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I'll probably come up for the meet. Would anybody be able to put up a fellow HC'er for a night or maybe two? The room would have to be soundproofed as I'm a terrific snorer. Otherwise I'll find an inexpensive motel nearby.

x2. Great job, Nate.

Mine arrived today. Thanks Justin.

Is there any other kind? Congrats on the LCD-2s. Enjoy them.

That makes sense.

Happy Belated Birthday, Wayne. :prettyprincess: I hope that you had a great one.

Nevermind. I looked again at the cord in better light and, indeed, one side has 1 rib on it. The rib side is neutral, the middle is ground and the smooth side is hot (looking this up confirmed that this is the normal convention). So I'll just follow the instructions.

I'm on to the next set of kit questions. It involves the 3 wire power cord. In the instructions, it refers to a "smooth side" and a "ribbed side". The "smooth side" is connected to the fuse and the "ribbed side" is connected to the switch. Since the instructions are specific about this, I'm assuming that that the polarity is important. The problem is that in the included cord, both sides are smooth. So I have the following questions: 1. Is the polarity that important? It is AC coming in. So only the phase would be different. Does it really matter how I hook up the non-ground wires? 2. In the schematic diagram on page 18, what is the perspective of the AC male plug? Are we looking from the front of the plug (i.e. at the pins) or are we looking at the wires coming out the back of the plug? Elenco XP-720K manual

You mean it's kind of like this?

Congrats Dinny. Way to go. Nice pics Jeff.

I've never heard of Ghostland Observatory but I've been to Grasslands Observatory.

@Scott - Thanks, I hadn't seen that web page. The pictures are useful. I haven't soldered the wires to the board yet, but probably will ahead of time per the instructions. The board is mounted into the chassis by the time you get to this step, so it shouldn't be very hard to solder the wires to the mounted TO-220 packages. @Birgir - Thanks for the tip about putting shrink wrap in them. I'll to that upgrade.

I'm in the process of putting together an Elenco XP-720K bench power supply kit. The kit has 3 ICs and 1 transistor in T0-220 package format. The instructions have the builder bending the legs 90 degrees and then mounting the devices on the heat sink. This seems normal enough. However, to hook wires up to the devices, the instructions instruct the builder to tin the wire and solder it to the correct leg. The instructions are here: Elenco XP-720K manual To me, this approach seems likely to result in a fragile device. Is this a normal thing to do? I assume that there are connectors I could use. Would it be better to use connectors. Or can you suggest yet another approach? All suggestions are appreciated.

Oscar thought it was pretty amusing. He started laughing about halfway through it.

Yep. Two down, four to go. It's actually pretty easy.

Even better then. He gets a set of IEMs that he really loves and money back.

Typhoid Ari?

Reubens are also a good medium for sauerkraut.

Maybe the fact that it sounds better has something to do with the different sound signatures of the 13 vs. the 16. If it sounds so good, I would just enjoy it and not worry about the drivers.

Lovenox, coumadin and diltiazem. Unfortunately this means no alcohol for a while.

Happy Birthday, Jim! :prettyprincess: I hope that you have a great one. Enjoy the day.

Not enough. They are going to have to pay me more than $9.84 to get me to take it.

Andrew, do you have security turned on your wireless network or is it public? If it's the latter, set up security and try again.

Happy Birthday! :prettyprincess:

It kind of reminds me of playing Bejeweled, only this one is more irritating. The Lancia prototype gives the Pontiac Aztek a run for the money in the competition for ugliest car ever created.