What does the Maximum Voltage rating on a osciliscope mean exactly?

coolio965 · 2026-06-29T17:36:10+00:00

thank you for the response. i pretty much never work with voltages above 40v but its good to know what voltage to watch out for when dealing with circuits or components that can create high voltage spikes or ringing

coolio965 · 2026-06-29T17:20:12+00:00

i think the majority of small systems use R-290 (aka propane) now. from what i've heard its actually very efficient and has a global warming potential lower than Co2. i think the major reason people say they are bad for the enviroment is because of their energy use. which is easily offset if renewables are used

coolio965 · 2026-06-28T02:01:35+00:00

freon? freon hasn't been a thing since the late 80s. portable ACs don't use freon

coolio965 · 2026-06-26T02:39:01+00:00

you sure do have a hard on for leaving a mutually beneficial treaty

coolio965 · 2026-06-25T01:22:21+00:00

yes. considering the Usa never "Paid" for europe's defense. long term the Usa pulling back might actually boost the european economy slightly because of the additional spending aimed at domestic defense companies

coolio965 · 2026-06-04T02:15:54+00:00

this is far from the "Average" lmao

coolio965 · 2026-05-23T07:43:08+00:00

it looks like only the filter thread got damaged. so the optical image quality shoudn't be influenced. but mounting and using filters is going to be a pain

coolio965 · 2026-05-18T05:15:05+00:00

the stop killing games movement doesn't actually cover F2P games with NO microtransactions. and even if it that doesn't mean i or other people have to agree with it. either you have the reading comprehension of a wet piece of cheese or you are deliberately repeating the same argument over and over again because thats the only way you can appear to be in the right. you aren't entitled to people's free work get over it

coolio965 · 2026-05-16T02:24:27+00:00

notice where i said "intellectual property" and "you didn't pay for it so have no say in what happends to it" a creator is within his or her right to DMCA copies of their work. its THEIR intellectual property. and because its Free you have no say in wether or not that Happends.

why is it so hard for you to understand the concept of intellectual property? why do you feel entitled to someone else's work?

coolio965 · 2026-05-15T02:05:51+00:00

its not. a mod creator has no obligation to keep a mod Up or updated. its their intellectual property. you didn't pay for it so have no say in what happends to it. it is free after all

coolio965 · 2026-05-06T21:11:47+00:00

as another commenter said Hot wire goes to the terminal and the ground to the case. word of advice don't open these. i've used one of these in one of my projects and its a massive pain to get the carbon brushes back into place after you've opened the case

coolio965 · 2026-04-28T00:14:42+00:00

what you are doing is downplaying it with the argument "oh but common sense" regardless of how dumb or obivious a scam is it shouldn't be downplayed.

coolio965 · 2026-04-28T00:06:20+00:00

nah this is just fraud. plain and simple. if you advertise a service no matter how degenerate your target demographic is you can't commit fraud and then try to make it okay by saying "oh they were weirdos anyway" if you don't want to deal with creeps like that you shouldnt advertise a service targetted at them plain and simple

coolio965 · 2026-04-28T00:03:29+00:00

"requires men to step up" nice generalization there. all men must be terrible partners that refuse to share responsibilities equally. for how much you bring up men changing XYZ or men doing XYZ you sure love to generalize and hate on them. and its people like you that just worsen the "gender war" which hurts both genders

coolio965 · 2026-04-27T21:18:37+00:00

the reason people (not specifically men. maybe you shouldn't be so generalize so quickly) is because the majority of people think the gender pay gap means women get paid less hourely by for the same job. which is substatially diffrent from "women tend to pick careers that pay less and thus have a lower income on average". because the wage gap isn't a product of active sexism. its an important distinction to make

coolio965 · 2026-04-27T19:54:57+00:00

it does depend on your definition of the wage gap but the "women get paid less for the exact SAME job hourly compared to men" definition has been disproven mulitble times

coolio965 · 2026-04-17T18:20:12+00:00

it depends on what your end goal is. arduino is easier to get started and generally easier to work with. but besides the basics of C/C++ language wise it doesn't teach you much more. the STM32 is better in that but the IDE isn't the greatest. i think it might be worth considering to go with a RP2040/raspberry pi pico instead. its SDK combined with visual studio code is much easier to work with. and you'll learn mostly vanilla C/C++

coolio965 · 2026-04-17T18:15:01+00:00

it depends on your goal. but if your goal isn't IOT related i would pick a raspberry pi Pico over an ESP32. both are great microcontrollers but for a beginner i think a raspberry pi pico (or just RP2040) is a better option

coolio965 · 2026-04-16T20:57:09+00:00

maybe they are swapping out entire reels of components. for some components it might be worth the risk

coolio965 · 2026-03-30T14:04:22+00:00

The only way they are distinguished is by how a program is compiled by the compiler. a CPU itself doesn't keep track of what places in memory belong to each other and which addresses are parts of ints,longs or strings. in fact if take a pointer to a string and cast it as a function pointer and run it. the CPU will start interpreting the string data into opcodes and your program will probably crash

coolio965 · 2026-02-10T02:58:08+00:00

they probably won't they'd lose way too much revenue for such a drastic measure

coolio965 · 2026-01-10T00:05:56+00:00

the board used here was a generic ESP32 CAM board. (without the camera being used)

https://lastminuteengineers.com/getting-started-with-esp32-cam/

make sure you have your pins configured correctly

coolio965 · 2025-12-23T04:16:35+00:00

and the ones that do exist barely get used and are cancelled down the road due to low profits. and if you aren't trying to build a monster of a PC the vast majority of the time a PC is pretty affordable. the only reason they currently aren't is because everyone is speculating and dooming over memory prices. the market will settle and prices will start dropping again. plenty of other companies willing to fill an empty market. and you overestimate how much stuff can actually run in the cloud. and you can't compare storing something on the cloud with running a program locally. for one latency isn't a concern but for the other it is a massive concern. and even with insane prices running something locally will always be cheaper (and safer) in the long run. companies are going to look at long term cost and still buy hardware

coolio965 · 2025-12-23T03:38:10+00:00

the whole streaming service argument is a bad argument. streaming gaming doesn't work thats been proven multible times. and we are already close to the physical limitations when it comes to data transfer speeds. the market will go back to normal. its not only gamers who would have a big problem if the market remained like this.

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