Manufacturing Electronics in Australia - A conversation with Kevin Poulter

Kevin Poulter is a Radio Historian and a Journalist who formally worked at Pye Telecommunications in Melbourne Australia. In this 2011 interview, Kevin talks about how he got started, how transistor radios affected his career and then becoming an apprentice at Pye. Kevin also comments on the perceptions of the day that manufacturing electronics was not ultimately feasible as manufacturers headed for China. A timely reminder to remind us all of the consequences of outsourcing everything.
Kevin Poulter is currently the President of the HRSA - a radio society based in Australia.
You can learn more about Kevin here: / kevin-poulter-52749249

[@muxallopeniot9194]

It’s crazy to think this interview is over nine years old. Some things are just timeless. Kevin Poulter seems like a very interesting man.

[@enzedpcs2]

I worked in electronics the uk in the test department as an prentice during the 70s, just as I found were the hum was coming the caps that had been wired in back to front exploded up in my face, moved over to networks after that.

[@lazycarper7925]

please can you help a noob, can somebody tell me if i can wire a 3 pole
relay as a single pole, i think thats what i want/need?, i needed a
relay to turn on and off from - 24vac,on the coil side-, 240v 35a on the
main load , and with out spending silly money i could only find a 3
pole one cheap, thats 35 amps , all i need it to do is when activated by
the 24v ac , allow the current of my 240v ac to pass to make the
circuit, and that can be just the live or the live and neutral, etc etc
if
it can be done?, would wiring it so my live splits and goes in to all 3
poles and then out all 3 poles(when activated), to give more current,
as its for my mig welder ,(24v trigger), so more amps the better, thank
you

[@OffGridAussiePrepper]

hahahaha i see no one answered u..... go to the eevblog forum.