[OT] [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[harrybissell]

Funny how "SBB" and "BBD"  have the same number of letters... and
66.6% of them are the same.

coincidence ???    or conspiracy ????

H^) harry

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Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de> wrote:
> >Am Donnerstag, 05.02.04 um 01:09 Uhr schrieb Shokwave:
> >
> >>
> >>> How about
> >>>
> >>> c) Use a 10k trimmer, start with 10k and slowly move down until you
> >>> either
> >>> reach 1k or smoke emits.
> >>
> >> Hmmm...now I need two handfulls of trimmers...maybe I should make 'em
> >> ALL
> >> trimmers, just to be safe.
> >>
> >
> >Ha! Finally I'm able to join two branches of this thread again.
> >
> >The equivalent in analog circuit design to a GOTO instruction is a
> >trimpot!!
> >
> >Too lazy or not able to calculate the correct resistor value and the
> >required tolerance? Just slab in a trimpot. I'm sure many trimpots
> >could be avoided.
>
> For me, that's what a SBB is for, you calculate resistor values to the
> best of your ability and then try them.  I often find myself changing
> some of the values at that stage.  Sometimes I go back to the math and
> realize I made a mistake, other times it remains a mystery.  But I do try
> to avoid trimmers except where they are really needed such as offset nulling.
>
> >BTW, the equivalent in digital circuit design to a trimpot/GOTO is a
> >monoflop... ;-)
> >
> >Ingo
> >
>
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