Re: gEDA-user: [OFF] high current amplifier

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Joerg joerg...@analogconsultants.com wrote: Chris Albertson wrote: [...] I'm thinking about tube amps that had an output impedance of about 1M ohm that used transformers to drive 8 ohm speakers.  About a 100,000 to 1 ratio. 1M? What kind of tube

Re: gEDA-user: [OFF] high current amplifier

2009-05-21 Thread Chris Albertson
as your output transformer. These are designed for close to the specs youd need What are you driving? -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: Surface mounted circuits in hobby projects

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Albertson
I tried to desolder a SMD component, a capacitor with solder remover wick (copper braid), and it's very hard to do it. The class setup is rework tweezers. It's basically a double tipped solder iron and you can just pick up the part off the PCB with hot tipped tweezers. But us poor-folk just

Re: gEDA-user: 2 layer home-made PCB

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Albertson
the case all the thru holes will be too small. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Surface mounted circuits in hobby projects

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Albertson
leads are easy, smaller ones take more effort. But what abot ball grid arrays or other parts with no access to all the leads. I'm seriously thinking about building a reflow oven. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Problem with OGD1: Can anyone advise on good low-jitter

2007-11-28 Thread Chris Albertson
oscillators except they are six pin devices, with the extra pins for i2c programmeing. Jitter specs look good. http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/195314/SILABS/SI570.html -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Albertson
On Nov 15, 2007 11:12 AM, Steven Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...what about 'code' in the form of Gerbers and etc produced by PCB? Would you consider the resultant board produced by PCB to fall under a GPL license? Absolutely and very clearly no. This is exactly the same as using the gcc

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Albertson
in the same box in that case he is re-selling a GPL'd product and some other product. The key test again if if the final product is like the DLL, modular and in theory an end user could replace one part at a time. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Albertson
library might be covered if it was assembled from public information. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Albertson
If you link in GPL'd code, period. That includes dynamic linking, and any attempts to wrap the proprietary code in a GPL'd wrapper. It is easy to come up with counter examples... So if I write a proprietary program the uses the Motif widget set and I license it with very restrictive terms and

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Level DRC DIscussion

2007-11-07 Thread Chris Albertson
and autorouting. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: can't close the preference dialog

2007-10-17 Thread Chris Albertson
to report it. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: collaboration opportunity

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Albertson
don't know if they have done that yet (just checked, no) but the old (somewhat functional) 10/100/1000BaseT MAC is there now. The new MAC is in the project's CVS. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: newbie, couple of Q's about gschem

2007-10-15 Thread Chris Albertson
Gschem's primary purpose is schematic capture. If what you want is publication quality schematic drawings use XCircuit. http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/. What would be really nice would be a translator between the two ___ geda-user mailing list