Driver to drive?

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:10:07 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:16:11 -0800, AllInTheChi
Hostyle@magicregion.org> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:41 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


You don't actually care about diodes, you just want something to whine
about.

And you guys call *me* a troll?

I have PCBs with 30 LEDs and limit resistors on it. Powered by a 12V
6W dongle.

I posted a hi res pic of them on flickr.

You connected LEDs and resistors?
36 LEDs and 12 resistors.

12 sets at one dongle per set of two sticks. That's only 3 Watts each
stick. Unless the dongles lie or are being overtaxed.

I am quite sure I could put more than two sticks on a single dongle,
but I didn't want to sit down and configure an LVDC distribution panel.
They work fine in pairs, and the power strip is a 'panel' for the
dongles. Same juice ends up getting used either way, though there are
likely a bit more losses on the many dongles method. Making fewer dongle
fight harder is probably a slight bit more efficient. (splitting it on
the DC side).
 
Chiron wrote:
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:47:17 -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

You do know that if complaints had any effect, the entire Usenet would
have lost their accounts years ago? Just sayin'


Sometimes they do. I managed to cost a stalker three consecutive ISP
accounts, and he hasn't bothered anyone on that newsgroup, since.

Well, you've done better than anyone I know. For all the good it seems
to do, you might as well send your complaints to /dev/null.

If a person kept having his accounts closed, though, it might teach them
some manners...

He was bipolar and off his medication, like several posters on this
newsgroup. He screwed up when he phoned the local sheriff's office with
some false information, and threatened a church I was working with to
collect computer equipment for Veterans who couldn't afford a system.
The first ISP had been assured by the local police department that he
was harmless, along with the second. The third was a national ISP who
didn't check. After he went silent, I found that he had moved back to
his parent's house. He had quite a police blotter. The police had to
remove him from a Red Robin restaurant, he was banned from shopping at
Wal-Mart, and had the police called when he tried to run a woman down in
the parking lot of her apartment complex. There were a lot more, but
those are the only ones I can remember right now.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson

How come you never post anything with content?


**********************************

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jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
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beryl wrote:
On 02/01/2012 01:20 PM, Chiron wrote:
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:47:17 -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

You do know that if complaints had any effect, the entire Usenet would
have lost their accounts years ago? Just sayin'


Sometimes they do. I managed to cost a stalker three consecutive ISP
accounts, and he hasn't bothered anyone on that newsgroup, since.

Well, you've done better than anyone I know. For all the good it seems
to do, you might as well send your complaints to /dev/null.

I complained to Roadrunner abuse dept. about one of their users, and I
included the offender's full message headers because I knew they'd need
that.

They wrote back requesting that I send them the message headers,
so I replied and included them again.

Then Roadrunner wrote back again, telling me that I needed to supply
them the message headers ...
I replied, reminding them that I'd been including the headers every
time, and here they are once again.

And Roadrunner wrote back again, telling me that I needed to supply them
the message headers ...
My last email told them that I was through wasting my time with them.

They probably looked at your posting history and said, "Screw it!"


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson


How come you never post anything with content?
I knew you were going to say that ;-) However, when I _do_ publish technical
content, it is complete, and _works_ >:-}

Didn't anyone ever teach you about separating the message body from your
signature with dash-dash-space ??

See... http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

**********************************

John Larkin, President
Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
...Jim Thompson
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson


How come you never post anything with content?
---
He often does, whether or not you're capable of understanding the
content.

--
JF
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:58:39 -0600, John Fields
<jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson


How come you never post anything with content?

---
He often does, whether or not you're capable of understanding the
content.
Well, that was a great technical contribution too.


**********************************

John Larkin, President
Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
 
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:41 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:38:06 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:27:45 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:33:40 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:18:40 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:53:22 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:18:28 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:44:58 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:


I've got a vanilla 1N4148 on the bench with 1.0000 mA through it and
0.618 V across it, so what do you think will happen if I double the
voltage across it?

Something like 350 mA. But there's a lot of variation between
different manufacturers' parts.

What did you measure?

---
712mA.
---

---
Snipped irrelevant pontificating.

Electronics is irrelevant to you?

---
No, irrelevant pontificating about it is.
---

The LT Spice model for the 1N4148 has an Rs value of 0.568 ohms, which
looks a tad low to me.

---
Assuming 750mA puts it into the linear region, then Rs = Vf/If ~ 1.7
ohms, so I agree.

That's the static resistance. A more useful value is dV/dI, the slope
of the curve in the linear region.

---
Since there will always be a disparity between minority and majority
carriers in the mix, and charge will be shared between them, there can
never be a linear region.

Except, perhaps, for the fleeting moment when the TC across the
junction equals zero.
---

That's the Spice 0.568 value. The
value from several 1N4148 data sheets is more like 0.7 ohms.

---
Maximum, at If(nom) or, perhaps, at If(max).

Do you have some real data to support your position or are you just
looking to blame LTspice for your failings?
---

How's that for a first? ;)

LT Spice shows 0.64 amps at 1.236 volts. Most diode data sheets show
about half that current.

---
Most 1N4148 data sheets show the drop across the diode with up to a
couple of hundred milliamps through it, so what are you talking about?


You don't actually care about diodes, you just want something to whine
about.
---
Nonsense.

Whenever I checkmate you, and you realize you've lost, you sidestep,
pretending you have moves left which you don't, in order to prolong
the knell of your death bell and hope for a miracle to save you.

--
JF
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:58 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:58:39 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson


How come you never post anything with content?

---
He often does, whether or not you're capable of understanding the
content.

Well, that was a great technical contribution too.
---
Sorry you misunderstood, but that was a non-technical comment directed
at your reticence to admit to error.

--
JF
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:59:44 -0600, John Fields
<jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:41 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:38:06 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:27:45 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:33:40 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:18:40 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:53:22 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:18:28 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:44:58 -0600, John Fields
jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:


I've got a vanilla 1N4148 on the bench with 1.0000 mA through it and
0.618 V across it, so what do you think will happen if I double the
voltage across it?

Something like 350 mA. But there's a lot of variation between
different manufacturers' parts.

What did you measure?

---
712mA.
---

---
Snipped irrelevant pontificating.

Electronics is irrelevant to you?

---
No, irrelevant pontificating about it is.
---

The LT Spice model for the 1N4148 has an Rs value of 0.568 ohms, which
looks a tad low to me.

---
Assuming 750mA puts it into the linear region, then Rs = Vf/If ~ 1.7
ohms, so I agree.

That's the static resistance. A more useful value is dV/dI, the slope
of the curve in the linear region.

---
Since there will always be a disparity between minority and majority
carriers in the mix, and charge will be shared between them, there can
never be a linear region.

Except, perhaps, for the fleeting moment when the TC across the
junction equals zero.
---

That's the Spice 0.568 value. The
value from several 1N4148 data sheets is more like 0.7 ohms.

---
Maximum, at If(nom) or, perhaps, at If(max).

Do you have some real data to support your position or are you just
looking to blame LTspice for your failings?
---

How's that for a first? ;)

LT Spice shows 0.64 amps at 1.236 volts. Most diode data sheets show
about half that current.

---
Most 1N4148 data sheets show the drop across the diode with up to a
couple of hundred milliamps through it, so what are you talking about?


You don't actually care about diodes, you just want something to whine
about.

---
Nonsense.

Whenever I checkmate you, and you realize you've lost, you sidestep,
pretending you have moves left which you don't, in order to prolong
the knell of your death bell and hope for a miracle to save you.
Checkmate? Save me? How pathetic.

You are raving again, in really corny stilted prose, and it's not
about diodes.


To 500 mA:

http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/1N4148_1N4448.pdf


To 800 mA:

http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/1N/1N4148.pdf


~~800 mA:

http://www.vishay.com/docs/81857/1n4148.pdf


which you could have found yourself in a couple of minutes if you were
interested in diodes. But you'd rather whine and strut and cluck.



**********************************

John Larkin, President
Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

How come you never post anything with content?
Is that what you call the crap you post?
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:58 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Well, that was a great technical contribution too.
Hey, idiot. YOU are UNqualified to make a valid assessment about
anyone else.

You got that, boy?
 
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:09:10 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk
joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

After almost a week of brooding, that's all you can come up with?
Week? He's been on the rag for years.
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:44:36 -0800, Numer0 Un0
<Numer0Un0@abettermanthanyou.org> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:58 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Well, that was a great technical contribution too.

Hey, idiot. YOU are UNqualified to make a valid assessment about
anyone else.

You got that, boy?
Your new nym: NumeroZero.


--

John Larkin, President
Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:32:24 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Checkmate? Save me? How pathetic.
No different than you with "word salad", you fucking total retard, AND
total PATHETIC hypocrite!

In fact, his usage is quite common. Just not so much among brainless
bloodlines in their little rat races. You are a member of one such
bloodline.
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:06:55 -0800, Hattori Hanzo
<OutintheSnow@billsbackyard.org> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:32:24 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Checkmate? Save me? How pathetic.

No different than you with "word salad", you fucking total retard, AND
total PATHETIC hypocrite!

In fact, his usage is quite common.
Way, way too common.


--

John Larkin, President
Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:17 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Way, way too common.
You are way too uncommonly stupid for the position you claim to be in.
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:50:09 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:57 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:24:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:15 -0800, josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:27 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I don't really think an "arbitrary" definition is necessary, since the
location of the knee has been with us for decades.

John, I told you there are people who believe there is a "knee" in an
exponential function. ;-)

And there are people who think that the only kind of resistance is
E/I.

Some famous person once said "When all you know is Ohm's Law,
everything looks like a resistor."

Well, that was me, actually.


Switch famous to infamous and the description of yourself is all too apt.

?-)

Arguing with Larkin is like arguing with a liberal, they're all mouth and no
math.

...Jim Thompson


How come you never post anything with content?


I knew you were going to say that ;-) However, when I _do_ publish technical
content, it is complete, and _works_ >:-}
The alternator switcher thing that you posted was neither.


--

John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:42 -0800, Hattori Hanzo
<OutintheSnow@billsbackyard.org> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:17 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Way, way too common.

You are way too uncommonly stupid for the position you claim to be in.
I was talking about diode series resistance, part of the issue of
paralleling LEDs, and JF got into his usual clucking and whining mode.

Do you own any LED flashlights? Open one up and see if there are any
resistors.


--

John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
 
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:17:51 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

Do you own any LED flashlights? Open one up and see if there are any
resistors.
Mine are not the dumb versions. The switch, and control circuit is in
the tail. That means that it takes the 4.5 volts in and correctly
controls the feed to a single, super-bright LED with 3 distinct modes.

It is so well designed that when your batteries begin to avalanche,
the second mode no longer functions precisely as designed, signaling
the operator to use the first mode or third mode, but to also prepare to
replace or recharge your cells. The 'nose' end of the battery pack gets
applied directly to the LED. The circuit and equivalent limit resistance
presented to the virtual series circuit and LED and power source resides
in the tail of the lamp and is electronic. Bike riders use similar LED
drivers units in headlights that flash (tail lights too).

I know more about LED flashlights and bike lights than a "see if there
are any resistors" dope like you ever will.
 

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