Teardown

Over 50 videos and articles of high voltage, high power equipment that is taken apart and shown what is inside and how it works! X-RAY, UPS etc

Motorola 68K computer

Agfa ADC 5155 Motorola 68K Computer Teardown (Part 2 of 4)

This is the reverse engineering and teardown of a very interesting computer that runs on VME framework developed for the Motorola 68000 series CPUs. It runs a custom operating system called Monitor 4.28 developed by Agfa-Gevaert NV, Belgium.

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X-ray image scanner

AGFA ADC 5155 X-ray Scanner Teardown (Part 1 of 4)

Part 1: Teardown of a AGFA ADC 5155 x-ray image scanner / digitizer. Also known as Computerized Radiography (CR) it fulfills the job of scanning a x-ray exposed image plate. It is scanned with a laser beam and extract each pixel illumination with a photomultiplier tube setup. This particular unit has a very interesting computer

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Thermal desorber

Agilent Markes UNITY Thermal Desorber Teardown – Gas Chromatography

Teardown of the Agilent Markes UNITY Thermal Desorber. Which contains a cold trap (Peltier) and some very fine fluid mechanical parts. A thermal desorber is used as a part in the chain of machines used in Gas Chromatography. I have previously done a teardown of a temperature column for HPLC. The Thermo Scientific Dionex TCC-3000SD

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Nokia Siemens FXEA Base Station Amplifier Circuit Analysis

Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x70W FXEA 1800MHz Power Amplifier Reverse Engineering (Part 3 of 3)

Da_Stier, a user from www.highvoltageforum.net has reverse engineered the power amplifier module and this is the documentation and test results. The RF power amplifier teardown can be seen in part 1: https://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/teardown/nokia-siemens-flexi-3x70w-fxea-1800mhz-base-station-teardown-power-amplifier-part-1-of-2/

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Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x70W FXEA 1800MHz Base Station Teardown: Power Amplifier

Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x70W FXEA 1800MHz Base Station Circuit Analysis (Part 2 of 3)

Circuit analysis of a Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Multiradio base station. This have been in service as a 3 antenna system for mobile telecommunications. GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE capable. 3×70 Watt output power. Part 1 of the actual base station amplifier teardown can be seen here. Power supply The power supply is split into a

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Vaisala RS41-SGP Probe

German Weather Balloon Teardown, Vaisala RS41-SGP Probe

During my vacation at the island of Langeland, Denmark, I found a washed up radioprobe from a German weather balloon on the beach. It is a Vaisala RS41-SGP single use instrument in a styrofoam enclosure that can measure air temperature, humidity, pressure, speed and direction. It uses a STM32F100 microcontroller as the heart of the

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Dell PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Teardown

Dell PowerEdge M1000E Blade Server Teardown

I came by a discarded full size Dell PowerEdge M1000E server rack. Full SAN, 2 large blade servers, 4 or 6 backbone switches, all power supplies and fans. This is a system that is about 8-10 years old and had a new price of around 1000000 DKR (166666 $US).It was all unloaded in a big

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Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x70W FXEA 1800MHz Base Station Teardown: Power Amplifier

Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x70W FXEA 1800MHz Base Station Teardown: Power Amplifier (Part 1 of 3)

Teardown of a Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Multiradio base station. This have been in service as a 3 antenna system for mobile telecommunications. GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE capable. 3×70 Watt output power. Nokia Siemens Flexi 3x90W FXEB 1800MHz base station teardown: Power amplifier (part 2 of 2)

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