John said:
Jim Thompson wrote:
I think this is exactly what the schematic indicates. I have seen
this used on several guitar effects boxes, where pulling the 1/4 inch
phone plug out of the box kills the power, this way. I don't care
much for it, because it puts the supply voltage into whatever is the
signal source at the moment the plug is pushed in.
Exactly. Every circuit that uses the ring as the batt ground should be
changed to use it to ground the base of a PNP transistor, thru a
resistor, to turn it and the rest of the circuit on. A few cents for a
transistor and resistor isn't too much to ask for preventing the battery
voltage from going out to the guitar pickups.
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PUNCTUATION - Apostrophe
Incorrect uses: (i) the apostrophe must not be used with a plural
where there is no possessive sense, as in ~tea's are served here~;
(ii) there is no such word as ~her's, our's, their's, your's~.
Confusions: it's = it is or it has (not 'belonging to it'); correct
uses are ~it's here~ (= it is here); ~it's gone~ (= it has gone);
but ~the dog wagged its tail~ (no apostrophe).
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