I hate Radio Shack

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Tue Jun 11 22:25:55 2002

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Doc wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:
>
> > Quothe Gene Buckle, from writings of Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 07:24:38AM -0700:
> > > he went into RS looking for a GaSFET and was promptly told that he might
> > > have better luck in an auto parts store.
> >
> > Back when I was in high school, when a 1 farad capacitor would have
> > been, physically, huge (probably about the size of an RS store, or
> > something like that), one could telephone a RS store and ask for a 100
> > farad, 1KV, capacitor and the sales clerk would say "I'll check to see
> > if we have any."
>
> Just a sanity check, here. What would be the _DC_ rating of a
> momentary switch rated at 3A, 125VAC?
>
>
> Doc
>
>

Probably something like 3A _at_ 24VDC (resistive loads only) DC is easy to turn
on but harder to turn off (no interrupted current to quench the arc)

Peter Wallace
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 22:25:55 BST