On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> Dan Michaels wrote:
> > Roman's test --> take a baby's finger and hold it on the
> > hottest part of the ckt for 30 seconds; measure sound output
> > at 3 feet using Radio Shack sound meter; if >=105 dB, turn off
> > power. [jus kidding about the baby, folks].
>
> Actually the hard part is that your test equipment (baby) needs constance
> maintenance, and you lose a significant amount of development time keeping
> the equipment up.  Of course as the baby-meter gets older it becomes more
> intelligent and disallows such usage - keeping a supply of babies around
> gets expensive, not to mention that replacement parts are non existant,
> nevermind the cost.
>
> At this point it is less expensive in both time and cost to let someone
> buy you a laser temperature meter for your next major holiday.

Agreed.  Far less cost and trouble.  Much less fun to make though.

Dale (5 kids, 2 in college)
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