AlfaMag Newsletter - December 2007
The official newsletter of AlfaMag Electronics, LLC.The fun newsletter to read..!!!
Highlights
"Featured Products"
"Fun Trivia"
"Bits & Pieces"
"Rick's Favorite Recipe of the Month"
Featured Products
"Common Mode Chokes"
Our more popular CA Series provides an efficient means of filtering supply lines having in-phase signals of equal amplitude, thus allowing equipment stringent electrical radiation specifications. Wide frequency ranges can be filtered by using high and low inductance common mode toroids in series. Differential mode signals can be attenuated substantially when used together with input and output capacitors.
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Fun Trivia
"Resistor Colour Codes"
1. A resistor's first three colour bands are; brown, black, and red. What is it's value?
a. 10 ohms
b. 1000 ohms
c. 200 ohms
d. 10 Kohms
2. Which digit does the colour yellow denote on a resistor colour band?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 7
d. 4
3. A 47 Kohm resistor would have which colours on its first 3 bands?
a. red, white, blue
b. yellow, violet, orange
c. orange, yellow, violet
d. yellow, violet, red
4. Which digit does the colour orange denote on a resistor colour band?
a. 9
b. 1
c. 6
d. 3
5. A resistor's first three colour bands are; red, yellow, black. What is it's value?
a. 420,000 ohms
b. 240 ohms
c. 24 ohms
d. 32 ohms
6. Which digit is represented by a blue band on a resistor?
a. 8
b. 4
c. 9
d. 6
7. Which digit is represented by a black band ona resistor?
a. 100
b. 1
c. 1000
d. 0
8. A resistor's first three colour bands are; brown, green, red. What is it's value?
a. 510 ohms
b. 152 ohms
c. 1500 ohms
d. 250 ohms
9. Which colour represents the digit 6 in the resistor colour code?
a. red
b. blue
c. pink
d. green
10. Which of these colours is NOT used in the resistor value colour code?
a. turquoise
b. white
c. black
d. violet
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Answers: (1)b (2)d (3)b (4)d (5)c (6)d (7)d (8)c (9)b (10)a
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Bits & Pieces
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts:
To return love for hate,
To include the excluded, and
To say, "I was wrong."
Many people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
There is no free lunch. Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.
If you see a need, don't ask, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" Ask instead, "Why don't I do something?" This world needs more shepherds and fewer sheep.
Never work just for money or power. They won't save your soul or build a decent family or help you sleep at night.
Don't be afraid of taking risks or being criticized. If you don't want to be criticized, don't say anything, don't do anything, and don't be anything. Don't be afraid to fail.
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
*** Rick's Recipe of the Month ***
I've put this recipe in the newsletter before (long time ago), but this went over so good at Thanksgiving this year, my sister-in-law demanded that I make it again for our Christmas get-together. This disappeared faster than the turkey did...!!!!
Ingredients
* 4 lb beef brisket or roast
* 1/8 cup cider vinegar
* 1/4 cup semi-dry red wine (and a little extra for the chef)
* 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
* 3 tablespoons of chili powder
* 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
Preparation
Preheat your oven to 275 degrees. Mix all of the above ingredients into a medium mixing bowl (except the brisket). Place the brisket in a 9 x 12 oven dish, with the fatty side down, and pour the marinade over it making sure both sides are covered well. Cover the dish with tin foil and poke a few holes in the top of the foil with a toothpick. Place in oven and bake for eight hours. After baking for an hour or so, open and use a large spoon to cover the top of the brisket with the marinade. Do this about every hour. If you're doing a roast, about 3 1/2 hours into baking, turn the roast over so the marinade really soaks into the meat on both sides.
This brisket actually falls apart using your fork, and it has the most wonderful aroma and taste. This is certainly a crowd pleaser and you won't go home with any leftovers...!!!