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I'm gonna ring Kaye and make sure she finds some chores for you this evening
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And I am meant to say "what chores", and you say "I will have a pint please, thanks"
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yeah, that works for me....

but in truth I should have qualified my remark with.. "because it appears you have enough spare time to be able to rewrite my erroneous posts"
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ed wrote:yeah, that works for me....

but in truth I should have qualified my remark with.. "because it appears you have enough spare time to be able to rewrite my erroneous posts"
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The internet is flawed because it gives stupid people the power to alter it.

http://xkcd.com/202/
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Oh yeah what was that film called? About a Mars mission where they didn't actually go up because of a fault, but then they were supposed to have died in space


 
 
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Capricorn one?
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That's the fellah! :D


Thank gawd for that it was keeping me awake at night :lol:



 
 
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There's a hold up on this because I've got hung up on DC filament supplies.

Plus really must cut the grass today because collection is tomorrow and it hasn't been done for a month


 
 
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Keep forgetting, but we've had the oscillator and the PSU haven't we?

So now here is the output attenuator section.
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If you wanted to be fussy you could add a level meter after the variable wiper


 
 
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Keep forgetting to add the last bit to this :roll:

The square wave shaper ~ in theory should do variable width pulses as well. Is also made positive going only relative to 0V


 
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