Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01176
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "Jarrell Clark" Jclark76@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:15:54 -0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: questions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-beam@corp.sgi.com [mailto:owner-beam@corp.sgi.com]On Behalf
> Of Keagan Schpfer
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:29 PM
> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: questions
>
>
> Hi everybody. I have a couple of questions for all you electronic wiz'es
>
> I recently recieved an isolation transformer from a fixit store, and was
> wondering what i can do with it. I have never had any experience with
> one before, and i don't even know what it does.
It has a 1:1 ratio. It is used when you need to isolate a circuit from
ground. They are used a lot in audio. it kills the "60Hz harmony"
> seccond, I was wondering if there was a program somewhere that is a cmos
> chip identification program, where you just have to punch in the chip #,
> and it will give you a data sheet or something like that.
Yeah it's sometimes called "The Internet". It is a widely used device that
has listing for just about everything imaginable. Hotspots for electronics
are http://www.digikey.com
Look under their product line. there are
datasheets for just about everything. If not try National
Semiconductors(Digikey has a link.)
> and third, is there a really quick was to desolder componants. I have a
> desoldering tool with a vaccume bulb, but it takes hours to desolder
> ic's. Is there a flux or something that will melt the solder, but
> nothing else?
Put it in the BBQ pit for a while, then hit the board on the side of
something it all flies off. OR you could buy a desoldering gun.. $$$$
-_-_-_-_-_
PC ZEN
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
> Thanks a lot for your patience
>
> KEagan Schopfer
>
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