Dumpster Santa delivered a nice Coolermaster Mini-ITX with Gigabyte GS-H97N motherboard and an Intel Core i5 inside. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1357-dumpster-diving-santa-pc/

If you thought Solar Rowadways was done and dusted in 2020, you were WRONG! French road company Colas Wattway have found a new sucker to try their already epically failed Wattway solar panels, this time in Georgia in the United States as part of a government funded initiative through Curiosity Labs and The Ray in ...

Teradown of the new $399 Siglent SDS_1104X-U Four Channel oscilloscope. A cheaper alternative to the SDS1104X-E And what’s all this magnetic shielding stuff anyhow? Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1355-new-siglent-sds1104x-u-$399-4ch-oscilloscope-teardown/

Dave breaths life into the old Compaq Portable from 1984. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1354-compaq-portable-repair-part-1/

Eagle eyed viewers spotted a short between two pins on a TQFP chip in the previous teardown video. This isn’t a dodgy assembly issue, it’s a deliberate design short, Dave explains how and why. Solder masks and snap grids. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1353-why-are-these-pins-shorted/

Teardown of a Made in Australia MicroAir T2000 aircraft transponder. http://microair.com.au/products/26/T2000SFL-Transponder-Rev8- Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1352-aircraft-transponder-teardown!/

Mailbag time! Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1351-mailbag/ Mailbag bench images to: [email protected] SPOILERS: 00:00 – GPS Tracker Battery Leak 06:47 – Guest RF Lab – Chuck Kummer W7CLK 09:46 – Marklin HO scale railway turnout point 19:29 – GVDA GD118B Pocket Multimeter review https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Ab3RNe 39:10 – GVDA GD116A AC Voltage Detection Stick review https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AD7szi 43:41 – E-design Tweezer ...

Were the Made in USA Energizer Max Plus AAA batteries in the previous leaking battery video FAKE? Dave found an identical genuine one and inspects and tears them down. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1350-fake-energizer-batteries/msg3340976/#msg3340976

Dave caught a rare sight, an alkaline battery leakage in the potassium hydroxide liquid form before it had time to crystalise. This time in a Made in USA Energizer Max Plus AAA alkaline battery. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1349-energizer-battery-leakage-made-in-usa/

A look at and teardown of the world’s first IBM PC compatible PC, the Compaq Portable. Also some meter and oscilloscope part 1 repair action… Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1348-worlds-first-ibm-compatible-pc-the-compaq-portable/