Fundamentals Friday Dave takes you through designing a signal overload detector circuit from scratch and then builds it up on the breadboard. Window comparators, schmitt inverters, capacitor charging, pulse stretching, common mode input range, tongue angle tweaking, it’s all here. Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #470 – Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown
What’s inside an $18K 20GHz handheld spectrum analyser? Rigol DSA815 teardown Tektronix MDO4000 teardown Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #469 – Cockcroft-Walton Multiplier
A new EEVblog segment, Fundamentals Friday! How to generate high voltage DC with a Cockcroft-Walton Multiplier circuit. a.k.a Cockcroft-Walton / Villard / Greinacher Cascade The Uni-T teardown segment HERE Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #468 – Uni-T UT513 Insulation Resistance Meter Teardown
Teardown Tuesday. Inside the Uni-T UT513 5KV Insulation Resistance meter. And what happens when you apply 5KV across the range switch of a cheap arse multimeter? 10KV Relay datasheet Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #467 – Walktime Rant Crowd Funding Projects
Dave talks about crowd source funding projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and a new forum section to discuss them. Mµ Thermal Imager HERE EMC SafeSleeve HERE Podcast: Download
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