Claimed OU circuit of Rosemary Ainslie

[WilbyInebriated]

since you are dressing up this travesty of a thread with dune references, here is one that is fitting for you self styled "experts and specialists":

"above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. it is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. they are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. the mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. he must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. he must remain capable of saying: "there's no real mystery about this at the moment. this is what we want now. it may prove wrong later, but we'll correct that when we come to it." the mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can identify as our universe is merely a part of larger phenomena. but the expert looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. the generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. it is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. there can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. you must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: "now what is this thing doing?" - the mentat handbook

[MileHigh]

TK:

It looks like the mosfet shouldn't be turning on. But: in my case, what happens is that the Baseline of the 555 pulses rises from zero to about 5 volts.

This finally registered in my brain.  That may put the MOSFET in its linear region, burning DC power in the MOSFET and the coil-resistor all the time.  Very freaky since you have to assume the 555 ground pin is at ground.

And sure, fingers make the frequency vary

That could indicate a stray capacitive effect is forming a stray resonant circuit with the unwilling 555 and overpowering it.

Wilby:

Back to the real world, throw this at the problem:

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/roadrunner_fastest_computer



MileHigh

[WilbyInebriated]

Wilby:

Back to the real world, throw this at the problem:

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/roadrunner_fastest_computer



MileHigh

yes, back to the real world, that's not the computer you're using to run pspice. and using GPUs is old news

[MileHigh]

It's for crunching down to the level of individual zippons. 

[forest]

hey,experts, hats off , your knowledge is incredible
but eliminate RF waste , you have ringing and waste by heat or RF output

As for analogy with hotel clerk - here is the end of the story : one of the man was much more clever then others, he realized he get back his own money but not all so he called the owner of the hotel and made a big quarrel.The owner then returned him all the invested money plus a gift - a vacancy for a weekend
call the owner and he will (hopefully) respond...