[sdiy] OT: Kilocycles or kilohurts (Was: Best Practices quickie 80 kc oscillator)

[John Alex Hvidlykke]

> > 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...

Great Scott! With that kind of juice around, he'd better mount it in a good
strong aloominum case ;-)