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The Monday recall report: A million Jeeps, a rollaway-prone Ford, and NHTSA's worst week yet

NHTSA quietly logs dozens of new recall campaigns most weeks, and almost nobody notices until a service advisor mentions one ...
Hackaday

DIY SI5351 Radio Tunes In SW, MW, And More

There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up yourself instead. The build employs an ESP32 as ...
Electrek

Cybertruck failure kills home charging, and Tesla is avoiding a recall

A growing number of Tesla Cybertruck owners are losing the ability to charge at home due to failures of the truck’s Power Conversion System (PCS), the unit that handles AC charging and steps the ...
IEEE

A 5-GHz Quadrature Switched-Capacitor Power Amplifier With IQ-Cell-Sharing and Serial Transformer Combiner in 28-nm CMOS

Abstract: This letter presents a 5-GHz quadrature digital power amplifier (DPA) with serial transformer power combiner and in-phase and quadrature (IQ)-cell-sharing, which overcomes the 3-dB power ...
IEEE

Power Cycling Modeling and Lifetime Evaluation of SiC Power MOSFET Module Using a Modified Physical Lifetime Model

Abstract: This study aims to explore the solder fatigue lifetime of a developed high-voltage (1.7 kV/100 A) SiC power MOSFET module for on-board chargers (OBCs) subjected to power cycling test (PCT) ...