They get wound with software. Human beings are in charge of how many turns on primary and secondary. 1:1 transformers do not occur naturally in nature. : >) Guy.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: >> Don't forget the Mars Surveyor, that crashed because they got the >> units of distance mixed up in the programming.... Stuff like that >> happens. > > Transformers [the electrical kind, not the toy kind] have software? > > I got about 2 1/2 years at NASA Houston working on Apollo while in the > USAF. Much later, when Surveyor had disappeared behind Mars, one of the > admin people at work stopped me in the hall and said, "You must know, > what happened?" I told her, "They shot it down, just like we would > have." She kept some distance from me after that. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010 > - www.cqp.org > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
