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EEVblog #530 – Electrophoresis Power Supply Teardown

What’s inside an EC Apparatus brand constant voltage constant current power supply used for Electrophoresis – the separation of particles in a fluid by using an electric field. You can get these supplies quite cheaply on ebay if you look around. A quick reverse engineering of the circuit provides some …

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