Electronics Forum / Electronics / March 2006

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I am looking for a On Screen Display IC for 8-bit micro controller
application that needs to create colour graphics and text on video monitor.
Preference for unit that can gen lock to external signal as well as
run stand-alone.

  I also have an interesting idea below which may help you or other
people and I am wondering if you know anything about it
 In some items such as digital cameras and MP3 recorders the batteries
can be hard and

Looking for a replacement for a blown Mallory electrolytic capacitor for a
power supply.  The capacitor has three terminals, 2 red and one black.  The
capacitor label has the following notation:
Mallory

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/15/freeview_transmission/
OK, this happened a few months ago, two out of 15M isn't bad but its
still an unusual failure mode.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/13/leak_sprinklers/

  I have a plan for a PIC project but im not sure about the acuracy that
can be achieved with a PIC.
Basicly I will be using a number of dealy routines but I need the PIC to run
for 2 months and it must not lose more than 2 minutes per week. I intend to

6502  $150
Z80   $175
6800  $65
8048   $50

I have a electoric handhold sudoku game system,
is there any easy way to build at backlit for the LED screen?
thanks
Will

I was wondering if there is a way of converting the speaker output of a
cassette player to a signal suitable for line-input of a PC audio card.
There is no headphone-out on the device. The intention is to fit a car audio
cassette player into the PC. Will it even fit? Has anyone ...

I am basically looking to expriment the water engine on a lawn mower. There
is no really problem mecanicwise but I did not find somebody able to build
the printed circuit for it according to the plan I have got.
Anyone interested or knowing someone who could be?

I am relatively new to PIC programming, I have written a short sequence
with a nested loop delay that last about 0.2 seconds
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;SUBROUTINE SECTION.

Can anyone tell me where I can pickup a KSC5027-R High Voltage, Fast
Switching NPN Transistor or equivalent in Sydney? It is to replace a faulty
one inside a PC ATX power supply. Datasheet:
www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/KS/KSC5027.pdf

For several years now you have made a serial pest of yourself on various
Australian and New Zealand Newsgroups.
If you continue to post you rantings and ravings on any of these newsgroups,
you will be targeted.  By this I mean that everytime you turn on your

Has anyone noticed a recent increase in board leakage in FR4 Double sided
boards? We have some high gain preamps that have worked for 8 years no
probs, then found leakage on boards from an Aussie and a Malaysian
supplier. This first happened around November.