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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Electronic Inventory Online - Parts-n-Kits

High quality new & excess electronic components, such as: Batteries, LCD's, LED's, Power Supplies, Switches, Fans, Cables, Development Tools and more.Lumileds LXHL-MWGC Luxeon I 1 Watt Warm White

Electronic Inventory Online - Parts-n-Kits

eio is a versatile electronics surplus source associating information with the distribution of electronics, computer and optical materials. They have very good bargains in some categories.

Lumileds LXHL-MWGC Luxeon I

LED Lighting, One Watt of Warm White light. 20 lumens at a Wavelength of 3300 K.

Shop at Electronic Inventory Online

Electronic Inventory Online, Inc.
22412 Normandie Ave. Unit #A Torrance, CA 90502 (USA)

delabs Notes

A Warm White LED is great Feng Shui for a Hobbyist's Desktop or Workshop. A DIY Table Lamp or a Lathe Lamp with these Warm LEDs create Positive Energy, for not just your Home but for the Entire Neighborhood. This idea, is in the form of riddles in Ancient Chinese Manuscripts, I hope the Yellow Emperor does not see this post.

Yellow Emperor - Known as an early inventor. He holds the patents for The South Pointing Chariot, Diadem, Football, Silks, Dyes and Grain Farming too. A Musical instrument called Guqin too!

Electronic Surplus - Obsolete Rare Components

They are Experts with hard to find electronic parts from audio ICs and devices, to transformers and relays. An inventory that is made up of obsolete and active items.

Electronic Surplus - Obsolete Rare Components

Surplus Electronics: Switches, Capacitors, Transformers, Connectors, Motors, Meters & Analog Indicators, Semiconductors and More.

Sell or Dispose your stagnant inventories or unused items to Electronic Surplus. This is a Green Solution, Recycle, it also helps small entrepreneurs do something new. Remember old parts may corrode and get infested if idle for long. Electrolytics and Batteries do not have a good shelf life.

Electronic Surplus - Obsolete Rare Components

"E.S.I. was started by Clyde Daniels back before 1930 when he was selling all types of material he then progressed to Military surplus after World War 2 when his son Dick joined him after serving on PT boats in the Navy and Dick mother Ida Maye completed the family operation."

Electronic Surplus Inc
8755 Munson Road #6, MENTOR, OH 44060

Monday, March 28, 2011

Electronix Express - For Schools and Industry

Distributor of electronic components, test equipment and tools. Custom electronics kitting and value-added services.AK510

Electronix Express - For Schools and Industry

Some of the products they supply include Anti Static Products, Toolkits, Soldering related, Inductors, Logic Probes and Pulsers.

Tech Department Tips

Completely self-contained portable lab set-up featuring the most commonly used test equipment and tools. Analog/Digital Trainer with onboard power supplies to facilitate the breadboarding of both analog and digital circuits.

1000-T Portable Lab Station

RSR 1000-T Portable Lab Station

Electronix Express - A Division of R.S.R. Electronics, Inc.
365 Blair Road , Avenel, New Jersey 07001

All Electronics - Pre-owned or New Parts and Equipment

This is a easy to use Electronics Component eStore. And so well sorted and Boxed. They also buy unused Inventory or surplus from You. They specialize in electronic and electro-mechanical parts and assemblies.All Electronics - Pre-owned or New Parts and Equipment

All Electronics - Pre-owned or New Parts and Equipment

From robotics, electric trains, surveillance, remote control models, antique radio restoration to Used Parts and Assembly; They have it all for the student, hobbyist or even that rare Inventor. Since 1967 they have this service, nearly a year after i was born. They are as old as Me.

All Electronics Corporation
14928 Oxnard Street, CA 91411-2611, USA

Saturday, March 26, 2011

LM3914 - Versatile and Easy use Display

The LM3914 is a monolithic integrated circuit that senses analog voltage levels and drives 10 LEDs, providing a linear analog display. A single pin changes the display from a moving dot to a bar graph. Current drive to the LEDs is regulated and programmable, eliminating the need for resistors. This feature is one that allows operation of the whole system from less than 3V.

LM3914 - Versatile and Easy use Display

  • Drives LEDs, LCDs or vacuum fluorescents
  • Bar or dot display mode externally selectable by user
  • Expandable to displays of 100 steps
  • Internal voltage reference from 1.2V to 12V
  • Operates with single supply of less than 3V
  • LED driver outputs are current regulated, open-collectors

The circuit contains its own adjustable reference and accurate 10-step voltage divider. The low-bias-current input buffer accepts signals down to ground, or V-, yet needs no protection against inputs of 35V above or below ground. The buffer drives 10 individual comparators referenced to the precision divider. Indication non-linearity can thus be held typically to ½%, even over a wide temperature range.

My LM3914 Circuits

Millivolt Meter using a LM3914 LED Dot Display

Millivolt Meter using a LM3914 LED Dot Display

Circuits and Projects of LM3914

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Wireless Home Power Monitor - Tweet-a-Watt

This is an Embedded Project using a XBee. Makes an Energy/Watt/Power Meter into a Wireless Intelligent Sensor.

These Sensors are Interfaced to a PC using another XBee. The Data Acquired can be Displayed(monitor), Logged (sql/csv) and Analyzed (graphs/reports). Then you can form a set of Green Resolutions and Implement them.

Tweet-a-Watt! A safe and simple wireless power monitor

Tweet-a-Watt! A safe and simple wireless power monitor

Tweet-a-Watt starter pack

Monitor upto 1.5 KW, You have to own a Kill-A-Watt device to Add-On this Kit to Web Enable it. Each plug transmits the power usage at that outlet to a central computer receiver. The receiver can then log, graph and report the data.

OscilloScopes for the DIY Enthusiast

xoscope is a digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card orEsounD and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX and will soon support Bitscopehardware. Includes 8 signal displays, variable time scale, math,memory, measurements, and file save/load.

MHZ100Q - Open Source FPGA-based 100MHz A/D

xoscope - digital oscilloscope for Linux

Oscilloscope components, including 100MHz quad A/D, VHDL code for Xilinx FPGA, and driver for Octave or Matlab.

MHZ100Q - Open Source FPGA-based 100MHz A/D

DSO082 from JYE Tech works at 10MHz analog bandwidth but its actual -3db bandwidth is close to 15MHz by real measurement and design (see the sharp edge of 1MHz square signal). Up to 50Msps real-time sampling rate and 10mV/Div sensitivity enables the unit to carry out lots of daily measurements for a regular electronic engineer or DIYer.

DSO082 from JYE Tech

  • Number of Channel: One
  • Analog Bandwidth: 0 - 10MHz
  • Sensitivity: 10mV/Div -- 5V/Div
  • Resolution: 8-bit
  • Max Real-time Sampling Rate: 50MSps
  • Timebase: 0.2us/Div - 10s/Div
  • Record Length: 2000 - 16000 points user selectable