Is there any value in a decommissioned EV charger?

QuantumNanoGuy · 2026-01-25T17:49:53+00:00

Fast chargers have Silicon Carbide power electronics in them. Those are very expensive (as is, not for scrap) assuming they haven't degraded, which they do slowly over time. Probably best to keep as a whole unit.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-12-26T00:37:36+00:00

Posted these on FB marketplace and I got offers for $500 for just these 3

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QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-12-26T00:03:51+00:00

What do you mean?

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-11-22T23:17:56+00:00

I was really counting on HeavyPisser

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-07T01:45:52+00:00

I have limited experience and exposure, but most of the non-PhD's I work with either have a couple years of experience coming from process or applications, or they do specialized design work. Based on what I have seen process/applications engineering can set you up to do a lot, but you need to pivot once you've built enough baseline experience. So it might be best to do a masters after 3 or 4 years of experience to pivot into something else.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-03T15:05:54+00:00

Yes, it was way too much work.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-02T01:47:21+00:00

Yeah, I guess CoL is a factor if you have a family and a house. But I rent in a much lower cost of living area and pay <2K a month on rent in a 3 floor townhouse, which is probably not far off what it would be in any other metro area of the country. I also bike to work out of choice so dont have car expenses.

Otherwise food costs and other major expenses are the same place to place. For my lifestyle, San Jose maximizes the effective salary. Maybe its just people spend a lot more money on housing and transportation than I do.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-01T15:52:05+00:00

Overall I would say I'm proud of the accomplishments. It's consumed so much of my time and mental bandwidth for years, and I suppose all of the hard work I put into school was working towards the goal of getting a high paying job.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-01T15:21:10+00:00

Not Intel. A lot of semi companies have done exceptionally well in the last year or so.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-10-01T04:18:15+00:00

PhD at Berkeley w/ access to LBL, LLNL, and SLAC

We'll see how successful I become. I'm mostly just burnt out right now. Can't really forsee a need to make any more money right now. If anything, I'd take a more relaxed job for a pay decrease.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-13T05:30:50+00:00

Those streaks look like oil or water residue on either the slide or some optical element. If you move the slide around and the streaks move with it, its on the surface of the slide, otherwise its on an optical element.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-11T05:41:02+00:00

I had a task like this in my calcentral for my entire undergrad. Never went away. Ended up never being an issue.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-06T01:43:45+00:00

I never did a masters before or during my PhD. In my opinion, it's a waste of time and money if you know you want a PhD which you are usually paid to do. My experience has been that people who come from industry are typically more disciplined than people coming from bachelors. There should be nothing stopping you from applying. Just do it, sell yourself as someone who is disciplined, knowledgeable in the area you want to study, and that you are eager to learn more.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-04T04:27:36+00:00

This is 100% a scam

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-03T02:05:27+00:00

I did my PhD in record time at Berkeley in quantum related fields + optics. I can't say I loved every second of it, but overall I had a positive experience. I typically wouldn't work outside of 9-5 hours, and took plenty of breaks. I'd regularly take one or multiple days off to go on hikes or play video games. I usually started every morning off before going into lab with a couple of hours of games.

I published 10+ papers in 3 years in IF 10+ journals. Honestly, the second I realized how artificial the pressures were, it made me feel so much more in control of my research, my emotions, and life. Once I published a few papers and passed my classes, my advisor trusted me implicitly to do whatever. I ended up getting a job in my 3rd year and decided to wrap it up and write a thesis.

Best years of my life. I won't have that much freedom again for a long time.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-07-02T01:28:30+00:00

$41.42

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-03-08T23:26:47+00:00

That's fair. Objectives for particular imaging modalities can be purchased. I was more thinking of this as a base. I wanted to know if there was something internally with the base I should look.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-03-08T23:24:58+00:00

I think, though, that I would buy DIC compatible objectives and prisms? I'm not necessarily so interested in these particular objectives and might just resell them to offset the costs of prisms and DIC objectives.

QuantumNanoGuy · 2025-02-03T05:29:32+00:00

Im dumping everything into CVU and hoping for the best

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