Last week I went to unplug the second Duracell charger, and one of the power plug blades pulled out and remained in the wall socket. A year or so ago I bought a package of two of these chargers and soon after the first one failed. I blogged it and filled out a report of
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Peter Bergmann, A pen pal of mine from Germany, emailed this short Christmas song he made to me. With his permission, I’m uploading this to my blog. I’m not sure if I can do it, since I’ve never uploaded a video and it’s over 17 megabytes. Here goes. Click to view video.
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays, too. I found this article, to my surprise, in a summer issue of Pop Sci magazine. I was surprised because when it came to mainstream media, I thought that the Joule Thief was a best kept secret; hardly anyone other than ‘techies’ knew about it. But here’s proof otherwise. I think
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I captured this off a video and tried to make it a bit more readable. I think it was from Sanjev. I built it and it does work at 40 millivolts. The 2SK170 JFETs are not common, and may be difficult to obtain. Other JFETs can be used, but I haven’t tried them. I wrote
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Last night I attended a demonstration of the Legacy Direct BeyondTV streaming IPTV ‘system’ which apparently uses a Himedia box. The Legacy Direct company charges $400.00 for the system, and is sold by MLM (multi level marketing) methods. According to some (this discussion says it all), it uses a Himedia box, which has a quad
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