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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…

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I’m guessing: the person who typed this up heard the word, but never encountered it in actual use.
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Yes, yes, I know OpenOffice and its ilk have all the features you think you need.
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Searching around for an LM386 SPICE model turned up this useful thread.
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You can’t cover the entire crimped region, lest the terminal not snap into the housing, but halfway seems to work fine.
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Maybe the right thing to do is start with a street-legal truck light and build some electronics around it.
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Bicycling Magazine, August 2009, page 35.
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“Stop charging when [the surface temperature] is over 70C or it feels very hot”.