Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!rebel!didsgn!till
From: till@didsgn.UUCP (didsgn)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Build a "simple" timing device.
Summary: I don't believe you're really real...
Message-ID: <400@didsgn.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 11:43:34 GMT
References: <2283@m2-net.UUCP> <16629@apple.Apple.COM> <809@ritcv.UUCP>
Organization: Digital Design Inc., Norcross GA
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In article <809@ritcv.UUCP>, cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott) writes:
] Would you explain to me how the delay function works on the 555?  I have a
] few of them, as well as a few of the dual packages (did not know they make a
] quad version), and have been wanting to use one as a burglar alarm entry
] delay, but I don't understand the cooncept of R.C. components and how they
] work (question 1: what are the units, ohms and microfarads?) and how come it
] requires three pins to set the delay?

PLEASE! BUY A BOOK!
(what's an ohm? what's a farad- not to speak of microfarad? ?????
Does a Kzin like tomatoes for lunch?)

With all due respect, but please invest the time and money to go to one
of those places where they sell things made from lots of leaves of
rectangularly cut paper- on which you might find letters that form words
and sentences. These are then bound together to form something called
'books'.
Amazing stuff that...