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Dave’s 120V Weller WE1010 released the magic smoke when plugged into 240V… PEBKAC for sure, but a potentially dangerous design flaw too? Forum HERE

Dave finds a sweet Yamaha RX-V579 surround sound receiver with all the bell and whistles in the dumpster! Forum HERE Update video:

How do Electrostatic loadspeakers work? Teardown of the BenQ Trevolo S Electrostatic bluetooth speaker. Forum HERE

How an electrostatic adhesion Coulomb Force whiteboard works. Plus teardown and measurement. https://amzn.to/2DQNXRX http://justick.com Forum HERE

Mailbag Monday Yes, I know the lighting and sound isn’t great yet in the new lab, working on it. Forum HERE SPOILERS: Awesome recreations of the Byte front covers https://www.galacticstudios.org/byte-magazine-cover/ http://www.vintagefreeware.com/bytecvrs.htm Expanded scale 5V voltmeter Russian multimeter and calculator Casio Data-Cal 50 calculator Nintendo 64 N64RGB upgrade board http://etim.net.au/n64rgb/instructions-new/ Delay line Battery in-product current measurement

World Exclusive! A teardown and quick look at the new lower cost mid-range 70-350MHz Phoenix chipset based Rigol MSO5000 mixed signal oscilloscope, to be release on the 13th Nov. Stating at US$909. How does it compare to the 7000 series scope just released 5 months ago? Forum http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1146-new-low-cost-rigol-mso5000-oscilloscope/

Dave finds a 65″ 4K UHD LG LCD TV in the dumpster! Will it work? Bonus teardown included. Forum https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1145-dumpster-diving-4k-tv/

David looks at the pins on the Padauk PMS150 programmer for potential reverse engineering. TLDR; It doesn’t look easy to reverse engineer this protocol, it’s messy with lots of voltage levels, as Padauk said it would be. Just buy the programmer for now! There is also a Flash/EEPROM re-programmable version of the chip, the PFS154C. ...

Check out the amazing increased working distance on the Eakins microscope using a barlow lens to get a larger working area. Bundle: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/b7ycSav2 Microscope: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/eN3Ec5a Stand: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/bHSXalzm C Mount Lens Adapters: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cMimkzYc Barlow Lenses: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/bmS9nWbe Forum HERE

A tour of the shambles that is the EEVblog lab, before the big move. Forum HERE

Using the Padauk programmer to program the 8 pin SO PMS154C micro and flash a LED on a breadboard. Forum HERE

Getting the 3 cent Padauk microcontroller to blink a LED. Or at least the in-circuit emulator blinking a LED with C. UPDATE: LCSC have just said that they will offer a free programming service for a limited time to anyone. Just email them when you place your order. http://www.padauk.com.tw Forum HERE

Well, repair-ish. Fixing the adjustment issue in the Systron Donner oven crystal oscillator. More issues found though. Forum HERE

Teardown Tuesday An early 1970’s Australian made Systron Donner Nixie tube display counter/timer. Forum HERE

Mailbag Monday Forum HERE SPOILERS: https://www.pirlcharger.com/ 12:20 iTron VFD Displays 16:06 Oscilloscope Component Tester Schematics: https://kabinett.homepage.t-online.de/bucket/Octopus/Octopus_SCM.jpg BOM: https://www.dropbox.com/s/he3ef0wfknn19eg/Octopus_BOM.csv In-depth description of the project: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6114aa1o05ymfq/Description.docx 22:23 Random Chinese Mailbags