OT: Bush Thugs Rough Up Grieving Mother of KIA

[Leon Heller]

<snovotill@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8ik7l0lo9mrt6q6e8uucc1711acv0mp9gi@4ax.com...

Has anyone tried to drive LEDs using a miniature pulse-forming LC
network such as is used to supply radar pulses? It would certainly
give a better waveform output than a single solitary inductor.

I don't think the waveform matters all that much. The inductor is charged up
whilst the input to the driver MOSFET is high, and then discharged into the
LEDs when the input goes low and the MOSFET turns off. I changed the 1 mH
inductor to 330 uH, adjusted the pulse frequency and it worked, producing a
quite blinding flash (about 200 mA through the LEDs). This was just in time
for my client to demonstrate a working prototype to his customer today.

Leon
--
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[Paul Burridge]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:31:16 +0100, "Leon Heller"
<leon_heller@hotmail.com> wrote:

I don't think the waveform matters all that much. The inductor is charged up
whilst the input to the driver MOSFET is high, and then discharged into the
LEDs when the input goes low and the MOSFET turns off. I changed the 1 mH
inductor to 330 uH, adjusted the pulse frequency and it worked, producing a
quite blinding flash (about 200 mA through the LEDs). This was just in time
for my client to demonstrate a working prototype to his customer today.

What's the intended application for this, Leon?
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

prabha_kar@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi All,
I want to measure sub-nanoampere(upto about 1pA ), DC current.
-Can anyone help me selecting the circuit and components to design
such an instrument?Please tell me if there is any help available on
net?
-Can logarithmic amplifier be used for such an application?
-After making such an Instrument how do we calibrate this instrument
without the need of any other expensive equipment
(like Keithley Current Amplifier). Can we design a circuit which can
calibrate such low currents.

Problems involved in these kind of measurements are
the finite impedance of the amplifiers.
Yes, FET have sufficiently high input impedances at DC.
However, their offset is orders of magnitudes bigger
than bipolar ones.

What is the application ? What is the source ?

Rene
--
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& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Fred Bloggs]

A recently completed *scientific* survey by the The American Jewish
Committee results in Kerry:69, Bush:24 MoE +/-3% on the "who would you
vote for right now" question. These are *very* good results and
illustrate that *INFORMED* people give Kerry overwhelming support:
http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/PubSurveys.asp?did=1339

There is plenty of time for Kerry to attain the double digit lead he
deserves once people get past the cartoon presentation and dirty tricks
of that Texas mob and start thinking like mature, reasoning, and
responsible adults.

 

[Don Pearce]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:01:21 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

A recently completed *scientific* survey by the The American Jewish
Committee results in Kerry:69, Bush:24 MoE +/-3% on the "who would you
vote for right now" question. These are *very* good results and
illustrate that *INFORMED* people give Kerry overwhelming support:
http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/PubSurveys.asp?did=1339

There is plenty of time for Kerry to attain the double digit lead he
deserves once people get past the cartoon presentation and dirty tricks
of that Texas mob and start thinking like mature, reasoning, and
responsible adults.

You assert that the Jewish population of USA is *INFORMED*. I presume
there is a corollary that the rest of the population, that doesn't
necessary share the Kerry preference is, by definition *UNINFORMED*?

That is a dangerous stance to take.

d. An interested but unbiased observer. (I think they are as obnoxious
as each other)

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Tom Seim wrote:

And that would be about the time the legitimate authority figures
started going public on the gross incompetence of the Bush
Administration- this is what made me sit-up and take notice. So
J.Thompson, must have also plonked his own state Senator, The Honorable
John McCain, because even McCain dissed Bush , repeatedly, on a Fox News
show of all places. Here is the transcript of the interview:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132848,00.html
The number of Republican Congressmen coming out publicly against Bush is
growing daily- the demented fraud from Texas has created an
unprecedented amount of disruptive turmoil in and outside the
government- he is anti-government, anti-America, a deceitful liar, a
demagogue- and someone who must be removed at the earliest opportunity.
Every single Bush supporter can be exposed as a truly evil,
self-serving, greedy pig insane about their precious tax cuts. These
people don't rate their American cirtizenships- they are accidents of birth.


Fred,

You are, obviously, an undercover Republican. No half-brained Dem
would come up with this type of garbage designed to alienate the
undecided.

Now, what are you going to do, call me a "moron" again? Got to think
of something better than that.

Tom

That response is typical of the amateurish and manipulative ploys you
have been playing since you began trolling this group- a group where you
have *never* made serious contribution. And I like that smug air of
confidence and control you sleazy con artists put on too. As for myself
and others, we prefer to draw our own conclusions from the facts and do
not need a low life like you or Bush fabricating a perspective for us.
You're just too dumb to realize your hot air balloons do not take off
well here- maybe you should hit the parking lot at the local supermarket
and see what you can snag there.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Tom Seim wrote:

CNN survey: Bush widens lead in Electoral College
Kerry holds tenuous leads in six key states

The so-called CNN "survey" is NOT *scientific* and it is important to
understand this- it is not a quantifiable scientific survey of any kind-
it is a "hunch"-and the coincidence of agreement with their political
support makes this a FRAUDULENT excuse for a news report far in excess
of the fabricated CBS scandal. CNN CONCEALS this fact from the
inexperienced reader by quickly glossing over their source data by
citing unspecified polls, interviews with campaign officials- quoting
out of context, and interviews with un-named so-called political
analysts. Quite a lot HAND WAVING here! This is a DISGRACE to American
JOURNALISM.

 

[Leroy Tanner]

"Allan Herriman" <allan.herriman.hates.spam@ctam.com.au.invalid>:

Do you mean you already have the board and now you're trying to work
out how to interface to it?

As a matter of fact I'm "planing" the board but the 4 FPGAs are already
ordered.

Back to 20 questions...

You're still being vague. For instance, does each of the FPGAs need
to see the entire input? Could you arrange things so that three of
the 2.5Gb/s Inifiband channels go to each of the four FPGAs?

Okay, I understand: No, it's not necessary that every FPGA sees the whole
input. The only important thing is that the data remains strictly
interlocked in the time domain. I'm not sure if it is possible to go from a
12x Infiniband Interface (which is a fixed guideline) to three 4x
Interfaces. Infiniband only allows for a 1x, 4x and 12x channel bonding. But
for the demerging of the Infiniband stream one has to use an additional
FPGA...!?

Regards, Leroy

 

[Leroy Tanner]

"Mac" <foo@bar.net> :

You mention infiniband (which I'm not too familiar with), but you don't
say whether you have an infiniband transceiver (receiver?) or whether you
actually have to design some kind of infiniband protocol engine into the
FPGA.

The "decoding" of the Infiniband protocol must be done inside the FPGA
fabric. Although I use the Virtex-II Pro FPGA series from Xilinx which
promise to be "fully compliant to the Infiniband protocol" this is more or
less a deception package in my eyes. All protocoll layers must be
implemented in the FPGA, the only thing which is really supplied by the MGTs
is the phyiscal connection with regards to signal level, etc.

If you need to accommodate raw infiniband, then some infiniband expert
will have to answer.

A great idea! Anyone feeling adressed?

In principal, you can synchronize two FPGA's simply by providing them with
synchronized clocks. Doing this right at high speed may be a challenge.

Let's assume we take one FPGA just for the high speed stuff and let the
other FPGAs process the data @ 125 MHz in parallel. Anyway, how is the
synchronisation / deskewing across the FPGA boundaries done? Clock
distribution or transfer protocol?
Regards, Leroy

 

[Don Pearce]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:06:31 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:33:58 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Don Pearce wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:01:21 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



A recently completed *scientific* survey by the The American Jewish
Committee results in Kerry:69, Bush:24 MoE +/-3% on the "who would you
vote for right now" question. These are *very* good results and
illustrate that *INFORMED* people give Kerry overwhelming support:
http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/PubSurveys.asp?did=1339

There is plenty of time for Kerry to attain the double digit lead he
deserves once people get past the cartoon presentation and dirty tricks
of that Texas mob and start thinking like mature, reasoning, and
responsible adults.


You assert that the Jewish population of USA is *INFORMED*.

Yes they are- and this is supported by more scientific polls confirming
their over representation as voters and their more detailed knowledge of
events in the Middle East.



I presume
there is a corollary that the rest of the population, that doesn't
necessary share the Kerry preference is, by definition *UNINFORMED*?

No- your presumption is ridiculous. The UNINFORMED are a subset of
people opposed to Kerry which includes UNINFORMED, AMERICAN
IMPERIALISTS, and RECKLESSLY EXPLOITIVE BUSINESS INTERESTS among others.


But suppose those Jews polled were uninformed (and you have no way of
knowing how informed they were), and favour Kerry because they are
uninformed.

Absolutely untrue! The data does exist to quantify, albeit with a
certain amount of subjectivity and therefore bias as to deciding on a
criterion for "uninformed", the Bayesian conditionals of unin-/in-formed
given support for one candidate or the other. But this type of survey
would be performed by a campaign organization and not a polling activity
with the objective of producing a highly accurate measurement election
outcome.


After all, there must be both informed and uninformed people on both
sides of the argument, and to demonise the opposition the way you do
here does you no credit as a supposedly informed reporter.

You seem to be too ignorant of the conventional techniques used to
ensure an UNBIASED scientific survey to be worth anyone's time. You are
a troll.

Have you read 1984? Do you know what "doublespeak" is? Analyse your
words carefully.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Don Pearce wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:06:31 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Don Pearce wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:33:58 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Don Pearce wrote:


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:01:21 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:




A recently completed *scientific* survey by the The American Jewish
Committee results in Kerry:69, Bush:24 MoE +/-3% on the "who would you
vote for right now" question. These are *very* good results and
illustrate that *INFORMED* people give Kerry overwhelming support:
http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/PubSurveys.asp?did=1339

There is plenty of time for Kerry to attain the double digit lead he
deserves once people get past the cartoon presentation and dirty tricks
of that Texas mob and start thinking like mature, reasoning, and
responsible adults.


You assert that the Jewish population of USA is *INFORMED*.

Yes they are- and this is supported by more scientific polls confirming
their over representation as voters and their more detailed knowledge of
events in the Middle East.




I presume
there is a corollary that the rest of the population, that doesn't
necessary share the Kerry preference is, by definition *UNINFORMED*?

No- your presumption is ridiculous. The UNINFORMED are a subset of
people opposed to Kerry which includes UNINFORMED, AMERICAN
IMPERIALISTS, and RECKLESSLY EXPLOITIVE BUSINESS INTERESTS among others.


But suppose those Jews polled were uninformed (and you have no way of
knowing how informed they were), and favour Kerry because they are
uninformed.

Absolutely untrue! The data does exist to quantify, albeit with a
certain amount of subjectivity and therefore bias as to deciding on a
criterion for "uninformed", the Bayesian conditionals of unin-/in-formed
given support for one candidate or the other. But this type of survey
would be performed by a campaign organization and not a polling activity
with the objective of producing a highly accurate measurement election
outcome.


After all, there must be both informed and uninformed people on both
sides of the argument, and to demonise the opposition the way you do
here does you no credit as a supposedly informed reporter.

You seem to be too ignorant of the conventional techniques used to
ensure an UNBIASED scientific survey to be worth anyone's time. You are
a troll.


Have you read 1984? Do you know what "doublespeak" is? Analyse your
words carefully.

TYPICAL!!!! Faced with a scientific reality that bothers YOU, you choose
to go off and read book! Well go do that then- and get away from me.

 

[Winfield Hill]

enzino wrote...

I'm designing a special integrator with an operational amplifier
LM6172in in inverting configuration. Rin = 1Kohm On the feedback
loop there is a 220pF capacitor. The problem is that I need a reset
every 1us, and the reset operation should bo no longer than 0.2us.
[ snip ]
Which component is able to perform this task at a rate of 1 MHz?

You need a fast low-capacitance MOSFET with low ON resistance.

One good choice is a part from the old Siliconix (now Vishay)
SD210 family, with Cdx = 1.1pF and Ron = 45 ohms. The SD211
has a useful gate-protection zener. Future Electronics stocks
the SD210DE, but requires a minimum 50-piece purchase. These
parts are also made by Calogic and Linear Integrated Systems,
who may have better inventory sources.

You will find that modern apparently-superior cmos IC switches
have very high capacitance, compared to the sd210 family.




--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <PHHmHWQaMxUBFwPS@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk says...

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIP
techTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote (in <mto5l091f3fcr9s92fdf4b8pp4vdeb1sqk@
4ax.com&gt about '[OT]: The not-so-democratic Democrats', on Thu, 23 Sep
2004:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:17:12 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:


Fred,

you are *way* too involved in this. It isn't healthy.

John


I want to see more polling statistics like the District of Columbia:
Kerry:86%, Bush:9%, Nader:5% - now those are reasonable numbers.

My favorite statistic for DC is their number of electors.

Like the Vatican City birth rate.

The Vatican City birth rate is '3'? ;-)

There are 438 electors (100 senators + 435 representatives + 3
additional for D.C.

Amendment XXIII

Section 1. The District constituting the seat of government of the
United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the
District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more
than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those
appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes
of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors
appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform
such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Rolavine wrote:

Man, I've never seen anything like this. We got a pres that lies and has a war
for nothing sticking us in a quagmire for the next 50 years, and the voters are
going to slap him on the back with another 4 years to reward his judgment?

The report is FRAUDULENT, and the conclusion is false- the RNC has been
caught on several occasions already conducting illegal "push
polls/surveys" like this in several of the battleground states- where
the idea is to trump up a false sense of popular support- it is just
more of their misinformation campaign.

 

[Winfield Hill]

vijayamurugan.P wrote...

This Power Supply is Meant for Magnetising Application.
... the role .. is to maintain the magnetic Field while
magnet is made.

That's another matter, a short peak-current, much easier.
Big capacitors, SCRs. How long do you need it to last?
How big are your magnets? Tell us about your coils.


--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote (in <cj14jq01v59@drn.newsguy.com&gt
about 'Sub-nanoampere current measurement and calibration', on Fri, 24
Sep 2004:

You
should be aware of the excellent performance of many ordinary
multimeters, that have infinite input impedance on the 200mV
scale, have input leakage currents of under 1pA,

Check effective input impedance by connecting a charged (to less than
200 mV!) polystyrene capacitor to the input and timing the decay?

Old meters may leak a lot due to dust collection.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
<kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <cj176c$tlk$2@blue.rahul.net&gt
about 'Sill trying to get ME to install', on Fri, 24 Sep 2004:

Yes I've downloaded the win version and it seems to function. I don't
know enough about it to say it works identically.

Thanks. Filed under 'gnu'.(;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
<kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <cj17bc$tlk$3@blue.rahul.net&gt
about 'Sill trying to get ME to install', on Fri, 24 Sep 2004:

In article <7UMbzAV3tzUBFwIt@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <noone@yuk.yuk> wrote:
I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <civ7ht$ci0$3@blue.rahul.net&gt
about 'Sill trying to get ME to install', on Thu, 23 Sep 2004:

I often want to graph about a 1^6 points so a chart that could do it
would be very helpful.

Do you not find that they tend to crowd together a bit? Not much scope
for a nice curve, I would think.

You plot them down the page along about 50 feet of continuous paper on a
dot matrix printer and they look great. As stated elsewhere I have a
program that does just that.

I wouldn't have thought you needed a long piece of paper to plot 1^6

points. (;-)

It's called 'gestalt'; you expect to see '10^6', so that is what you
read. But that is not what is written.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Dave VanHorn]

Blood in veins/capilliaries? Can you hear the heartbeat?
Nope, the amplitude, if it varies, does so very slowly.

BTW, is it possible to check whether a noise really exists or whether it's
'internal'?

Hmm.. I hear it in an anechioc room, or anywhere else.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Tony Williams <tonyw@ledelec.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Early versions of Autosketch were quite intuitive
and easy to use. AFAIR, A'Sketch V.5 is the one
that many people bitterly regret 'upgrading' to.

Hope I wasn't partially to blame! Your post reminded me I'd written
reviews of v5 for PC Plus and What PC in May '98. Looking them up, I
see I wasn't particularly critical in either <g>.

Mind you, I see I finished one piece with this, which perhaps squares
with John's comments about counter-intuitiveness:

"Finally, one other quite revolutionary change in this release is the
replacement of Action/Object operation by the Object/Action approach -
in which you first select your object (such as a rectangle), and then
act on it (say, to fill it with a solid red colour). This is by far
the more common method, and is faster and generally more popular - but
no doubt there will be howls of protest from some classic AutoSketch
users."

John: I have a CD here for an application called SmartDraw (for W95 *
W98). I can't remember it, and don't want to install it myself. But if
you want it, let me know.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK