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  • When trouble shooting sometimes chips, caps or resistors can get much hotter than surrounds parts. It can let you know to inspect that part for replacement.

    Sure don’t grab leads with your fingers but sometimes you can tell something like a voltage regulator is malfunctioning because it just gets really hot.

    I mean you can just use an IR camera but most people don’t have one.





  • I’m no expert either but a first step would be to take the case off and listen for which part the whine is coming from. That may clue you in.

    You can also touch parts and see if any are extra warm/hot soon after start up.

    That can help direct your trouble shooting.

    Don’t buy parts until you have a clue as to what might be happening. It’ll save you money.











  • These statements are contradictory. I have heard of the limitation of printers deliberately refusing to reproduce colors that exactly match that of currency. Is that a hoax? If not, then there is no need for stego.

    Over different years there were different methods implemented to stop counter-fitting. The color shifting is one of the methods I heard of.

    it’s been decades since I was doing research on printing. The features can all be disabled, but you have to get a bunch of government approval and sign a whole lot of documents to get permission to shut it off. Even then I had to have the manufacturer do it.

    I just did a quick google to see what was modern

    I looks like the program is voluntary and under the direction of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group. Disabling the countermeasures fall under laws about possessing equipment that can be used for counterfeiting EU 2014/62. It’s a criminal offense to posses equipment that can counterfeit banknotes.

    My program advisor handled the government part of the paperwork.

    It does, obviously. You have unintended noise in the printout.

    Unless you are doing scientific analysis, it’s hard to find much less measure. You know it’s there, print a ‘blank’ page take a picture and upload an image of the dots.




  • Depends on the reason you are eating it. A baby spinach salad is the healthy way I like best it’s easy enough to eat a 1/2 to 1 pound at a time.

    My favorite spinach dish is a Stouffer’s Spinach Soufflé. It’s the opposite of healthy. I used to cook it to a soft set and use it as a chip dip. It became my go to dip to replace artichoke dip