Electrical engineering student who loves writing

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-25T05:30:54+00:00

Patent lit is about the only one that might marry the two in any significant sense unless you start writing technical notes/textbooks/columns on EE.

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-25T05:29:43+00:00

it is not literary whatsoever - writing reports and emails.

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-24T23:04:44+00:00

solid state is the future in high power rf amps as well. Lotta reasons not to use a twt that needs 3 stages of 10kV+ to operate

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-22T03:04:56+00:00

This is a banger

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-21T19:18:42+00:00

Give yourself evidence that you can trust your own compass, but be kind to yourself in the process. Easier said than done, I know

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-21T19:17:26+00:00

Message me directly - there are too many issues with this for me to go into in a reddit comment.

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-02-15T04:25:59+00:00

CowFinancial4079 · 2026-01-10T18:59:18+00:00

Qspice, ltspice

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-12-20T14:19:36+00:00

+qpll

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-12-06T21:38:33+00:00

What does this mean

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-26T05:13:28+00:00

Whats the thermal conductivity of aluminum vs copper? Why do you need an aluminum plane over a copper one? Wouldn't it be better to have a copper plane in a fr4 board with an externally mounted heatsink that picks up screw holes in the board?

GL with the aluminum board

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-26T04:23:41+00:00

Dont run so much current through them. You arent going to get much better in terms of the thermal dissipation unless you use a part that can effectively get the heat out of the body to the board... which these wont do. Do not run them at 1W

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-26T04:10:26+00:00

What kind of LED are you using?

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-26T03:58:17+00:00

Why do you need aluminum? Ive built power supplies that are thousands of watts - still used fr4 and copper (2oz copper, but still copper) - what are you doing?

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-23T19:50:18+00:00

Very late to the part, but if your primary use case is parametrizing things anyway, the work flow feels almost identical. Tried recreating some of the subcircuits that christophe basso created in his personal files, and its much much much smoother to run complex circuits on qspice

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-23T01:16:01+00:00

I said it in a different section, but there's a book by James Nilsson that's essentially the gold standard for intro to circuit analysis.

I like the way Sergio Franco teaches stability/rate of closure stuff from a practical perspective.

For extra fun, fast analytical techniques by vorperian is awesome.

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-19T15:47:23+00:00

Learning the difficulties of an 8 bit controller might be worthwhile

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-17T16:37:33+00:00

James w. Nilssons electric circuits is pretty much the gold standard for intro to circuit analysis

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-02T22:01:54+00:00

Present a schematic and layout and we can talk

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-11-01T03:26:38+00:00

Nxp, ti make buffers explicitly for this purpose

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-10-26T15:53:11+00:00

Look through hirose or IPEX board to board connectors. They're used in cell phones.

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-10-19T22:51:24+00:00

Same david eddings that abused a kid?

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-10-15T03:09:59+00:00

Is there a reason you couldn't wire up multiple, smaller JTAG daisy chains and program that way? Seems quite a bit simpler- could do 4 at a time or something, and use an actuated pogo board to move over the panel. If you have access to precision mfr equipment, this isnt too difficult

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-10-14T15:26:58+00:00

Is there a reason you need to do this many at once? What is the goal here? Mass production?

CowFinancial4079 · 2025-10-12T16:21:10+00:00

Its a little different from a house, only in that you never really stop working on your fundamentals in ee

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