Old discarded equipment from a agriculture laboratory. Unfortunately damaged from the rough handling. This CO2 analyzer measures the CO2 levels in emissions using the principle of infrared absorption. It is used after a gas preparation system and set-points can be pre-defined and an alarm can be sounded if they are exceeded. A flow-rate alarm is […]
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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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My 5 year old daughter assembles and solders a robot car. I want to teach my kids electronics and there is only one way to do that! To do it! Children are capable of learning complex tasks and have an incredible hunger for knowledge. Handling of tools and parts is a great fine motoric exercise
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I had the chance to take this Eaton Powerware 30 kVA / 27 kW (9355-30-N-7-2x9Ah) uninterrupted power supply apart to look for parts worth salvaging for future reuse in other projects. Looking up the type on the Eaton website we learn that it is a UPS using double conversion topology that provides isolation from all
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