Please help me with (insert task here)

[Bob Ferapples]

To save time and bandwidth, I have boiled down the vast majority of
postings to this newsgroup into a quick and dirty little format that
can speed things up. Please follow this format from now on in this
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Please kind (
insert platitudes here, or addreess titles i.e. Sirs or Madames),

I am a new
(insert job function or social status here, i.e. Student, Engineer,
Electrician, Homeowner etc.)

<optional> from
(insert non-english speaking country)

and I have this
(insert task here, i.e. homework assignment, personal project, project
assigned to me, problem with my appliance etc.).

I know
(insert qualifications here, i.e. next to nothing, very little, a
little, enough to be dangerous etc.) about electricity,

but was hoping that you all could help me to
(restate task here, but without saying what you really mean, i.e. do
my homework for me, get me out of a jam, help me to avoid paying a
professional to do it correctly, get me through this day without
having to think, avoid electrocuting myself or my loved ones etc).

I hope to hear from you soon.

Nooby Nooberson

 

[martin griffith]

Bob Ferapples wrote:
To save time and bandwidth, I have boiled down the vast majority of
postings to this newsgroup into a quick and dirty little format that
can speed things up. Please follow this format from now on in this
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What is Guy Macon up to these days? Maybe worth redirecting to
wherever he is hiding?


martin

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

What is Guy Macon up to these days? Maybe worth redirecting to
wherever he is hiding?


martin

Maybe in little fiefdom, the product development newsgroup.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Jonathan Bromley]

Bob Ferapples wrote:
To save time and bandwidth, I have boiled down the vast majority of
postings to this newsgroup into a quick and dirty little format that
can speed things up.

A few years ago, someone posted a very funny take on this
to sci.electronics.design. It listed a large number of
spurious acronyms for use as responses to irritating
querants - I can't find it now, but it was stuff like

WWTYBYMHY - We Won't Tell You Because You Might Hurt Yourself

(for use in response to people asking how to make a Tesla coil
out of paper clips and a car battery - you know the kind of thing.)

Anyone got a link to the original?
--
Jonathan Bromley, Consultant

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[TimPerry]

To save time and bandwidth, I have boiled down the vast majority of
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i have a question that maybe you can help with.

if conventional current is the flow of holes, and holes are essentially
nothing, how does any work get done?

 

[Boudewijn Dijkstra]

Op Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:15:02 +0200 schreef Michael A. Terrell

It depends on which way you hook it up. ;-)

For people with the aforementioned skill level, that wouldn't matter
much. It will probably say "poof!" and start to smell. Noobs who can
learn from this experience, gradually build the skill to make the diode do
absolutely nothing at all.

 

[krw]

The famous N.E.D. (noise emitting diode) - goes bang just one time!

Dark Emitting Axial Diode. "It's DEAD, Jim."

 

[daestrom]

i have a question that maybe you can help with.

if conventional current is the flow of holes, and holes are essentially
nothing, how does any work get done?

In boot camp, there used to be a lot of work done 'moving holes'. You know,
dig the hole where the sargent says, he comes by later and says 'fill it
in'. You finish filling it in and he walks over five feet and says, "dig it
here." ( a whole lot of work 'moving' the hole five feet)

daestrom

 

[Dennis]

The famous N.E.D. (noise emitting diode) - goes bang just one time!

Luhan

Or as my wife called it once when I hooked up a small diode backwards
the "temporarily light emitting diode" the TLED I guess.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

For people with the aforementioned skill level, that wouldn't matter
much. It will probably say "poof!" and start to smell. Noobs who can
learn from this experience, gradually build the skill to make the diode do
absolutely nothing at all.

Reminds me of the electrician test. You give the new guy a 5 tube ACDC radio
and a power plug to connect to it.

If he does it right and the radio runs he becomes an electrician.

If he blows a fuse he becomes a radio repairman.

If he takes the power out in a city block he becomes an electrical engineer.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

If (s)he takes the radio to pieces and never gets around to putting the
plug on, but holds the wires in the socket with a couple of matchsticks,
(s)he becomes an engineering academic...

That was my favorite technique - on 240 VAC!

 

[Don Bruder]

Op Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:15:02 +0200 schreef Michael A. Terrell


For people with the aforementioned skill level, that wouldn't matter
much. It will probably say "poof!" and start to smell. Noobs who can
learn from this experience, gradually build the skill to make the diode do
absolutely nothing at all.

Ahhhh, the zen of mastery... How does one know when one has become a
master? When the diode does nothing.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

VSC = Voltage to Smoke Converter

-Dave

A heating coil stuck in some spices from the spice cupboard.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Popelish]

Reminds me of the electrician test. You give the new guy a 5 tube ACDC radio
and a power plug to connect to it. (snip)
If he takes the power out in a city block he becomes an electrical engineer.

If this happens, the D.O.D. whisks him or her away in the dead of night.

 

[John Woodgate]

Then what do you call an eight year old who takes a box of loose
parts and builds a radio?

Me? (;-)

No, I can't claim eight; ten, though. Purely due to lack of data; I had
enough parts but didn't know how to put them together.

 

[Don Bruder]

A girl.

ZING!!!!!

Nice one

 

[martin griffith]

Me? (;-)

No, I can't claim eight; ten, though. Purely due to lack of data; I had
enough parts but didn't know how to put them together.

Didn't you buy Practical Wireless/ Wireless World? You could even get
those in Wales


martin

 

[John Woodgate]

All the most truly exceptional engineers that I have met were/are all
"fitted with, rather than fitted for"..

I've met a pretty exceptional one, of the female persuasion, through the
Audi Engineering Society EMC standards group. NASA and all that. Lots of
high-precision RF work, and a ham ticket. I don't know her call. Another
is an Australian, into very advanced digital audio.

But of course that's two among thousands. However, the number of female
members of the Society is increasing rapidly.

 

[John Woodgate]

Didn't you buy Practical Wireless/ Wireless World? You could even get
those in Wales

I was ten in 1947. At ten, you couldn't afford a shilling for PW, let
alone two for WW (and I didn't like sweets, so I wasn't spending on
other stuff). I started taking WW in November 1952, but my father bought
it for me for the first year.

 

[Mike Lamond]

If (s)he takes the radio to pieces and never gets around to putting the
plug on, but holds the wires in the socket with a couple of matchsticks,
(s)he becomes an engineering academic...

You reminded me of the trip one of my former coworkers took to
Pakistan around 1991-92. He was starting up the PLC-based control
system we had supplied for the power plant cooling radiators, but the
control room heater was a length of nichrome wire wrapped around a
concrete block then spliced to a line cord!

Mike (who has several 5 tube radios plus a Philco model 70 chassis
in storage to be restored... eventually...)