Actually, it was 0.19 seconds!

https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=31&gs_id=6&xhr=t&q=You+are+a+fluke+of+the+universe&pf=p&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=You+are+a+fluke+of+the+universe&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=aa371a1c4c8326fa&biw=1400&bih=711

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NAwlepnSs

Quote from: Rosemary Ainslie on June 29, 2012, 10:49:46 PM
No MileHigh.  Give me a link.  You know my difficulties with these ruddy computers.  Right now I'm feeling winded.  I was SO hoping that was your work.  But I DO want to know who wrote that.  You're true genius is in your taste in art. I've seen it over and over.  It's impeccable. 

Rosie Pose

Here is a link with a bit more history and the original from which the parody was written:

http://dmdb.org/lyrics/deteriorata.html

And, as National Lampoon was a rather American rag, here is a link to a bit of its history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bUTcy6w2Rw

Let's all gather round the campfire and sing Kumbaya.

Quote from: Rosemary Ainslie on June 29, 2012, 12:44:50 AM
  Either way - here's the thing.  A MOSFET is designed to conduct current from an applied switch - or as Poynty puts it - from an applied 'polarity'.  They are NOT designed to avalanche.  That's very much a secondary attribute that is a consequence of their primary function.Not actually.

I stand my my earlier statement.  This is not and never has been the object of a transistor.  Or that's certainly as I understand it. 

On that spec title page, they list standard features features of the device, 6 of them

Number 2 on that list is,  "Repetitive Avalanche Rated".

To me, it seems to be an important feature of this transistor that it is capable of handling a rated avalanche state, "Repetitively".  That means it is rated to be in a circuit by where the circuit could cause an avalanche state, "repetitively".  Can we all agree on that?

Otherwise why would it be stated in the top 6 features of this transistor, coming in at number 2 in that list?

There are data sheets for transistors that dont show this as a feature or quality. So why would this sheet do so?  An error? Typo? Is it there just for all to ignore??

You said  "I stand my my earlier statement.  This is not and never has been the object of a transistor.  Or that's certainly as I understand it."

Or certainly as you understand it?  Well ya must be stuck in groundhog day with Bill Murray. Because you seem to refuse to try and understand something new to you. At least Bill took advantage of it. He learned something new every day.  This transistor sheet does show that your transistor is designed to do just that, Avalanche Repetitively. Ya might want to write that down.
You can go ahead and stand by your words.              Im going to stand over here. 

Mags