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by squarefoot 2783 days ago
EE aside, keeping the magic smoke confined inside the components requires also some good witchcraft knowledge:)
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The real crazy stuff is RF electronics. That stuff is voodoo.
You mean 'weird messed-up alien voodoo black magic stuff'?

This is coming from Mike at mikeselectricstuff no less, lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyA2lWQrxwg&feature=youtu.be...

If this is intriguing, Shahriar from The Signal Path does know how this stuff works and does some amazing teardowns and repairs of six (and likely seven) figure RF equipment.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxRARSpahF1Mt-2vbPug-g

It’s not really. People like everyone to think it is.

The difference is the building blocks of circuits are different due to function and most of the time you are interested in power transfer (which requires different impedance matching relationship).