Best The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones Podcasts (2024)

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#683 – Troubleshooting is the skill

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AI tools for helping with coding (but NOT layout, amirite) Troubleshooting as a skillset Stick meme Dave got an updated electrical box Home assistant Keith Burzinski episode (ESPhome) Toothbrush show Andreas Spiess discussing Bluetooth proxy Ian Scott Johnson DIY home automation Electrarc240 reviews every element of a linear power supply India powe…

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The Amp Hour #683 - Troubleshooting is the skill 1:02:49

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The Amp Hour #682 - Your Mind Is The Tool 1:07:49

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#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool

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Chris has been troubleshooting a PCB with a dead short on inner layers (put in by board house by mistake) Don’t Touch My Gerbers shirt “Is there an AI tool that will fix this for me?” … No Chris dumped a bunch of current in the board and looked at it with this thermal camera 6.5 digit DMM to track down shorts Etching problems in the old days 100% e…

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#681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel

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Welcome Lukas Henkel of OV Tech GmbH, a product design firm based in Nuremburg Germany! Miniturization and the limits of miniturization Price is a constraint Using standard PCB tech (off the shelf) Open source SIP Steps Conventional pcbs / components Silicon inductors embedded in boards Bonded Bare dies / stacked Need volume to make it work Require…

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The Amp Hour #681 - Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel 1:06:19

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#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks

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Starship 5 landed on chopsticks! (you know, in case you have been offline for 2 weeks) Dave’s EV had a stuck cable Portable charger is surprisingly good CCS Charging standard Fast charge 36/50 kW MKBHD Chevy Silverado review JLC is now offering silkscreen QR codes to have individually marked boards That’s the board that Chris has been designing on …

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The Amp Hour #680 - Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks 1:09:18

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#679 – Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon

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Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites! Dan works for Inovor Technologies, an Australian company that designs and builds satellites entirely in-house! Recently they designed and launched the aussie Kanyini satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket htt…

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The Amp Hour #679 - Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon 1:06:46

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Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about designing and launching satellites!By The Amp hour

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The Amp Hour #678 - All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya 1:05:12

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#678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya

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Welcome Katerina Galitskaya! Chris started following Katerina’s antenna posts on LinkedIn Monopole vs dipole Lower frequences are harder bc longer wavelength PCB size half of frequency Place antenta on the shorter side How to ruin your PCB When to go to a antenna engineer? Where will the device be? Antenna environment Start from vacuum, start addin…