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#429 – An Interview with Charles Alexanian
Welcome Charles Alexanian of Alexttronics!
- Headquartered in Fresno
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- History
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- Family business
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- Father was a QC engineer
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- Night scope
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- Irrigation work in Fresno
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- Assembling clock dials as a 4 year old
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- OEM mfg of timer and controls
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- Load sharing of pumps
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- Family business – everyone helped
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- Reading schematics from an early age
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- Helped out on product in 92
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- Tellurite in Fremont for MFG
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- Fear and doubt are a factor in any business
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- Started looking outside the business in case it wasn’t viable
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- Pedals and amps
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- Opened a repair business for amps and pedals
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- Manufacturing replacement parts for amps
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- Tube amps
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- Screen resistor
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- Got in contact with studios in town
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- uBid
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- Thomas register
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- War era catalog
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- Getting parts was always an issue
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- Led in two directions
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- Speaker manufacturing was bad
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- Charles Schmitt sourcing parts
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- Sourcing 10″ speakers
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- Got burned on sourcing into the market
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- Closed up the repair shop
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- Kept a couple customers at studios
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- Went to school for electrical contracting
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- Getting into tubes
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- Bought mostly from New Sensor
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- Ronnie Elsbury – MU incorporated
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- What is a vacuum tube
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- Edison effect
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- de Forest father of the vacuum tube
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- Added the grid
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- Certain applications still need tubes
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- Radar and microwave requires tubes because of power levels
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- Traveling wave tubes
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- Varian brothers
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- Klystron
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- Ion implantation uses tubes
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- Ronnie visits Charles
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- Ronnie factory does last time buy
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- Starting making tubes
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- Glasswork is very difficult
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- Charles’ talk at Supercon
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- Charles’ original article on Hackday about tube mfg
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- BA ionization gauge
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- Most basic form of tube used for measurement of vacuum
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- Philips glassworks videos from the 30s
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- Mullard glass video from the 50s-60s
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- Videos from bell labs
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- Glass slinger on youtubes
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- Adam Carolla podcasts
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- Fitting out a studio
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- Started working in exchange for hanging around racing
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- Carolla digital
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- Sourcing parts as a small manufacturer
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- Spall – the surface falls off
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- Ceramic caps
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- “Farmers are not a trusting group”
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- Small growers are pushing for monitoring in agtech
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- MQTT
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- Highwire
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- brokenspeaker9@gmail.com
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- NeoDen4
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