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DarkKobold:
Chad, did you ever finish fixing your AD?

If not, don't you think you should walk up the hill before trying to scale a mountain?
ChadTower:
Haven't worked on it, have been working on other things.

The primary holdup for the AD hasn't been the conceptual part, it's been my suckass soldering skills.  I won't touch the AD PCB until I'm confident I won't wreck it, and the problem is in the X/Y video section of the PCB.

My attention span is too damn short, I tend to work on 10 projects in parallel and none of them go very quickly.
danny_galaga:
if you think of the voltage in terms of a water tank, then the height of the tank is analogous to the volts, and the size of the pipe the amps and naturally the length of the pipe is resistance. the analogy works well because you can use the same 'pascals triangle' formula to describe them both...
HaRuMaN:
If you really wanna bake your noodle, study RLC circuits for a while!   ;D
NoOne=NBA=:
Volts = Water Pressure
Amps = VOLUME of the water through the pipe
Resistance = Size of the Pipe

If you increase the voltage (turn up the water pressure) without changing the resistance (using a different sized pipe), the amperage will increase (water will flow faster through the pipe).

If you decrease the resistance (use a bigger pipe) without changing the voltage (keep the same water pressure), the amperage will also increase (more water will flow through the larger pipe).


Would you like to hear my "cattle roundup" description of how a transistor works?
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