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by Mr. Chips
Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How did you get your username/forum nickname??
Replies: 24
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Somewhere around 1977-8, my dad (worked at Burroughs) brought home a few cut silicon wafer bits that went inside the TTL ICs of the day. Being 5 or 6, the only chips I knew were of the potato or corn varieties.... so I ate one. Looking back, I'm lucky I didn't have some weird medical effect / intest...
by Mr. Chips
Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:44 am
Forum: Q&A
Topic: Toyota CoilOnPlug unit thermal limitations..
Replies: 2
Views: 4325

Toyota CoilOnPlug unit thermal limitations..

Waiting for MegaJolt/C to build a CoilOnPlug setup on my Corvair air-cooled-6. Anyone have any idea how reliable the toyota coils as mentioned http://www.autosportlabs.org/blog/?p=1318 are? I'd hate to put it all together, only to find out they melt at operating temps, or heat-soak etc.. I think I h...
by Mr. Chips
Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:15 am
Forum: Q&A
Topic: Iphone
Replies: 27
Views: 41662

Using WiFi might be a better idea.. As long as you code the interface in straight http, almsot ANY phone would interface OK, as well as most laptops etc. I use Nokia phones w/ symbian O/S (#1 in the world.... except for US, but slipping a bit now that Android has hit), and there's quite an applicati...