On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Um, even the small form factor PC on a board the size of your palm may
still rely on caps in the power supply that don't handle 760 to 0 mm
Hg/min so readily.
However, if you use a low-power board, you have less current to filter the
ripples
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped capacitors
were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't own a
laptop.)
The can caps can be surface-mounted as well. The leads then look
different, but the
At 05:15 PM 7/17/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped
capacitors
were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't
own a
laptop.)
-TD
With apologies, you really seem a troll at times.
The *power supply* may use
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are many various embedded computers available on the market, eg. the
one from http://www.gumstix.com/. (Question for the crowd: anybody knows
other comparable or better Linux-ready affordable embedded computer
solutions?)
When I investigated this a
Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped capacitors
were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't own a
laptop.)
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Date: Fri
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 06:35 AM 7/16/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which
laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm
to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
waves hand furiously
I got
At 04:03 AM 7/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
rapid depressurization so well.
Perhaps it's time to challenge the introductory assumption. Why a
laptop?
There are many
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which
laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm
to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped capacitors
were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't own a
laptop.)
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Date: Fri
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are many various embedded computers available on the market, eg. the
one from http://www.gumstix.com/. (Question for the crowd: anybody knows
other comparable or better Linux-ready affordable embedded computer
solutions?)
When I investigated this a
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if
any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
Hard drives won't be able to, you'd need solid state flash disks.
Sustainable operation will dry out lubricant in bearings, so any fans won't
last very long. Any cooling requiring convection won't work, radiative
cooling only. I suppose backlighting should be able to do, don't see how LCDs
will
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Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate
myself) which laptops, if any, can
At 06:35 AM 7/16/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which
laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm
to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
rapid
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 06:35 AM 7/16/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which
laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm
to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
waves hand furiously
I got
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which
laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm
to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
At 04:03 AM 7/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the
rapid depressurization so well.
Perhaps it's time to challenge the introductory assumption. Why a
laptop?
There are many
Hard drives won't be able to, you'd need solid state flash disks.
Sustainable operation will dry out lubricant in bearings, so any fans won't
last very long. Any cooling requiring convection won't work, radiative
cooling only. I suppose backlighting should be able to do, don't see how LCDs
will
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if
any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of An Metet
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate
myself) which laptops, if any, can
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