Hi, why transitors have 3 legs?

You are so stupid, you don't even know what the term "transducer" means. It covers every device you ever laid hands on, idiot. From a resistor to that tin hat you wear.

You have already lost, John. Give up already.

That dung beetles can't use a computer? :)

So everything is a "transducer" ? A tennis racket? A padlock? A toothbrush? That's handy.

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That would be a confidence to currency converter.

Got it. Everything is a transducer.

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Last time I looked, dips get support by their under body when inserted into a socket of solder onto a board. In which case, leads? This goes for the majority of packages and how they are mounted, these days.

I don't know where you got that analogy from? Haven't you seen the old days of where transistors with their little wire leads be supported by their leads?

My legs support my body with out my stomach or ass touching the ground. I can say for sure, I have legs not leads however, I think there are some here, that sit on their arses far to much and can't claim that.

A TO-220 style case when mounted into a board with out any mounting could be said that it has legs, because it is being supported mechanically via it's leads. So that analogy goes both ways. If it were to be mounted against a back plane the usually way, then we could say the leads are used as leads only.

Twisted it around all you want, most of us know the difference.

Jamie

Ok, if you say so. That's an opinion with very little content to support it.

Coming from my end, it only shows how much you really communicate with customers in the field. I am always talking to technical people on daily bases and that term comes into play many many times and no one even blinks an eye or question authenticity or context. Maybe they know something you don't.. Wait, that can't happen, can it?

Jamie

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No, the leads have a tapered section to hold the body off the board so the flux underneath can be cleaned.

So are most components, including BGAs.

You have legs, components have pins or leads. I suppose AC power sources have "legs", but...

So your legs are only legs if you're standing on them. If you're sitting on your ass, then they're leads? You're getting weirder and weirder.

OTOH, yes, I have heard pins called "legs" but only as a slang in a humorous context; never in formal documentation. I certainly wouldn't use the term "legs" in a job interview. Would you?

Do you behave like this when clients call you to discuss a contract for a design? DO you sit there and correct their terminology to match yours, even though it really means the same but does not agree with you?

I wonder how many deals you have botched over the years from that trait?

I know, because in my early 20's when I started designing things for clients I used to have a bad habit of correcting them and my excuse was to clarify it properly to insure no errors were made in the design draft. I can say that I did lose a few potential contracts and since I was a one man show and only hired out when absolutely needed, It didn't do very well for the bottom line.

In retrospect, if they are willing to hand over a large sum of money with a high profit margin, they can use what ever terminology they wish. And if it gets to confusing, I just ask the questions in a different manner so I can get as many answers as possible and put it together, with out insulting the potential customer.

No matter, 2012, 21 is coming and all of this will be moot! Mark my words!

Jamie

Since you want to be prudent, I'll have to lower myself for this one!

It's "tennis racquet"

Jamie

It's easier to call it a tennis transducer.

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I don't know? I interview possible candidates for jobs and I have no issues with using that term and I hear it quite often. Everyone where I work seems to be on the same page.

Oh well, don't matter anyhow, like I said, 2012, 21 it all comes to an end! ;)

Jamie

Sure it would, but, what are you converting it to?

Jamie.

Says the all but dead dork who can't even put enough memory in his computer to make it work.

Me... I gots computers in my phone and my PC and my iPad tablet COMPUTER and even my gaming consoles and they all work fine, and I know how to use all of them about 3 orders of magnitude better than you ever could.

So, Terrell. take a hike, jack-off!

That pretty much makes you the dung beetle, boy!

Well, it got it roots (etymology) from transformer motor and generator nomenclature, actually.

It couldn't possibly be that your narcissism is blinding to the fact that you are being a pedantic prunt, could it? Doctor heal thyself.

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No you didn't. JF never called any of them "transducer".

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Nothing, providing you actually learn it. If all you get is some sense = of how to use the relevant buzzwords tolerably, it produces garbage grade techno speak instead. Also called variously by such as "sales speak", "management speak", "droid speak", etc., It can improve communication to some audiences.

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It's not feasible to brainstorm with optics people or physicists or jet engine guys with just buzzwords, without making sense to them. But a couple of days of cramming their speciality is a good thing to do. I'd look dorky proposing a 10 microsecond laser driver when they need

200 ps in their business. Just getting the orders of magnitude right makes one look less dumb.

It's fun learning new stuff, too.

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