On 4 Jan 2006, at 00:52, Larry Makoski W2LJ wrote:
Nick Waterman wrote:
That was my first introduction
to 120VAC in one arm and out the other.
Pah, you're all a bunch o' wimps! 240V in EU ;-)
Power usage being equal, this would mean less current.
yea but it's the volts that jolts
This thread is vaguely disturbing, but I'll add my 2 cents.
At about age 9, I came into possession of a 5 square, midrange TV
speaker. It had heavy-duty leads, stripped, tinned, and ready to go. I
wondered what 60 Hz sounded like, and there was no shortage of AC
outlets in my room.
There's logic in this idea.
When also 9 I decided to turn my father's shortwave receiver into a
transmitter by wiring a microphone in series with the mains cable. Thank
goodness it was an ex-army bakelite microphone - when I pressed the button
all the lights went out!
Simon Brown
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I should point out that at age 9 I managed a sort of series - parallel
arrangement. The fact that I am still breathing shows that I couldn't even
blow myself up properly.
Simon Brown
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http://blog.hb9drv.ch/
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From: Simon Brown (HB9DRV) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [Elecraft] the fine line between stupid and curious
This thread is vaguely disturbing, but I'll add my 2 cents.
At about age 9, I came into possession of a 5 square, midrange TV speaker.
It had heavy-duty leads, stripped, tinned, and ready to go. I wondered what
60 Hz sounded like
When I was in my early teens I was working on some project or
another, that used the mains power. I remember I was always
unhooking and rehooking it as I worked on it so I ended up just using
a mains cord with an inline switch, that ended in a pair of aligator
clips.
At one point I had
That was my first introduction
to 120VAC in one arm and out the other.
Pah, you're all a bunch o' wimps! 240V in EU ;-)
--
Nosey Nick Waterman, G7RZQ, k2 #5209.
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The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
When I was 5 I brought a hot wire electrician's test screwdriver with
a neon bulb and resistor inside to my kindergarten vlass for Show and
Tell. I told the teacher, You just stick this screwdriver in the
outlet and ... For some reason they wouldn't let me show the class.
Leigh / WA5ZNU
Nick Waterman wrote:
That was my first introduction
to 120VAC in one arm and out the other.
Pah, you're all a bunch o' wimps! 240V in EU ;-)
Power usage being equal, this would mean less current.
73 de Larry W2LJ
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Two events in my life caused me to have a healthy respect for
electricity. The first occurred when I was 5 or 6 years old. I was
home from school with the flu; and I remember that it must have been a
particularly bad spell as Mom had a vaporizer going in my room. One
morning as I was
I wrapped my fingers around the Elecraft BL1 balun to see if it
was getting warm while transmitting... duh... 100+ RF Watts.
de Joe, aa4nn
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