On 10/1/2014 2:04 PM, dpb wrote:
On 10/01/2014 1:22 PM, dpb wrote:
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I agree, that's a possible solution. The comment was directed at why
they didn't put in a 10c diode so I would not have to do that.

See above...
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rather than
being pared out on an individual component-level culling (altho that
certainly occurs as well as the price/specific component alternative
vendors/etc. evaluations that occur).

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Kind of like the Muntz TV. Way back when Mad Man Muntz was a car
dealer in California. He branched into TV manufacturing by selling
an extremely cheap TV set. The way he did it was to have his
engineers go through the set and try what would happen if they
left that out. One thing they left out was the IF stage. That
reduced the sensitivity, but since they were mostly sold in the
LA area they were close to the station and would still work, good
enough so that people who couldn't afford a good TV would use
them.

Bill