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Old 18th Jul 2017, 5:16 am   #18
Argus25
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Default Re: Lesson R,L,C,T,V,D but Q and U ?

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Originally Posted by julie_m View Post
Transistors make terrible fuses. A fuse is supposed to fail open-circuit!
I have a mid 1980s' vintage Hero Jnr robot (made by Heathkit) It uses the amazing speech speech synthesizer IC, The Votrax SC01A. It comes with a number of pre-programmed words of wisdom. One of them is:

"Smoking transistors is hazardous to my health"

one other : "I have the utmost confidence in this mission Dave"
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