February 11, 2019

An Interview with Charles Alexanian

1 hour 27 minutes

Welcome Charles Alexanian of Alexttronics!

Headquartered in Fresno

0h 0m 36s

History

0h 1m 7s

Family business

0h 1m 20s

Father was a QC engineer

0h 1m 25s

Night scope

0h 1m 44stel

Irrigation work in Fresno

0h 2m 21s

Assembling clock dials as a 4 year old

0h 4m 26s

OEM mfg of timer and controls

0h 5m 0s

Load sharing of pumps

0h 5m 51s

Family business - everyone helped

0h 8m 22s

Reading schematics from an early age

0h 12m 35s

Helped out on product in 92

0h 15m 34s

Telrite in Fremont for MFG

0h 16m 45s

Fear and doubt are a factor in any business

0h 17m 36s

Started looking outside the business in case it wasn't viable

0h 18m 24s

Pedals and amps

0h 18m 59s

Opened a repair business for amps and pedals

0h 19m 34s

Manufacturing replacement parts for amps

0h 19m 50s

Tube amps

0h 21m 23s

Screen resistor

0h 26m 0s

Got in contact with studios in town

0h 26m 49s

uBid

0h 27m 31s

Thomas register

0h 28m 4s

War era catalog

0h 28m 44s

Getting parts was always an issue

0h 30m 10s

Led in two directions

0h 30m 15s

Speaker manufacturing was bad

0h 30m 25s

Don Schmidt sourcing parts

0h 30m 53s

Sourcing 10" speakers

0h 31m 32s

Got burned on sourcing into the market

0h 32m 25s

Closed up the repair shop

0h 32m 46s

Kept a couple customers at studios

0h 32m 58s

Went to school for electrical contracting

0h 33m 42s

Getting into tubes

0h 35m 6s

Bought mostly from New Sensor

0h 36m 6s

Ronnie Elsbury - MU incorporated

0h 37m 0s

What is a vacuum tube

0h 38m 22s

Edison effect

0h 39m 32s

de Forest father of the vacuum tube

0h 39m 57s

Added the grid

0h 40m 19s

Certain applications still need tubes

0h 42m 5s

Radar and microwave requires tubes because of power levels

0h 43m 5s

Traveling wave tubes

0h 43m 33s

Varian brothers

0h 43m 57s

Klystron

0h 44m 7s

Ion implantation uses tubes

0h 44m 40s

Ronnie visits Charles

0h 45m 40s

Ronnie factory does last time buy

0h 48m 56s

Starting making tubes

0h 50m 11s

Glasswork is very difficult

0h 50m 55s

Charles' talk at Supercon

0h 51m 4s

Charles' original article on Hackday about tube mfg

0h 52m 39s

BA ionization gauge

0h 52m 53s

Most basic form of tube used for measurement of vacuum

0h 53m 0s

Philips glassworks videos from the 30s

0h 55m 15s

Mullard glass video from the 50s-60s

0h 55m 22s

Videos from bell labs

0h 55m 37s

Glass slinger on youtubes

0h 55m 53s

Adam Carolla podcasts

0h 58m 8s

Fitting out a studio

0h 58m 26s

Started working in exchange for hanging around racing

0h 59m 23s

Carolla digital

0h 59m 45s

Sourcing parts as a small manufacturer

1h 2m 9s

Spall - the surface falls off

1h 4m 4s

Ceramic caps

1h 5m 49s

"Farmers are not a trusting group"

1h 8m 16s

Small growers are pushing for monitoring in agtech

1h 11m 48s

MQTT

1h 14m 10s

Highwire

1h 21m 47s

[email protected]

1h 25m 52s

NeoDen4

1h 27m 36s

...more

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February 11, 2019

An Interview with Charles Alexanian

1 hour 27 minutes

Welcome Charles Alexanian of Alexttronics!

Headquartered in Fresno

0h 0m 36s

History

0h 1m 7s

Family business

0h 1m 20s

Father was a QC engineer

0h 1m 25s

Night scope

0h 1m 44stel

Irrigation work in Fresno

0h 2m 21s

Assembling clock dials as a 4 year old

0h 4m 26s

OEM mfg of timer and controls

0h 5m 0s

Load sharing of pumps

0h 5m 51s

Family business - everyone helped

0h 8m 22s

Reading schematics from an early age

0h 12m 35s

Helped out on product in 92

0h 15m 34s

Telrite in Fremont for MFG

0h 16m 45s

Fear and doubt are a factor in any business

0h 17m 36s

Started looking outside the business in case it wasn't viable

0h 18m 24s

Pedals and amps

0h 18m 59s

Opened a repair business for amps and pedals

0h 19m 34s

Manufacturing replacement parts for amps

0h 19m 50s

Tube amps

0h 21m 23s

Screen resistor

0h 26m 0s

Got in contact with studios in town

0h 26m 49s

uBid

0h 27m 31s

Thomas register

0h 28m 4s

War era catalog

0h 28m 44s

Getting parts was always an issue

0h 30m 10s

Led in two directions

0h 30m 15s

Speaker manufacturing was bad

0h 30m 25s

Don Schmidt sourcing parts

0h 30m 53s

Sourcing 10" speakers

0h 31m 32s

Got burned on sourcing into the market

0h 32m 25s

Closed up the repair shop

0h 32m 46s

Kept a couple customers at studios

0h 32m 58s

Went to school for electrical contracting

0h 33m 42s

Getting into tubes

0h 35m 6s

Bought mostly from New Sensor

0h 36m 6s

Ronnie Elsbury - MU incorporated

0h 37m 0s

What is a vacuum tube

0h 38m 22s

Edison effect

0h 39m 32s

de Forest father of the vacuum tube

0h 39m 57s

Added the grid

0h 40m 19s

Certain applications still need tubes

0h 42m 5s

Radar and microwave requires tubes because of power levels

0h 43m 5s

Traveling wave tubes

0h 43m 33s

Varian brothers

0h 43m 57s

Klystron

0h 44m 7s

Ion implantation uses tubes

0h 44m 40s

Ronnie visits Charles

0h 45m 40s

Ronnie factory does last time buy

0h 48m 56s

Starting making tubes

0h 50m 11s

Glasswork is very difficult

0h 50m 55s

Charles' talk at Supercon

0h 51m 4s

Charles' original article on Hackday about tube mfg

0h 52m 39s

BA ionization gauge

0h 52m 53s

Most basic form of tube used for measurement of vacuum

0h 53m 0s

Philips glassworks videos from the 30s

0h 55m 15s

Mullard glass video from the 50s-60s

0h 55m 22s

Videos from bell labs

0h 55m 37s

Glass slinger on youtubes

0h 55m 53s

Adam Carolla podcasts

0h 58m 8s

Fitting out a studio

0h 58m 26s

Started working in exchange for hanging around racing

0h 59m 23s

Carolla digital

0h 59m 45s

Sourcing parts as a small manufacturer

1h 2m 9s

Spall - the surface falls off

1h 4m 4s

Ceramic caps

1h 5m 49s

"Farmers are not a trusting group"

1h 8m 16s

Small growers are pushing for monitoring in agtech

1h 11m 48s

MQTT

1h 14m 10s

Highwire

1h 21m 47s

[email protected]

1h 25m 52s

NeoDen4

1h 27m 36s

...more

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