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@ElecNotes And i guess aluminium ranks 4th in electric conductivity .. and is used in things like overhead power transmission lines and as wiring in the airbus A380 saving 500kg's of weight.

@apspijkerman That’s an interesting story. Thanks for posting.

Gold Isn't The Best Conductor So Why is it Used in Electronics? You see gold-plated connectors everywhere, from high-end audio gear to spacecraft. But here’s the shocker: Gold is NOT the best conductor of electricity. The Conductivity Leaderboard If we look at electrical resistivity (ρ) at 20°C, the "medals" for conductivity are actually swapped: 🥇 Gold Medal goes to Silver: The ultimate conductor (1.59×10−8 Ω⋅m). 🥈 Silver Medal goes to Copper: The industry standard (1.68×10−8 Ω⋅m). 🥉 Bronze Medal goes to Gold: Actually the least conductive of the three (2.44×10−8 Ω⋅m). So why use Gold? If gold is in third place, why is it the gold standard for connectors? Find out in my video: youtube.com/shorts/L7gv0FC… #gold #conductivity #connectors #elrctronicsconnectors #electroniccomponents #electronicsnotes

@the_zb_ @DRSunlocked Makes you wonder if when it is stationary and FIA test it returns within 400ms, but it takes more time when during a race the airflow is pushing it down. Sort of like the issue with the compression test. Difference between stationary test and race conditions.

@DRSunlocked You’re the second person I’ve seen mention this. The regulations are not ambiguous - movable aero has to return to a fixed (non-variable) position, and it must transition within a 400ms time window from activation.

Why is the Mercedes front wing variable? I noticed this all last weekend. The Merc front wing was closing at different speeds depending on the corner, and that at it's slowest, it was closing in about 800ms, twice what the rules allow. This gif is slowed 4x and lines-up two corners on Russell's car where the wing closes much faster and much slower. Anyone have any theories as to what might be going on?

@Athenian48 @AJamesMcCarthy @peterrhague The first falcon9 landings where on water, you dont want to risk a ship or landing pad when you havent mastered the landing yet. So i think they announced that when the next 2 water landings go well they will try a tower capture. But yeahr might be a bit soon to call it recovered

@AJamesMcCarthy @peterrhague He's probably meaning the soft water-landings of Starship, which shouldn't really count as "recovered".

They have put over 10,000 commercial satellites into orbit. Falcon 9 now flies more missions each year than the ostensibly reusable Shuttle did in 30. They are the first to recover both stages of a rocket from orbit. Yes, they are obviously revolutionary, don’t be salty.

@ntbrown01 @ElecNotes or the solid state relais. Do we have LEDFET's too ?? x.com/RueNahcMohr/st…

@ElecNotes Not to be outdone by the PhotoMOS!

Essential Component Spotlight: The Optocoupler Whether you are designing solid-state relays or protecting a microcontroller from motor noise, optocouplers are a cornerstone of robust circuit design. Optocouplers can be described by a variety of different names including optoisolator, and photocoupler. Essentially an optocoupler or photocoupler is a semiconductor device that uses a short optical path or link to couple a signal from one electrical circuit to another whilst providing electrical isolation. The photocouplers or optocouplers are typically contained in a single package, often about the size of an integrated circuit, although there is a large degree of variation according to the intended application. When selecting an optocoupler for your next project, keep these 3 key specs in mind: 🔹 Current Transfer Ratio (CTR): The ratio of output current to input current. This varies wildly—from 10% to 5000%—depending on whether you use a phototransistor or a photodarlington. 🔹 Bandwidth: Crucial for data transmission. Standard phototransistors often peak around 250 kHz, so choose wisely for high-speed data! 🔹 Isolation Voltage: Ensuring the package can handle the potential difference between your input and output stages. I’ve put together a comprehensive guide covering everything from internal symbols to the differences between optos and solid-state relays. #ElectricalEngineering #PCBDestign #Optoelectronics #TechTips #optocoupler #optoisolator #photocoupler #electronicsnotes #electroniccomponents

@cqcqcqdx I guess it not only changes voltage but also current. If secundary voltage goes down, current can go up so you can use a transformer for things like a spotweld device. Have a transformer with few secundary windings but with thick wire to produce a lot of current.

How a transformer works

@RueNahcMohr @willreil i guess he never used a junior hacksaw .. they work with pcb's. i even put piece of a junior hacksaw blade in an xacto knife holder to be able to saw some small things..

@willreil you can cut them. just wont really be as pretty. might be an excuse to get a smol cnc tho :]

The absolute worst thing possible happened. I ordered the boards with a v-score so I could snap them apart into 9 separate boards, they did not come with it. I don’t even know where to go from here, so incredibly bummed. I guess I will have to order some more boards.

@Astro_Aubert Yay for tape .. i wonder as the top of the van is fiberglass if the starlink antenna would work from the inside. like stick it to the bottom of the roof.

40 hours, 1750 miles, 2 launch sites, 1 Buc-ee's, 2 live streams, 200+ gallons of fuel and 4 states later...we made it! #SpaceCoastWest #TLP #LUNA

@willreil @RueNahcMohr i useally write things like that down and keep copies in capacitor and resistor sort boxes i have at the different workbenches.

@RueNahcMohr That's a smart idea to remember one as an anchor. instead my brain looks like this, getting uf, pf, and nf mixed up

another day, another "how to read capacitor markings" google search

@TLtwg Makes you wonder what TJ would think of small cartons of chocomel, ruitspekken or a kaneelstok :)

youtu.be/WGDi-Q1BENM?is… An unboxing like anything else’s. 😄

@CSI_Starbase @LabPadre makes you wonder if they stuck only 10 engines on because they are going to do a static fire and they dont know yet how the new launch pad will perform under a 33 engine static fire. So maybe next step is 15 engines.

Very interesting 10 engine spin prime + igniter test from Booster 19 (27 second mark). This is the first time we have seen an igniter test performed with propellant loaded onto the vehicle. Usually these are done hours before testing. The audio from this is awesome @LabPadre

@MANonCompliant @HannahIamthest1 It's all fresh water as the salt water was flushed out by the ijsel river which ends in the ijselmeer. The dyck has two discharge sluices to let the river water into the sea when water level in the lake is higher as the sea water.

Assuming that sweetwater is brackish, then wheter bodies are still left will depend on the pH and actual disolved salt. The ocean absorbs calcium very quickly (it's how bi-valve shells are recycled naturally) by basic pH and free cl to absorb the calcium in dead marine organisms. I suspect the bones will be, at a minimum, brittle if it's brackish water.

From a Guy Martin documentary and this shows what the Dutch government do for our fallen hero’s of WW2. The photo is a steel box that the Dutch have built so they can dam the sea around a Lancaster Bomber. Why are they pumping over a million euros into recovering it?? Why are they doing this? Simple, they are trying to recover the 3 airmen that were never recovered. The Dutch people say they owe it to all allied servicemen that died for the liberation of Europe! Thank you to the Dutch people for NEVER FORGETTING the ultimate sacrifice made by our forefathers. Thank you Holland 🧡 to a country that honoured and still honours our war dead Hero’s whilst our own country constantly disrespects our war hero’s both dead and alive…. SHAME ON YOU 😡😡😡😡

@MANonCompliant @HannahIamthest1 It is in the ijsselmeer. Which used to be called zuiderzee before they build a 32km dyke called afsluitdijk in 1932 before the war, which turned the saltwater sea into a sweetwater lake. zeilen.nl/actueel/nieuws…

@HannahIamthest1 If that’s salt water, the bodies of those men are gone. If it’s fresh water, there will be bones at least. Odd that they are doing this, but cool nonetheless.

@strychninelives @HannahIamthest1 Yes i think so.. But the Zuiderzee was renamed in 1932 before the war to ijsselmeer, as they build a 32km long dyke called the afsluitdijk which turned the saltwater sea into a sweetwater lake. zeilen.nl/actueel/nieuws…

@HannahIamthest1 Where’s this specific lot? Zuiderzee?

@typesfast The space shuttle also didn't need helium to pressurize its tanks as it just vaporized some of the oxygen/hydrogen to pressurize the tanks. Which starship also does with oxygen/methane but which you can not do with the RP-1 on SpaceX Falcon9 as it is Refined Petroleum.

Without helium, TSMC cannot produce chips and SpaceX can't launch rockets (at least until Starship comes online using a design that remarkably does not use helium because they recognized the likelihood of future shortages). Demand for chips and rockets are increasing exponentially.

Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium. Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors. Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵

@iNeo_G @peterrhague The MacBook Neo comes with a free copy of the iMovie video editor..

@peterrhague There must be free alternatives for MacOS. If not, there's always Linux

The software is half the price of the entire laptop

@RueNahcMohr On the Amiga processes could send msgs to other processes, great to read some central database. Guess it works sort of like a fifo. Would be funny to have something like I2C with a broadcast mode. Like if you use address 0 all devices are listening.

The snag with the robots today is Inter Process Communication, I need the robots to trigger each other. The exact mechanism I use to do this is up for grabs. for now, I think I want to use filesystem fifos.

@torybruno Nice blue origin pin.

One last pic. The LCC. Sorry about the blurring… ITAR

@Marco_Langbroek @FlyTechGuru heh.. i guess with all the starlink satellites there is a magnitude more reEntries now making it harder to see if its a missile or satellite. Is the data from those satellites on non-missile reEntries public ? Like of the Komeet here from 3 days ago.

@FlyTechGuru The tracking precision is actually increasingly poor. For this object, orbital updates were sparse: the last available tracking orbit was from 15 hours before the reentry! Reentry fireball sightings are a by-product of looking for missile launches in infra-red. Not tracking.

The US Space Force Final TIP for the Van Allen Probe is in: 10:37 UTC +- 1 m near 2 S, 104.7 W, over the Pacific. This is likely based on an observation of the reentry fireball by a US DoD infra-red Early Warning satellite.

@ElecNotes Is that like a darlington transistor but with a FET and a bipolair transistor on one die in one case ?

IGBTs: Did You Know There are Two Type Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors or IGBTs are being widely used in many power applications. They provide a very useful combination of the capabilities of both MOSFET and bipolar technology. Even with the introduction of SiC and GaN they still have niches where they are the best choice. But did you know there are two types of IGBT. If you did, do you know what the characteristics of each type are? IGBT transistor may be classified in two main ways according to whether they have an N+ buffer layer within the P layer closest to the emitter electrode. Dependent upon whether they have the N+ later they are referred to as either Punch-Though IGBTs or Non-Punch-Through IGBTs. Punch-through IGBT, PT-IGBT:   The punch-through IGBTs, PT-IGBTs have the N+ region by the emitter contact. As a result of the structure PT-IGBTs are sometimes referred to as asymmetrical IGBTs. Non-punch-through IGBT, NPT-IGBT :   The non-punch-through IGBTs do not have the additional N+ region by the emitter contact. The structure of the NPT-IGBT gives rise to them also being referred to as symmetrical IGBTs. The PT and NPT IGBTs have a number of different properties as a result of their structure. To find out more check out the page on my website. #IGBT #insulatedgatebipolartransistor #transistor #Semiconductors #electroniccomponents #electronicsnotes