Re: now in recovery

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:30:47 +0200, "Rik Steenwinkel"
<rsteenw@xxxxxxxxx> opined:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:04:54 UTC, Lionel <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
persuaded newsservers all over the world to carry the following:

} On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:00:12 -0700, Scott Packard
} <scottp@%hash%.usenet.us.com> opined:
}
} >On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:58:06 +0200, Rik Steenwinkel wrote:
} >> Mains. I think I pressed a modem power brick into service, but it's at
} >> least 0x10 years back. The blinking was courtesy of a 555.
} >
} >555's don't blink symetrically, no matter how hard a friend
} >wants one to.
}
} They can be made to do so, but the amount of work required is such
} that it's usually less effort to do it some other[0] way.
}
} [0] Typically involving a few CD4017 decade counters, or somesuch.

Erm, how can anything be less work than removing one resistor?

If you need (for example) 10 blinkenlights, a 555 + a 4017 is both
cheaper & easier to wire up than 10 555's & their associated discrete
components. And the greater the number of blinkenlights you require,
the greater the savings in total parts-count.
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