Fwd: 1963 Stereo Repair - Circuit Junctions - Recycled Electronics - RF Oscillators

Newsletter #105

Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. 1963 ZENITH MK2670 STEREO REPAIR Preserving a piece of stereo history, a tube console stereo repair story. Vintage gear is really special. There's just nothing like the unique sound, look, and feel of an old tube hi-fi glowing away and playing your favorite record. Unlike a lot of modern gear, they can still be worked on and fixed up by a dedicated hobbyist. Read It Now! LIGHT BULBS, LEDs, AND CIRCUIT JUNCTIONS I was working on a project with different colored LEDs. Putting them in parallel across a power supply was simple but puzzling, because the different colored LEDs simply wouldn't light properly. I now know why, and it appears that driving (different colored) LEDs in parallel directly from a DC power supply was simply not a good idea. This article will explain why. Read It Now! R&S®RTB2000 Digital Oscilloscope – More Than Just an Oscilloscope The R&S®RTB2000 Oscilloscope is the perfect tool for design debugging. Get 10-bit ADC, 10 Msample memory, and 10.1" touchscreen plus a smart user interface. It's the Power of 10 at an unexpected price. View Specs & Applications Advertisement USB MEDIA PLAYER CONTROLLER RECYCLED ELECTRONICS — Giving New Life to Old Tech! This 'Recycled Electronics' build uses a knob assembly that began its life as the control for a Sharp VCR to create a controller for the Windows Media Player. Read It Now! NUTS & VOLTS ON CD-ROM Don't have space to store all your paper copies? Want to take Nuts & Volts on the road or on the plane? Need to search for past articles? Find Out More! RF OSCILLATORS Every signal begins with an oscillator — In ham radio, the oscillator is a key element in generating signals, mixing them together, and extracting the information from them. Let's see how to make an audio oscillator, plus learn about common RF types. Read It Now! "Beautiful kit, informative manual, striking finished product. This came nicely packed, components in separate well labeled bags. you could see the components were high quality. I had a nice Heath-kit flashback assembling it. Great fun and it looks good." pyrokev Robots - The Ultimate Electronics Application! SERVO Magazine is the universe's longest running hobbyist magazine for robotics. Being a spin-off of Nuts & Volts (the universe's longest running hobbyist magazine for electronics, still in print), SERVO is the perfect companion to NV with more of the same great content, only geared toward robotics. Click to Subscribe! If you love robots and tech, then SERVO is for you! You are receiving this email because you have been a subscriber to Nuts & Volts Magazine, or have requested to receive our email newsletters. You may unsubscribe, change your email address or content preferences at any time through the links provided below. STAY CONNECTED: Nuts & Volts Magazine | 430 Princeland Court, Corona, CA 92879 951.371.8497 | editor@nutsvolts.com  | www.nutsvolts.com T & L Publications, Inc   430 Princeland Court    Corona  CA   92879   United States You received this email because you are subscribed to Electronics Newsletter from T & L Publications, Inc. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.  Unsubscribe from all future emails