18 SEPTEMBER 2019
I purchased my Oculus Rift headset back in July 2016 and since then it has had a lot of use. Last month I started to get an intermittent issue with the HDMI disconnecting.
I assumed that it was the headset cable and so...
05 SEPTEMBER 2019
Following from the C.I.F CF02 reflow oven heater module upgrade post in February our C.I.F reflow oven, which has had several rebuilds over the past six years, started to fail when reflowing our boards and so we decided...
29 JULY 2019
I found a Sony MDS-JE440 Minidisc player in a local antique / second hand / retro goods shop in town called Eklektika/ and Mark who owns the shop told me that the player was faulty with a dead display and broken drive...
16 JULY 2019
We needed some reverse polarity SMA Plug terminators to blank off the unused Wi-Fi connectors on our broadband router and also on our desktop computers as we previously had the antennas installed and these sometimes got...
12 FEBRUARY 2019
Following the replacement of the control system in our reflow oven in December 2016 we encountered a problem last week where one of the glass heating elements failed and the ceramic end of the element fell apart causing...
15 OCTOBER 2018
With the very hot weather in the United Kingdom this summer we decided to try to improve the cooling on our computers by replacing our air cooled heatsinks with a sealed loop water cooler system.
At the end of July we...
11 MAY 2017
We recently designed a barcode scanner to use with our online store. To power the scanner, we decided to use 18650 size lithium ion batteries as they are high capacity for their weight and cheap to buy. This...
19 FEBRUARY 2017
For many years we have used our old HP MediaSmart EX475 (WHS) Windows Home Server box as a secondary NAS drive on our home network to keep a backup from our main Synology Diskstation NAS drive.
The Synology has 4 x...
09 DECEMBER 2016
For the past four years, we have been using a CIF CF02 reflow oven to reflow and cook our circuit boards which we sell on www.abelectronics.co.uk and for our own projects.
The oven initially needed a lot of tweaking...
04 SEPTEMBER 2016
Several months ago we purchased a FE-5680A Rubidium Frequency Standard from eBay, part number P/N 217400-30352-1. We planned to use the frequency standard as a reference for our frequency counter, spectrum analyser and our...