{"id":9065,"date":"2007-11-06T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/electronics-stuff\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:14","slug":"electronics-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/electronics-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gah. I just blew (or just noticed that I blew) the 440mA fuse in my DMM. Mouser carries the part but it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouser.com\/search\/ProductDetail.aspx?R=504-DMMB44-100\">costs US$22<\/a>! Grainger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grainger.com\/Grainger\/items\/3LW11\">carries it for US$8.65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was able to stop at Radio Shack on the way home and get some 10W power resistors for testing the power supply. I&#8217;m having no problems getting about 490mA out of it, which is more than enough for its intended application. Unfortunately the resistors get fairly hot when sinking that much current, so I can&#8217;t run them for too long.<\/p>\n<p>Still, things are good with that&#8230; I guess I&#8217;ll finish part footprint validation and get on with laying out the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gah. I just blew (or just noticed that I blew) the 440mA fuse in my DMM. Mouser carries the part but it costs US$22! Grainger carries it for US$8.65 I was able to stop at Radio Shack on the way home and get some 10W power resistors for testing the power supply. I&#8217;m having no\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}