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IslandPink wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:23 pm Just been out to look at the moon.
About the same size as normal.

Nah. It's bigger, but further away.

Use non-inductive Arcol resistors... just add an "N" in front of the part number. Arcol use something called an Ayrton-Perry Winding ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton-Perry_winding ). The reason that the maximum ohmic value is 25% of the normal range is that with, say, a 10R resistor, ...

"Only in Dubai" is a saying we normally only use when something stupidly frustrating happens, however on the way to the Dubai rugby 7s today I got flashed by a speed camera. That normally means an instant GBP 130 fine - you receive an SMS from the police immediately you are flashed... But ...

'bit of a gimmick' might be better introduced as your opinion, otherwise it seems to read as armchair critique. It might be more interesting to see how this pans out: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pass-labs/313612-b1-korg-triode.html Ok, perhaps "seems to be a bit of a gimmick". Pretty m...

veery interestink.... it does feel like back to the future... there is also this, which has been talked about a bit of late: http://korgnutube.com/en/ ... Interesting indeed, though the Korg NuTube stuff from Noritake are simply VFDs - it's long been known that you can take a standard VFD display a...

Blimey! How the other half live! I was brought up in Sarf East Lunndon - Catford/Deptford/Lewisham/etc. It were tough. Wellard. But the only stuff that went round our way was a bit of weed. The only guy I knew that regularly did hard stuff jumped off a tower block. When I moved to Canada (Newfoundla...

Is this same Ivimey that did over 100 miles in one ride earlier this year? Geddawaywidja 😊 Better than nothing :) Pffftttt! Not worth putting yer cycle clips on for. Made the mistake of picking up the hire bike last weekend when still in my suit, so seat height was all wrong. First 10km was not com...

I gave up all caffeine 3 months ago as part of this mad health kick. Still feel like sh*t but sleeping better. FWIW, as I live in an Islamic country, I'll bite. Yes, Islam nominally bans the use of mind-altering stimulants, hence the ban on alcohol and, nominally, mind-altering drugs, e.g. codeine. ...

Dave the bass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:14 am Is this same Ivimey that did over 100 miles in one ride earlier this year?

Geddawaywidja

Better than nothing

shane wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:41 am Glad it helped!

A tad chilly in Devon this morning.

So cool! Literally, physically & metaphorically!

No real difference - SMPS's don't care about "standby" mode, in fact a standard PC SMPS still runs a reasonable current 5V (+5VSB, pin 9 of the PSU connector) line to keep bit of the motherboard alive when nominally the machine is powered off. The thing that kills all PSUs, SMPS or linear,...

Awesome Lissajous patterns...

've watched a few of those Himalayan trips aboard Bullets, they look flippin' awethumne. They go up Everest or summat on 'em and I can't even get mine out the garden yet :) Rob did this himself with one of his Indian uni mates - another civil engineer - it wasn't particularly organised - they just ...