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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 12:51 AM
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OK, OK,, maybe not half but our local postage stamp with 3 day delivery is AUD$1 now.

 

This DC/DC up converter rated at 2 amps is US$0.49 DELIVERED!!! I just had to order 10 pieces... cheeky

 

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/M...

 

Ross

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Posted by js: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 02:05 AM
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And try and get 30c stamps to go with your stock of existing 70c stamps.

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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 02:12 AM
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I just tear a 70 in half... they can keep the extra 5cents.

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Posted by jgmdesign: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 02:13 AM
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That is a great deal seeing as how the company listed on the back of the unit wants almost $3.00usd for one unit. Plus delivery

 

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Posted by joeymorin: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 04:11 AM
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Nice.  Too bad the enable pin isn't exposed.

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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 04:16 AM
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For US$0.49 I am willing to do some surgery on the enable pin myself.

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Posted by jgmdesign: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 04:30 AM
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Wonder if you can run a 12v water pump on two AA cells with one of those units? wink

 

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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 04:32 AM
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devil depends upon the water pump. The one I just rescued and tried in my water storage tank draws 5.4 amps at 12 volts.

 

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Posted by JohanEkdahl: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 09:45 AM
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Is this just me forming conspiracy theories, or is the trim pot saying "BONENS" in the same typeface thar "BOURNES" use?

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Posted by sparrow2: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 09:56 AM
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Our normal letter just went up to 19 DKr =2.55 € 

 

  

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Posted by Kartman: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 12:11 PM
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An all too common story unfortunately. There was a whole batch of solar inverters that were dropping like flies out here. It all came down to a 1A schottky diode failing that really shouldn't fail and it caused a cascade a destruction that rendered them uneconomic to repair. There was no happy ending - a few peole got caught with dud inverters.

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Posted by Torby: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 02:03 PM
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I don't see anywhere he specifies the input and output voltage ranges.

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Posted by JohanEkdahl: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 02:07 PM
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Torby wrote:
I don't see anywhere he specifies the input and output voltage ranges.

From the actual home page of the product: 

1.Electrical characteristics
1). The maximum output current: 2A
2). The input voltage: 2V ~ 24V
3). The maximum output voltage: > 28V
4). Efficiency: > 93%

 

and...

 

3.How to use it?

[...]

  • Adjust the potentiometer to adjust the output voltage. Please be noted that the output voltage should be higher than the input voltage.

 

and...

 

4.Notes
1). The input voltage should not exceed the maximum input voltage
2). The peak current output current should not exceed maximum output current

 

Point 4.1 is kind of a "Duh!"..

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Posted by ki0bk: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 03:04 PM
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Note Quantity available 999k+!!!  I wonder if that was a slight manufactures overrun on production, like someone missed the "." or "," depending on where your from, on the order form.

 

 

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Posted by theusch: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 03:19 PM
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I was going to look up the part and make some post like "I can't even buy the  part for that". Google found the datasheet from Aerosemi.  But put mt3608 into Octopart or Findchips and they aren't available to mere mortals.

 

 

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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 10:32 PM
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My 10 units are on the way... will let you know how they perform when they get here... "couple of weeks"

 

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Posted by Torby: Fri. Jan 8, 2016 - 11:09 PM
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Might go for that myself. But then, they'd probably ship it to an address I had years ago. (Been having trouble with that.)

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Posted by mnehpets: Sun. Jan 10, 2016 - 12:48 AM
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JohanEkdahl wrote:

Is this just me forming conspiracy theories, or is the trim pot saying "BONENS" in the same typeface thar "BOURNES" use?

Yeah, I too noticed the name on the trimpot. I don't think it's an attempt to deceive the end user - I would think that anyone who cares about the quality of their trimpots will know the difference between bournes and bonens. However, I do think that bonens are trying to evoke an image of bournes-like quality. It's similar to the way nearly every multimeter comes in a yellow holster in an attempt to associate with fluke (of course, that ended in a silly kerfuffle at sparkfun a few years back).

 

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