The Normal Chaos

May 13, 2020 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Stephen adventures into thermal testing of oscillators and analog circuits while Parker gets greasy with timing chains on the Wagon.

Stephen

  • DC Heating and Thermal Testing
    • A low voltage moderate current linear power supply
    • 12.6V dc @ 0.55A 6.93W
    • LM2940T-12.0 LDO
    • TIP42 bootstrap transistor to share the load
    • 12V @ 2A transformer supplies ~16.2vdc with 200mV ripple
    • ~2W of heat to be handled
    • Shooting for about 250mW in the regulator and the transistor then the rest will get dumped in some resistors
    • PCB heatsinking
  • Diptrace 4.0 is finally here!
    • Snapping and aligning items
    • Circles and arcs actually have a center now…
    • Paste and Mask layers are finally visible
    • Pad angles other than 0 and 90 are now available in the pattern editor
    • One button for removing silkscreen from pads
    • Progressive searching for components instead of the seizure it used to be
    • Export options now can export all the manufacturing files as a single zip
    • Teardrops!

Parker

  • Wagoneer Engine Work
    • Timing cover
      • Water pump
      • Timing chain
      • Distributor gear
      • Distributor camshaft gear
      • Harmonic Balancer
      • All the gaskets
    • Radiator next
    • Dash Cluster
  • Fixing a wine chiller

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!