[sdiy] Best Practices quickie 80 kc oscillator

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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.
>
>
> -- ScottG

Star- or plane-grounded?

D.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Scott Gravenhorst<music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
> 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
>>_______________________________________________
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- ScottG
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