Waiting...

Well, just got the card from the post office telling me I have a parcel waiting, shall get that tomorrow and see what I got! I'm so far rather disappointed with Electronic Goldmine, as it appears out of the 6 IRF640 I ordered, only two were in stock so they only sent the two (luckily, as those two MOSFET's drove the order, hopefully I don't kill any of them), and did not notify me of any change in the order, not give a refund as far as I'm aware (albeit not a large loss) of the 4 that weren't put in the order. Hopefully the parcel of awesome changes my opinion of that.

On another note, school is tiring... Got block exams coming up next week, and the teachers are piling on the revision, getting so sick of all things school after spending most of my spare time revising (when I can convince myself to do it, that is).

Got two views the other day, pretty happy about that, good to see the tags are working, although not sure what relevance a dental implants website has to my blog? Ah well...

Busy

Well, so much for trying to post often and get an audience. School is having fun with the numerous assignments and exams coming up, so I'm finding less time to be able to procrastinate... Oh well, so far it doesn't appear that I have any readers, ah well...

Coming soon, projects include a photo-interrupter switch (woo, nice and simple), and possibly a pressure switch of sorts using a pressure transducer from a smart drive washing machine. (these use a ferrite bead mounted to a diaphragm which changes the frequency the coil around it resonates at, according to the movement of the bead)!

Also, still waiting for my Goldmine order to ship, guess it takes a while to pack in all the stuff...

Shipping & Electronic Goldmine

Shipping...
Just finalised my order with the Electronic Goldmine, which originally was intended only to provide MOSFET's for my ZVS driver. I ended up having to bring up the cost of my order ($50 international minimum with shipping), to a reasonable figure, which I decided should be just over $40.

After getting a cost for shipping, I started wondering if the order was going to be worth it, over double the cost of the items, to get them shipped! I'm betting the toroid assortment had something to do with the 7-8kg weight of it, although the rest of that must be in the super surprise box. Hoping there's something well worth it in there... I believe that's the most money I've ever spent in one shot! (must be the scrooge coming out in me)

I find it kind of ironic, how we can afford to bring in tonnes and tonnes of products from places like China, overseas, and still have them sold for "bargain basement" prices whereas my puny order still manages to seem so much more expensive, surely the shipping containers they come in must cost some amount of money. Maybe they use cheap resources to power their transport...

Either way, I'll post pictures of what arrives when they do, to give the next person some idea of what they will get from Electronic Goldmine. Hopefully it's something noteworthy!

Edit: Turns out the shipping ended up being just under $100AUD, a lot more than I expected.

Second try at Blogger

As the title suggests, this is my second attempt at blogging. I've previously attempted it but ended up leaving my blog dormant for many moons at a time. Not very successful.

I shall attempt to keep this blog a little more active.

Thanks for reading,
Beau!