_[sdiy]_IN_your_mind,_what_is_....

[Colin Hinz]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, nN AAt     e     e wrote:

> > Ouch!  Reminds me of the time I was almost done in
> > by a 2716 EPROM.  I was using alcohol and an X-acto
> > knife to try to scrape the label off so I could
> > erase it, and the knife slipped... darn near took
> > the end of my thumb off!
>
> but have you ever been cut in the back with a single x-acto, let a lone a
> whole box?
>
> IT SUCKS... note: DO NOT LEAVE BOXES OF BLADES OPEN ABOVE THE HEAD OF YOUR
> BED
>
> good thing that none of the cuts were deep at all.
>
> its not my fault that i do most of my soldering and work while in bed...

You certainly live an interesting lifestyle..... :=)

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada

PS: getting closer to topic, favourite/most useful IC -- I'm in favour
of nice, good-quality LDOs, such as the LP2980 or the LM1117. Whereas
a case may be made for using discrete transistors for the signal path,
a discrete-only power supply is just silly. Huge amounts of R&D has
gone into making regulator ICs cheap, clean and quiet.....may as well
make use of it.