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Dave goes night raiding in the dumpster and finds the PC motherlode!

Teardown Tuesday What’s inside a modern LED backlight LCD panel from a 27″ computer monitor? Forum Topic HERE

More mailbag http://ros.org/wiki/Robots/TurtleBot http://hacklace.org/ http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=ANALOG-DISCOVERY Forum Topic HERE

This time Dave actually had to climb into the dumpster. Was it worth it? Forum Topic HERE

60 minutes of Dave assembling his silent (low noise) Intel i7 3770K video editing computer. If you find that boring, don’t watch. Please DON’T leave uninformed comments about needing a high end video card for editing and rendering. Read THIS first. Coolermaster Silencio 550 case. Asus Z77 motherboard Coolermaster 212 Evo heatsink

Dave’s Ignite Video is HERE Teardown Tuesday How interesting can a box with switches and resistors be? Not very? How about a multi thousand dollar Genrad 1433 metrology grade decade resistance box? IET’s video HERE Forum Topic HERE

Dave’s Mailbag Some nice postcards, a Jamma card for Daves arcade machine, some computer stuff, dummy load kit, a calculator and a PLASMA SPEAKER! Forum Topic HERE

What happens when you feed a frequency counter clock up it’s own clacker? Agilent 53131A Schematics HERE

What’s inside the ICP/IEI industrial rack mount computer Dave got from auction? Does it boot? Forum Topic HERE

A follow-up on another method to calibration adjust the Agilent 53131A frequency counter against the Stanford Research PRS10 rubidium standard. The oscillator drift video is HERE Forum Topic HERE

Dave uses his CSIRO National Measurement Institute rubidium frequency standard to calibrate and adjust his Agilent 53131A frequency counter. With bonus teardowns. 53131A schematics are HERE http://www.thinksrs.com/products/PRS10.htm Forum Topic HERE

Dave shows off the gear he scored at an auction. Forum Topic HERE

Teardown Tuesday Inside a JVC comsumer camcorder What design and systems engineering awaits?

Dave cracks out the whiteboard and side cutters to explain two lesser known facts about x1 oscilloscope probes: - Why the bandwidth is much lower in x1 mode than x10 mode - Why oscilloscope probe cables aren’t like ordinary coax cables Forum Topic HERE

Inside the Stanford Research SR430 Multi Channel Scaler Photon Counter Unboxing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfp0QnQujvs Datasheets: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/389/muon/SR430m.pdf http://www.elektronik.ropla.eu/pdf/stock/hit/hd63484.pdf http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/datasheet/100737fbs.pdf http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD96685_96687.pdf http://www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/MC10H107-D.PDF http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/SGSThomsonMicroelectronics/mXqzrvy.pdf http://www.physics.brocku.ca/~edik/gpib/TMS9914.pdf http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/data_sheet/MC146818.pdf http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD586.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitter-coupled_logic Forum Topic HERE