Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

Thank you all. It was actually my read of the various analyses from you all in the "other" forum that got me to take my mosfets off the nice circuit board and mount them with all that extra snarly wire, and Fuzzy suggested varying the lengths of the gate leads. These two things allowed me to achieve the "required" oscillations.... feedback that is. They are very nicely sinusoidal at low amplitudes! And I'm sure the Dim Bulb test floated into my brain from outside, probably from you guys. The only credit I deserve is for my somewhat thick skin, which has even so been worn thin by Rosemary's insults and inanities.

@Mags: The Tar Baby is a legendary character from a classic of American literature, the Uncle Remus stories. Wiki explains it pretty well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby

I'm just glad I have other uses for the batteries and the mosfets. No, I won't write them as "MOSFET's" (sic); that's another of RA's irrelevancies (and a misuse of the apostrophe as well.)

Tar Baby is tired, but I still intend to do some more scoposcopy using the Tek DPSO, probably tomorrow evening or over the weekend. But that will be mostly an exercise, to see if the scope can cope with integrating the noisy instantaneous power waveform, to come up with an overunity result. Or not......

[Magluvin]

@Mags: The Tar Baby is a legendary character from a classic of American literature, the Uncle Remus stories. Wiki explains it pretty well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby



Tar Baby is tired,

pretty well indeed....

Although the term's provenance rests in African folklore (i.e., the gum doll Anansi created to trap Mmoatia, the dwarf), some Americans consider "tar baby" to be a pejorative term for African Americans.^[6] The Oxford English Dictionary defines "tar baby" in its original sense â€" and as "a derogatory term for a black person (U.S.) or a Maori (N.Z.)".^[7][8] Several United States politicians â€" including presidential candidates John McCain, John Kerry, and Mitt Romney â€" have been criticized by civil rights leaders, the media, and fellow politicians for using the "tar baby" metaphor.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]} An article in The New Republic argued that people are "unaware that some consider it to have a second meaning as a slur" and it "is an obscure slur, not even known to be so by a substantial proportion of the population." It continued that, "those who feel that tar baby's status as a slur is patently obvious are judging from the fact that it sounds like a racial slur"

Mags

[TinselKoala]

Personally, I've never heard the term used as a derogatory or any other kind of name for African-Americans, or even black people.  The Uncle Remus stories, in their original uncensored versions, were part of our growing up, and we even acted them out on stage skits in grade school and summer camps, and the Tar Baby could be played by a Mexican kid, or an "Anglo" or even Jewish or Afro-Indonesian. Why, some of my best friends are Tar Babies. 

However.... back in the day, when I first started talking to Rosemary about integrating waveforms..... she thought I was talking about ending apartheid in oscilloscopes, or something.

[Magluvin]

Or, not from the Oxford English dictionary as in my previous post, but an online dictionary....

tar babyâ€, noun a situation, problem, or the like, that is almost impossible to solve or to break away from.

Or is it to say that your circuit has a problem and is impossible to solve? ;]

Or is it the doll made of tar with a dress? 

Mags
 

[TinselKoala]

Tar Baby's no doll, that's for sure. You can touch it, hug it to your breast even because it's sooo cute, and like turpentine it smells sweet from a distance.... but then you get all stuck to it, it stains your clothing, the odor overpowers, the more you struggle the more it sticks and the more it sticks the stucker you get.... And of course the remedy is to get yourself tossed into the briar patch..... where you are quite at home and can apply the proper "cleansing" to get unstuck and free.

I thought the metaphor was rather obvious, really.