The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Welcome back, Mike Harrison!

• This is Mike’s 5th appearance on The Amp Hour!
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• Mike’s work is working on large light installions, so there has been a bit of a lockdown slowdown.
• He’s spending his time developing a product that will be a dimmer for AC based LEDs
• Leading edge vs trailing edge dimming
• SI8751
• Mike mostly cares about turnoff time
• DMX controlled dimmer
• The supply chain is still catching up post COVID. Chris is having trouble finding (higher) pressure sensors and crystals.
• Mike suggests MEMS oscillators, like the Microchip programmable oscillators
• SGS Thompson
• AKM fire
• WS2812
• LED accelerated life testing
• Any instruction that involves “very carefully” means…no
• Satellite that fell over
• Daniel from Keysight alluded to a forklift giong through a 100K device
• “It’s Perfectly Legal for Your Chinese Manufacturer to Copy Your Products” (maybe a bit click-baity)
• Mike’s clients mostly don’t care about IP
• PIC32
• Hall effect sensing chip
• Thresholding ADC
• Mike likes the ease of MPLABX
• Chris has beend dealing with Simplicity Studio
• Old PIC parts required an external UART to talk to an RS485 transceiver (no internal UART)
• The number of PIC variants
• XRays are not prevalent in Australia because of required liceneses.
• Both Mike and Dave have EVs
• Mike has a 2018 Hyundai Kona
• Christmas vacation commercial
• 35 kWh vs 64 kWh pack on a Tesla
• Charging standards
  • CCS
  • Chademo
• V2G (vehicle to grid)
• CCS is a hardware standard spec’d by a software person
• Qualcomm’s “GreenPhy”
• Kona and Kia had issues with chargers that support solar (didn’t do detection for 3 phase)
• Dave could start the EEVEV brand in Australia (a Sinclair C1 with 20 kWh battery?)
• Xiaopeng china
• Mike thinks self driving will happen a lot sooner than Dave does
• Tesla fooled by someone’s face
• Cameras vs lidar
• Mike says 5 years
• You wouldn’t download a car
• SD card location on Hyundai
• Gridserve
• Charge at home is $0.015 per mile
• Working from home
• Cave Day
• Mike’s Micro-rant about Lattice charging $500 for software on old CPLDs
• Next week we’ll talk to Brian Faith from QuickLogic

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Thanks to Juan Pablo Colasso for the picture of the LEDs