Electronics Forum / Electronics / March 2007

I recently ordered on eBay 100 energizer AA batteries.
I tested them using a simple battery tester from radio shack.  4 were dead,
one was near death, and 95 were at an identical high mark, but just a
"little" below an energizer I bought from a retail package from Home Depot.

how to interface hp4194A with PC so as to collect the datas.

I am using TINA to help in circuit development and in particular an audio
amp using say a LM380 IC but can't find any SPICE data for this chip.
Anyone know where I may be able to obtain such data ??
Pete

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I was wondering if any of you knows about commercial connectivity
solutions that enables to make an electric connection between an
electronics package and a flexible sensor subtrate. The requirements
are:

i hava a portable stereo that doesn't have "line in" jacks. Is there
anyway to add such jacks and how?
TIA

All this recent talk of CFLs has reminded me of an odd situation that
I've been meaning to ask about.
About a month ago I bought a CFL for the fan/light combo in our
bedroom (I hate those fittings, but it came with the house), and when

If you go to Tusla's death ray I explain how a beam of what I think is
a microwave beam that has been going over me at night and making me
sick to my stomach and leaving a metallic taste in my mouth and a
vibration in my body. I have been doing this for 4 years. During this

A museum I help with recently installed a solar array, 3x4'?. They attached
a inexpensive small subpump to it to pump water from a pond up about 18" and
then let it pour out in a waterfall fashion. The motor burned up after a day
or two. Why? I don't know much about solar arrays, ...

I've got an old UPS with a stuffed 12V battery. Is there any reason I
couldn't discard the battery and hook up a cigarette lighter plug to it and
use it as an inverter?
Thanks,

Having trouble finding a 1.3mm x 3.5mm x 11.5mm dc power connector that
I can solder a cable on to. I can find the 9mm long version no problem,
but not the 11.5. I think it's more common overseas. Anybody know where
I could find one? Anybody use these?

this might be better asked in a vb group, but i would like to ask here
as well..
I am controlling servos via lpt with VB
Just giving servo 5v  and pulsing out lpt line to servo with following

As a self-taught hobbiest, sometimes I need technical advice to
complete an electronics project. Mostly these are signal generating
(digital and analogue) and amplifier circuits. Frequencies cover audio
to subaudio.

"David L. Jones"

( snip link to Google archive )
** Back somewhere in 1996/7/8  -   David L. Jones used the business name:

Feb 20,  2007.
"  **  Anyone seen tonight's news ??
Our fuckwit pollies have all climbed on a VERY dodgy Greenie bandwagon with
this asinine idea.