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Experiment: Output “Off” State on Test Equipment – Is It Really Off?

Posted on August 29, 2021 by lui_gough

It’s time to run a few experiments. You get to your lab and turn on your power supplies and electronic loads and they start-up, ready for action. For safety, most of them start up with their outputs off. Seems simple … Continue reading →

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Tips: Debugging SCPI & VISA Automation (Including NI I/O Trace)

Posted on July 4, 2021 by lui_gough

If I’ve lured you into the realm of SCPI automation using pyvisa to get the most from your test equipment, sooner or later, you’re probably going to end up in a situation where something doesn’t work and you don’t know … Continue reading →

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Quick Tip: DisplayPort Display Colours Subdued? Edges Fuzzy? Colour Fringing?

Posted on January 24, 2021 by lui_gough

This is just a quick tip post about a problem I’ve encountered just in case it helps anyone. Ever had an instance where your display might blink out and come back, but the colours then seem off and black-and-white text … Continue reading →

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Slow Hard Drive? Things to Check

Posted on June 7, 2015 by lui_gough

Since I posted my review article on the Seagate 8Tb Archive HDD, which uses SMR technology, I have had several readers complain that I was getting much better results in benchmarks than they were, and their numbers were much worse … Continue reading →

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Tip: Upgrading your FLAC collection to FLAC 1.3.1

Posted on December 25, 2014 by lui_gough

Music enthusiasts and audiophiles generally view lossy compression as evil. Depending on how it’s done, it can significantly alter the music itself, introducing imperfections and destroying subtle cues. In a world where storage and processing are getting increasingly cheap, the … Continue reading →

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