Voltlog #236 - InTheMail

1:18→OBDII Connector
3:04→USB Electronic Load
7:45→10mm Heat Shrink Tube Transparent
8:15→VW J519 Terminal Connector for BCM
9:28→JST-GH 1.25mm Connector
10:46→MH-Tiny Attiny85 Development Board
11:41→GPPS Aquarium Clear Filter
12:50→USB-C Power Delivery Trigger Module
15:30→Seven Decade Resistor Board
17:02→45 Degree SMA Adapter
17:30→MMCX RG402 Connectors

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[Sprengi]

~3.6db loss? Not great, not terrible.

[AndreasSpiess]

Thank you for mentioning my channel and thank you for your hospitality! Next time in Switzerland, maybe?

[deviljelly]

Ah wonderful... I'm in Zurich.... Good that you guys got together :)

[TheDefpom]

Pretty cool that you got to meet “the guy with the Swiss accent”, I would like to meet other youtubers too, but opportunities are rare.

[John_Smith__]

Andreas is a good guy no doubt! :) He also has a good channel. Nice to see him visiting you.

[kjur]

Finally! One item that I already have. Decade resistor board. Everything else is new to me

[borayurt]

Ok, that development board is something I did not know, thanks for the info... (not attiny85, but Attiny88 by the way.)

[sofa-lofa]

The decade resistance board is a great product, I have an old 'wheel' type that is in regular use,
The USB-C PD board is very interesting, it would make an PD equipped powerbank into a useful multi-voltage source (is it just for voltage testing or can you pull an amp or 2 through it?)
You can buy in-line water filters that screw together so they are very quick and easy to clean, I found the supplied filter media restricted flow and bought some coarser filter pads and cut them to size, this gets round the problem of wrong media clogging within minutes/hours, also, 2 stage filtering can be the answer if you have large and small particles to filter out, hope this helps

Nice gift from Andreas, I've not seen the larger Swiss army knife, only the 2(?) smaller sizes

[douro]

All the way to Constanta...quite a way from Zurich.

[Gooberslot]

Wish you had tested that resistor board. Would be nice to see if it lives up to its 1% accuracy claim.

[jacek]

Hi, regarding cheap screws: perhaps they are pozidriv screws and you should use appropriate PZ screwdriver :)

[douro]

Isn't an STM32 a bit much for a USB-PD solution?

[kirkb]

JLCPCB kirkb4989 - JLC PCB is a great company and I am glad they are sponsoring you.

[binaryagenda]

Does the USB-C power delivery module remember the setting it is on? For example, could it be set to 9V and then every time you plug it in it would get 9V, allowing it to be permanently wired to another device that requires such a voltage?

[acoustic]

I want to see an inexpensive OBD code reader with manufacturer specific codes and also ABS SRS codes.

[UpcycleElectronics]

Have you seen the lcd from that current sink used anywhere else? I was a sucker and got a few of these LCD's for just over $1 each. There's no official documentation that I've been able to find. I know the pinout, a few commands, that it's an SPI implementation of a ST7565 controller and has an odd 96 x 65 resolution. I made a couple of breakout boards but I'm well aware this hacking project is over my pay grade. If I had a cheap working product that I could put a logic analyzer on, I might have a chance of hacking it. That mystery μC is not as friendly as I'd like, but getting one of theses just for the lcd info is tempting :-)
Thanks for the upload.
-Jake

[BeetleJuice]

boss you forgot the link for the crimp tool!

[leppie]

There is no link for Andreas's channel in the description

[deviljelly]

Where can I get a cheap scope in Konstanz?

[winstonsmith]

Does the MH-Tiny have an Arduino bootloader installed and is the USB connection just for power or also for programming?