Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Electronics gurus please help

Howdy Doody Tom! Most people here weren't doing what you were doing in
'64, and don't even know what the 'Peanut Gallery' was. The blue smoke
is really Holy Smoke, because that's usually the first words you utter,
when you first see it.

RayHex

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> From: caudlet <tom@...>

SNIP

> It is not stupid to make a mistake and put a part in backward. I
> have been building electronic circuits since 1964 (no comments from

> the ***peanut gallery***!) and I have personally found out MANY times

that

> semiconductors perform poorly when inserted backwards. Most contain
> a magic substance that looks like blue smoke. When you let the blue
> smoke out of a component it is no longer a semi-anything.
>
> I respect your willingness to attempt new things and learn. Everyone

> here is in some stage of beginning. The good part is that we all can

> learn something new every day.