Category Archives: Mistakes

Tons of Mistakes – pt. 2

April 6, 2007 – 2:34 am

I have the cycles of the washing machine measured at last. I am ready to build a circuit.
I thought I would start with the easiest one first. All it does is light an LED when a load of almost any kind comes through the wire. The voltage just has to make it through resistor R5 [...]

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Tons of Mistakes – pt. 1

April 6, 2007 – 1:46 am

Forget about that claw I posted about earlier. It looks cool but I couldn’t find a multimeter to work with it. The first one I purchased for $10 that didn’t have a “range” indicated in the claw’s specs. as you know. I went to Discount Builders with the claw’s booklet. It says:
The 72-555 is designed [...]

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