[sdiy] Best Practices quickie 80 kc oscillator

[ChristianH]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:12:05 -0400 (EDT) "mcb, inc." <mcbinc at panix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> 
> > The Buchla 217 uses a unijunction transistor to create a 80 kc oscillator:
> 
> '80 kc'?  Good God, man, next you'll be teaching your students to
> pronounce the 'giga' prefix in the correct way ('ji-ga').  :-)

Well, he may have to explain them that this oscillator needs 1.21
jiggawatts to operate.
Not to mention lots of flux capacitors for decoupling...

Chris