What a mess!

Maybe you are just incompetent. :)

Anyway a hammer and all the other tools you have tried are altogether too primitive for the task. You need something more sophisticated and advanced like a homemade plasma cutter or carbon dioxide laser. What kind of electrical engineer are you anyway? Mechanical approaches are the old skool way of doing things. They lack control, features, and reliability. An electrical approach almost always allows for far more (at least potentially) in all of those categories.

Stick it in the freezer, then whack it? Or in the oven and cut it?

Tough call!

Mike Monett

Do you mean you still haven't learned how to pick out the right sized hammer the first time? ;-)

Bench vise?

...Jim Thompson

On the other hand using a hammer lets you ge rid of the built up stress, and will burn off some of those chocolate flavored calories.

I even use mine as a press to put interference-fit parts together.

Probably. He seems on a bent to declare all transistor designs obsolete... replace them with a uP ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I was sort of hoping I wouldn't have to get out of my chair. It's surprising how often a workable tool is within reach; but the bunny won this time.

John

Lasers ruin the taste of good chocolate.

John

You and Bob Pease are kindred souls; at least you use Spice. But the raw economics of uPs and FPGAs is hard to ignore. I think doing "analog" stuff in a uP or an FPGA is liberating; you can implement outrageous algorithms essentially for free, the only expense being the time to write the code, which itself is (usually) fun.

I've done a few power amps where all the power supply sequencing, limits, and fet protections were done in firmware. Realtime simulation of junction temperatures allows the fets to be pushed much harder, safely, than any practical analog protection scheme. Some of my boxes have switching regulators where the uP code turns the fets on and off in real time.

It is 2005, after all.

John

John, what do you think of Scharffenberger? I'm hooked on their 62% bittersweet. I'll be mainlining it soon. Never tasted better chocolate.

Good day!

Exactly, that gives you a great deal of control. My little Record vise/vice with the hard plastic jaws is perfect for that sort of thing. If you want to break a light bulb without destroying the filament (to make a Pirani gauge), crack open an ultrasonically welded plastic housing, or break up a chocolate bunny, that's the way to go. Possibly John's brain was addled by chocolate deprivation.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I never installed it, Dell did. All I did was bitch about it.

John

Well, notwithstanding the hammer jokes and just biting off a chunk, how about melt it and pour it over a scoop of French Vanilla ice cream?

Cheers! Rich

Oh, hell then. Just hold it in your hand until your hand gets all chocolaty, and lick it off your hand.

It's optional whether you use the same hand that you watch pornos with. ;-P

Life's tough, isn't it? :)

Al

He recently broke the hammer while installing XP ;-))

I once had Siemens deliver an amplifier with four Hitachi IGBT's each the size of "The Art of Electronics" for 4KA @ 3Kv 0 - 15000 Hz ... The used an analogue computer to run a simulation of junction temperatures based on those wierdo multi-module analogue cards that Siemens build custom stuff with.

The "Siematic S7" was not around then - there is a DSP module for that.

Here is yet another good use for Windows XP. Put the rabbit inside the case, near the pentium chip. Make sure the rabbit is standing in a left-over coffee cup. Wait 10 minutes. Enjoy delicious chocolaty bunny drink.

Regards, Bob Monsen

A PIC would be the best solution here. Place 5000 SOIC8 PICs in a sock, then thump the rabbit. If that doesnt work, program the PICs then try again (1's weigh more than 0's).

Cheers Terry