Re: Cute new part: LMG5126

On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 09:13:55 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 22:15:39 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
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[...]

It doesn't rain here between March and November.

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It doesn't stop raining here between November and March.  (...except
when it snows.)

 
I had a motorcycle in New Orleans. It would reliably rain hard between
about 1 and 3 PM most every day, but I could bike to/from work.
 
If I got caught once in a while, it was nice warm rain.
 
In Truckee, up in the mountains, it can snow any day of the year. I
skiied Sugar Bowl once on the 4th of July.

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English Winter 'rain' is rarely pleasant.  We tend to have long spells
of cold drizzle that chills to the bone and eventually penetrates to the
insides of houses, making them clammy and damp if they aren't heated
well (which is very expensive).  Nothing ever gets properly dry for
weeks or even months on end.

That explains why the English colonized India and Africa and the
Carribean. They were cold.

It must have been dreadful before waterproof synthetics and stuff like
Thinsulate were invented. When clothing was so expensive that people
were killed for their clothes and here were no electric dryers.

My grammy had a wood stove and hung her wet laundry outside to dry. If
it was cold and rainy for a few days, it got moldy stinky and had to
be washed again. By hand. Women used to average hours per day on
sewing and laundry.

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Dry snow is a rarity as the temperatures usually hover just above and
just below freezing, so the snow is wet and slushy.  Warm rain sometimes
occurs - but only in Summer.

In New Orleans as kids we would put on shorts and tee shirts and go
for barefoot walks in the rain. The puddles on the sidewalks would be
warm water. It was fun.

It never snows in San Francisco. My neighborhood is almost always cool
and often foggy, when a mile away is pleasant and sunny. The gradient
in any inland direction from my house can be as much as 2 degF per
mile.

The Coilcraft rep bought is sandwiches and we ate outdoors at our
"conference room", a random cluster of old chairs and benches near the
Arlington Triangle. Our theory is that outdoor meetings have better
dynamics than in closed conference rooms. It's the eyeball effect.

They are doing some new low-inductance low-resistance high-frequency
inductors moulded from powdered iron instead of epoxy, for GaN type
high-current switchers.