complete project

[Tinkerer]

Hi Tinkerer, I live in Australia, and in the reports through the world Media so far that we a moving forward from the rest of the Global civilization as a stabilized economy....well we are experiencing the effects of the European Economic downfall, even though our unemployment rate is stated to be so low (5.9%). Our situation is worse than stated

Why....They tell us that they have created so many jobs....(They dont tell us of the many that are lost in comparison) Our current Government does not tell us that most people are in Part Time/Casual work, therefore make it look as employment is so low, which is NOT.

What keeps our Economy afloat is the ubundance of mineral resourses (mining) and the Asian continent's interest in our vast and expansive mineral and agricultural supply...wich our current Government and predessesors have agreed to such FATAL transactions

Alot of our Land has been sold off overseas. I can imagine what our children and Grandchildren are going to face in the near distant future.

Not good times for all humanity

If their is any parts you may need Tinkerer, i am more than happy to ship to you providing there is going to be no Customs issues

Cheers sid

Sido, thank you for the offer. I am already packing, so I really do not need anything.

To the members of the forum, sorry for having brought up politics, which have no place here. Unlike most of the rest of the world, this country is going through a never seen financial boon due to the high petroleum prices. To have food rationing and to have to stand in line at the supermarket for 4 hours to be able to buy 3 rolls of toilet paper is just not within any reason anymore.
I hope you all can forgive me for having discharged my bad humor here on the forum.

[Tinkerer]

Probably the End is near for Mr. Chavez, but not for Venezuela's woes. It'll take a long time to undo the damage.

At best it will take several generations to pay off the dept and to repair the damages to the economy. And the bottom has not been reached yet. Much worst is to come before any improvements.

[Tinkerer]

Ha, please eleborate if dont mind......I am lost

Cheers sid

Ha, please eleborate if dont mind......I am lost

Cheers sid

The president is dying of cancer in some Cuban hospital. Over his 14 years of totalitarian rule, all the infrastructure and 90% of the economy has been destroyed. The roads are full of holes, the bridges are falling down, electricity is rationed by switching off one part of the country at the time to supply the other part. There has never in the history of the country so much income due to the high petroleum prices, yet all that money has been wasted. And on top of that, the national dept has increased tenfold.

Poor people who will have to pay all that.

[Tinkerer]

Sorry for my uncomplete update. I have now updated to the reference-PDF Tinkerers_SB_MO - Schematic from here http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...947#post155947
with all changes, that we have discussed previously. I hope i have not done a mistake.

Here are PDF and Schematic for DesignSpark

@tinkerer
If i can do something for you, let it me know.

Greetings from Saxony

Thank you for your help.
You know, it is really a small world. I was raised in the house that belonged to the prince of Saxony, the one who abdicated his throne. I am returning there.

The prince had a mock throne built in that house. I spent many hours of my youth sitting on it, the view was just beautiful. I am going back there now and will sit on the mock throne again and feel like a (abdicated) king.

[6666]

Its from the PDF published by mschmahl
we find these things when we study other peoples work.

[mschmahl]

@6666
We had the right schematic but only in PDF (see here http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...947#post155947). But we need it for DesignSpark and i get a uncompleted, by tinkerer rescued zip to work with. So i don´t have to make all new. I had made the changes that we discussed in the uncopleted scheamtic and post this schematic and the same as pdf, because Sido asked (see post 253). Later, when i had time, i updated the DesignSpark-schematic with this changes with the PDF-Schematic from Tinkerer (the right one). Now we have a new DesignSpark schematic and a new PDF which is the original schematic from Tinkerer with this discussed changes.
I hope it is clearer now.

[6666]

mschmahl
its all good thanks.

[sido]

Hi Tinkerer, wish you all the best with the setbacks so far and hard times that may follow you.

PM me or I WILL........as i want to do my best for a valued contributer to the Community here as yourself. I can sympathasize with your situation and i am very humbled with your honesty and want to contribute to such a worthy cause for your welcomed return to civility.

Get yourself back on track and we can all move forward from that.

I have many parts to offer, just not enough time ATM.

Regards Sid

[mschmahl]

Hi all,

here is my first effort to make a PCB for the Tinkerer_SB PSU&TX.
It is for 2x6V batterie and 50-cm roundcoil. The schematic is from http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...677#post155677 with some changes that tinkerer discussed with me. I send the PDF with this changes.

IT IS A TESTBOARD WITHOUT WARRANTY OF FUNCTION!!!

And it is my first time to make a pcb. I have not respected any rules of construction a low noise rig, or other rules for making a proper pcb. I think it can be improved a lot, so all comments to make it better are welcome.

[Pete the Builder]

Tinkerer, I'm sorry to hear your troubles - life can be really hard sometimes, usually not because of yourself! As a side note, it's always the little people who suffer most, and who must pay the price to sort out the problems. Always. Believe it or not, it's almost (but not quite) as bad in America. Yes, USA! They have ignored the infrastructure for so long, that it will take something like 30 years to fix the corroding power lines, the crumbling bridges and tunnels, and the urban roads. No, it's not like where you are, but it's the same sort of problem, for the same reason. The rich get richer with tax concessions, company tax waiving, and enormous payouts, and the people get - well, think of an inclined plane twisted into a helix...

Your life, like many here, is astonishing to those of us who live quiet lives in the bush. Just amazing. I hope you get to tell some tales, perhaps in the off-topic forum. I for one would very much like to hear anything you (and anyone reading) could be bothered to write about. The world is a small place, but like the Tardis, the stories about the people fill it far beyond capacity.

I hope you get back to where you can relax a little and buy cartons of poo tickets just so you can look at them. You know you're doing well when... heh heh heh. Hope this made you smile a little.

Best wishes,
Pete in quiet, comfortable, backwater Australia.

[Pete the Builder]

Hi all,

here is my first effort to make a PCB for the Tinkerer_SB PSU&TX.
It is for 2x6V batterie and 50-cm roundcoil. The schematic is from http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...677#post155677 with some changes that tinkerer discussed with me. I send the PDF with this changes.

IT IS A TESTBOARD WITHOUT WARRANTY OF FUNCTION!!!

And it is my first time to make a pcb. I have not respected any rules of construction a low noise rig, or other rules for making a proper pcb. I think it can be improved a lot, so all comments to make it better are welcome.

mschmahl, that's a great effort for a first attempt! You've got the right ideas - nice thick power and ground traces, and keeping them as short as possible.

One trick to try : if you have a lot of short zig-zag tracks, you might be able to realign the components slightly so the tracks are more straight. You'd be surprised at how many times this makes routing the same components so much easier. When that happens, of course you must say it is by clever design!

Also, once you've routed all the tracks, have a look to see if some tracks can be swapped to the bottom layer, so most tracks are on one layer (I usually try to put as many tracks as possible on the bottom of the board, it's easier to trace connections without the track disappearing under a component! But in your case, the tracks are pretty clear). Sometimes this will give you some ideas to make the board single-sided, even though it starts out very double-sided!

In your case, possibly the tracks in the coil/battery connector area, as well as under the big capacitors, could be moved to the bottom of the board. It always pays to keep tracks around big components that can go "bang" on the bottom of the board, so it's easier to troubleshoot, and if anything goes "bang", your tracks won't be damaged so badly. And again, if they're on the bottom of the board they can be traced more easily. That's just a tip from long experience!

I'd be pretty happy with your board. It's a great start.

Cheers,
Pete

[sido]

Hi mschmahl, great looking board, well done.

What EDS program are you using....Designspark???

Sid

[mschmahl]

Yes, it is DesignSpark! It is realy easy to learn and have a lot part´s. You can download missing part´s and it is all free.

[sido]

Yes, it is DesignSpark! It is realy easy to learn and have a lot part´s. You can download missing part´s and it is all free.

Similar to Diptrace. I will also download this EDS and have a go and compare the two.

Thankyou and great looking board you have.

Cheers Sid

[bklein]

I have little time at present. My 240 GB storage hard disk crashed and I am packing up my lab for moving.

You said you have a lot of power outages and overvoltages that take down appliances. If your hard drive died in one of these events and symptom is "no motor spin" it is possible your drive is ok. There is a TVS diode on each supply input. In such events one of these can short and cause this. Remove it and all is well but your drive really will die the next event unless you replace the TVS with another.