E - Teardown

I don't know what's underneath the LCD.

Bodge capacitor at the bottom.

Capacitive keys in the lid

The tip is wasted, so I cracked it open. Will be thrown out once I have a replacement.

I like these multi-function potentiometers. Maybe I will save them from getting recycled too soon.

We've had a few cold days and my car wouldn't start anymore. It did a few 'wup wup wup-s' and that was it. Today I tracked down my radio to be the culprit. When I measured it today I determined it to have a standby consumption of 1.44W (120mA). And that sucks the battery dry in about 10 days. Something must have broken, as it didn't do that before. I couldn't find any obvious things like blown caps. The main amplifier gets a bit warm without any load attached and there is absolutely no signal reception anymore... DOH!

The top chip is a dual N-channel mosfet (TPCS8205), the bottom is the management chip (SC451). Which is supposed to do over-current and over-charge protection. From what I gather from the datasheet, over-current condition is detected by a voltage drop of the cell.

Supposed to prevent accidental activation, as it requires to press two non-adjacent buttons in the right sequence.

100W DC motor. Sufficient for cutting most breads. I don't need it anymore.

Not efficient, but sufficient.

100W DC motor. Sufficient for cutting most breads. I don't need it anymore.