[sdiy] Re: Learning electronics (was Polyevolver)

[Tim Daugard]

> >     But life is short...and I've substituted in many applicaitons
> > figuring that the mfg. PROBABLY selected the cap I'm seeing because
they
> > got the BEST DEAL on a WAD of them :-).
>
> This is the "either the engineer was stupid, or they were so clever
that I don't
> even recognize how clever they really are..." issue again.  Sub away
if you don't
> care, roll the dice. It will either work, or not. DON'T TRY THIS if
you are on the
> space shuttle  :^P
>
> H^) harry

If I'm on the shuttle, I'm going to try anything I can (see Apollo 13)!
If you're building the space shuttle, you got to be careful.

With music equipment. Anything high voltage is double insulated and the
equipment used by everone has nothing greater than 12 volts exposed. My
son the guitarist is so freaked by electricity that he calls for help
for anything electrical on his car. It took five to ten minutes to
convince him that one the battery was removed from his car for a while,
there was no electricity left. I tried to convice him that once he
pulled the battery out, he shoud use an oil hurricane latern as a work
light. He is smart enough not to mix flame and gasoline fumes.

Tim Daugard
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