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Jan. 11th, 2019 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogMy Ukrainian doctor friend gave me his translations of the spec sheets for my nixie tubes today and I just wanted to jump up and hug him; these are so great! I haven't found translations online for them, so I'm going to share his somewhere.
I figured that even without electronics knowledge, he'd have things in the ballpark and I could figure it out from there, and that's how it worked! He said that the phrase "half-wave rectification" in particular was tricky for him, so I drew a diagram and explained half-wave vs. full-wave rectification.
When I was a kid, I always thought it would be great to learn about this stuff, but somehow never thought I could.
Looking at maps today, I see that, while I don't have any parts from Ukraine, I do have some from two neighbors. My replacement VTVM tube came from Slovakia and my nixie tubes are coming from Moldova.
I figured that even without electronics knowledge, he'd have things in the ballpark and I could figure it out from there, and that's how it worked! He said that the phrase "half-wave rectification" in particular was tricky for him, so I drew a diagram and explained half-wave vs. full-wave rectification.
When I was a kid, I always thought it would be great to learn about this stuff, but somehow never thought I could.
Looking at maps today, I see that, while I don't have any parts from Ukraine, I do have some from two neighbors. My replacement VTVM tube came from Slovakia and my nixie tubes are coming from Moldova.
