[JohnnyCanuck]

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[JohnnyCanuck]

U1 is a TI Low Noise regulated swithced capacitor invertor. Its 2mm x 2mm and has 8 pads to solder.
Its only .8mm high and has a thermal pad that needs to be soldered as well as the 8 pads....its really
a difficult hand procdess....and amazing to watch the solder paste melt and this little chip wiggle into place.
Then hope you have no shorts from the thermal pad to the pins!

I have never taken a Schitt product apart, just never wanted to void the warrenty etc....

Now I definitely know that I'm too old for this Schiit

JC

 

[ScottFree]

Now I definitely know that I'm too old for this Schiit

JC

 

[3 toes of fury]

Jason,

Thanks, as always, for taking the time to share some technology, life experience, and suggestions. Your latest write up is a fascinating look at how progress and technology provide new, efficient, ways to produce product BUT can have unintentional negatives that should be balanced in the end. Fascinating.

And...as timing would have it....i recently posted a poem at work (and just noticed that it is posted JUST above my Lyr/LISST rig..woah!) to help remind me of a key point in your article - step away and think.
At least thats what the poem does for me. TV fans will pick up on this poem from the place i discovered it..Breaking Bad (Best show ever? well maybe 2nd to The Prisoner).
Its called "When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer" and is by Walt Whitman....

"When I heard the learn'd astronomer
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick
Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." -W.Whitman

Peace n Living in Stereo,

Three Toes of Fury


PS: For you pizza aficionados, i highly suggest Ken Forkish's book "The Elements of Pizza". Ive been on a never-ending quest to make great italian wood-fired style 'za at home.
The temperature environment thats needed is tough to pull off without some specialty gear, however Ken's book is a fascinating look at Pizza and provides some outstanding home recipes and methods.

 

[Paladin79]

Looks like an interesting book, I will check it out. I am considering building an outdoor wood fired oven anyway as well as experimenting with Kishu Binchotan charcoal and small grills.

 

[RCBinTN]

We tested the Leinenkugel's Canoe Paddler kolsch today (one of the many perks of being retired)...
Just OK. We will continue the search for Reissdorf.

 

[Paladin79]

We tested the Leinenkugel's Canoe Paddler kolsch today (one of the many perks of being retired)...
Just OK. We will continue the search for Reissdorf.

I probably like it because I do not get to have it that often. I took the day off just to rest up a bit before returning to work. My schedule gets pretty hectic so every now and then I just need to lay back and relax. I did receive more special cotton paracord in the mail that I use for some of my personal cables. Pietro and another gentleman from here caused me to suddenly run low and I had about a two week wait to get it.

 

[Zapp_Fan]

2018, Chapter 7
Velocity vs. Sanity

But I can say, for me, that current engineering technology lets me keep up a pace I could only imagine in the past—and that pace is so fast I need to make myself take breaks from it.

And, in finding ways to take breaks, I think we’ll end up with better products.

We’ll see how right I am.

Very interesting stuff, and thanks for sharing. So, I'm also in the industry and also making consumer products, but our process is pretty different, and my personal job is more on the consumer end than the engineering.

I come from a school of thought that most of the innovation should basically happen on paper. In this view, a major part of the process is studying what people want, designing a (theoretically manufacturable) solution to their issue, and then going back to the customer again to validate the idea, before anyone even generates any G-code.

Of course there is always iteration once the design is "Finalized" meaning the engineering starts in earnest, but I have to agree that it sounds very labor intensive to be generating features in physical form before the concept is "final"!

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

This is how it should look like:

 

[Paladin79]

mmmmm

 

[Ableza]

This is how it should look like:

With a soupy center for the kind of Napoli pizza I like.

 

[HumanFly]

This is how it should look like:

Now I am in a hurry to come by your place again!

 

[BagelJoe]

This is how it should look like:

I'll be in Barcelona next week if you'd like to make a few crusts and drop them off. That's as close to you as I'll be this trip.

 

[Paladin79]

I envy your freedom to travel Joe, have an enjoyable safe trip my friend.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

I'll be in Barcelona next week if you'd like to make a few crusts and drop them off. That's as close to you as I'll be this trip.

I would if I could keep them warm during transfer.
You come here, you get one.