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Welcome Charles Alexanian of Alexttronics!
- Headquartered in Fresno
- 0h 0m 36s
- History
- 0h 1m 7s
- Family business
- 0h 1m 20s
- Father was a QC engineer
- 0h 1m 25s
- Night scope
- 0h 1m 44stel
- Irrigation work in Fresno
- 0h 2m 21s
- Assembling clock dials as a 4 year old
- 0h 4m 26s
- OEM mfg of timer and controls
- 0h 5m 0s
- Load sharing of pumps
- 0h 5m 51s
- Family business – everyone helped
- 0h 8m 22s
- Reading schematics from an early age
- 0h 12m 35s
- Helped out on product in 92
- 0h 15m 34s
- Telrite in Fremont for MFG
- 0h 16m 45s
- Fear and doubt are a factor in any business
- 0h 17m 36s
- Started looking outside the business in case it wasn’t viable
- 0h 18m 24s
- Pedals and amps
- 0h 18m 59s
- Opened a repair business for amps and pedals
- 0h 19m 34s
- Manufacturing replacement parts for amps
- 0h 19m 50s
- Tube amps
- 0h 21m 23s
- Screen resistor
- 0h 26m 0s
- Got in contact with studios in town
- 0h 26m 49s
- uBid
- 0h 27m 31s
- Thomas register
- 0h 28m 4s
- War era catalog
- 0h 28m 44s
- Getting parts was always an issue
- 0h 30m 10s
- Led in two directions
- 0h 30m 15s
- Speaker manufacturing was bad
- 0h 30m 25s
- Don Schmidt sourcing parts
- 0h 30m 53s
- Sourcing 10″ speakers
- 0h 31m 32s
- Got burned on sourcing into the market
- 0h 32m 25s
- Closed up the repair shop
- 0h 32m 46s
- Kept a couple customers at studios
- 0h 32m 58s
- Went to school for electrical contracting
- 0h 33m 42s
- Getting into tubes
- 0h 35m 6s
- Bought mostly from New Sensor
- 0h 36m 6s
- Ronnie Elsbury – MU incorporated
- 0h 37m 0s
- What is a vacuum tube
- 0h 38m 22s
- Edison effect
- 0h 39m 32s
- de Forest father of the vacuum tube
- 0h 39m 57s
- Added the grid
- 0h 40m 19s
- Certain applications still need tubes
- 0h 42m 5s
- Radar and microwave requires tubes because of power levels
- 0h 43m 5s
- Traveling wave tubes
- 0h 43m 33s
- Varian brothers
- 0h 43m 57s
- Klystron
- 0h 44m 7s
- Ion implantation uses tubes
- 0h 44m 40s
- Ronnie visits Charles
- 0h 45m 40s
- Ronnie factory does last time buy
- 0h 48m 56s
- Starting making tubes
- 0h 50m 11s
- Glasswork is very difficult
- 0h 50m 55s
- Charles’ talk at Supercon
- 0h 51m 4s
- Charles’ original article on Hackday about tube mfg
- 0h 52m 39s
- BA ionization gauge
- 0h 52m 53s
- Most basic form of tube used for measurement of vacuum
- 0h 53m 0s
- Philips glassworks videos from the 30s
- 0h 55m 15s
- Mullard glass video from the 50s-60s
- 0h 55m 22s
- Videos from bell labs
- 0h 55m 37s
- Glass slinger on youtubes
- 0h 55m 53s
- Adam Carolla podcasts
- 0h 58m 8s
- Fitting out a studio
- 0h 58m 26s
- Started working in exchange for hanging around racing
- 0h 59m 23s
- Carolla digital
- 0h 59m 45s
- Sourcing parts as a small manufacturer
- 1h 2m 9s
- Spall – the surface falls off
- 1h 4m 4s
- Ceramic caps
- 1h 5m 49s
- “Farmers are not a trusting group”
- 1h 8m 16s
- Small growers are pushing for monitoring in agtech
- 1h 11m 48s
- MQTT
- 1h 14m 10s
- Highwire
- 1h 21m 47s
- brokenspeaker9@gmail.com
- 1h 25m 52s
- NeoDen4
- 1h 27m 36s
I found this interview very interesting. I have a 10 acre olive grove I remotely monitor with a system I have been developing for a few years now. It runs off grid with some solar panels on top of a shipping container and a 600 ft. well. Took some time of get something powerful enough to run the well, but sip energy to ride out a string of cloudy days and reliable enough to run remote. I am in Orange County, Ca.
I used an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, cell modem, and a handful of custom circuit boards I am working on polishing up to see if they may have value to others.
This is a side project from the day job working in aerospace.