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Workbench: Get Funky with Adafruit Audio FX
Send us your project ideas for this nifty sound board
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Workbench: Adaptors Help Solve Pin 1 Problems
Also, some options for lubricating locks when things get cold
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Use an Octopus to Check Components
Also, consider 3M Cold Shrink for your next tower cable run
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It’s Always the Right Season to Check Your Backups
Consider the case of this non-functioning RF amplifier
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Workbench: Retirement starts in your living room!
Also, remember to identify Pin 1 when wiring XLR connectors
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Gifts to Yourself to Start the New Year Right
A dozen affordable ideas to refresh your toolkit
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Workbench: The importance of microphone cable shields
Also, watch how a computer can model an FM directional pattern
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Workbench: T-R-R-S: A new computer wiring protocol?
Also, free and inexpensive problem-solvers from AudioMan and Pira.cz and a new spectrum chart
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Workbench: Toothpicks can help improve your bite
Try this temporary fix the next time you encounter a loose hinge
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Workbench: The Beauty of a Shorted Quarter-Wave Stub
Xenirad calls it “the ultimate in coaxial lightning protection”
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Workbench: Time to Plan for Old Man Winter
Top off your generator fuel and get yourself an orange vest
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Workbench: Readers React to Frank Hertel’s “Outtaphaser”
Also, Bill Ruck deploys “the mother of all isolation boxes”
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Workbench: Amp Up Your Bathroom Visits
Here’s an option for station monitoring around the building
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Workbench: This Adapter Simplifies AES Connections
Also, check the composition and specs of the wire you buy
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Workbench: A Noise-Canceling Mic for Sports Remotes
Try this simple solution to suppress unwanted crowd noise
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Workbench: How About Some PM for This AM?
Summer is a good time for preventive maintenance
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Workbench: Capacitors Damp Square Wave Output
Frank Hertel follows up on a question about his LED dimmer project
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Inexpensive Adapters Speed AoIP EAS Connection
Also, an inexpensive introduction to electronics from Radio Shack
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Workbench: Build an LED Fixture Dimmer Circuit
Get only the light you need with Frank Hertel’s workbench project
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Workbench: How to Get a Peek Into Hard-to-See Places
Also, a tip for shedding more light on your workbench
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Workbench: Blast Through Concrete Silently
Also, selecting the correct electrical terminations
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This Cable Tester Can Save You Time
Also, Marc Mann gets a scare from a Phone Phreaking Box
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Workbench: Archived Tip Saves Time and Money
Also, adding remote fault reset to a generator
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Workbench: IR Camera Spots a Dead Cooling Fan
For one engineer, this handy tool has more than paid for itself
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Workbench: Remember a Ground Kit at the Base
Also, a whole batch of other simple but useful tips for use around your...
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Workbench: Tips for Avoiding Wet Encounters
Also, a postscript to our discussion about generator maintenance
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Maintain Equipment for Long Life Spans
Also, use Cal-Blue Plus to spot slowwwwwww nitrogen leaks
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Workbench: Germicidals May Kill Your Electronics
Not all sanitizing wipes are safe to use on your equipment
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Workbench: More on the STL Support Pole
Also, Bondic is an ultra-strong adhesive that cures with UV light
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Workbench: A Lineman’s Tips to Ground an STL Pole
Also more about gas discharge tubes and metal oxide varistors
From the Editor
Happy 30 Years to RW’s Workbench!
John Bisset began writing our popular tips column in 1990
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Get More Out of Your Tower Re-Lamp
Also, here’s a way to improve your engineering skills for $25
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Workbench: Time to Prepare for Ice and Snow
The mind boggles at the uses for this product invented by the Rocket Chemical...
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How Michael Bolton Can Be 300 Times Worse
Also, a way to troubleshoot nitrogen leaks in pressurized transmission line
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GDTs vs. MOVs: Choose Carefully
Though MOVs respond more quickly, the higher capacitance limits their use
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Workbench: Build This XLR Cable Tester
Use it to test XLR-connected cables for proper wiring and polarity
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Workbench: A Good-Looking Weld Is Not Always a Good Weld
Also, here’s an industrial and business surface sterilizer (if you can get your hands...