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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
I am glad your turkey survived: )
Before I put good connectors throughout my signal chain, my music got the same treatment as your turkey. Some of my recording attempts weren't as lucky as the bird. "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
My brother-in-law uses an old paper chart recorder hooked up to a
themocouple, tracking bird core temperature over time. He's done it for years- refers to the old charts for cooking times, weight, etc. Still seems to get the bird done an hour early every time..... ..also-there's a tribe of wild turkeys that roost in the tall trees around my house. They showed up there just as we sat down to Thanksgiving to feed on their cousin...BIG birds about sixty feet up on the bare branches. Brrrrrr. Will 2mb wrote: I am glad your turkey survived: ) Before I put good connectors throughout my signal chain, my music got the same treatment as your turkey. Some of my recording attempts weren't as lucky as the bird. "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
We have a wild turkey bunch comes though once in a while. Strange site here
in the 'burgh. Used to have Pheasants when I was a kid. -- Paul Pinyot "Will Hunt" wrote in message ... My brother-in-law uses an old paper chart recorder hooked up to a themocouple, tracking bird core temperature over time. He's done it for years- refers to the old charts for cooking times, weight, etc. Still seems to get the bird done an hour early every time..... ..also-there's a tribe of wild turkeys that roost in the tall trees around my house. They showed up there just as we sat down to Thanksgiving to feed on their cousin...BIG birds about sixty feet up on the bare branches. Brrrrrr. Will 2mb wrote: I am glad your turkey survived: ) Before I put good connectors throughout my signal chain, my music got the same treatment as your turkey. Some of my recording attempts weren't as lucky as the bird. "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
Sorry for the off topic posts. A bit of reflection during this holiday
season. I too have been embarrassed by the 1/8" plug failures. Once during the last show of Grease for an amateur production. I'll never forget that one or let another jack, jack me off like that! -- Paul Pinyot "Paul Pinyot" wrote in message ... We have a wild turkey bunch comes though once in a while. Strange site here in the 'burgh. Used to have Pheasants when I was a kid. -- Paul Pinyot "Will Hunt" wrote in message ... My brother-in-law uses an old paper chart recorder hooked up to a themocouple, tracking bird core temperature over time. He's done it for years- refers to the old charts for cooking times, weight, etc. Still seems to get the bird done an hour early every time..... ..also-there's a tribe of wild turkeys that roost in the tall trees around my house. They showed up there just as we sat down to Thanksgiving to feed on their cousin...BIG birds about sixty feet up on the bare branches. Brrrrrr. Will 2mb wrote: I am glad your turkey survived: ) Before I put good connectors throughout my signal chain, my music got the same treatment as your turkey. Some of my recording attempts weren't as lucky as the bird. "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
I pretty much solved the contact problems of the 1/8" TRS plug. I
coat them with blue Cramolin. I've never had an intermittent since I started this treatment. Of course I may just be lucky . . . Cheers, Norm Strong "John L Rice" wrote in message ... I'm glad the turkey worked out Mike but I feel your pain. In high school and college I built a lot of PAIA synthesizer kits and all of them used mini phone jacks/plugs for audio connections. Not exactly robust little buggers are they?! John L Rice "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
Of course, nothing beats the stupidity of using a mini-phone plug for
power. I once repaired a wah-wah pedal which had a 1/8" female phone jack for external power, but no power adapter. So, not wondering why the original power adapter was no longer around, I bought another adapter and soldered a 1/8' plug on the end. This worked fine until the owner accidentally half-unplugged the plug, which shorted on the jack, and the adapter went up in a spectacular display of pyrotechnics. The mini-phone jack got replaced with a real power connector very soon afterwards. |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
Mmmmmm, turkey basted with Cramolin!
normanstrong wrote: I pretty much solved the contact problems of the 1/8" TRS plug. I coat them with blue Cramolin. I've never had an intermittent since I started this treatment. Of course I may just be lucky . . . Cheers, Norm Strong "John L Rice" wrote in message ... I'm glad the turkey worked out Mike but I feel your pain. In high school and college I built a lot of PAIA synthesizer kits and all of them used mini phone jacks/plugs for audio connections. Not exactly robust little buggers are they?! John L Rice "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1070023573k@trad... I've expressed my scorn for the use of the mini phone plug (1/8") as an audio connector. Well I have a cooking thermometer that has a little transmitter to relay the temperature to a remote readout. I use it when cooking things like roasts on the Weber grill. It uses a mini phone plug to connect the temperature probe to the transmitter unit through a cable about a yard long. (the transmitter unit is outside the grill, of course) Yesterday I had it stuck in the turkey that I was roasting/smoking outdoors. I was watching the temperature on the indoor readout and it seemed like it had been sitting at 155 degrees for a mightly long time. I went out to check the coals and the grill air temperature and everything was oK. Then I wiggled the plug in the jack of the transmitter and the temperature immediately shot up to 169 degrees. Fortunately the turkey survived this abuse and nobody went hungry. Score one more for a flaky connection thanks to a mini phone plug. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
Though there isn't a lot of hope for miniplugs because of their small size,
there are a few built by Switchcraft that are much higher quality and more robust than the Radio Shack units. Well worth the money if you must use a miniplug. Richard H. Kuschel "I canna change the law of physics."-----Scotty |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
"John L Rice" wrote in message ...
I'm glad the turkey worked out Mike but I feel your pain. In high school and college I built a lot of PAIA synthesizer kits and all of them used mini phone jacks/plugs for audio connections. Not exactly robust little buggers are they?! I'm a synth builder too. Those 1/8" jacks were the biggest headache until I started mounting them with gravity in mind. If the spring contact is on the top (with panel 90 deg. to floor) the weight of cords pulling down on the plugs wears the springs out fast. With the spring contact on the bottom, the weight of the cords decreases contact pressure between the inserted plug and the contact. This become a problem after repeated insertions bend the spring out of shape. Now I tighten down the jack so that the spring contact is on top but 60 deg. off center. The jack lasts longer. Peter |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
In rec.audio.pro, (Peter B.) wrote:
"John L Rice" wrote in message ... I'm glad the turkey worked out Mike but I feel your pain. In high school and college I built a lot of PAIA synthesizer kits and all of them used mini phone jacks/plugs for audio connections. Not exactly robust little buggers are they?! I'm a synth builder too. Those 1/8" jacks were the biggest headache until I started mounting them with gravity in mind. If the spring contact is on the top (with panel 90 deg. to floor) the weight of cords pulling down on the plugs wears the springs out fast. With the spring contact on the bottom, the weight of the cords decreases contact pressure between the inserted plug and the contact. This become a problem after repeated insertions bend the spring out of shape. Now I tighten down the jack so that the spring contact is on top but 60 deg. off center. The jack lasts longer. If there were much doubt before, you've sold me and surely others on using 1/4" plugs and jacks, or almost any connector other than 1'8" "miniphono" plugs and jacks [also, no RCA's]. I recall that some vacuum tubes had to be mounted in certain positions, but that was supposed to go away in the "solid state" age. Peter ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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How I Love Mini-phone Plugs (let me count the ways)
(Ben Bradley) wrote in message . ..
If there were much doubt before, you've sold me and surely others on using 1/4" plugs and jacks, or almost any connector other than 1'8" "miniphono" plugs and jacks [also, no RCA's]. I recall that some vacuum tubes had to be mounted in certain positions, but that was supposed to go away in the "solid state" age. ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley I've converted most of my 1/8" stuff to 1/4" (a short term headache). It's nice to be able to plug in a jack and feel confident that it will work. Peter |
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