#component — Public Fediverse posts

So I had - past tense - one of those cheap but incredibly useful and surprisingly capable MCU-based component testers. You know the ones - they cost about twenty bucks, can identify virtually any 2- or 3-terminal device you stick in their (usually ZIF) socket, as well as telling you things like which leads are gate/source/drain, base/collector/emitter, anode/cathode, or whatever else you might want to know about a lot of electronic components.

Absent-mindedly put an electrolytic capacitor into it tonight without discharging it. Had about 22 volts in it... hence, one ex-tester. I let the magic smoke out, without actually releasing any smoke or smell.

Oops.

#electronics #hobby #MagicSmoke #oops #ComponentTester #LCR #LCRMeter #component #transistor

Oh, another fun bit with this #component's #datasheet ...

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#component #electronics #hobby #NC #NoConnection #IDoNotThinkThatWordMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans #InigoMontoya #wat

Oh, another fun bit with this #component's #datasheet ...

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#component #electronics #hobby #NC #NoConnection #IDoNotThinkThatWordMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans #InigoMontoya #wat

Oh, another fun bit with this #component's #datasheet ...

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#component #electronics #hobby #NC #NoConnection #IDoNotThinkThatWordMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans #InigoMontoya #wat

Oh, another fun bit with this #component's #datasheet ...

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#component #electronics #hobby #NC #NoConnection #IDoNotThinkThatWordMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans #InigoMontoya #wat

Oh, another fun bit with this #component's #datasheet ...

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#component #electronics #hobby #NC #NoConnection #IDoNotThinkThatWordMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans #InigoMontoya #wat

"The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

#qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

Soundz - https://soundzjs.vercel.app

Makes it easy to wrap your UI Elements with Beautiful, Accessible, and Customizable Sound Effects! #html #css #typescript #ts #tsx #javascript #js #jsx #react #reactjs #next #nextjs #component #components #npm #node #package #npm #sound #sounds #soundeffects #accessibility #accessible #customization #easy

Just a brief #factoid to perhaps save other #electronics #hobbyists some time.

#BigClive frequently uses a particular type of crimp-contact-and-housing as a universal socket for LEDs and other leaded components. Not just any such connector will do; various #JST, "#Dupont", and others won't work, because they only grasp pins of one particular size and/or shape. If the lead is too big, it won't go in, and if it's too small, it won't stay in.

If you want to use these connectors - and note you can get the housings with more than 2 contacts, so you can use them for transistors or weirder things too - the magic search term is "KF2510".

The reason these work as universal sockets for leaded components is because the contact is a spring that pushes from only one side of the housing, pressing the inserted contact or lead against the far side of the housing, and therefore provides a friction fit for any size lead (within reason). Most crimp connectors instead have particular shapes for their contacts and will only "grab" something the right size and shape.

#KF2510 #CrimpConnector #crimp #socket #component #leaded #connector #solderless #universal #contact #housing

The amount of #capitalists that tell me no one has a right to another’s #labor is so #weird since a #core #component of #capitalism is #literally #someone else #owns your labor.