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Month: March 2023

Reduce, Reuse, Repair

We talk about how wasteful the throw-away culture is.  The modern trend of our stuff being hostile to repair is certainly a topic of conversation amongst some societal circles.  Idea being that it is preferable for a thing to be designed in such a way as to be repairable rather than a thing to be designed in such a way as to be non-repairable.  A non-repairable thing would obviously have to be discarded in case Read more…


Gofotu

So here is an interesting topic – a cheap Chinese electric thingie performed better than advertised. Specificially a 240W DC-DC converter; 12VDC in, 24VDC out. It claims to be able to turn 20A of 12VDC into 10A of 24VDC. With the checkered history of price-concious Chinese products one may rightly be skeptical of such claims. And that’s why this genuine Gofotu H10-12-24 both surprises and delights. Not only does it live up to it’s claims, Read more…