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episode 3: EP#3: Liquid Toroidal Electrons
- Stephen and Parker have been testing the main opamp for the OPA541. Stephen wrote a blog post detailing the opamp tests with simulation and real world testing.
- GitHub link to the repository for the SSPS.
- Giant 200W 8Ohm resistor.
- Liquid Cold Plate Heat Sinks for cooling the opamps in the SSPS.
- Isolators for the opamps made out of Aluminum Oxide. Part no. 4180. They make Beryllium Oxide Ceramic isolators but not in the right size.
- Antek transformers is the company that makes the Doughnut (Toroidal) Transformers Parker and Stephen are looking at.
- Really neat Super Capacitor Flashflight.
- A 30F 3V cap would weigh 5.685x10^-12 kg more fully charged vs discharged. It would take roughly 176 billion of these super caps to have a charge weight gain of 1 kg.
- Carbon film capacitors sounds almost as cool as carbon nano tubes. If they can replace bypass caps it would make compact board layouts easier.
- President Obama going to sign bill to combat chip piracy. FTDI rejoices?
- Microchip releases the MPLAB Xpress which is cloud-based. Stephen is excited about a GUI interface that auto generates setup and register code.
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro theme!