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Tim R <timothy42b@aol.com>: Dec 02 05:34AM -0800 > much money or a lot of time on this project, but they work fine othewise > so I want to fix them.   > By the way, is there a name for this type of plug?   Might be easier to go back with BNC, if there's room in the speaker.

MJC <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com>: Dec 02 02:49PM In article <b92ac96a-306f-4b6e-ba4b-63fdff1f6ab0@googlegroups.com>, timothy42b@aol.com says... > > so I want to fix them.   > > By the way, is there a name for this type of plug?   > Might be easier to go back with BNC, if there's room in the speaker.   BNC for power?   Mike.

Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net>: Dec 02 10:00AM -0500 In article <MPG.32ab9a62670db44c3f@news.plus.net>, gravity@mjcoon.plus.com says...   > > Might be easier to go back with BNC, if there's room in the speaker.   > BNC for power?   > Mike.   Probably way too hard to get the wires attached to the male part of a BNC. I sort of thought phono plug but that would leave the male part where it could short out to something when unplugged if the male was hooked to the power supply.   Ebay has lots of the coaxial type power plugs and sockets for a few bucks. Just buy a matching set so they will fit without any problems.

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Dec 02 02:33PM L'esprit d'escalier. Next time I'd remove the speaker connector on the main pcb, and solder in the sp wires and add solderable/desolderable tags on the rear outlet pcb, to give some space for the replacement components. So can get some air through the replacement components rather than just around, as well as the same simple baffle to direct air into that backwater area. Did use long W/W Rs rather than the squat ones that were in there, so at least the tops will be in moving air. Added a simple LED monitor , requiring 25V pk-pk 4KHz or 10 V pk-pk 40KHz and about 4V of 200KHz before the LED is visible in a dark room, wiht instructions to owner to ignore any pulsing with notes, just a continuous LED would mean a problem in the making.

Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid>: Dec 01 11:35AM -0600 On 11/30/2016 04:23 PM, micky wrote:   [snip]   > while I can even remember from experience. (Cocoa from refrigerated > milk is 2 minutes. An eggroll of a given size is 2 minutes 40 seconds, > even though wrapper says 4 minutes.)   I have an older microwave, that has only 700W. Most directions are for higher power. I find most things are OK if I add 25% to the cooking time. For example, if it says 3 minutes I use 3:45.   BTW, some people have said that if I got a new microwave, it would probably fail before the old one.   [snip]   -- 24 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day).   Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/   "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Upton Sinclair, Huey P. Long, and others.

Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid>: Dec 01 11:50AM -0600 On 11/30/2016 06:33 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:   [snip]   > The old one is 26 years old, but it still works.   I have a 30 year old JCPenney microwave (from the time they sold a lot of things rather than just clothes and related stuff).   -- 24 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day).   Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/   "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Upton Sinclair, Huey P. Long, and others.

Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid>: Dec 01 12:01PM -0600 On 12/01/2016 09:15 AM, amdx wrote:   > Pan fry your egg rolls, roll so four sides get crispy. > Microwaved egg rolls just aren't worth eating. IMHO > Mikek   Mostly I use the microwave for heating already-cooked food.   One exception is bacon.   -- 24 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day).   Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/   "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Upton Sinclair, Huey P. Long, and others.

amdx <nojunk@knology.net>: Dec 01 02:28PM -0600 On 12/1/2016 11:35 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote: > time. For example, if it says 3 minutes I use 3:45.   > BTW, some people have said that if I got a new microwave, it would > probably fail before the old one.   Maybe, we have one that was manufactured in 1983, still works fine, but we have two, and this one is not used as much.   Mikek

micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com>: Dec 01 11:03PM -0500 In sci.electronics.repair, on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:20:17 -0500, Mike   >+1, You are the only one who did not lambast the OP for using the term >'warm up' to mean 'cause the ambient MW intensity to reach its operational >range'.   Just for the record, I consciously used the phrase, because it reminds me of simpler times, harmed only by the extra time it took to turn on the radio or tv. (In the movies, sometimes they would turn something on and it woudl start immediately. I did stay at a hotel once 8 years ago that was also operating in the 30's and it still had the remote speaker/channel selector for the central radio it used then. Each room had one and the patron could swtich between two or three stations, and adjust the volume, so when you turned it on, it went on immediately. Unfortunately, the hotel finally closed.)   >When I am judging time for extremely small loads (like softening butter >without liquifying it), I allow 4 seconds for my oven.   I'm pretty sure mine is less tnan 4 seconds becuase I really have used 7 seconds and found noticeable heating, more than I think 3 seconds would have done, based on the prior 10 seconds.   BTW, if you get one of those slabs of chocolate chip cookies, precut, they say to cook them in a hot oven of course, but 37 seconds per square does a good job. Not like baked, but like a differen4 recipe.   Another reason to know the startup time is if I make two of them, it only has to start-up once, so it needs less than twice the time, but the instructions already say less than twice the time, and their differential is greater than 4 seconds. I think there is some reason for that other than start-up, warm-up time.

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>: Dec 01 10:05PM -0500 > On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:21:28 AM UTC-5, captainvi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have an old Dell Lattitude D630 laptop. Is there a way to come out of the VGA jack on the back of my laptop and somehow end up with composite or S video out? I tried an adapter that my son said he had used to do this in the past. It plugs into the RGB jack in the back and it has two short cables out of it. One has an RCA female jack on the end of it and the other has an S video female. I didn't try S but although I can get an image on my composite monitor you can see that there is more than one image and it's out of sync. I tried adjusting the display settings and that seems to put the frequency way off. I used to have a video board on an old DOS computer that had an RCA jack on it and it was very handy. Is this still possible to do? I think that I read somewhere that anything ten ears older or less should be able to support this. I don't know how old my laptop is but i don't think that it's over ten years. Thanks, Lenny   > I thought "perpetual motion" was a theoretical quantity, kind of like the square root of -1. Lenny     Over unity means that you get back more effort, than you put in. ;-)   -- Never piss off an Engineer!   They don't get mad.   They don't get even.   They go for over unity! ;-)

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>: Dec 01 10:06PM -0500 Pat wrote:   > Thanks. I either never knew or forgot the phrase "over unity". I did > a quick Google search and found many references to it so clearly the > problem is my memory (or lack thereof).   It's no big deal. I love bad jokes, and I like to share them. :)   -- Never piss off an Engineer!   They don't get mad.   They don't get even.   They go for over unity! ;-)

ohger1s@gmail.com: Dec 01 10:33AM -0800 > Now, exactly what is wrong with:   > From each according to his abilities. > To each according to his needs.   Because it doesn't work.. never has and it never will. It's a nice theory, but human beings as a group are not inherently altruistic. Humans will do as little as they can and take whatever they can get away with. It's been that way in every society that ever existed.   The Romans knew this and therefore *chained* the rowers to the boat. Motivation.   And while self-preservation is a big motivator, money is just as good. Most technological or medical breakthroughs happened in capitalistic societies.   And, in general, the more you give to a needy person, the more he'll need. Why is it that the more money we spend on the poor the more poor are created? People that need help should be helped, but this welfare state we've created has created generations of enabled folks who have no hope, no skill, and certainly no motivation to improve their lot. And if I were more suspicious, I might be inclined to believe that the party that "advocates" most for the poor is just keeping them enslaved and buying their votes.

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