I have noticed that the initials of the horrible Moderator at Electronics-Lab had the same initials as its owner. Maybe the same person??

They both knew little about electronics.

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Well I hope it comes back, it was an interesting place with buckets of misinformation and was verboten / futile to attempt to fix them.

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I'm not so sure.

Was the moderator we're talking about MP?

If I remember rightly he was from the USA and the site owner (ws it mixos?) was Greek unless this was a cover up. I can't remember that well, it all happened a couple of years ago.

I left in late 2005 and I remember waiting about three to four months before joining another, site I suppose the bad experiance put me off, in the end I found this place and read a few threads before I join to make sure the moderator wasn't a bully.

I did find it quite odd that someone with such little knowledge would set up an electronics site, there again the same applies to Aron Cake.

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MP that's him. Thought he was Greek not American. Either way stubborn and often wrong.

Do you mean this Aaron Cake http://www.aaroncake.net/

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Bill
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Aaron Cake, that was it.

Perhaps he was Greek, I can't remember.

I suppose we can at least try if/when the site pops back up again, I don't see what we've got to lose.

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One of the best things there was the thread on the 0-30 volt power supply project. It didn't quite do what it claimed but Audioguru fixed it. That thread was over a hundred pages I think. There was a lot of good info in it and several people ended up building pretty nice power supplys.

 

That power supply was popular, I remember that thread what a pain for such a basic project.

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The owner of Electronics-Lab was studying computers in university and set up the website to try different online software and ads. His hobby is electronics.

His handle is Mixos and he built the original faulty 0V-30V 3A power supply that didn't meet its ratings then it blew up. He gave up with it before I fixed it.

The horrible Moderator called himself an engineer but he never designed and never posted any circuit or project.

Aaron Cake has some faulty projects on his website. One is a 12VDC to 120VAC inverter that has its timing capacitors backwards so they blow-up. There are two very long threads with complaints.
The inverter's output is about 25W before they blow. Reversing the capacitors also causes then to blow because the two power transistors have avalanche breakdown which feeds them huge current pulses. The transistors have hardly any base current.

The horrible Moderator said the inverter project works fine.

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Uncle $crooge

 

A good moderator(s) makes quite the difference...

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Bill
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Lol, perhaps we should invite him to join this forum so he can defend himself, it's rude to talk about people behind thier backs, lol I wonder how many red squares he'd get.

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And http://www.silicontronics.com, same screen name as here.

 

I'd be happy to see him here. He could demonstrate his skillz... We could reply sans censor.

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It would depend what the replies were like!

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Don't worry, we won't swear at him, although I can't guarantee that he won't swear at us.

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I also post at the following sites:
http://www.stop-microsoft.org http://www.heated-debates.com
Screen name: Aloone_Jonez
And http://www.silicontronics.com, same screen name as here.

 

Ask the horrible Moderator what happens when you connect a power supply rated at 10A to a circuit that draws only 1mA.
He will say the circuit will explode! Hee, hee.

Ask him what the output will sound like from an opamp without any negative feedback.
He says he does it like that all the time. Hee, hee.

Like the opamps in the defective Electronic Stethoscope from Aaron Cake and copied to Electronics-Lab projects.
He said the opamps were fine and he has e-mails from people who also said the project worked fine.

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I googled the website and his spelling is pretty bad, almost as bad as that one member that would type like this: I need tht ocilliat bd for projct fr skhool.

He spelled Diagrams and Hobbyist wrong

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