"Greg Mayman" bravely wrote to "Mike Ross" (23 Nov 04  08:50:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC"

 -=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC" on 11-16-04  10:59.....

 MR> A chopper?! That should make for great wads of rfi...

 GM> We can all think of reasons why it wouldn't work, based on the
 GM> brief description I gave in my message, but...

 GM> 1. Silicon Chip _always_ tests all of their projects thoroughly
 GM> before they are published.

 GM> 2. If the chopper caused interfernece, they would have mentioned
 GM> it, but I suspect they had measures to suppress the RFI.

 GM> 3. Don't knock it until you've seen the article, and/or tried the
 GM> system.


I did not state that it wouldn't work and only commented that it had a
serious potential to cause interference. Lord knows there are already
so many sources of it around these days. It has gotten so bad that
even TV's interfere with themselves from rfi caused by their internal
microcontrollers. Plastic cases don't help by letting it all out as
well. At least under a metal hood there's a chance it would stay in
the engine compartment but even cars are getting more and more plastic
treatment.

Perhaps Silicon Chip only tested for what it wanted to test and
simply ignored what it didn't test for. We can't assume to know what
they did or didn't do, can we?

Pointing out there could be a problem isn't knocking the idea. There
are many ideas with serious drawbacks that were nonetheless
implemented. For example flying large numbers of people in the air
without parachutes, carting school children in a bus without
seatbelts, allowing movie makers to lock a viewer's DVD controls so
they are forced to watch their commercials, and so on. Man is that
ever a piss off!!! Now I hear they want governments to make it illegal
to FF their crap under copyright laws. Pfft!

 M*i*k*e

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