MEP EP#349: Connector Catalogs

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep349-connector-catalogs/" target="_blank">MEP EP#349: Connector Catalogs<strong><br></strong></a></h4><p><a href="https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Parker-Dillmann" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>November 5, 2022 - Extra Life</strong></a></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1">Haven't had a chance to work on this yet</li> <li aria-level="1">Going to stream working on it?</li> </ul> <p><b>Adventures in injection molding</b></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1">PINNACLE 5112C3</li> <li aria-level="1">8% haze - this is pretty low. Any lower and it would be considered “clear”</li> <li aria-level="1">Low melt flow, excellent processability - Voids</li> <li aria-level="1">Two ways to create diffusion <ul> <li aria-level="2">Haze</li> <li aria-level="2">Surface Texture</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><b>Jeep Prop Fan&nbsp;</b></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1">Half bridges for each output</li> <li aria-level="1">Current sensing <ul> <li aria-level="2">INA219</li> </ul> </li> <li aria-level="1">Inputs <ul> <li aria-level="2">Found a product that will do the thermocouples on canbus</li> <li aria-level="2">Instead of that crazy LTC2986 chip <ul> <li aria-level="3">Just expose an ADC 0-5V&nbsp;</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li aria-level="1">Connectors are the hardest part of this project so far <ul> <li aria-level="2">Dictate the entire specifications</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.eetimes.com/with-new-fab-ti-bumping-up-analog-chip-production/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>RFAB2 Lab - an expansion of the RFAB1 Lab</b></a></p> <ul> <li>Sept. 29, TI announcedt began initial chip production at RFAB2, a new 300-mm analog wafer lab in Richardson, TX</li> <li aria-level="1">300 analog fab <ul> <li aria-level="2">digital isolator</li> <li aria-level="2">Ethernet transceiver</li> <li aria-level="2">brushless DC motor driver</li> <li aria-level="2">digital-to-analog converter</li> </ul> </li> <li ari