-=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "LOOKING FOR A SCHEMATIC" on 11-23-04  23:36.....


 MR> I did not state that it wouldn't work and only commented that it had a
 MR> serious potential to cause interference.

That's alright. I understand what you meant. But I realized you
hadn't seen the article.

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

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

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

All projects are tested as much as is possible for all foreseen
problems and as many of the unforeseen as they can find.

Where problems have occurred with their projects, they were
notified by reader feedback, and investigated as thoroughly as
they could.

It was often found that the problems were due to some kit
supplier using low reliability components, or to components from
one manufacturer not working the same as apparently identical
parts from another manufacturer.

The magazine would always publish a note regarding found problems
with advice on how to best overcome them.

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

Many of these ideas are/were at least the equal of their full
scale projects, but because they had been unable to personnally
test them, they wouldn't publish them with the same assurances as
the ones that they had tested.

   ,-./\
  /     \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
  \_,-*_/    "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E
       v

... Being a pain in the arse is a perogative of the creative mind.
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30

--- FLAME v2.0/b