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Battery Adapter Teardown and Sony A6000 Power-Off Current Draw

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 kwong

I bought a Sony A6000 mirrorless digital camera last year to replace my Cannon PowerShot Elph 300 HS point and […]

Electronics, Teardowns Battery Adapter, Current Consumption, Digital Camera, Mirrorless, Sony A6000, Standby

Building a Single Pixel Scanner

July 1, 2017 kwong

A flat bed scanner typically uses three rows of CCD sensors (RGB) to capture images placed directly on top of […]

AVR/Arduino, Electronics Arduino Due, HP 7044A, MATLAB, Plotter, RGB Color Sensor, Scanner, X-Y Recorder

ESD Mat For My Workbench

June 25, 2017June 25, 2017 kwong

I just bought an ESD mat for my workbench. ESD mat is great when working with sensitive electronics components as […]

Electronics ESD, ESD Mat, Wrist Strap

Dual Purpose Spot Welder With Pulse Duration Control

June 18, 2017 kwong

I had wanted to make a spot welder for a while. Most of the DIY spot welders use a momentary […]

Electronics 555, BTA41, MOC3061, Spot Welder, Tab Welder, TRIAC

Reverse Engineering a Uniden Cordlessphone LCD

June 4, 2017 kwong

I recently upgraded my home phone system and thus was left with a couple of old Uniden DCT648-2 handsets. Most […]

Electronics Arduino, Atmega328P, Cordless Phone, DCT648-2, Handset, LCD, Logic Analyzer, Protocol, Reverse Engineering, SPI, Uniden

Wavetek 395 Timebase Upgrade

May 14, 2017May 14, 2017 kwong

I got a Wavetek 395 arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) last year. Unlike my other equipment (such as HP 8566B, HP […]

Electronics Arbitrary Waveform Generator, AWG, CO-717B58N, Timebase, Vectron, Wavetek 395

HP 7044A X-Y Recorder Teardown, Lorenz Attractor

April 30, 2017 kwong

I picked up an HP 7044A X-Y recorder on eBay recently. This one was made in the early 1980’s and […]

AVR/Arduino, Electronics, Teardowns 2N3054, 2N5956, 74L121, Arduino Due, Chaos, HP 7015B, HP 7044A, Lorenz Attractor, Plotter, Recorder, X-Y Recorder

Cheap UV EPROM Eraser Teardown and Spectrum Analysis

April 8, 2017 kwong

Till recently, I have been using custom circuitry whenever I needed to backup some firmware. But the process was rather […]

Electronics, Teardowns EPROM, EPROM Eraser, MJE13001, Monochromator, Spectrum, Ultraviolet, UV

Beats Solo Bluetooth Headphone Teardown

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 kwong

I got this broken Beats Solo2 BT wireless headphone from one of my colleagues. In fact, it was broken once […]

Electronics, Teardowns Beats, Bluetooth, BQ24071, CSR 57E6, PAM8908, Spasion AL016J

Jitter Measurement of the Pulse Width Expanded 1PPS Output

March 25, 2017March 26, 2017 kwong

In my previous blog posts, I did a teardown of the Symmetricom/Datum 8040 Rubidium frequency standard and modified the 1PPS […]

Electronics Clock Jitter, Rubidium Standard

Datum/Symmetricom 8040 Rubidium Standard Modifications

March 11, 2017 kwong

Last time, I did a teardown of the Datum 8040 Rudidium standard. As I discussed, the 8040 has a 1PPS […]

Electronics 555, 74HC123, 8040, Datum, monostable, Multivibrator, Symmetricom

Datum/Symmetricom 8040 Rubidium Frequency Standard Teardown

March 4, 2017 kwong

I finally got my hands on a Rubidium frequency standard. I have been wanting to get one of these for […]

Electronics, Teardowns 74HC160, 74HC390, 8040, Cesium Standard, Datum, EFRATOM, LH0033, LPRO, Microsemi, Rubidium Standard, Symmetricom

Teardown and Repair of a Racal-Dana 1992 Frequency Counter

February 12, 2017February 12, 2017 kwong

I picked up a non-working Racal-Dana 1992 Frequency Counter on eBay a few weeks ago. The symptom is that only […]

Electronics, Teardowns AD7528, AD9687, CA3140, Frequency Counter, NE521, Racal Dana, Reciprocal Counting, TL081

HP 5350B Backlight Upgrade

January 30, 2017 kwong

I got myself an HP 5350B microwave counter a couple of years ago and did a teardown of it. The […]

Electronics HP 5350B, Microwave Counter, PCF8576

A 400W (1kW Peak) 100A Electronic Load Using Linear MOSFETs

January 15, 2017 kwong

I bought a couple of IXYS linear MOSFETs (IXTK90N25L2) a while ago to test their capabilities when used as electronic […]

Electronics Dummy Load, Electronic Load, High Current, High Power, IXTK90N25L2, kW, Linear MOSFET, LT1636

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