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by flyboy71
Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: The Peabody Lounge
Topic: KA Electronics - physical ability to fill orders restored!
Replies: 19
Views: 930

Re: KA Electronics

Get well and get some rest.
by flyboy71
Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Build
Topic: Laser Cutting Services Can Make Your Job Easier
Replies: 5
Views: 206

Re: Laser Cutting Services Can Make Your Job Easier

I've gotten a few things from SendCutSend and they turned out decent. It was pretty much no frills. I see that article mentions TurboCad (yuck). Having used AutoCad LT for so long I stumbled onto Nanocad which is free and looks almost like ACAD circa 2009. https://nanocad.com/products/nanocad-free/
by flyboy71
Mon May 06, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: The Peabody Lounge
Topic: Gerber Text File Editing Fun
Replies: 5
Views: 1690

Re: Gerber Editing Fun

So in the upper part of the gerber file that thermal pad D21 should be defined. Its either a pre-defined aperture or a list of XY coordinates to make the feature. This is good reading if you're really digging in. https://www.ucamco.com/files/downloads/file_en/416/the-gerber-layer-format-specificatio...
by flyboy71
Mon May 06, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: The Peabody Lounge
Topic: Gerber Text File Editing Fun
Replies: 5
Views: 1690

Re: Gerber Editing Fun

You're a brave soul. I haven't edited gerbers since I worked at a local PCB shop back in the 90s. In those days we used GC-Prevue to verify a customers files and GC-CAM to prep them for manufacture because "back then" before RS-274X they sent a gerber file and an aperture file and sometime...
by flyboy71
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:17 am
Forum: Pro Audio Design
Topic: Dale CMF55-series Resistor Distortion
Replies: 19
Views: 3206

Re: Dale CMF55-series Resistor Distortion

Good info! I have seen this same phenomenon in RF designs as well based on one brand over another affecting the noise floor when measuring phase noise in oscillators. Many years ago I was tasked with evaluating SMD inductors when everything went lead free. Of all the brands Vishay-Dale were the only...
by flyboy71
Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:45 am
Forum: Pro Audio Design
Topic: Switch support/bezel - have you ever seen this part?
Replies: 23
Views: 23964

Re: Switch support/bezel - have you ever seen this part?

Wow. This is a good one. I'm usually able to dig around and find this stuff but not this one. Biggest issue I see is knowing the length of the threads on the switch and the length of the lever since both affect whether it sits below the surface, but you may already have that info. My guess also is i...
by flyboy71
Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:12 am
Forum: The Peabody Lounge
Topic: I'm Calling Bullshit On Climate Alarmism
Replies: 3
Views: 16144

Re: I'm Calling Bullshit On Climate Alarmism

The flipside is that in 6 months the same alarmists will blame ice storms on the same thing. Rinse. Repeat.

They never get excited when its 70 degrees and normal.
by flyboy71
Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:13 am
Forum: The Peabody Lounge
Topic: Entropy
Replies: 1312
Views: 1210251

Re: Entropy

Living like the amish I see. A local hardware store near me sells clothesline pulleys.