Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

Anyone know where I can get a 666 timer chip? Digi-Key doesn't see to carry it. I'm trying to build the new and improved version of the Ainslie circuit. I have placed a link to the schematic below:

http://xkcd.com/730/

Golly. There is an error in that schematic. No wonder you can't get it to work, that chip is inverted. It is actually supposed to be a 999.

[Rosemary Ainslie]

Anyone know where I can get a 666 timer chip? Digi-Key doesn't see to carry it. I'm trying to build the new and improved version of the Ainslie circuit. I have placed a link to the schematic below:

http://xkcd.com/730/

That's a REMARKABLE schematic derrick.  Very well done indeed.  I think what you've given us is just a further improvement on the tar baby - IF that's possible.  The difference being that your schematic is clear.  And, of course, INFINITELY more logical.

NICE WORK.  Keep it up.  In no time at all you'll be replicating the TAR BABY which, we all know, does a FINE job of replicating nothing at all...

Sadly - it bears no relation to our own work - which is probably just as well.  Or our little TK will be left with nothing better to do with his time than comment on his his genius or - God forbid - the size and type of his equipment that he uses as a measure of his genius.  I believe that he claims a score of 72 inches - in his GRE evaluations.  Proof enough of an excess IQ.  I understand that GRE stands for Gross & Ridiculous Evaluations related to those Abnormally Taxed in Laughable Intelligence Evaluations.  The acronym being the GREAT LIE.

In any event.  Well done indeed.  It's not often on this thread that one gets such an accurate rendition of one of TK's circuits.  God knows.  The task is way beyond the competence of anyone with a mere FUNCTIONAL intelligence.

Kindest regards
Rosie Pose   

[TinselKoala]

So... referring to SCRN0325 again: the battery is only indicating 73 volts. This I think means that they are substantially depleted, certainly not fully charged. They should be closer to 75 volts or more if fully charged.

But there is a strange feature on the battery trace that I don't understand. Here I've indicated it on the blowup analysis graphic. Can anyone interpret this rising voltage feature after the oscillations end and as the DC current is coming on? I would have expected this to be a sag, not a rise.

[Rosemary Ainslie]

Hello polinater

Man, I wish I had a setup like yours TK... this Android barely let me make any decent shot at all... had help from the clouds, though (they thinned out in time for the show).

Not sure that you intended it - but I am sincerely 'blown away' by that photo of yours.  It's really very, very good.  VERY Well done indeed.  Sorry that it's me who speaks up about it.  But WOW.  That's HIGH standards.  A fleeting moment of a 'fleeting event' through those thin black lines.  And a minaret pointing 'off center' and modestly and - slightly off target.  And the suggestion of a frame outlined by the silhouette of those disconnected leaves.  They float with the same sense of weightlessness.  A kind of 'gravity free' moment.  It's an EXCEPTIONAL composition.  Thank you for that.  I'm sure there are many here who appreciate such fine artistry.

Yours most sincerely
Rosie

If I  can manage it I'll try for another upload.

[TinselKoala]

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