[sdiy] Best Practices quickie 80 kc oscillator

Aaron Lanterman lanterma at ece.gatech.edu
Fri Aug 21 01:04:22 CEST 2009


On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:12 AM, mcb, inc. 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').  :-)

I can't take credit - I generally use the plebian "kHz."

I got "kc" from what Buchla marked on the schematic. ;)

- Aaron



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