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[John Roberts {JR}]

Yup... That's what I do when I'm bored. An idle mind is the devil's playground. 

I could give you circuit design to chew on... I've been trying to figure out how to do something for months and still can't. If I wasn't so humble I might suggest it can't be done. 

JR

[Mike Sokol]

There was also a chemist I know that was trying to get phi adapted as a symbol for moles. Kind of amazing in chemistry our most fundamental unit doesn't have a symbol.

Moles don't get no respect. From Superman and the Mole Men...

[Mike Sokol]

I could give you circuit design to chew on... I've been trying to figure out how to do something for months and still can't. If I wasn't so humble I might suggest it can't be done. 

JR

Send it to me and I'll munch on it a bit. You have my email...

[Joseph D. Macry]

"Polarity" has too many letters to squeeze onto a tight console faceplate, "Phase" is just wrong, "Pol" is not likely to be understood, so Phi wins.

JR

I myself think "+/-" would be a good symbol to represent polarity switch.

[John Roberts {JR}]

I myself think "+/-" would be a good symbol to represent polarity switch.

Not bad, but I haven't designed a console in this century, I haven't even touched one.

If I was still in the game, I'd test that...  I vaguely recall playing around with a symbol that was one cycle of a sine wave with a + inside the positive half, and a - inside the negative half. Or perhaps two sine wave cycles one starting with the up half, and the other starting with the down half.

The worst thing you can do is confuse the operators when they are looking for which switch to throw a mic out of phase with another..  I would gladly use the word "phase" if it wasn't for pedantic whiners (like me) who know it should be polarity.  The customer is more right than the seller.

JR

PS: I got the design problem sorted.... when i tried to write an email to send mike, my subconscious was apparently embarrassed and gave me the solution it apparently was sitting on.

[Mike Sokol]

PS: I got the design problem sorted.... when i tried to write an email to send mike, my subconscious was apparently embarrassed and gave me the solution it apparently was sitting on.

I have that effect on people....

[Stephen Kirby]

Maybe two waveforms on top of each other going in opposite directions for positive and negative polarity.  Of course you'd still a single phase. 

[Jay Barracato]

Electrons going forward in time and backwards in time.

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[John Roberts {JR}]

I have that effect on people....

Not to get too serious for a moment, but I have a theory that the two halves of our brain communicate better with the outside world than each other. Verbalizing a problem (or perhaps writing about it) can involve the other half of your brain, the one with new, different ideas.

A brilliant design engineer I knew from decades ago, would make small talk with his wife every night about the design problem du jour... She of course had no idea what he was talking about, the process helped him find more solutions.

So talking about stuff really helps... Talk to you pet or plants if you need to.

JR

PS: I've been known to talk back to the TV set during political speeches. That never seems to help.

[Frank Koenig]

He was trolling his own forum. 

"Polarity" has too many letters to squeeze onto a tight console faceplate, "Phase" is just wrong, "Pol" is not likely to be understood, so Phi wins.

JR

How about "-1"? It's short and it IS the transfer function. -F

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