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03/27/12 08:48
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#186905 - RE: 555 Timer for AC
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Hello Chico,

Triacs tend to stay conductive if the load is too light. Your motor may be too small a load. Try with a 100W light bulb.

Second, I'd like to advise you to tattoo these two wisdoms into your brain, one of them already somewhat mentioned by someone else in this thread:

YOU CAN NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW (so beware thinking that you know a lot)
UNDERSTANDING IS MORE IMORTANT THAN KNOWING THINGS (knowing things without understanding exactly why and where they are on the scale of bullshit is completely useless)

Unfortunately, you seem to be part of a generation who thinks they are a brain surgeon, or at least halfway there, because they can find things about it "on google", put there, on teh internets, by other spotty youths fancying themselves brain surgeons who are better with their pirated copy of Dreamweaver than that they have ever actually held a scalpel. You seem to be one of the generation who will reject anything but easy answers, without ever concerning yourself that easy is quite often a sign of wrong.
I fear the internet, and the uncritical stance a lot of young people are taking towards it, may be making humanity as a whole a lot worse rather than better.


List of 26 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
555 Timer for AC            01/01/70 00:00      
   "a circuit I got in the internet..."            01/01/70 00:00      
      Tests            01/01/70 00:00      
         Then leave AC mains well alone!!            01/01/70 00:00      
         then why did you put it together            01/01/70 00:00      
            a recipe for disaster            01/01/70 00:00      
               How safe is safe?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  HUMANLY safe            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I would also add            01/01/70 00:00      
                        A good link to electrical safety            01/01/70 00:00      
   You dally with danger again!            01/01/70 00:00      
   the value of a human life ....            01/01/70 00:00      
      An unsafe bodge for a basically unsuitable design!            01/01/70 00:00      
   So this circuit cant work?...            01/01/70 00:00      
      How much do you understand?            01/01/70 00:00      
      How do you know you know enough?            01/01/70 00:00      
      already answered            01/01/70 00:00      
      Capacitor power supplies...            01/01/70 00:00      
         the bane of the high voltage amateur            01/01/70 00:00      
            Just 24V isn't enough            01/01/70 00:00      
      You are contradicting yourself!            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: 555 Timer for AC            01/01/70 00:00      
      Triacs            01/01/70 00:00      
   I'm giving up            01/01/70 00:00      
   Re            01/01/70 00:00      
      Don't hijack threads            01/01/70 00:00      

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