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Solar Power System Update

For those following along with the solar power system. Today was the highest peak production day so far peaking at 2.5KW. Pretty good for a nominal 3kW system in the middle of winter at a non-ideal angle and not peak time of the day. Recent weather has been awful, but …

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EEVblog #489 – Agilent 34461A Multimeter Review

Who else but Dave can take an hour and a half to review a multimeter! Agilent’s new 34461A/34460A 6.5 digit bench multimeter. A replacement for the venerable 34401A Quick links: Startup Labels Ratio ProbeHold Continuity Probes Statistics Overshoot Overload Diode Current Trend Plot Histogram Res Standard Bargraph Cal Check Cal …

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EEVblog #486 – Does Current Flow Through A Capacitor?

Dave proves he has no fear by opening this can of electronic worms by posing the question – “Does Current Flow Through A Capacitor?” The answer may surprise you, or drive you into a physics induced rage… Vent your rage HERE Turns out you can measure the displacement current: http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhap/027/PH2420/PH2420_files/displacement.pdf …

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EEVblog web hosting

I get many people ask were and how I host eevblog.com and the forum. The answer is HostGator at www.hostgator.com I use one of HostGators dedicated servers to host the wordpress website and forum. It’s an Intel Xeon E3-1220LV2 running at 2.3GHz, with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 500 GB RAID-1 …

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EEVblog #481 – Mailbag

Blinker hybrid schematic http://a-squaredtec.com/ http://blisterpackaging.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/64683169@N00 http://gtronics.net Forum HERE Podcast: Download

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EEVblog #480 – 300MHz Owon SDS Oscilloscope

Dave takes a look at the Owon SDS Series “Smart” oscilloscope. The 300MHz model SDS9302. But apart from bandwidth and sample rate, the same as the SDS8302, SDS8202, SDS8102, SDS7102, and SDS6062. Forum topic HERE Podcast: Download

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