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#589 – Mute Button Discipline
- Chris and Dave discussed the “beta” function for MOSFETs on Falstad circuit simulator
- We found some references online to “beta” (like this archive from McGill University) but it doesn’t seem to be a normal characteristic? Maybe an approximation term?
- Dave and other EE YouTubers were mentioned in Derek’s 2nd video about the light bulb experiment and energy flowing in fields (Veritasium).
- Dave mentioned Alpha Phoenix as doing the simulations on this, but Chris later looked up it was the Ben Watson video that Chris was referencing during the recording.
- Rick Hartley
- Lumped element model, where would we be without you?
- Bit rot
- Chris has been digging into Segger Ozone and SystemView, the latter first brought up on the show with Brian Amos
- Dave bought a bunch of gear from an optometry business at auction.
- Bubblegum tapshoes
- Dave heard about this STM32F3 part with a super fast timer internal…yep, still can’t get it.
- Open Source HW/SW Microinverter
- Chris asks Dave if he would put something like that on his house.
- Paul Zawada episode
- Enphase Microinvterter
- Zappi charger
- Leigh Brady Episode
- Chris will be doing a webinar this week about the things you don’t know about IoT systems.
Photo by Ron Lach