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Weekend

July 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Friday at work was pretty fun. I’m getting to the bottom of the resistor-destruction case; I hadn’t thought of it before, but when resistors get hot (which is what we want), they dissipate most of their heat by heating up the air around them. When there isn’t any air (it’s in a really strong vacuum), [...]

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