[09:00] <rmg51> Morning
[09:00] <rmg51> http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20140805_Brendan_Schrader__friend_to_inventors.html
[10:18] <JonathanD> Indeed.
[10:18] <JonathanD> I'm preparing to head over there later this morning.
[10:18] <JonathanD> Morning rmg51
[10:19] <rmg51> o/
[11:59] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[12:03] <JonathanD> Morning.
[12:04] <teddy-dbear> \o
[12:22] <InHisName> Anyone read the obituary in today's Phila Inquirer ?
[12:23] <InHisName> rmg51: got the link up already
[12:24] <rmg51> yep
[12:26] <rmg51> http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20140805_Brendan_Schrader__friend_to_inventors.html
[12:27] <rmg51> for those who are too lazy to scroll up ^^
[12:40] <waltman> Very sad news. I only met him a few times, but he seemed like a great guy.
[12:42] <JonathanD> He was a great guy.
[12:42] <waltman> ok, off to the train. later.
[12:43] <JonathanD> I saw him 2 weeks ago at hive open house. At the time I mentioned he should come out to north some time to hang out. He said all thsoe smart people in one room made him not feel very bright. But he was a very bright guy himself.
[12:43] <JonathanD> I'm glad I went down that day.
[13:39] <waltman> JonathanD: I kind of felt the same way when I visited hive :)
[13:41] <waltman> Oh, and if there's one thing I've learned working with electrical engineers the past couple of years, it's this: it's always the capacitors that go in HDTVs :)
[17:33] <InHisName> their MTBF is the worst of the componets used in circuits.   All these years since my schooling and only a small improvement in that.
[17:48] <waltman> For the one that they worked on in my lab, they determined it wasn't so much the capacitor itself, but rather it was a design flaw and they'd used one whose capacity was too low.
[17:48] <waltman> They replaced it with a higher capacity capacitor and it worked fine.
[17:55] <JonathanD> you can often fix TVs that way.
[17:55] <JonathanD> or LCDs