[Elecraft] OT: Color code memory aid ...

[Ken G Kopp]

>From the distant past ...

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly ...

73!

K0PP

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 18:13 Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> OK, cool!  I'd like to see it work.  While I have a lot of respect for
> design folk, and especially those who design the super easy websites to
> use where you find what you need, do it, leave, and your coffee is still
> hot, the Mech E's who can visualize in 3D with motion astound me.  I
> understand the multiple reels of feedstock.  It's the "remove the parts
> from the tape" part that I find hard, that tape was really sticky. [:-)
>
> Every time I've asked my wife to tell me the colors on a resistor, even
> after I tell her, "They're all supposed to be preschool colors," I still
> get, "Well, sort of reddish-orange ... might be a little pink too."
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
>
> On 6/15/2018 4:43 PM, GaryK9GS wrote:
> > Hi Fred,
> > It's called a sequencer.  Individual reels of tape and reel axial parts
> are loaded in the sequencer.  So there would be an entire reel of 10k
> resistors, a separate reel of 100k, separate reel of diodes, etc.
> > The sequencer then removes the parts from the tape and creates a new
> tape with the parts in the proper order and count.  The sequencer my
> company used to have would also measure the value of the part and reject it
> if it wasn't in the tolerance window.
> > I hope that all makes sense...
> > Surface mount is oh so much easier.  We have 9 surface mount lines and
> rarely use the axial through hole inserter these days.
>
>