XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: cd@notformail.com   
      
   On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:06:17 -0800, john larkin  wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:05:20 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>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   
   >   
   >Well, he rags me for my occasional mis-spellings. I wish he'd learn   
   >the difference between  its  and  it's.   
   >   
   >I wish even more that he would be civil, or go away. Giant stupid   
   >flame wars drive good people away.   
   >   
      
   It's a great shame, because he *can* be very informative on those few   
   occasions when he chooses to be.   
      
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