but you've worked out how to get the 555 to do an amazing variety of tricks,
Thanks for that.
despite the fact that it's usually easier to do the job some other way.
Noting that "easier" is subjective, I'd welcome your input as to what
you mean by "usually" and by "some other way".
"Usually" means "pretty much all the time" but "easier" is definitely subjective, essentially depending on how lazy you are and how little pride you take in your work.
I see. You can't flesh out "some other way" so you revert to ad
hominem.
I can't be bothered fleshing out "some other way".
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but you've worked out how to get the 555 to do an amazing variety of tricks,
Thanks for that.
despite the fact that it's usually easier to do the job some other way.
Noting that "easier" is subjective, I'd welcome your input as to what
you mean by "usually" and by "some other way".
"Usually" means "pretty much all the time" but "easier" is definitely subjective, essentially depending on how lazy you are and how little pride you take in your work.
I see. You can't flesh out "some other way" so you revert to ad
hominem.
I can't be bothered fleshing out "some other way".
Sounds to me like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I'm anything but stuck - I can use any component I like. There was a time when idiot managers would suggest that I might use the 555 for some job or other, and I'd have to set them straight, but those times are long past.
The market has been doing that for some 25 years now, but legacy
designers are still doing what worked for them back in the 1970's.
Well, then, if that technology's been standing still for decades and
you've been keeping up with the times, it ought to be duck soup for
you to come up with at least something showing you know what you're
talking about, yes?
Probably. However, I've pointed out here from time to time that the cheapest MOS power transistor is better than what you get in a 555, and the dimmest micro makes a better timer than the 555, and you never seem to get the message.
At this point, a couple of schematics, one describing a circuit using
a 555 and yours, describing a "better" alternative, seems to be in
order.
Or we could have a flint-knapping competition ... the fact that you can use the 555 in lots of applications isn't a good argument for using it in most.
Nor did I say it was, my position being that one uses what's
appropriate for the work at hand, as opposed to using a silk purse
when a sow's ear would be good enough.
The 555 is hardly ever appropriate for the work in hand now, and hasn't been for some 25 years now.
Unless you can explain where a billion units a year are going, I'd
have to say that there's something seriously wrong with your
presumption to know what the work in hand is now.
As I keep on repeating, the billion units a year are going into legacy designs, and there are "legacy designers" around who thing that because the 555 was the answer to a maiden's prayer in 1971, it's still the obvious choice for similar sorts of jobs forty years later.
You seem to be one of them.
It's not inappropriate enough that you can't get away
with using it, and if you need to cheap-skate on design time,
doing what you did back in 1975 does save effort.
Having kept up and been in the trenches, I'm well aware of what's
available now and how to use it, and if I decide to use a 555 because
it fits an application perfectly, Then guess what...
It fits the application "perfectly" because it was what you used the last hundred times you did much the same job, and you can't be bothered thinking up a different solution.
As for the flint-knapping, I asked for an example backing up your
claim, not a competition.
We've been here before. It's not the kind of claim that needs backing up one more time.
Well, be that as it may, It'd be nice to see it backed up once in a
row.
"In a row"? You want a "row" of examples of non-uses of the 555?
I've spent my career not using it. Not intentionally - it came up once or twice, but was never good enough for the stuff I needed done at the time.
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