Electronics Forum / Electronics / March 2007

I wandered through Ikea yesterday (what a bizarre experience, BTW). Anyhoo,
they had some cheap and cheerful desk lamps for 10 Bucks. They accept MES
base lamps. Ikea offered a choice of two globes with this lamp: A 25 Watt,
mirror back incandescent, or a 7 Watt CFL. The CFL ...

Where has it gone

I have seen some devices advertised claiming to prevent or slow down rust in
cars? Is this possible?
I know some of them are obvious frauds, but some use a sacrificial anode and
some electronic driving them. Are they worth the modey and do they work?

Well, today I phoned the local newsagent to check if the latest SC mag
was in. It was, and with eager anticipation I raced to pick it up.
I was hoping to be surprised at the amount of new exciting articles
that it might contain (just like I had for issues of previous months).

Is  it possible to use eudora 3.0.3 in the $5.95 plan? I have been
using it in dial-up and prefer it to outlook express.Does it require
the use of stunnel which I have set up for Free Agent and news?

Latest Altronics "cattle dog" March 2007 - July 2008 page
125  PC Multi function CRO/analyser Adapter.
What do you guys think of it?  Is it a gimmick/toy or does
it actually work?

Just got my new 2007 Farnell catalog, and this year it's back to ONE
book, all 3000+ pages of it.
All is right with the world again...
Dave :)

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Thought I'd share a few places that I've either bought parts from or
are planning to in the future.
In no particular order...
futurlec.com.au

I've been assigned the  task of creating ID badges with id data
stored on magnetic strips.  the lab is already outfitted with card
readers and i've written software to log activity but i need a way to
write to the cards without spending the $200 on a new card writer.

I bought a used battery recharger at a yard sale from a guy who says
it worked fine.  I got it home and tried it on four batteries, but
they didn't charge correctly.  The batteries are each 2200 mAh.  The
recharger says on it:

I'm shopping for a Sony HT-DDW700 5.1 Home Theater system ,
with 6 speaker outputs : >100 watt   6 ohm  .
With 6 ohm speaker outputs ,
is bad driving 8 or 4 ohm speakers ?

My dse house alarm in the unarmed state triggers with close
lightning. Happened twice during electrical storm overweekend in
Sydney.   I figure the cables that run to speakers, close loop, pir,
power all act as antennas and lightning is inducing a voltage in gnd

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I have recently purchased an 18volt Ryobi cordless drill with two
battery packs and was wondering if there is a simple way to fully
discharge the battery packs before placing one of them into the charger
unit?