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Article #8859Re: "Joke....."
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Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 03:33
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 03:33
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In article <1990Dec6.231300.28710@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, chik@eecg.toronto.edu (Raymond Chik) writes: > The following is a joke taken from a student newspaper published > by our Dept. of EE. > > ###First Law of EE: > Electronics devices work on smoke; as long as the > smoke stays inside the components, they work, > but when the smoke escapes, they don't! > We'd always been told it was compressed smoke. Devices such as power transistors and MOSFET's have to handle larger currents, hence they require higher pressure smoke. A side effect of this is that if they develop leaks, the higher pressure can cause the failure to be quite spectacular. ********************************************************* Chris Kaiser Postgrad - Elec Eng Dept Canterbury University Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND E.MAIL: kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz ********************************************************* "When you're fresh out of lawyers You don't know how good it's gonna feel" - Al Stewart, 1988 *********************************************************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!csc.canterbury.ac.nz!elec140 From: elec140@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: "Joke....." Message-ID: <1990Dec8.150634.10141@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 8 Dec 90 03:33:03 GMT References: <1990Dec6.231300.28710@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 27