Windmill wrote:
klem kedidelhopper writes:
On Dec 28, 5:49=A0am, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
...
I do like Christmas lights, but they only last until the squirrels
are done chewing on the wires.
"Done", as in "thoroughly cooked"?
It would break your mother's heart if she knew you liked Christmas lights=
.
When I was 13 I reasoned that if you got a whole bunch of extension
cords and plugged them into various different outlets in the house,
then wired them all in series you could achieve infinite
possibilities. That was only topped by the 120.0 V to 6.0 volt step
down transformer I tried to wind on the metal frame of my bed. The
schematic showed 8 turns on the primary and 2 on the secondary.
Couldn't figure out why I lit up he room.....Lenny
It's astonishing that we survived until we were able to misunderstand
on a more sophisticated level.
Not as long ago as I would like it to be, I reasoned that since the
magnetron in a 1 megawatt (peak) early-warning radar presented an
impedance of about 500 ohms to the driving circuitry, a 1 kilowatt
microwave oven would use voltages of about 700 volts.
Have you ever been near, or inside a high power RADAR system? We
had two at Ft Rucker in the '70s Each ran 2 MW to track aircraft around
the base, and to the Gulf of Mexico. One was always being serviced
while the other was in use, to reduce the chances of both being down.
Both transmitters, and the high intensity RF from the antenna could kill
in less than a heartbeat.
A 25 KW RCA TTU-25B TV transmitter I rebuilt used 7 KV on the plates.
The meter I'd borrowed from a friend to look at his microwave sparked
internally (he claimed there was a blue glow, but he'd seen too many
mad scientist movies).
You're lucky that you didn't kill yourself.
I now know better, having better access to information!
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