MEP EP#265: NuFuel and Gas Classic

Resealing 12oz cans?
- FAIL!
- Worked till can shaken a bunch
- Improvements
  - Working on finding a softer sealing surface
    - Currently using a Shore 55A neoprene rubber sheet
  - Increase seal pressure on can

Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies
- Follow up from last week's discussion on Auto industry shutting down production due to lack of electrical components.
- Both automakers and chip manufactures are pointing fingers
  - Chip makers point at the auto industry in that they are quick to cut production and cancel orders when car sales slump
- Auto industry where used to being the center of attention for chip and electrical component manufacturers
  - The industry spends around $40 billion dollars a year on chips
  - By Comparison, Apple spends more on chips just to make iPhones!
  - Chips used in Auto tend to be more basic products and older micro controllers, Something that chip fabs do not really want to invest more production into
  - Chip Fabs are prioritizing higher margin, leading edge components
- OnSemi plans to be back on schedule by 3rd Quarter

Starting a small business to sell hardware?
- Tips for Parker?
- This will be covered next week

DipTrace - PCB teardrops
- Benefits
  - Stronger pad adhesion making for better reworkability
  - Prevents acid traps at sharp corners where traces meet a pad
    - This really is not an issue anymore
  - Inspect your board and run your DRC
- Potentially make shorted pins appear worse
- Interesting tombstone issue

Coolio opamp - TLV915x
- Pricing
  - TLV9152 $0.354 in qty
  - TLV9154 $0.525 in qty
- Offset
  - 125uV typ
  - 780uV max across temp
  - Input bias and input offset 10pA
- 20V power
  - 750uA max across temperature supply current per channel
- Rail to rail
  - 2k load 250mV from rail with 16V power
  - Drops to a fe mV with lower power

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