Recent content by benbo

I can't remember when I joined but I used to have the date Tom McKeon joined marked ony calendar.  :rolleyes: God there have been some real winners over the years. I remember one guy who constantly bragged about his "top three" eng program.  GTME I think. Good Lord what a piece of work.

If we accept MP's statement this wouldn't help. There is no way to write this problem clearly. Or to commuinicate at all. Everything is based on mutually agreed upon symbology and open to interpretation. 2+2 can equal anything if I don't accept the "mutually agreed upon" meaning of the symbol...

Let's hold a poll. THat's the best way to solve math problems.

sin(X + Y) = sinx + y ? sin(0+0) = sin0 + 0 = 0 + 0 = 0 = sin(0). That proves it, right? :D I may have located a technical explanation - http://www.schooltube.com/video/efb63be016b142e4a64c/

You're right. To start with, I messed up the RMS conversion. But I oversimplified the design anyway. Since I'm obviosuly very rusty I googled it and came up with this, which agrees with what you say above. So I'm not sure where the 2 came from. http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/diode/diode_6.html

For the first question, I think the 169.7 is the p-p voltage, and for the full wave rectifier you plan using only the peak voltage so they divide it by 2. Is that a possiblity? Apparently the ripple frequency for a full wave rectifier is twice the line frequency. So the f in the equation...

Here's a rough cut calculator - of course most people have different deductions - http://www.bankrate....?ec_id=Tweet101

Okay, I don't intend this to be for debate on the merits. No politics please, that's why I didn't post it there. I'm just interested in how much everyone else thinks they will be affected by the seemingly inevitable plunge. I get paid monthly. Between the expiration of the payroll tax and the...

THey should have just gone to oneof those pay-day loan places, or better yet the mob and pay the vig.

Lots of places would probably be glad to hire you. Starting with military contractors like Raytheon, Boeing, Loral, etc. Beyond that any electronics company that deals with communications - Qualcomm comes ot mind but there are many.

I hate to break it to you, but protestors are arrested all the time. Legally and correctly so. In many cases they want to be arrested. You are not allowed to chain yourself to the gate of a nuclear plant and impede ingress and egress, or to "occupy" somebody's private office. Just like there...

Well, up the street from us there was a remarkable showing of appreciation for free speech rights- http://www.huffingto..._n_1738807.html I love the way this guy characterizes the tagging. "It's just paint". Hey, it's private property. It reminds me of the "Stop the Church" incident when a...

^^^ He did it in the name of anti-religion. He stated so. He persecuted the Russian Orthodox Church mercilessly. His goal was to wipe it out. Besides, it doesn't matter. I'm arguing that evil comes from the human psyche, regardless of the presence or absence of religion. It's only atheists...

Yeah, that atheist sweetie Joe Stalin had the right idea.