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Winfried Salomon
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Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
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Hello Jim,
Jim Thompson wrote:
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| Quote: | btw, do you know a standard complementary pnp-transistor for the 2N2369,
such like 2N3905 but with higher ft and less feedback capacitance? It
seems that the manufactorers have almost no data on their internet pages.
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A 2N2369 is a gold-doped NPN, gold-doped to kill storage time and
improve recovery from saturation. I don't recall any PNP device with
gold-doping... or the equivalent.
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thank you, then I suppose the 2N3905 oder 2N2905 are fitting for a large
signal amplifier.
mfg. Winfried
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Rich the Newsgroup Wacko
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:
| Quote: | Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries.
Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect the
attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please).
Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary. Very
bright! Much brighter than you are.
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I put mine in series with Mom's iron, but the thermostat kept turning
it off.
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Cheers!
Rich
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Jim Thompson
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:03:28 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:48:02 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
jp@no.spam> wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry
Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.
* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.
Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"
Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."
I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)
...Jim Thompson
Ha. Well, there's a nice dry maple log in the fireplace, an ice-cold
Sapporo in one of my Royal Selangor double-wall frozen pewter
tankards, my VHDL code is working with minimal tweaking and all is
right with the world. ;-)
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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We burned a log in the fireplace last night also. It was sufficient
to keep the inside temperature above 68°F. Don't know yet if I'll
need to turn on the heat this year or not.
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Spehro Pefhany
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
<jp@no.spam> wrote:
| Quote: | Rich Grise wrote:
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry
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Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.
* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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Jim Thompson skrev:
| Quote: | On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:13:38 -0500, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@us.ibm.com> wrote:
Si Ballenger wrote:
I would put a 100 watt lamp in series thereby limiting the current. I
would shave the ends down to points so they heated up rapidly. I put
them into a hollowed out fire brick and made a cheap furnace. Of course
don't look at it; it's like looking at the sun.
The current limiter I saw used a glass pie pan with pieces copper
metal on each side with salty water as the electrolyte. It would
start to steam some when in operation. The furnace was a small
clay flower pot with holes in each side with the carbon rods
sticking inside until they touched.
As a boy, I used an electric teakettle as a ballast for a two-D-cell carbon
arc lamp--worked great.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
I've used a light bulb in series with a rectifier to charge a car
battery (just make sure that line ground goes to chassis ground ;-)
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I've seen several speakers where there was a light bulb, in series with
the tweeter, as a power limiter
-Lasse |
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Jim Thompson
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
jp@no.spam> wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry
Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.
* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.
Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"
Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."
I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food. |
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Spehro Pefhany
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:48:02 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
jp@no.spam> wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry
Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.
* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.
Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"
Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."
I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Ha. Well, there's a nice dry maple log in the fireplace, an ice-cold
Sapporo in one of my Royal Selangor double-wall frozen pewter
tankards, my VHDL code is working with minimal tweaking and all is
right with the world. ;-)
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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John Perry
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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Rich Grise wrote:
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
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My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry |
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Rich Grise
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:43:52 -0800, Bob Monsen wrote:
| Quote: | On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:
Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries.
Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect the
attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please).
Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary. Very
bright! Much brighter than you are.
One of the MIT EE course videos on the web shows a demonstration of AC
across a pickle... it is an interesting effect. Not sure how the pickle
tastes afterward. Cooking hotdogs with AC is similar, but the pickle gives
off a much nicer translucent flickering glow. Very pretty.
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But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
Thanks,
Rich |
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Martin
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:13 am Post subject:
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Am Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:14:17 GMT schrieb Rich the Newsgroup Wacko
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| Quote: | On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:
Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries.
Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect
the
attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please).
Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary.
Very
bright! Much brighter than you are.
I put mine in series with Mom's iron, but the thermostat kept turning
it off.
One time I used an old Iron as a dummy-load for a 230V/1kW TRIAC power |
control circuit (we had it in the lab for improvised BGA soldering). To
"satisfy" the thermostat I used a 30cm room fan.
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Jon Yaeger
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:18 am Post subject:
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I've seen several speakers where there was a light bulb, in series with
the tweeter, as a power limiter
-Lasse
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I once owned a Knight transistorized amp that used incandescent bulbs in the
output stage to limit current. When you had some brighteness, you had a
problem.
I remember that it was the very worst-sounding amplifier that I ever owned.
jon |
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Rich Grise, Plainclothes
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:23 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, John Perry wrote:
| Quote: | Rich Grise wrote:
But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
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You must have to cook the bejabbers out of them - I chopped up a dill
pickle once into a stew I was concocting from leftovers ane expired stuff
in the pantry, and it was kind unnerving every time I bit into a pickle
chunk. Or maybe I didn't chop them finely enough. (more like I "cubed"
them.) My Mom [RIP] used to put weiners and sweet pickles through the meat
grinder. Simultaneously. I refused to even taste the stuff. ;-)
Thanks!
Rich |
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Rich Grise, Plainclothes
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:30 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
jp@no.spam> wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
...
But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
John Perry
Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.
* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.
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Recipe? For _STEW_??!!?????
You brown some meat, throw it into a pot with some veggies, add enough
water so it doesn't boil dry, cover it, and simmer it until it starts to
smell like food. ;-)
(Then again, I used to watch Mom cook. ;-) )
Cheers!
Rich |
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John Perry
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:
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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:23:06 GMT, the renowned "Rich Grise,
Plainclothes Hippie" <fff@example.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, John Perry wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
You must have to cook the bejabbers out of them - I chopped up a dill
pickle once into a stew I was concocting from leftovers ane expired stuff
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From other recipes for Solyanka (or however it's spelt/spelled) the
common factors are beef broth, pickles, olives, capers, onions, garlic
and some kind of meat-- other winter veggies are fair game. And a
dollop of sour cream.
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Well, Galya's was all vegetable except for a cube or two of bouillon (I
don't know what kind). She had chopped the vegetables so finely that I
didn't notice the pickles until she showed me the jar she took them from
(I couldn't understand her description of "spiced cucumbers" :-).
I don't know how she made it, since I had put her son, my step-grandson,
to work with me raking a ton or so of oak leaves from my six 100+-foot
trees.
Even a lovely season like autumn has its price.
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Spehro Pefhany
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Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:23:06 GMT, the renowned "Rich Grise,
Plainclothes Hippie" <fff@example.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, John Perry wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)
My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.
Wonderful stuff!
You must have to cook the bejabbers out of them - I chopped up a dill
pickle once into a stew I was concocting from leftovers ane expired stuff
in the pantry, and it was kind unnerving every time I bit into a pickle
chunk. Or maybe I didn't chop them finely enough. (more like I "cubed"
them.) My Mom [RIP] used to put weiners and sweet pickles through the meat
grinder. Simultaneously. I refused to even taste the stuff. ;-)
Thanks!
Rich
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I think I remember something like that, maybe with ground beef.
Here's a recipe for 'Solianka' soup with dill pickle, pickle juice and
a bunch of hearty stuff. They might make it differently in Tartarstan
though (home of Tartar sauce, I presume):
http://soup.allrecipes.com/AZ/SoliankaRussianBeefSoup.asp
From other recipes for Solyanka (or however it's spelt/spelled) the
common factors are beef broth, pickles, olives, capers, onions, garlic
and some kind of meat-- other winter veggies are fair game. And a
dollop of sour cream.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
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