The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

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#447 – Voltnuts for Flashlights


  • Dave is sick! (it’s winter in Aussieland)
  • Toy switches
  • DC arc over
  • Dave’s home solar system failed
  • Louis Rossman has been dealing with water ingress on mac connectors
  • Saturn PCB toolkit
  • CR123A. Previously used for camera flashes, now used in torches/flashlights
  • Specify battery packs in Wh
  • AAAA batteries
  • Could electronics folks be trusted to do a design on its own?
  • Design For Hackers (book)
  • “Specialization is for ants”
  • Designers taking apart a Tesla
  • Alerting cost problems in the design phase
  • Selective solder
  • Scotty (Strange Parts)’s tour of PCBway
  • Wave solder
  • Maker Media, owners of Maker Faire and MAKE magazine shut down
  • Silicon Chip has 1/10th of their magazine numbers
  • EMSL did a nice retrospective
  • So did Mightyohm
  • Branding
  • Infineon buys Cypress
  • Backing for RISC V chip companies
  • Rabbit 2000
  • Chris will be at Teardown next week, hopefully recording.
  • Dave…might start a conference?
Thanks to Brian Wong for the pictures of the torch/flashlights


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 June 17, 2019  1h8m