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pjb304

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    Philip Basford

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  1. Yes, the one on campus is owned by the uni, but I've yet to hear any rumours about what they plan to do with it. I've no idea who owns the one in the town centre. I assume it was the remaining leases that were included in the potential sale.
  2. I use a Mikrotik for my home router. It does all I want it to and seems pretty solid. The UI for it leaves something to be desired. It is a very powerful and feature rich router, and these are all presented to the user with no wizards or guidance on how to set it up, so it can take a while to get things setup correctly. Also unless things have changed since I last looked in order to add hosts that register via DHCP to the DNS requires a bit of scripting.
  3. It wasn't a Avo doing something abnormal as it's in the standard http://tsp.esta.org/...1_2006R2016.pdf, where it gives the pinout for a 5 pin XLR including both the primary and secondary data pair. I've used it a few times over ~30m lengths, and never had any problems with it.
  4. We've got a couple at work now, and they are great. We also have a 'proper' spectrum analyser and radio scanner, but it's a useful extra tool in the pocket.
  5. Thanks for explaining that Dan. We use Eagle (and have a pro license), and it looks like there is an add-on available which does teardrops, so I'll give it a go next time.
  6. Sorry to go a bit OT, but what do you mean by teardropping connections? I've recently had to rework a board and had a few problems with pads coming off so anything I can do to avoid it is worth finding out about.
  7. I agree with timsabre having soldered about 230 of these, which although aren't quite as chunky as the LEDs in question certainly can absorb some heat with a powerful iron and a chunky tip it's perfectly possible. Just remember once soldered they take a while to cool down :(
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