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A'ite, I was at the big boss' house today working on fixing his wine cooler split system. Got to talking gear with him. Dudes sorta retired, spends a bunch of his time playing in a cover band. He's playing bass at the moment, huge fan of CCR. Told him about my little hobby, gave him a...

I mean...

A'ite folks, I've conquered the el rad. No destruction this time around. In truth, it kinda looks like a lower value red fasel. Sorta. Higher DCR though. Honestly, I've found the toroids that I've measured to vary the most. Could be minor variations in the ways that the wire is...

Took a quick look: That's a negative. Nothing in the right range of 500-650mh. DCR values too high in the hundreds of millihenries. Truthfully: If one wants to go on the cheaper side of things...I really like the Stompbox parts ME-6. Its a fantastic wah inductor for...like...stupid cheap...

Filtering by size can be helpful if you're looking for consistency in the way everything looks. Ratings don't really tell the whole story. Some are larger, some are smaller. Vishay RN55'S are rated for 1/8 watt. CMF55'S are rated for 1/4 watt. They're the exact same resistor, RNs are...

Necessity is the mother of destruction. A penny saved is a penny kept out of the poor's grubby hands. ...DAMMIT, STICKMAN, STOP DERAILING YOUR OWN THREAD!

Remember, peak of mount stupid. To prove it: did you know that there was a crybaby that pre-dated the vox grey wah? It just so happens that it's true! The vox grey wah was invented when the guitar player inventer, Roman Ed Paul, got tired of gently nudging his newborn with his foot to get...

Looks like a hot potz II, which puts it in the early 90s. Most likely a 1408P. Looks like a stock barrel connector to me...though it's possible that it's a modification. That was a good era for crybaby inductors. Anything late 80s-mid 90s, really. In the late 80s they used a Magnetics type...

Crazy cat's method works. Generally, it's safe enough to just go 15-20% over the maximum applied voltage. As to how much Adderall, I find 70mg lisdexamfetamine in the morning and 20mg dextro/levoamphetamine at 1 pm works well for me. I am also the hoarder you speak of. My unobtanium!

Its an advantage of being entirely two-dimensional. One can present a facadé of knowledgeable-ness whilst remaining less deep than a puddle. Honestly, I take pride in inhabiting "the peak of mount stupid" on the dunning-kruger curve in as many different disciplines and I can muster. Did you...

So, looks like this is how it will work in practice as far as I can tell: Any place that bundles packages into a $799.99 parcel from China (like temu, or AliExpress) will now carry a ~12.5% tariff. Flat $100 fee, the package gets split up into separate parcels once in the US. For individual...

Ok, I'm starting my new sheet with impedance and phase angle measurements. Not much there yet. Did the two that I had immediately in reach. I'm gonna have to do a little digging to figure out how to make graphs that make sense. For the future...I just snagged a boomerang *and* a colorsound...

60 is too thin for bass.

Ohhh! I know the answer! The ancient Babalonyian stickmen counted numbers by having sex. This made getting change for a fiver very inconvenient and awkward, as the shopkeeper had to find somebody nearby to get it on with in order to participate in the legal currency system. Everybody loved...

Ladies and gentlemen; this is what somebody who knows what they're talking about looks like. I am but a cave stick man banging sticks together and cursing at the gods as to why I haven't made fire yet. I had gathered some of what you stated in the post: particularly the bit about stray...

A'ite, I've recently picked up an old transition Italian crybaby. This was manufactured for a short time between 1967-1968, after the "script" box Clyde McCoy/top logo crybaby, but before the V846 and 95-blah blah blah. It contains an inductor that is quite unique in comparison to the others...

Iirc, reed switches are similar to relays in that they use magnetism to actuate, but instead of electromagnetism they use permanent magnets. Those do actually have moving parts. Hall effect switches, however, are in fact solid state. They're set up kinda like Jfet switches, but when you pass...

Oooh! I can speak directly to this! In any kind of switch...be it a mechanical switch, a relay, or whatever you have...several factors determine the longevity of that device. One of those factors is the voltage with which the switch contacts are exposed to, another is the amount of current...

Did it just get a little hot in here for anybody else?

This thread needs more stickman. Stickman, ho! Relays. I love relays. Why? Reasons. The argument about complexity must be taken from both the electrical and the mechanical sides of the equation. Sure, a relay bypass involves more components, which leads to increased electrical complexity...