Electric OU: Supplement: The Quantum 555 Timer Error CORRECTED
Using the exact component values given in the original Quantum schematic, I have shown several times that it produces an inverted duty cycle.. .an EXACTLY inverted duty cycle… from that which is claimed by Ainslie to have been used in the experiment. (She has also admitted that there are other variances between what was PUBLISHED under her name and what was ACTUALLY USED as the circuit in that report.) This is highly significant, because if the ACTUAL circuit is used, making a 96 percent ON duty cycle instead of 96 percent OFF as claimed… then the load heat profiles she reported are easy to obtain. However, if an actual 4 percent ON duty cycle is used, from a pulse generator or external function generator, NOBODY has ever been able to make the high heat in the load that she claimed. The conclusion should be clear from this. But just in case anyone DOES want to use a 555 timer, or even THE 555 timer given by Ainslie, it is EASY to fix and you don’t have to struggle all afternoon to do it. Unless of course that is how you float your boat. In which case I’m staying on dry land. A simple 4049 CMOS hex inverter/buffer chip is used to re-invert the inverted signal from the Ainslie 555 screwup and make it usable for any purpose at any duty cycle, inverted or not, within its range of about +/- 25 percent HI or LO, depending on whether you use an odd or even number of inverter stages for your output. Now you can really use the Quantum circuit, with those component values, and …
