On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 07:25:59 am Robin Gareus did opine: > On 01/19/2011 06:35 AM, gene heskett wrote: [...]
> I guess Joern's Studio is only 3 or 4 rooms. It's mostly because he > mentioned wall sockets that I suggested this. > It can also be the wall (or ceiling-mounted) type. I think they're > called raceways or just cable-tray. Yup. > >> It is currently running inside the ALICE detector @LHC. > > > > Yikes. If that ever collapses, it will emp into smoke, and and all > > electrical stuff for many meters around it. > > nah It will pull itself into a black hole of course :) They tried that once, took about a year to rebuild things IIRC. :( > > That, it can be said is NOT a > > friendly environment. Even your $15 Casio wrist watch is in danger if > > you move too fast in that. > > The magnetic field you mean? The tricky part is get close enough. You'll > need a few weeks to undo all the screws on the "enclosure" and not get > kicked out in the meantime. Once you get in there you don't need to > move, the electrons inside the watch are already moving fast enough. The > only workaround is to have only short interconnects and lots of bulk in > between them. Luckily this is an OT post: > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/21/dont-cross-the > -lhc-stream/ Interesting what drifting conversations do when brains get together. [...] > > Silver solder, or just silver bearing solder? > > likely both. It is a very well equipped lab. There was a small > hand-torch in there as well. Though I think it was mostly used as a > spare lighter :) > And of course its out of gas if you need to fire it up and get enough heat out of it to do a silver joint. There is a Murphy's Law corollary about that I've seen someplace. ;-) [...] > Thank you for the lengthy explanation. NP. When I get started, like most old farts with a loooong history in broadcasting, I don't know when its time to shut up. ;-) > ciao, > robin Thanks Robin -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) No two persons ever read the same book. -- Edmund Wilson _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev