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#570 – Keyzermas All The Way
Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer AKA Mightyohm!
- Jeff has been consulting, including back at Valve working on a part of the Steam Deck
- CES Con-Flu
- Dead projects
- Sirenza Microdevices
- Portfolio sites – Dave’s friend Steve Hale has been documenting for decades!
- RIFA caps
- Jeff had to replace them to get his HP35665A working
- RIFA – “Replace If Found Always”
- X class capacitor
- The HP35665A is good for lower frequency analysis, including shock and vibe
- App notes
- 3560A
- Dave made a video about Coherence recently that was in this realm
- Kemet / Yageo still makes RIFA
- Modal Analysis
- Charge amplifier
- Voltage dependence of capacitors
- LTT
- Jeff has been trying to attend events that are able to happen in Seattle, like the recent 3H holiday party
- Museum in Bellingham – Spark museum
- James Lewis talks about bandwidth vs sample rate on a recent video
- Bunnie writes about “Fixing a small corner of the supply chain”