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

[Richard S. Leary]

Thanks Ken, Was told that one in radio school, Keesler AFB, summer 1955. You
never forget it do you.

73!
Rick, W7LKG

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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of Ken G Kopp
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 17:26
Cc: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Color code memory aid ...

>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.
>
>
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