Re: Another DC heater scheme

>>"> It will necessarily,
>axiomatically be less reliable unless you have a secret stash of parts
>whose reliability is 100%.

If you ever get a hankering to open up the power supply on that PC
you're abusing I suggest you suppress the urge because you'd have a
conniption fit seeing more parts on just the primary side.

> The nuke weapons people will be wanting to know where you're getting
>them because despite millions of dollars  spent on extreme reliability
>they are at no better than six-nines and usually four or five.

Congratulations on achieving the most ridiculous analogy of the month
in trying to compare a couple of transistors and a half dozen 2
terminal parts 1 amp regulator to a nuclear warhead.


> Give what you have on hand (or sell it) to some one who needs it for
>what it is and get the correct part.

I already have the correct parts and you trying to imply power
N-MOSFETs are 'rare' is just as ridiculous as your nuclear warhead
farce.

Try Mouser. They have over a thousand of just that one type in stock
for 34 cents.

Or maybe you think 1/4W resistors are 'rare'.

> Or are you the ****head that insisted on building an amp around the
>4D32 tubes Collins owners badly need and is worthless for audio?

No, you're the ****head who can't even remember who he calls ****head."<<

 Who the **** needs power N-MOSFETS (with their heat sinking) when two or
four 1N4007s and one cap will do with the RIGHT transformer?? Or, a
bipolar pass transistor and a regulator with the right common one as well
if regulation is really necessary.  You are building a poor man's
switchmode supply. All to use a transformer with the wrong number of turns
on the secondary. 

 And it was Al Marcy that was the ****head in this case. 

 He usually is. 

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