... That is good advice, and a reminder that I dearly miss good electronics application books. The difficulty here is that triacs aren't necessarily great for...
... That's what I was hoping he'd understand. Now that I think of it, though, he ought to have some guidance from some older scholar or teacher, and this ...
... I always liked that name. I have never used them, but I know about them because when I read any sort of catalog I am always drawn to the extremes of the...
... Yeah, but they're kewl. ... Though such things tend to be strongly hereditary, I suppose that the Strowger family is long out of the funeral-home business....
... k33 is me if I'm writing from the Web page. I forgot why it does that. ... My mother's definition of modern architecture is when you can't find the front...
In a message dated 5/1/2004 5:11:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Swell. I haven't been able to figure out crossbar systems from nothing except that they use...
Yes, forgot the URL. Here it is for your enjoyement. http://www.sodaplay.com/zoo/index.htm Earle Rich Mont Vernon, NH [Non-text portions of this message have...
... I am *not* a terrorist. ... Short clips of which will no doubt be featured in late night infomercials for the hot, sexy video, "Engineers Gone Wild". ... ...
... Hmmm, yeah, good point. Being an autodidact sounds all nice and fun; however, having some guidance sure makes things a *lot* easier. You waste far less...
... snip ... <more snip of good examples.> These are precisely the guidelines mandated for most scientific or technical papers that are submitted to referreed...
... One point may be helpful here. Some of the more electronic of us have noted that semiconductors usually don't work well in parallel because one will ...
... Nobody really knows. Active people may live longer because they're active, or perhaps longer-lived people are inherently more active into later life. ...
... One of the difficulties is that the high voltage looks hungrily upon that little #18 wire and wishes to flow thereupon into the control circuitry. Last I...
... Hmmm. I suppose I could ask the next UPS driver I see. ... Well, there is the terrorist factor. Remember the big shipment of UPS uniforms on sale at eBay...
... Trouble is that they won't handle screw-in fluorescents, or at least that's what it says on the package of those that I've seen. The triac doesn't like ...
... Wow. I'd forgotten about those two. Unfortunately, this particular post says more about sci.physics.electromag than it does about Archimedes Plutonium or...
... u r trying to sweep back the c. It's best to consider these expressions as you would any other slang, almost all of which was invented by young people and...
... I always read 'afaik' as an Arabic word: the Afaik are a nomadic tribe in Yemen. IIRC is a foreign corporate identifier: Eurokommunications IIRC. Otoh is...
... The best story I've heard is that they come from the manner in which wire is drawn. You start with a metal rod that's sharpened at one end like a pencil....
... It still exists. Here's a good source for usenet news if you don't have a decent newsfeed from your ISP: http://www.google.com/grphp For example, you can...
... The story I got was somewhat different. It all took place during the Great Artificial Vietnam Copper Shortage, during which we gained aluminum house ...
... Any idea what characteristic of aluminum would make it react to compression differently than copper? I wonder why a different aluminum alloy wouldn't have...
I have a sort of computer problem, but I need a solution that's simple enough for both me and high-school students. Over the years, I've had fun writing very...
In a message dated 5/2/2004 1:48:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... One of the difficulties is that the high voltage looks hungrily upon that little #18 wire and...
... If they have TI calculators, then they can use TI-BASIC. It's fantastically easy to learn; moreover, each calculator usually comes with the hardware (a...
... Now I'm confused, as usual. Two wires, one black and one white, go to a switched fixture. I cut the black, hot wire and connect the cut ends to the ...
... I just refreshed my newsgroups. My server carries 67,918 groups. There are five groups with "metalworking" in their name: rec.crafts.metalworking.general...