XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: roger@hayter.org   
      
   On 5 Mar 2024 at 13:45:55 GMT, "Bill Sloman"  wrote:   
      
   > On 5/03/2024 11:21 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 20:56:01 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 5/03/2024 8:30 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 12:52:04 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   wrote:   
   >>>>> On 5/03/2024 2:50 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>>>> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:29:02 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 4/03/2024 5:03 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>>> This might have been the information you needed, if you knew enough to   
   >>>>> process it. The placement of your response suggests that you don't.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Your remarks were so trite they didn't bear a response. Everyone here   
   >>>> knows electrolytic caps need to be re-formed if they've been unused   
   >>>> for any significant length of time.   
   >>>   
   >>> But you didn't mention it in your original post, and clearly don't   
   >>> appreciate what it is actually doing.   
   >>   
   >> Ah, that must be it. Over 60 years of hobby electronics and I never   
   >> knew that. Thanks for spoon-feeding me that vital tidbit, Bill. How   
   >> would we ever manage without you?   
   >   
   > You don't manage all that well. The vital tit-bit of information came   
   > from electrochemistry, which isn't covered in detail in hobby   
   > electronics, but was part of my undergraduate chemistry course - John   
   > Larkin's did at least first year chemistry too, but robablyu wasn't   
   > paying attention to that bit of the course.   
      
   You mean there's a *syllabus* for hobby electronics?   
      
      
      
      
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