Hmm. I'll just push the headphones button.
Pot/rheostat wiper position needed.
The four banders are like reading numbers level easy for me, but those fivers are tricky
The blue background on metal film resistors makes it really hard for me to read them. I wish they would have stuck with tan and found another way to indicate the type.
Yeah and a lot are just 5%'s that got selectively matched from larger batches. I've had some that have the blue/grey overcoat come off and that is even more problematic to keep up with.
Wait, did you think you had to convince me I'm missing out?
That said, I'm still not learning Russian any time soon. There's at least a dozen other languages I would rather learn first, and at least a hundred other countries I would rather visit first, my niche interests be damned.
IDK… I would have liked to visit in the 80’s or something like that; peek Soviet propaganda, factories still churning out Nixie tubes by the truckload because it was part of the last 5 year plan. Jr. Highschool history teacher visited, said they employ old ladies in the Moscow subway to watch the escalators just because everyone needed a job.
So uh… what Soviet electronics forums should we be visiting OP?
No, they were done with Nixie tubes by the end of the 70's... well, most of them.
Jr. Highschool history teacher visited, said they employ old ladies in the Moscow subway to watch the escalators just because everyone needed a job.
That was one of the main problems with communism and socialism. Not enough incentive for education, so just make up jobs, no matter how stupid they are. We called those jobs "doorknob operators" in ex Yugoslavia. It was a shitty deal, but there was no incentive for a large portion of the population to actually learn something useful because even if you don't have anything other than a 4th grade education, you still had to be part of the workforce, and instead of forcing people to actually get a degree (mind you the state was the only employer at that time, even though, at least in ex Yugoslavia, there was an option for venture capital and self-employment in the 80's, but no one actually did it... or very few, and on a very small scale), they just went "the hell with it 🤦... just.. do something"... which could have panned out in the long term, but no one could know.
So uh… what Soviet electronics forums should we be visiting OP?
remont-aud.com and electrotanya.com. The second one is free from registrations, but the first one, no... and they hold most of the goodies when it comes to device schematics.
There are others, some are hidden from search bots, some hidden completely... of course, invite only. It's not always the schematics that are shared, but the knowledge and knowhow that is worth the effort. Most stuff does eventually get leaked though.
It's not about learning Russian... it's about getting info without having to bother hacking into the thing... which is gonna take a lot more than having to copy/paste snippets into Google Translate.
Personally, I would rather hack it, copy/paste, and talk to whoever would be willing to communicate with me about it in English. I said niche interest, but that wasn't about the time I'm willing to sink into a given project. Learning Russian would be investing months to save hours from an electronics perspective.
Rather let my desire to travel and communicate with a given group of people in person dictate what languages I might study and in what order.
