I was interested on the New surplus relays that goldmine-elec.com has recently acquired. BTW, these may be sold out and no longer available soon. I noticed that the operating power is only 10 to 13 milliwatts, which is extremely low. But the figures don’t make sense. Ten milliamps would go through 300 ohms, not 3000
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I finished reading this book about Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of naval nuclear propulsion, and about the deadly reactor accident that took the lives of the only three people to die this way in the U.S. The author is Todd Tucker. Up until reading this book I had read only anecdotally about the nuclear accident
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I get emails from Electronic Goldmine concerning their latest sales items. I have noticed a lot of electronic parts of a certain category in their sales. They may have a large number of parts from manufacturers that are switching over to newer technologies. I have noticed a large number of relays in their sales, specialty
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I came across this at a website with other projects. Just scroll down to Recycle Plastic. The basic idea is to build up sheets with an iron. The raw ingredient is dozens of plastic shopping bags. My only concern is that using the iron might be more costly on your electricity bill than if you
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