The Harvest
Some of you from the old Insurance.com days might remember seeing something like this:
This was, if I recall correctly, one of the production database servers. Well, the motherboard at least.The server was stupid expensive. Back in 2001. It was loaded with 4GB of RAM and had 4 processors.Of course now my laptop can run circles around it; it's not worth plugging in.When ICom went away there was a give-away of the old crap that didn't have any value any more. I got a server. I took it apart and saved the boards for some reason I wasn't quite sure of.I moved with that board (and the processors, and the stupid-expensive memory).
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Over the weekend I was looking to source a few N-channel power MOSFETs.They're cheap, no doubt. But the shipping costs as much as the devices. Not only that but I can't seem to source non-audio power MOSFETs locally either so I guess I'm between a rock and a hard place.
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Then I thought of the hot-air rework station.
:-)After 20 minutes of work I got the MOSFETs I needed, and then some!
They're not what I would use on the charger, but they are plenty good enough to unblock my experimentation!
I got a nice FPGA, some memory, some precision 0R01Ω resistors, bunches of capacitors and inductors, some 74-series logic...All sorts of goodies! :-DSometimes, well, maybe, it pays to horde stuff like this... :-P I'll just keep telling myself I might need a MOSFET or something.