Electronics Forum / Electronics / November 2007

I'd like to install a ceiling fan and light combo in a situation
where there is currently only a light fitted. Power is supplied
to the batten holder and a single pair runs down to the light
switch. Wiring is embedded in concrete. Installation of additional

How Will I Make A Vidio Game Out Of An Circute Board

I occasionally run across a reference to an 'EQ' taper pot. Can anybody
tell me if there is another name for this type of taper? Thanks.

Well, thought I'd get into a bit of water conservation, and as I have
quite a few micros around, my thoughts turned to turning water on and
off.
As a lot of power supplies are 12v DC I initially thought that there

Can anyone help with bare details of an RCA Transistor type 39179,TO220
package.
Google seems to have nothing.
Brian g

I have two pots I would like to control with a single shaft.  The pots are
adjusted with a Phillips screwdriver, and the + shaped slot slot goes
completely through the center of each pot, so I am thinking a + shaped shaft
linking the two would do the job.  What would such a shaft ...

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icle_id=494225&in_page_id=1965
Tell me ...

if  zener  diode  is  used  in   rectifyer  circuit  then  what  will
be  the  output
 iam   in  confusion with  ths   problem  please  help  me  to  know
info  about  this  problem

Anybody know of a multimeter with serial port that dumps actual
voltage information to the serial port rather than display segment
information???
Thanks!

I'm working on  a project for school and want to set up a solar cell to
charge up a couple of really big (size of a soda can) capacitors and then
once they are charged have a relay or something close and send the power
stored in the capacitors to a small electric gear motor.

G'day all, looking for a nice amplifier kit to make for a sweet little
girl.....
She has 8 ohm 800 Watt stage speaker bins with 18 inch woofers, and a Yamaha
Stagepas 300 PA system to go with it and I'm looking to make a 400 odd Watt

I give up: How does a Sony (FX-140) notebook recognize the presence of
an external (VGA/SVGA) monitor?  Many Google hits on the topic provide
monitor ID bit identifications...and variations thereon.  But NONE of
them seem to work.  That is:  Grounding the indicated pins, in all

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I bought my Cobra 800's from http://www.walkie-talkie-2-way-radio.co.uk

So there is supposedly a company in Australia that markets a phone built
into a watch.
http://www.mymobilewatch.com/
They charge $1000 for it. But there are very few reviews of this watch, only