Olin:
Thanks, you are right.
Sorry for being a pea-brain today, no offense intended. Please find it in
yourself to forgive me. Poor editing is ALMOST inexcusable. As for the >'s,
that I believe is an MS Outlook setting. I just recently did an OS upgrade
on this box and have many settings to catch up on, and have been harried
beyond compare lately.
Chris  .:(


-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Olin Lathrop
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 3:39 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Switching low-voltage AC


> here are some rough
> calculations.  I'm making this up as I'm typing.  I remember something
about
> 7A steady state.  Let's say the initial current is 70A at full voltage.
>
> I have been taught, and have used 7:1 as an inrush current ratio for
> tungsten for the past 20 years without any problems.
> ...

>Chris, please do whomever you are replying to and the rest of the list the
>courtesy of differntiating your responses from the original post.  I use ">
>" at the start of each line to denote the original post, as most people do,
>but anything that makes it obvious is sufficient.  I particularly object to
>you reproducing my signature line in your post as if I had written the
whole
>thing.  (Of course that should have been trimmed altogether, but that's
>probably too much to ask at this stage).


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Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com

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