Monday, December 28, 2020

An Italian VOM: Chinaglia "Cortina Major"

I own one of those superb VOMs.

It features 40kOhm/Volt both in CC and AC, not a so common feature.

Googling around I realized that the schematic diagram is not available on the net.

Here it is:

Chinaglia Cortina Major
Please note the galvanometer specs: 17.5uA FS!!

Enjoy.

Emanuele.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

how to recover a ck77 3.3V camera module from a scrap PC

Got a ck77 94v-0 3.3V (model 5SF001N2F) camera module out of a scrap ASUS K550V. It shows a Realtek RTS5806 chip on board.



ck77 94v-0 3.3V (model 5SF001N2F)
ck77 94v-0 3.3V (model 5SF001N2F)


There are plenty of instructables posts and videos out there teaching how to recover webcams out of scrap PC.
Unfortunately none of them covers the webcam module I have got so I had to find myself the pinout needed to successfully connect it to a USB port.

Here are my findings:

Friday, December 7, 2018

Get rid of that f..ng "permission denied" error when using -acpitable file=/.. option in libvirt XML guest definition file.

ABSTRACT:

This post relates to how to activate an OEM windows10 when it runs as a kvm guest controlled by libvirt, getting rid of that f..ng "permission denied" you
get using the qemu:arg ... -acpitable command line option within the libvirt XML guest definition file.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE IN HURRY:

Grab your product key out of MSDM ACPI table.
Place your SLIC.bin file in /usr/share/seabios directory and have the XML line to point at it.
<qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/>
<qemu:arg value='file=/usr/share/seabios/SLIC.bin'/>


Run your guest, go to Windows and activate it using the product key you grabbed from MSDM.
Done.

DETAILS: