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Default Why can't electronics on new washers & dryers be tougher?

Plague Boy wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:
Don Klipstein wrote:

Cheaper still requires oscillators regulated by component
tolerances - and oscillators tend to have at least two components
affecting frequency, and finest tolerance of ones easily available at
premium prices is 1%, meaning low chance of achieving timing highly
reliably better than 2% in either direction unless either crystal or
power line time base is used.


I'd have thought getting the cycle to within 10% would be more than
adequate.

Sylvia.


No, because time and Tide wait for no man.


*groan*

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