XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 7/03/2024 5:00 am, 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!   
      
   It's more a criticism of John Larkin. He's still streets ahead of you   
   when it comes to real electronics, if not - perhaps - quite as far as he   
   likes to think.   
      
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   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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