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Wishing an enjoyable and relaxing weekend to everyone who doesn't design electronics enclosures for washing machine manufacturers...
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The best aspect of crowdfunding things is forgetting about them until a nice present turns up!
Thanks @s0 for arranging this little group buy of PocketPD USB-C variable output power supplies!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/centylab/pocketpd
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Well this sucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/10/ev-electric-vehicle-recall-australia-battery-fire-risk
The Hyundai Kona battery pack I have in my shed needs a BMS software update or the cells might catch fire. This is on a battery pack that was already replaced under a different
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This morning I noticed that my little home server's Home Assistant OS VM was configured with libvirt domain type="qemu" instead of type="kvm".
(As one does, I suppose?)
That four to three letter change makes quite the difference to CPU usa…
The nap debate is heating up again on Mastodon...
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Done cleaning off silicone and was just about to order some new relays when I spotted ol' cracky McCrackerson here, on one leg of the bad relay's coil.
Surprisingly the rest of this PCB has pretty good solder joints, there are videos of la…
When hardware vendors write their custom MicroPython bring-up guides from lockdown...
#MicroPython
The best aspect of crowdfunding things is forgetting about them until a nice present turns up!
Thanks @s0 for arranging this little group buy of PocketPD USB-C variable output power supplies!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/centylab/pocketpd
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Well this sucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/10/ev-electric-vehicle-recall-australia-battery-fire-risk
The Hyundai Kona battery pack I have in my shed needs a BMS software update or the cells might catch fire. This is …
Experienced Aliexpress-ers, have you seen this before? Do you reckon I need to do anything or is it likely to resolve itself after a while?
There was almost certainly no actual delivery attempt - I was home that day, plus there's no way it…
The control board sits at the top and is pretty densely populated. Connects to the power boad through an IDC cable. I think everything up here is isolated by circuitry down there.
Input and output protection on the screw terminals looks re…
My hot take theory on how this VFD is so cheap: the dividend of solar tech and brushless motor driver tech.
There's a lot of products converting DC to AC sine waves these days. VFDs are a niche product, but all of their input costs are tre…
The heatsink has a big rectifier package bolted to the bottom, and three IGBTs bolted to each side.
The IGBTs are DXG15N120HN, made by daxin semi. Although they're not listed on the company website they seem to be rated 1200V and at least …
Few odd things I've noticed on this board. I'm not a power electronics expert so curious what others make of it, as well.
- There's a marked earth point that's not very accessible from outside the case. I was initially worried as there's a…
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