Circuit Break - A MacroFab Podcast

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MEP EP#335: Your Toaster is Toast

Project: Diff Probe

  • Circuit Cellar design
  • Hack a Day project
  • Active Differential probe with 600V Common mode and 600V differential mode
  • Measure virtually any two points. No need for ground reference.
  • Perhaps a battery system with a boost converter?
  • Excuse to finally use that 3d printer to make a case
  • Basically all precision components

    • UtracerV6 enclosure

    • Decided to make an enclosure that better suits my use case
    • Stripped down from last time. It does not need all the bells and whistles from last time.
    • Fixed sockets
    • FTDI and SMPS for 6.3V and 19.5V

      • EOL: The Chip Shortage You Don’t See Coming

      • Instant obsolescence
      • No phase-out period
        • Foundries are booked three years out
        • Suppliers are working on their most profitable lines and filling standing orders
        • New fabs coming online won’t be buying old wafer equipment
        • New foundries will be making new parts
        • Avoiding instant obsolescence
          • What parts are more readily available and are continuity coming back into stock
          • Look at the market segments using the components you need
          • Put out orders for the components that you need regardless of lead times.

            • Ask and Engineer on MIT website

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