Don't quit on that one so fast, i learned it right here from other 'mericans in the latter half of the 20th century.
Infinite Resistor Problem - Confirmation
Aug 15, 2009
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Is this still about 'flummox[ed]'?
Heck, it's been a natural part of my vocabulary all of my life, AFAICR.
Cheers! Rich
I have another idea. Instead of a quad pad array, place them in an "Indian tee-pee" configuration. You stand them up, and solder a big blob node on the end of all four. Make a jig so they are all exactly the same.
What you get is more real estate, so a bigger array fits into the same areal space. It also has the benefit of making those nodes a compact, singular alloy, with low intermetallics issues, and the devices are closer together,(the corners would touch) so it would be closer to the ideal. It also allows easier probing on the blob. You could make two "sheets" of interconnected tee-pees and then flip one completed "sheet" over to make another set of connections from sheet to sheet.
Darn, if I had my old CadKey loaded, I could draw it up real quick. I already have macro drawings of an SMD resistor and mlcc SMD cap.
I have cap arrays potted in polyurethane and multiplier banks, etc. One is worth like $2k, and that was ten years ago. It would be $5K now.
I made it puke one day (CadKey) by trying to array the bottom layer of
9.5 ton stones that make up the Cheops Pyramid. I wonder if my current machines could manage such a huge array. The part that makes it hard is the 5 mil space between stones that span several feet on each side. The package doesn't like having to manage two sets of scale precision together, OR it simply gobbled up all the memory it had and simply expired. Still, I have yet to sit down and get that drawing project started again on a modern package. Not an outline, like most today, but a full, all stones included rendering. Then, a duplicate rendering that includes the missing facade stones and capstone.
Maybe it lingered along the Eastern Seaboard. I do not remember it in Ohio.
Well, I guess that cinches it, then. If it hasn't been heard about in Ohio, then it simply must not be. ;)
In my case, I'm pretty sure I first saw it on a mixed group of British and American posts, more than a decade ago. I can't be sure who was writing, so it might have come from an American. At the time, no one seemed flummoxed by its use, including the Americans that frequented the site. (It was more American than British, post-wise.)
Jon
As "settled in" as "US Eglish" gets is an Ohio town with no accent.
I can't say that I had a fully rich, OR a richly fool exposure to the world's vocabulary then as well...
I'm sure a lot slipped right by.
(we'll get jabs on that one.)< and that one
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