Re: Please help - Elektor magazine

From: Bob Wilson (rfwilson_at_send_no_spam.intergate.ca)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:39:59 -0000

In article <2ldu2aFbfjkuU1@uni-berlin.de>, Ivan'H'older@yahoo.co.uk says...
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>"Linker3000" <linker3000@youkaytwodotnetuk2.net> wrote in message
>news:40f19b94$0$7807$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
>> Trevor Campbell Davis wrote:
>> > In case anyone can help, I need a copy of the March 2004 issue of
>Elektor
>> > Electronics magazine (Nr 330), to complete a break in a library
>sequence.
>> >
>> > I will of course pay for the copy plus postage.
>> >
>> > Please help if you can.
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>> > 73
>> >
>> > Trevor Campbell Davis
>> > G3YMM
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>> > tcd@eurocom.demon.co.uk
>> > _____________________
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>> Sorry I can't help - just replied to say 'my god, it that still going!'
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>> Elektor used to be my favourite as a 'yoot' doing electronics as a hobby
>> in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI.
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>> I have some of their 30x circuits books somewhere - they always came up
>> with a circuit idea when I needed something.
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>Amazing, I also didn't realise that they're still going, even though I have
>a loft creaking under the weight of ancient copies.
>
>However I actually found a use for one of them a few weeks ago, when the
>starter in the fluorescent lamp in my garage failed and I didn't have a
>replacement.
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>I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor
>(which I have dozens of) so after a long search the appropriate magazine was
>found and the circuit hastily constructed on a piece of Veroboard, worked a
>treat and the tube now springs into life instantly!

Sure Elektor is still going! Just bought a copy recently when I was in
Germany. It is every bit as good as it always was.

Bob.

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  • Re: Please help - Elektor magazine
    ... >> in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI. ... >> with a circuit idea when I needed something. ... >I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor ... Sure Elektor is still going! ...
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  • Re: Please help - Elektor magazine
    ... >> in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI. ... >> with a circuit idea when I needed something. ... >I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor ... Sure Elektor is still going! ...
    (sci.electronics.equipment)
  • Re: Please help - Elektor magazine
    ... >> in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI. ... >> with a circuit idea when I needed something. ... >I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor ... Sure Elektor is still going! ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Please help - Elektor magazine
    ... >> Trevor Campbell Davis ... > in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI. ... I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor ...
    (sci.electronics.equipment)
  • Re: Please help - Elektor magazine
    ... >> Trevor Campbell Davis ... > in the 1980s when I got fed up with Hobby Electronics and ETI. ... I remembered that there was a small circuit for an starter using a thyristor ...
    (sci.electronics.design)