02-01-2011, 01:41 AM
Thanks, Randy. I appreciate it. (Oh, and I got along quite well with the EE's ... what they did was also looked upon as black magic.)
I copied your electronics lesson to an MS Word page and have printed it out on a 5x7 index card for daily reference. I included your name at the bottom to remind me to whom I am indebted for making the effort to try to get me to understand. Thanks. I appreciate the effort!
Now ... looking at those SMD 0603's, it appears that the have a black mask with a tiny round hole in the middle on one side, and whatever is going on on the other side is waaaay too small to see with the naked eye (through the package.) I'll have to open the package tomorrow and look at them under the Optivisor. Then I'll have to drive over to Radio Shack for some red and green magnet wire to try to solder leads onto one of them. With 500 of the little buggers to play with, if I screw up a few during the learning process, so be it.
I copied your electronics lesson to an MS Word page and have printed it out on a 5x7 index card for daily reference. I included your name at the bottom to remind me to whom I am indebted for making the effort to try to get me to understand. Thanks. I appreciate the effort!
Now ... looking at those SMD 0603's, it appears that the have a black mask with a tiny round hole in the middle on one side, and whatever is going on on the other side is waaaay too small to see with the naked eye (through the package.) I'll have to open the package tomorrow and look at them under the Optivisor. Then I'll have to drive over to Radio Shack for some red and green magnet wire to try to solder leads onto one of them. With 500 of the little buggers to play with, if I screw up a few during the learning process, so be it.
[I spent the day trying to figure out (i.e., track down) why I was summarily blocked from accessing another forum ...
~~ The Reading Modeler ~~
... for supposedly launching an "unknown attack" on them.
All is well now ... apparently there have been a large number of foreign spam attacks,
with highly suspect intentions from Russia and Poland over the past two weeks!]
~~ The Reading Modeler ~~
... for supposedly launching an "unknown attack" on them.
All is well now ... apparently there have been a large number of foreign spam attacks,
with highly suspect intentions from Russia and Poland over the past two weeks!]
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln