#589 – Mute Button Discipline | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Chris and Dave discussed the “beta” function for MOSFETs on Falstad circuit simulator
We found some references online to “beta” (like this archive from McGill University) but it doesn’t seem to be a normal characteristic? Maybe an approximation term?
Dave and other EE YouTubers were mentioned in Derek’s 2nd video about the light bulb experiment and energy flowing in fields (Veritasium).
Dave mentioned Alpha Phoenix as doing the simulations on this, but Chris later looked up it was the Ben Watson video that Chris was referencing during the recording.
Rick Hartley
Lumped element model, where would we be without you?
Bit rot
Chris has been digging into Segger Ozone and SystemView, the latter first brought up on the show with Brian Amos
Dave bought a bunch of gear from an optometry business at auction.
Bubblegum tapshoes
Dave heard about this STM32F3 part with a super fast timer internal…yep, still can’t get it.
Open Source HW/SW Microinverter
Chris asks Dave if he would put something like that on his house.
Paul Zawada episode
Enphase Microinvterter
Zappi charger
Leigh Brady Episode
Chris will be doing a webinar this week about the things you don’t know about IoT systems.
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