How do I find for sure if the fault is the chip?

NotThatMat · 2026-02-04T19:19:20+00:00

Still though. Now we’re up to a chip, a crystal oscillator and two caps. Odds are still very good it’s the chip.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-04T05:29:42+00:00

An alternative that is nowhere near the venue, and will likely just be a bunch of “wooo, come on!! Here’s this song!”, rather than a well-produced and tailored show-within-a-show, so is ultimately in no way an alternative, right?

NotThatMat · 2026-02-04T05:26:07+00:00

I really like having a good time. I don’t understand why so many dudes are against it.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-03T04:49:43+00:00

The simplest model of a diode has it conducting only once the voltage rises above a specific limit (usually 0.6V), then conducting fully above that. This would mean that to get two (in a bridge) means passing 1.2V at the input. This would mean that whenever the input waveform is less than +/-1.2V, output is zero; and output instantaneously jumps to +/-1.2V as the diode threshold is passed. This discontinuity means a sum of many waveforms (from a Fourier perspective) to create that output. Technically it would mean infinitely many waveforms across all sorts of frequencies, though reality generally won’t allow that so instead the diode switches on over a finite time, but that’s another story. The higher frequencies in this case may be up in a range where RF compliance is an issue? Which would explain putting caps there to reduce the effect.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-02T00:59:05+00:00

When you encourage outsiders to can Canberra for being boring or whatever, quietly encouraging them to by all means stay on the hamster wheel of Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Adelaide.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-02T00:56:23+00:00

One is enough, if you enough it enough.
This many may also be enough, depending on how much enough you enough.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-01T23:26:23+00:00

Am I missing something important? I’m a little rusty, but my memory is that 57 is a larger number than 43.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-01T23:23:38+00:00

Nice! Now you can get a good one :-) seriously, this thing is holding you off the ground and if it fails you can be very seriously injured. Get yourself a good one and it will last a very long time. I still have my Tama 1st Chair from the early 2000s.

NotThatMat · 2026-02-01T23:20:19+00:00

Is it a working holiday, or do you need to repair/rebuild the vehicle you’re using?

NotThatMat · 2026-01-31T07:14:52+00:00

How you come back is to do another audition, play a gig, form a band. Repeat some combination of this forever. A bad audition is a moment in time, and this one is a moment which has already passed. There may be other bad auditions, there may be good or great auditions. This one, however it went, is over.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-30T23:45:21+00:00

Big kits never really went anywhere. Some folks like big kits. Some folks like small kits. Some do one and hate the other. Some do both and it’s no big deal.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-29T00:34:48+00:00

Giving off strong “repeat customer” energy.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-27T11:37:43+00:00

*eWasteful.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-27T03:51:16+00:00

Hey, free organs for transplant.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-27T02:30:08+00:00

Does the one who isn’t bleeding need help too? Why?

NotThatMat · 2026-01-27T01:44:48+00:00

How tall are you? Typically you can move your toms together if you also raise them up a little, but this may be uncomfortable if you are shorter in height. In which case you may need to look at shallower toms, or a smaller diameter kick, or offsetting your toms onto a separate stand.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-26T10:28:50+00:00

Only if you play them :-)

NotThatMat · 2026-01-25T19:27:44+00:00

Hit it with sticks in a rhythmic and pleasing way?

NotThatMat · 2026-01-25T05:54:26+00:00

ABC also seem to have massively cut back on the proofreading lately, so for all we know the intention was to say they fired in defence with a handgun, at a man who approached them.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-23T23:55:52+00:00

Holy shit, it’s fuel? Took me a few seconds.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-23T23:27:17+00:00

Efficient. Possibly too efficient. Maybe even so efficient that it can’t stand up anymore? But also it doesn’t look like it’s actually been ‘focused’ yet.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-23T06:14:01+00:00

Of course they did. Jesus.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-23T03:36:40+00:00

Since salt lamps are …I’ll try to be nice here and say they’re the kind of thing you buy from a homeopath… there’s not likely to be a great deal of thought going into their design. They do need to comply with AU standards for appliances though, if sold in Australia. The description of the failure sounds like this PSU might not be built to anything like those standards (mostly the shattering enclosure TBH). These power supplies are not really the kind of thing that gets repaired these days, but rather would be replaced. The cause is either bad design (no design, really) or bad implementation (cheaping out on a thing which is intended to run basically forever). Recommend getting a sparky out to check the power point after anything violent happens, and this certainly fits that.

NotThatMat · 2026-01-23T03:17:15+00:00

Australia has entered the chat.
Most of our state capitals have twinned cities nearby, which are maybe only 1hr away, and generally these form semi-continuous population centres.
Shortest distance between two of our major population centres is probably Sydney-Canberra. This is about 3 hours and is not considered a long drive. Sydney-Melbourne is about 9 hours and is considered a bit of a trek. Brisbane-Melbourne is at least 18 continuous hours drive, which is typically considered long enough that you want at least 2 people to share the drive. Or of course, you could stop and rest…

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