VoltLog #5 - HP Agilent E3611A Power Supply Teardown and Calibration
I got this HP Agilent E3611A Power Supply from Ebay. It was marked as not working and I was planing a repair video on it. Unfortunately the unit turned out to be fully functional so I only did a teardown and calibration.
This is a short review of the S-993A desoldering gun. Banggood.com sent this product free of charge for the purpose of this review.
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Here is a teardown of this unit
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$2 for 5 PCBs Any Color https://jlcpcb.com The Wiistar 1080P HDMI capture card is a relatively inexpensive USB 3.0 capture card capable of 1080P at 60fps with an additional passthrough HDMI output which allows you to connect a monitor at the same time. This is advertised as plug and play on a variety of operating systems, driver free installation and compatibility with a variety of recording type software, but will this capture card be able to do all of that as advertised? Will it allow me to capture and record the 1080p 60fps I get from my microscope camera? And what is the build quality? Join me for this review and teardown to find out.
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High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com In this video I’m showing you how to connect and drive a GC9A01 1.28” round display using Arduino and the Arduino GFX Graphics library. I will also be using a trick to load image data into the ESP32 SPIFFS area. This way we don’t need additional external storage for storing images and gifs that are shown on the display.
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High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com Join me in this video where we take a closer look at a LASER engraver fume extraction unit which I try to repurpose as a solder fume extractor. After all, the filtration technology is the same for both applications. Will it have enough suction power, will it be noisy or quiet? How much power does it use? Watch the full video for full details and results of my tests.
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#FumeExtractor #Review #VEVOR
For the past 2-3 years I’ve been using this DIY fume extractor / filter system that I built with off the shelf components ordered from Amazon. It has been really helpful keeping the nasty soldering fumes away from my lungs and I highly recommend you get yourself some type of filtration if you do even occasional soldering for more than 15-20 minutes per session. I’ve been quite happy with my system because it wasn’t too expensive at the time of purchase, it ended up costing half of what a commercial system would have been and replacing the filters on this thing would be much cheaper also when compared to a commercial system. But in today's video I have received for review of such a commercial system and I would like to compare if it’s still a viable option to DIY or should you just buy one and save your time.
One mention that I would like to make is that the commercial system we are looking at, is not directly intended for solder fumes extraction so it doesn’t come with accessories tailored to that, but in terms of filtration capability it should be adequate.
The unit we are looking at today was sent in for free from Vevor.com for the purpose of this review but it currently sells for about 220 EUR shipped to the EU from their EU warehouse. I think they have multiple worldwide warehouses so you would have to check the cost for your specific location by clicking the link in the description.
By comparison the unit that I built was composed of:
Ducted 100mm fan, 26W of power, 198 m³/h, 2200 RPM, 31dB current price 87 EUR including shipping.
4 inch carbon filter for hydroponics applications, current price 65 EUR including shipping.
Hakko flexible segmented hose 160 EUR including shipping. Although expensive, this thing makes it really easy to use.
Triac speed controller for the fan, a plug, some cable, roughly 10 EUR. I don’t really use the speed adjustment, I just use it on full blast every time for proper extraction so you don’t necessarily need the speed adjustment module.
This brought the total to roughly 322 EUR which a few years ago was less than half of a professional fume extractor so back then it was worth spending the time to do a DIY system. I also wasn’t as busy as I am today. I also spent maybe another 20 EUR on some clamps and an additional flexible duct, I 3D printed an adapter, but those are not necessarily needed.
However after all of that effort, I had clean air. Not a lot of suction power because of the thick filter and because I used an additional long duct, but it was useable, as long as I was soldering next to it, it sucked the fumes and there was absolutely nothing coming out of that filter, at least nothing that I could smell or see. It worked very well for me.
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High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com The soldering handle from my BST-933B JBC clone soldering station showed signs of problems ever since day one when I first got it. Over time this problem got worse and I eventually got a genuine JBC T245 handle to replace the problematic one. In this video I am doing a teardown of the clone handle to see what went wrong.
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High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com Welcome to a new Voltlog, In this video I’m gonna show you one potential solution if your design uses a part that you can’t source anymore due to the global chip shortage but also the pitfalls of using this method in the case of a dc-dc converter. Please keep in mind that actual price per unit or stock availability will vary between the point I started working on this video, which is a couple of months ago, the actual time when I publish it or the time that you are watching it.
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#LMR14006 #ME3116 #ChipShortage
Let me start with providing you a bit of context here, this is the CanLite, an ESP32 based design that I sell on my Tindie store. It’s a CAN development board, it’s got a couple of high side switches, a CAN interface, a powerful processor with Wifi Capability and an automotive rated DC_DC converter to allow the user to power this from a car 12V system.
The DC-DC converter chip that I’m using is the Texas Instruments LMR14006 and I’ve been pretty happy with using dc-dc controllers from TI over the years because they generally perform really well and they have good documentation and design resources available.
Now as you all know the chip shortage has not been kind to us and as a result I can’t find this chip anymore. If we go to Octopart which is like a search engine for electronic components, we see there is no stock with any of the major distributors for the particular part number that I was using LMR14006XDDCR. And don’t get your hopes up with Winsource or Cytek, these guys just list stock for stuff that they don’t have and even if they have it, it’s not worth going through them unless you have a high volume.
It seems there is some TI stock for a similar part number , this was not available a couple of months ago, it can vary as stock comes and goes but if we take a closer look, we first notice after adding the part to cart that it is not actually available to order from TI and on top of that is more expensive when compared to the original part number and stuff like this matters especially if you are dealing with lower volumes and you already have a price set for your end product. I used to get the original part number for 90 cents so this is a massive cost increase.
So at this point
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High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com In this video we are taking a look at the UNI-T UTG962 arbitrary waveform generator and I must say I’m surprised by the very good build quality and the selection of components that went into this test instrument. There are of-course limitations given the price of the unit but with those in mind I don’t think there is anything else on the market that does better so all I can say is that you need to order yourself one of these using the link below.
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