ePanorama.net

All about electronics and circuit design

Huge telephone cable replaced with fiber

I saw today changes made to telecom infrastructure in Helsinki Finland. A huge arm thick telephone cable (800 ot 1000 pair according to installers) that was pulled out of cable pipe with help of excavator. It was being replaced with modern optical cable 192 fibers in it that the installers were pulling in.

GIMP

I have long time used GIMP as my main image manipulation tool when making images for ePanorama.net. It can do all the normal image manipulation needed well. GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its

New Armv9 CPU core

ARM processors touch 70% of the global population. From the edge to the cloud, Arm is on track to touch 100 percent of the world’s shared data. Arm has announced Armv9, its first new ARM architecture in a decade. Arm’s solution to the future needs of AI, security and specialized computing is v9 released at

Questionable breaker locating methods

There are many cases where there is need to trace which electrical outlet is connected to which fuse/breaker. Anyone doing renovation is familiar with both residential and commercial buildings where the circuits weren’t identified properly. New buildings may label circuits very well, but older structures aren’t nearly as accurate or detailed. There’s a big difference

Passive summing mixer

For a passive summing mixer is a circuit to combine two audio signals to one signal. Passive summing works generally ok, both with unbalanced and balanced circuits if all connected circuits are same type (mixed balaced and unbalanced is mixed business if it works as wanted or not). When the devices connected to all inputs

Android WebView problems

A number of Android apps started to crash, including Gmal, for me on my Android phone last evening and this morning. Tried the normal reboot, update apps and system update. Those did not help. While searching for information if there is a known issue I found this: Android apps like Gmail are crashing and ‘WebView’

Cable tester NF-8209 tested

NOYAFA NF-8209 Network Cable Tester is used to measure cable continuity. It enables the measurement of connection errors in UTP / STP twisted pairs. The device is manufactured by SHENZHEN NOYAFA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD and sold with several different brand names. NF-8209 Main features: 1. Two scan modes selectable: AC filter & Non AC filter.