"Greg Mayman" bravely wrote to "Mike Ross" (29 Nov 04  08:12:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC"

 -=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC" on 11-23-04  23:36.....
 MR> Perhaps Silicon Chip only tested for what it wanted to test and
 MR> . We can't assume to know what
 MR> they did or didn't do, can we?

 GM> Oh, yes I think we can, in the case of this magazine.

 GM> Like the now-defunct Electronics Australia and Electronics Today,
 GM> Silicon Chip tries to do the utmost for their readers with their
 GM> projects, not just provide entertainment.

That is a laudable goal because in the past most such magazines were
only really interested in the publishing aspects and the bottom line.
I still remember 80-Micro Magazine dropping their TRS-80 readers to
specialize in only the PC and their clones. This was a deliberate slap
in the face to the subscribers who supported the magazine from the
start. The same sort of thing happened with Popular Electronics when
it dropped most of the electronics hobbiest content to become
Computers & Electronics with very little electronics in effect.


 GM> All projects are tested as much as is possible for all foreseen
 GM> problems and as many of the unforeseen as they can find.
 [...]
 GM> The magazine would always publish a note regarding found problems
 GM> with advice on how to best overcome them.

I recall many such articles in "hobbiest" mags had
"deliberate" errors
in the diagrams so as to discourage the DIY and entice them to order
the "kit" from the suppliers who were sponsering the construction
articles. The corrections typically only turned up in the 2nd or 3
issues later. Elektor magazine for one was great for their updates.


 GM> SilChip, and EA and ET in their time, all have (or had) a column
 GM> of submitted ideas that were passed on because of their apparent
 GM> worth, for the readers to judge.

Perhaps the daytime running lights chopper article was one of these
reader circuit ideas? But you say it wasn't?

However, the way I see it, switching about 5 amperes rapidly with long
wires attached to behave as antennas is a recipe for RFI. But you say
Silicon Chip endorsed the device and found no problems then I'll have
to believe? Faith doesn't usually affect test observations so either
I've made a wrong assumption of something is missing in this idea?

 M*i*k*e

... That was a fascinating period of time for electronics
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