Re: slightly off topic

"Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Organization Maybe tomorrow
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Radabaugh wrote:
> 
>>> Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The thing that has me stopped (if the absence of a heat sink and 
>>>> other objections were not enough) is this:  I can not conceive of a 
>>>> two-terminal voltage regulator.
>>> Zener diode? 
>>
>> Regulating the North American Grid?
>>
> No :-)    You asked for a 2 terminal voltage regulator.    Just amusing 
> myself....  never mind.

Watching that sucker work without a heatsink, dropping 104 volts 
(depending on which report you read) would be amusing.

For a while.

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