Hello!
Lets see... My name is not math derived as I suck at math, but comes from my car, a '93 Firebird Formula with a 350 cubic inch V8.
I like to consider myself an above average computer user, but I am pretty new to the whole IC world... I dove in head first about 6mos ago when my power supply which was 8-9yrs old, decided to finally give up the ghost (metaphorically, no releasing of blue smoke took place
), and since I was/am short of funds I tried to fix it. Had a number of bad caps on the DC side, but since all I knew about caps was they helped to keep a steady flow of power, I ended up soldering in at least one "backwards." Needless to say one blew up....... and my face was a foot above it >_> I didn't know if their insides were caustic or not, so I made a hasty retreat to the bathroom to wash it off lol
Well from that I started researching all manner of things relating to PSUs, learned quite a lot, and when it came time to finding out why this LCD monitor I got for free wouldn't stay on which I took it upon myself to find out why! I knew it was power supply related, but that was it. Cracked it open and 3 caps were expired, so I hit up eBay and bought 10 for only like $5 shipped, but I did know enough from my previous research to buy a quality brand! So I nabbed Chemi-Con. When they arrived I got to work putting them in, THIS time taking care to notice which way the marker strip was facing, and it works beautifully!
That started my new venture of salvaging almost everything I think might be useful at some future time, keep all sizes of caps, what I later found out to be transistors, a varying array different chips, larger resistors, all sizes of voltage regulators, and transformers.
Then my friend (not local) got an X-Fi and from past research we found people who have modded other sound cards for improved audio, so I just checked around to see what there is to do. That lead me to OpAmp and caps which work very well for Audio related things. About this time I took an early 90's 3.5mm amped stereo speaker (2xAA powered) that you would plug into a tape player (basically a precursor to iPod speakers) that I wanted to try and maybe convert for use to drive my headphones. That lead to my discovery of the CMoy, which I have to say while his uses an OpAmp... looks to really be derived from this KOSS amped speaker I just mentioned >_> Anyways while doing that I figured I'd try and upgrade some of it's very old caps, but at the time I was using a poor quality butane soldering iron that just didn't work very well, causing me to destroy some of the traces on it's PCB and ultimately rendering it non-functional. I got some breadboard and tried to rebuild it, but sadly that didn't really pan out either lol
And that is what brings me to here, to learn and get help to build something with all these spare parts to have (Hey... I told you to run!)
ON WITH THE SHOW!
Lets see... My name is not math derived as I suck at math, but comes from my car, a '93 Firebird Formula with a 350 cubic inch V8.
I like to consider myself an above average computer user, but I am pretty new to the whole IC world... I dove in head first about 6mos ago when my power supply which was 8-9yrs old, decided to finally give up the ghost (metaphorically, no releasing of blue smoke took place
), and since I was/am short of funds I tried to fix it. Had a number of bad caps on the DC side, but since all I knew about caps was they helped to keep a steady flow of power, I ended up soldering in at least one "backwards." Needless to say one blew up....... and my face was a foot above it >_> I didn't know if their insides were caustic or not, so I made a hasty retreat to the bathroom to wash it off lolWell from that I started researching all manner of things relating to PSUs, learned quite a lot, and when it came time to finding out why this LCD monitor I got for free wouldn't stay on which I took it upon myself to find out why! I knew it was power supply related, but that was it. Cracked it open and 3 caps were expired, so I hit up eBay and bought 10 for only like $5 shipped, but I did know enough from my previous research to buy a quality brand! So I nabbed Chemi-Con. When they arrived I got to work putting them in, THIS time taking care to notice which way the marker strip was facing, and it works beautifully!
That started my new venture of salvaging almost everything I think might be useful at some future time, keep all sizes of caps, what I later found out to be transistors, a varying array different chips, larger resistors, all sizes of voltage regulators, and transformers.
Then my friend (not local) got an X-Fi and from past research we found people who have modded other sound cards for improved audio, so I just checked around to see what there is to do. That lead me to OpAmp and caps which work very well for Audio related things. About this time I took an early 90's 3.5mm amped stereo speaker (2xAA powered) that you would plug into a tape player (basically a precursor to iPod speakers) that I wanted to try and maybe convert for use to drive my headphones. That lead to my discovery of the CMoy, which I have to say while his uses an OpAmp... looks to really be derived from this KOSS amped speaker I just mentioned >_> Anyways while doing that I figured I'd try and upgrade some of it's very old caps, but at the time I was using a poor quality butane soldering iron that just didn't work very well, causing me to destroy some of the traces on it's PCB and ultimately rendering it non-functional. I got some breadboard and tried to rebuild it, but sadly that didn't really pan out either lol
And that is what brings me to here, to learn and get help to build something with all these spare parts to have
(Hey... I told you to run!)ON WITH THE SHOW!
