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Electronics

A central place to organize and publish all of my hobbyist electronics knowledge and projects.

Wiki

My first attempt at curating this clump of electronics knowledge was this wiki.

Low Thermal EMF copper alloys

I'm still unclear if tellurium and beryllium are actually added for thermal EMF performance, or are added for ease of machining.

EEVBlog threads of interest

Building a resistance reference box

Communication checksums

Fletcher16 seems to be a good choice. It is easy to understand and implement, performant, and has "good enough" data integrity for simple use-cases (i.e. sending small data packets between an Arduino and a PC).

Learning how op-amps work

GAP/R P65

Fluid baths for electronics (for volt-nuts, resistance-nuts, etc)

Immersing electronics in oil is a tempting idea to stablize the temperature of the components, which helps combat the temperature coefficient of the components in a precision circuit (i.e. a voltage or resistance transfer standard).

But what fluid should you use?

Mineral oil

This seems to be the first idea people come across -- minearl oil is non-conductive, so you can immerse electronics in it. Searching YouTube for "raspberry pi minearl oil" shows lots of cool project ideas.

However, it turns out that over time, minearl oil breaks down and becomes acidic [1] [2]. It could be used, but for best results you may need to monitor the pH and change the oil when (or before!) it becomes acidic.

Silicone oil

It appears silicone oil does not suffer from the same problems as mineral oil, and it appears this is the oil used in the Vishay hermetically sealed resistors [1].

If you search amazon.com for "silicone oil high purity", you'll find 16oz bottles from CCS (Consolidated Chemical & Solvents LLC) from $18 to $25. These are available in viscosities from 0.65cSt to 100,000cSt. Here's a helpful video comparing the viscosities of silicone oil.

Measuring standard cells

Null meters (models to look for, what to use them for, how to build one)

Hermetic seals

Ageing voltage references

  • zlmex linked to an article by V. S. Orlov about how Datron ages their reference zener diodes.

Threads I need to mine for volt-nutting tips:

"Awesome" lists

Github users have started an awesome tradition of curating lists of "awesome" links.

Interesting parts

INA226

Matched transistors

Oscilloscopes

DSO112A ($70, 2MHz, single-channel, hand-held, touch-screen, battery-powered scope)

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