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2023 Project PANOPTES

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Safety Guide

Tips for safely building a PANOPTES unit.

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Last updated 2 years ago

Tool Safety and Tutorials

Listed below are a few links to some tutorials that you may find useful.

  • How to use wire strippers ()

    • Useful for measuring AC and DC voltages, and also for measuring DC current.

    • This is useful if you are fabricating your own long cable from two shorter cables (e.g. attaching two DC pigtails together).

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How to use a multimeter
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