>At least we don't have weird accents like those aussies and
sheep-chasing
>new zealanders. <G>
>
>Andy

That should be "New Zealanders", please.

Note that we are good at what we are good at -

1.     All English is migrating towards being spoken as she is spoken
here (even genuine Brit version, to their horror).

2.    The mighty US of A is so scared of our free market unsubsidised
sheep farming efficiencies that they have slapped a 9% import tax
(called something else) on our lamb imports to protect the poor
inefficient uncompetitive  US sheep farming industry - sounds like
sheep-belly politics to me :-).

3.    TO KEEP THIS ON TOPIC :-)

A nice trick for checking electro cap (metal can version only)
polarity in circuit that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere (I
should post this separately perhaps?)

- Ground negative meter probe
- Operate circuit
- Measure voltage on can of working electrolytics.

Properly polarised caps will typically show a voltage of from about
0.1 to 0.5 volts. Reverse biased caps will have a can potential much
closer to supply. ie the can is not at but is NEAR the potential of
the true negative terminal. For a reversed cap in the 10uF - 1000uF
range on a 5 volt supply the can is typically at 2 or 3 volts but
anything over about 0.5 is suspect.


regards

            Russell McMahon






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