Category: Electronics
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PowerPole Power Panel
SOARA has “battery box” building events every so often. The idea is that you build a portable container with a battery, cigar lighter socket, power switch, volt meters, and Anderson PowerPole connectors that you can use during an emergency. I have designed and/or printed and built several such breakout boxes. I built a Pelican case…
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Tip Organizer Tip
I’ve got way too many different Weller soldering Iron tips for my temperature controlled Weller ET and PT soldering irons. It finally occurred to me that I should create a tip organizer for them. I drew one in Sketchup and printed on my Hictop 3D printer.
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Kenwood TM-742 Backlight Repair – with LEDs!
Kenwood TM-x42 tri-band mobile radios have six 6.3 volt incandescent bulbs arranged in three pairs of two bulbs each to light up the display. Eventually the bulbs burn out and since they’re wired in series, they go out in pairs. I recently replaced the backlight bulbs in a friends TM-642 with white LEDs. I used…