Morning Malcolm,
Yep, got most of that yesterday Malcolm, I've got colour code charts
everywhere, with the numbers, and am swimming in paper here. Funnily
enough, I also downloaded a schematic of the 'bath tub' senario you
mentioned, in that tank form. (smiling). I spent most of the day
downloading. Hey, I even read that 'jingle' as well...lol. I stuck the
meter on the resistor...OH, just for a laugh, I only paid $5 for my
'el-cheapo' meter too, anyway the meter read 00.4 I am still reading to get
better understanding of ohms, amps, milliamps and current now so I can
understand these relationships clearer. I'll get there. Also got a pic of
an ohms law triangle, ie; V at the top and I and R on the bottom and just
put finger on one to calculate the other two. Going to do some sums to get
familiar with those calculations.
I've printed so much info out about CS etc that I am tired of replacing ink
cartridges, (costing me a fortune). I am going to have to pinch the new
ones I got for my daughter back now to continue . Yep, it's all fun isn't
it...as long as I can keep it as 'fun'.
Neville.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: CS>TO WHOM IT CONCERNS.
Hi Neville, think of a capacitor as a bathtub (or pressure tank?) for
electrons - -
The stripes on resistors Are hard to read, that's why I use a
multimeter. And as you will soon discover, there are other striped
animals in the electronic jungle but they're easy to spot (eewww!) with
your trusty digital multimeter. Even the el-cheapo ~$10 digital
multimeters are way more than good enough, just be sure they can measure
"AC amperes; DC amperes; AC volts; DC volts; and Ohms."
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - the navy - I was taught a
mildly offensive little jingle to remember the color coding of
electronic components: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives
Willingly; Get Some Now
Black = 0
Brown = 1
Red = 2
Orange = 3
Yellow = 4
Green = 5
Blue = 6
Violet = 7
Grey = 8
White = 9
Gold = 5% tolerance
Silver = 10% tolerance
No color = 20% tolerance
Have fun, Malcolm
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> A book on basic electronics won't burn up your brain too much.
> Just knowing the difference between a parallel and series circuit and
> how
> to hook up a multimeter to read what will take you a long way.
>
> Ode
AMEN
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