• potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you’ll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.

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          10 hours ago

          Yeah lead free solder is perfectly fine.

          Where I live, lead solder is even illegal to sell and buy unless you have a permit which is impossible to get for individuals

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            10 hours ago

            Interesting, I haven’t heard about that.

            For systems that…may experience some degree of vacuum…it’s common to use lead solder still because it doesn’t tin whisker so unfortunately it’s still around for some of the stuff I’ve worked on.

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        10 hours ago

        Same here, but I’d still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it’s a pain in the ass.

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          10 hours ago

          I find it interesting more than anything else.

          In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.

          They taught us how to wire plugs the following week…

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              9 hours ago

              Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.

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                9 hours ago

                Did half the class also make tazers after learning what a capacitor does, which wasn’t three best thing to know with wooden desks…

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                  8 hours ago

                  Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective… yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.

                  Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch… yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.

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                    8 hours ago

                    Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?

                    I had some of those in my school too…