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Naos1984

Naos1984

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How do you support your family, your fish and your other hobbies? Are you in the field you like or have always dreamed of?

I'll start. I am an electronics engineer working in a very large US-based company under their power supply division. I have been transferred from one location to another to pioneer a department that had been dissolved in the original location. It's been 5 years since and my contract had been extended for a few other reasons. The pay is much better but I get homesick most of the time. Fishkeeping and some other hobbies make me forget I am in another country which is very foreign to me. This is hardly my first choice in college but I had very little choice during that time. Just went "practical". How about you guys?
 
Hardware engineer, board level designer of high speed line cards. My products can be found powering places as diverse as Lawrence Livermore labs, CERN, google data centers, Facebook, Zygna, NYSE, etc...


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Naos1984 said:
How do you support your family, your fish and your other hobbies? Are you in the field you like or have always dreamed of?

I'll start. I am an electronics engineer working in a very large US-based company under their power supply division. I have been transferred from one location to another to pioneer a department that had been dissolved in the original location. It's been 5 years since and my contract had been extended for a few other reasons. The pay is much better but I get homesick most of the time. Fishkeeping and some other hobbies make me forget I am in another country which is very foreign to me. This is hardly my first choice in college but I had very little choice during that time. Just went "practical". How about you guys?
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I'm surprised you would have problems finding a job stateside. Power supply engineers are always in demand...in fact my latest project find myself trying to power a monster chip that burns over 100W just by itself, if you can design something like 12v to 1v DC to DC converter for 85a with low ripple, a number of companies probably can use you.


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ecoli73 said:
I'm surprised you would have problems finding a job stateside. Power supply engineers are always in demand...in fact my latest project find myself trying to power a monster chip that burns over 100W just by itself, if you can design something like 12v to 1v DC to DC converter for 85a with low ripple, a number of companies probably can use you.


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I'm hardly as brilliant as you make me out to be. I work specifically in the reliability side of DC-DC power supplies. Those specs are what I usually deal with even more complex, lower voltage and higher power.
 
Naos1984 said:
I'm hardly as brilliant as you make me out to be. I work specifically in the reliability side of DC-DC power supplies. Those specs are what I usually deal with even more complex, lower voltage and higher power.
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Reliability is important...I remember a "brilliant" engineer designed a power supply that put 80a on a single phase...result? A few month into product shipment, our boards in the field started to have mysterious reboots. Remotely we couldn't see anything, upon recall of several boards, we discover that due to large transient currents, some of the ceramic caps were exploding.

The resulting fire drill of redesign and replacing the units in field was not so fun.


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I teach at a small rural K-8 school. I currently teach 4th grade, but in the past I've taught 2nd/3rd, 3rd/4th, 4th/5th, 1st/2nd/3rd, 2nd/3rd/4th, ESL, and Spanish. I keep a Common Snapping Turtle in a 300G in the lobby of our school and I have a 125 in my classroom. :headbang2

Naos, where are you from and where do you live now, if you don't mind saying? :popcorn:
 
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