Some important information for those who wish to power their projects with a USB C “power delivery” adapter. You may need one of these. This is a YouTube short video.
2024-02-17 BJT, FET Curve Tracer
This very comprehensive website has a transistor and FET Curve tracer. Also a simpler curve tracer for all components. Click on box to download the schematic, etc. https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/Curve_Tracer_advanced.php#
2024-02-04 Add Bluetooth To A Receiver
1 min. YouTube short
2020-05-19 Transistor Tester And Other Components
Here is a writeup from another radio enthusiast about his newly purchased Mega 328 uC based component tester. They come in handy for testing electrolytic capacitors especially for ESR – equivalent series resistance. The tester will also test silicon and germanium transistors, handy for making a judgment on how leaky it is. I have a
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2018-09-11 Vectronics Aircraft Radio Kit
I got the Vectronics VEC-131K aircraft band radio kit in the mail yesterday and warmed up the soldering iron to assemble it. It came at a decent price, so some of my complaints seem to be cost cutting measures. It comes with a decent assembly instruction manual, but some of the pages including the schematic
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