Re: tire car balancer
That is a Metal Oxide Varistor, not a capacitor. It is used for transient surge suppression.
Evil Lurker
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Last Activity: 01-06-2020, 08:48 PM
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Location: West Tennessee, USA
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Re: Wal-mart display tv woes.
Definitely possible for it to have bad caps. Those display units run 24/7 for possibly months at a time. You take a TV that has been on display for 90 days and it is theoretically possible to have more than 2000 hours on it. Throw in some marginal quality caps and you got a recipe for an early death.Leave a comment:
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Re: Windows XP End of Life Approaching
Meh, even though XP is still an awesome and useful OS it has been eclipsed by Win7.
Time to let it die.Leave a comment:
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Re: What's your favorite internet browser?
I love tabbed browsing a bit much. Far too often I find myself with 20+ tabs open at one time....Leave a comment:
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Re: Mom got me a new laptop for xmas, it is infected with Windows 8
Well I got all 70 something preliminary updates done now I'm working on getting 8.1, a start menu app (whoever came up with start8 is probably a rich bastard about right now, they could get $10 out of that app easy I imagine) and will try and cobble together some fake Aero effects.
I swear this OS is buggy as hell. Had trouble getting it to connect to my Wifi setup (with security disabled of all things) along with minor random issues installing firefox, flash, and a few other odds and ends. All in...Last edited by Evil Lurker; 12-01-2013, 01:31 AM.Leave a comment:
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Mom got me a new laptop for xmas, it is infected with Windows 8
Ok I'm not complaining too much, I mean it is a free laptop, but it was Windows 8 which from the brief amount of time I have been using it it is the biggest ass backwards ugly UI flaming hunk of shit operating system I have ever seen. Fuck I can't even tell how to shut the damn thing down! And if it were not for someone posting the Alt or windows whatever key + R I don't think I would have known about the desktop. And OMG is it ugly! Fuck, it almost looks to me like it was designed by a bunch of metrosexual yuppies for parents who don't want their 8 year-old kids to become overstimulated. I want... -
Re: Where to buy replacement "rubber bands?"
Yer standard run of the mill black o-ring would probably work in a pinch.Leave a comment:
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Re: what can i use a WD caviar 2120 for?
A source of fun magnets?Leave a comment:
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Re: Why do some PSUs squeal / buzz / whine?
Switch mode PSU don't have metal laminations. Most noise is caused by either bad fan bearings or toroids operating at resonant frequencies....Leave a comment:
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Re: AMD Durons and fans
Hate to say it but I think its time to retire that dinosaur.Leave a comment:
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Re: OEM Bios crossing
In theory you can, but the boards have to be identical meaning all the IC's have to be the same... usually there are some minor differences between boards. Also, the flash software does a PID check before flashing and if the board is an OEM model it terminates the flashing process.
What you would probably have to do for a successful bios de-nerfing is to desolder the bios chip and put it on a dedicated programmer to change the PID values. One other possible option would be to figure out a way to put bios chips in some sort of socket adapter and...Leave a comment:
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Re: BlueESR meter - Does it also do SMD ceramics?
With those small ceramics your probably better off just checking the capacitance. I use an Atlas LCR meter and it works great.Leave a comment:
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Re: Making your own solder tips.
Easy as crap. Go to your local commercial electrical distributor and get some solid heavy gauge grounding wire.Leave a comment:
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The fuhjyyu's in my monitor finally went tits up today.
7 years ain't too bad for them to last I guess considering it has probably spent the last 5 years powered on.
Basically over the last couple weeks I noticed the monitor would "grey screen" every time my PC rebooted, and the only way to get rid of it was to pull the plug on the monitor and plug it back in. Then it would work just fine. But today it was cold in the house, the power had went out for a few hours, and when it came back on, the monitor was stone cold dead... not even the LED was working.
Cracked it open, yanked off the PSU board, didn't even... -
Re: more wifi "borrowing" talk
From what I gather most folks frown upon it and consider it a form of "stealing". But here in my home state of TN, the law says that if you have a wireless network, it is your job to secure it, otherwise you are giving implied consent for anonymous users to access your network.
Some folks might think that this is quite stupid but consider this hypothetical scenario... Lets say there is some sort of business next to a residential neighborhood and for whatever reason their WIFI network is unsecured, for say the purposes...Leave a comment:
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Re: ecu connector repair
Well, typically most connector pins are stamped out from sheet metal, folded and pressed into shape, and crimped on the end of a wire with some god awful expensive tool (hand crimpers can be $300-600 a pair). How the pins are retained in their respective sockets/plugs is there is usually one or more tabs that were pressed out the same time the pin was stamped. Pin goes in hole, tabs stick out, tabs grab sidewalls of hole, pin is stuck. The only way to get them out is to use a special tool that you can slip in between the outside of the pin and the wall of...Leave a comment:
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Re: capacitor value - help
Duncanbest beat me to it. Those are indeed neocapacitors... basically some weird hybrid tantalum polymer super low ESR caps... as best I can remember the ESR is so low that you would have to use Kelvin leads to measure their ESR properlyLeave a comment:
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Re: So, I have figured out a way to mount SMT components on perfboard.
Well I finally got round to doing a test. Turns out flattening the leads is easily accomplished with a pair of pliers, and once pulled into place the pads are fairly steady. Pre-tinning the heads results in a fairly decent filet joint, and as long as the leads are not soldered into place it should result in a fairly stress free joint.
For a test I used a 1% (or it may be better) precision 1206 case resistor. Below it are a couple unground head pins showing how they look when placed in a through...Leave a comment:
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Re: Discrete buck regulator
Your way ahead of me... I'm still piddling with the LM2575 and MC34063 IC's for my buck regulators.Leave a comment:
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So, I have figured out a way to mount SMT components on perfboard.
And no, I'm not talking about putting SMT components on the solder pad side, I'm talking about solder pad adapters for the top side of the board... essentially through hole solder pads. They are called head pins, and used for making jewelry although admittedly I have no clue exactly how they are used to make jewelry... I just found them in the beading section at Walmart while looking around a couple weeks ago, but had to go to Hobby Lobby to get solid copper ones because the ones at Walmart were all plated steel.
Anyhoos, to make a long story short, it turns out...
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