XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: cd@notformail.com   
      
   On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:18:00 -0800, john larkin  wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:00:28 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:11:00 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 6/03/2024 6:24 am, Roger Hayter wrote:   
   >>>> 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 electro-chemistry, 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 probably wasn't   
   >>>>> paying attention to that bit of the course.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You mean there's a *syllabus* for hobby electronics?   
   >>>   
   >>>In the sense that you do have to learn stuff to be able be good enough   
   >>>at it for it to be worth pursuing as a hobby. Cursitor Doom hasn't   
   >>>learned all that much, and he resents having his short-comings pointed out.   
   >>   
   >>I'm deeply honoured that you're making the exact same criticism of me   
   >>as you make of John Larkin, Bill. That's a hell of a compliment for me   
   >>as a mere hobbyist. Thanks!   
   >   
   >Ignore him! You are rasslin with a pig and he enjoys it.   
   >   
   >But an electronic hobbyist is not "mere". It's a cool thing to do.   
   >   
   >I note that he's editing his absurd mis-spelling of "probably", even   
   >in my posts and his replies.   
      
   Yes, I spotted that. I had a good laugh when I saw what you did in the   
   prevous post. :-D   
      
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