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    Electronics 7-segment LED Clock

    Interesting. I am familiar with the MAX6954. I have thought about using the same chip, although it may be the MAX6952, if I remember correctly....
    Post by: geogecko, 29 Jul 2008 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics 7-segment LED Clock

    Cool. Would love to see more details of this project, if you are willing to share. I have two CME8000 modules sitting in my desk until I find...
    Post by: geogecko, 29 Jul 2008 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics 7-segment LED Clock

    About as useful as the website with his mod project...site cannot be found.:wallbash:
    Post by: geogecko, 17 Jul 2008 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics 7-segment LED Clock

    Same here, I bought a couple of these, just haven't had the time to build my clock yet....
    Post by: geogecko, 19 Mar 2008 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics 7-segment LED Clock

    Hey Stevey! Well, it's been a while, and I've completed no project yet! It's been really busy switching jobs and states, so I haven't had much...
    Post by: geogecko, 24 Feb 2008 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Help with a broken hard drive display project

    Interesting. It looks like if you can do what he did, you could use a PIC or something to send a PWM signal to the trip voltage, with a filtering...
    Post by: geogecko, 23 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Help with a broken hard drive display project

    Actually, mono would work, as you'll only have one voice coil. A line out may not be enough power to drive the voice coil though. I was...
    Post by: geogecko, 22 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Help with a broken hard drive display project

    Well, most likely, it is a voice coil. The way I see it, is you have a couple options. 1. Drive the voice coil directly, which would probably...
    Post by: geogecko, 22 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Removing Line Noise

    Well, I tend to think it's not a noise problem, but they do make specific filters you can buy to plug in to a socket, that will filter out noise,...
    Post by: geogecko, 21 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Removing Line Noise

    Dragon, good intentions, but I think these are Ethernet over Powerline, not Power over Ethernet adapters, at least, if I glanced correctly... =)...
    Post by: geogecko, 21 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Help with a broken hard drive display project

    Well, it depends on what type of actuator it uses. If it's a really old drive, they used to use stepper motors, if it's fairly recent, they...
    Post by: geogecko, 21 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Relay Suggestions

    Hmm...once again, basic electronics here... Amps mean nothing, unless the electronics can provide a load. This is the same reason that you can...
    Post by: geogecko, 19 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics need help with a Circuit - LM317 & LM3914N

    Sounds like you got everything you need on those two pages. Then get a SPDT switch (ON-OFF-ON) as shown in this page:...
    Post by: geogecko, 13 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Alternative to solder sucker/wick?

    Another possible option, take a piece of stranded wire, and "pretend" like you are trying to tin the wire with the excess solder. You can strip...
    Post by: geogecko, 13 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding
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    Electronics Building an RGB LED Clock

    There are a few ways it can be done. An ICSP programmer can program your PIC while it's in the target application, or you can use a chip...
    Post by: geogecko, 12 Jun 2007 in forum: Modding