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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:46:32 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:38:12 -0500, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:55:46 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:36:50 -0500, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:22:03 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:26:17 -0500, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:40:41 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I was observing that some people can't stand mayonnaise (I like it)
>>>>>>>and some people hate cilantro (I detest it. I carry tweezers to pick
>>>>>>>small bits out of my Mexican food.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>One of my guys is the opposite, hates mayo and loves cilantro. He
>>>>>>>suggested that there may be a one common gene for both cases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>OT? Is it EVER!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>RL
>>>>>
>>>>>Design any cool electronics lately?
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm doing power dummy loads that simulate impedances, but I can't
>>>>>discuss that in detail.
>>>>
>>>>The only kind of 'load' that's 'cool' is one that recovers 
>>>>energy to the source. Loads that are cheap, disposable and 
>>>>commonly used will be thrown together from off the shelf 
>>>>crap drawing on HVAC catalog parts and operated by meat 
>>>>puppets on the production floor, long after the 'designer' 
>>>>blows his head off in an off-season motel room.
>>>
>>>Yes, an inductive or capacitive load has to at least pretend to return
>>>energy it got from the customer. A good inductor simulator has to do
>>>that, and tolerate bipolar PWM inputs, and behave like a real inductor
>>>to diode or zener clamped flybacks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>You may not have noticed it, with your mouth on the govt.
>>>>military tit
>>>
>>>Don't be a jerk. All sorts of people buy our stuff. 
>>>
>>When I think about it, there weren't many projects I 
>>worked on after 1909 that didn't involve government 
>>money. That at least covered my hours - a lot of 
>>record keeping under a program with an acronym, 
>>as I recall ~ SRED. 
>>
>>Don't know that customers for the final product had 
>>any similar advantage. Careful separation of 'research' 
>>from (gasp) manufacturing.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>, but light mfring in North America has been in 
>>>>the toilet for >30 yrs. New product development followed 
>>>>mfring, off-shore; their domestic hulks stripped for assets 
>>>>and property values by pointy heads that, having got the 
>>>>value out and loaned it back to us, three times over, are 
>>>>playing Barbie with the political body.
>>>>
>>>>I suppose there's at least some compensation; that you can 
>>>>keep your kids and a few grads employed in your dotage.
>>>
>>>Jerk.
>>>
>>Sorry. I try to keep my mouth shut most of the time, but it 
>>was failing to maneuver transformation into an 'employer' 
>>role some years ago that really pointed out the generational 
>>differences showing up in the industry.
>>
>>I envy anypne who managed it. Driving a single desk/bench 
>>is kid's stuff.
>>>>
>>>>If the chinese are going to make it, then that's where the 
>>>>new designs should be going, so we don't end up buried in 
>>>>electronic kibble. You can put 300% tarrifs on chinese 
>>>>stuff and the ticket value will still be half that of 
>>>>local produce.
>>>>
>>>>We all spin our own legends, to some extent. Having no 
>>>>access to silicon fab, I've pretty much given up on 
>>>>normally-off self-driven synchronous rectifiers. 
>>>>There's always something that needs fixing around the 
>>>>neighborhood, or somebody building stuff around second-
>>>>hand chinese batteries.
>>>>
>>>>Lately I've been working on a digital version of a vanity 
>>>>publication (Y2K) covering cooperative beekeeping and 
>>>>honey marketing organization/development in the '30s and 
>>>>'40s. Cooperatives tend to get targeted by 'free enterprise' 
>>>>money - few have survived. In the 30's, there were gov't. 
>>>>departments (2-man) who's job it was to assist in their 
>>>>development, as the then-current system was basically 
>>>>beating primary producers to death.
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps similar thinking could be applied to secondary 
>>>>industries. 
>>>>
>>>>Beekeeping itself is facing major threats from many different  
>>>>directions these days, none of which are relevant in SED.
>>>>
>>>>Genetically determined preference for mayonaise? Give us 
>>>>a break.
>>>>
>>>>RL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Waning traffic on this forum simply reflects that lack of 
>>>>involvement.
>>>
>>>And of civility. Hint hint.
>>
>>Holding hands under the moon in June never got product 
>>out the door on time and under budget.
>>
>>RL
>
>Being stubborn, needing to be right, refusing to change course,
>rejecting unorthodox ideas, always believing data sheets, all wreck
>designs.
>
>There is at least a 5:1 ratio in productivity between good design
>groups and pathological ones, and most are pathological.

I judge only by delivery on time, to spec.

Has to be coordinated with production and test capability.

Sales? You've got no control over that.It's where I 
found the most pathology, mainly because of a rift between 
the guys who formulated the spec and the guys who ended 
up having to flog the stuff - usually in the same dept.

RL