[sdiy] Best Practices quickie 80 kc oscillator

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>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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Hi Aaron,

I'm old enough such that I grew up with electronics and started out being well
grounded in the kilocycle, megacycle stuff.  Also mF (for microfarad) and mmF
(for micromicrofarad) for caps.


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