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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Jokes
- Topic: A little light humour
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- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Nothing In Particular
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Re: Nothing In Particular
Just have to post this lovely photo of a Firecrest, the UK's smallest bird at just 5g. The photo is from the Marden Wildlife group - that's the next village to us and where I keep my bees - they do a lot of ringing and recording of migrant birds and have some super photographers... the photo below i...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
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Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Maybe it’s the much lower frequency that forces the requirement for an earth path?
My unit runs around 270kHz…
My unit runs around 270kHz…
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9167
Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
My one uses 8xAA, so 12V rather than the 6V of yours... Same available current, twice the voltage, so as you say, presumably pokier.Morgan Jones wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:55 pm I'll measure what it produces first. But it certainly didn't glow a fluorescent tube when held in contact.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
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Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Arrived. Disappointment. Insufficient poke. Just about managed to produce an orange glow in an 85A1 neon). I am told that: If it's blue, it's air. If it's green, it's barium. If it's pink-purple it's argon. And Jack's large nixie managed a blue glow with his tester, which I assume is pokier. Return...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: what are you doing ?
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Re: what are you doing ?
Damn! Thinking about getting a ZWO Seestar S50… all Max’s fault! Ages since I’ve owned a telescope… decades…
Reviews are insanely good
Reviews are insanely good
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9167
Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Probably less than £10 to make including box and all components/pcb, then charge €250 for a new one!Morgan Jones wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:21 am Don't you just hate people who hide what they've done?
This is probably very similar:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005975707232.html
It's available on Amazon for about £17
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:15 am
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
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Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
As suspected, it's a 50% duty cycle, 1 second on, one second off RF pulse at 270kHz. Likely a couple of KV, but can't measure that at the moment - I'll have to get my trusty 40,000V probe out...! I can't get the board out easily as they've deliberately sealed it into the box and potted some of the c...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9167
Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Photograph would be nice. Measurement would be really nice, but if (as I suspect) it produces high voltage, but AC, it would be difficult to measure. Inside it, I would expect a ferrite transformer, with or without voltage multiplier (which should be easy to spot). Waving a scope probe a foot away ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9167
Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Nice to see you there. It seems the Voltarc company went bust some time ago, and I couldn't find your natty little tester anywhere. And idea of what it produces on its aerial? AC, DC? Voltage? It wouldn't be difficult to knock up something. They are around but are now called "Masonlite ELT – E...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
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Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
A pretty good day. Three AT types (MJ, DtB & Thomas) rocked up and SWMBO and I managed to sell a fair bit of ephemera.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: The Quackery Thread
- Replies: 360
- Views: 194286
Re: The Quackery Thread
10% off on a Tuesday for OAPs. They never ask my age - why not? ...or as a replacement for HRT therapy - moderate those hot flushes... Back in the day when I was working in the City of London, in the Summer, the data centre staff used to charge a quid for 5 minutes in front of the chillers - they'd...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
- Replies: 36
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Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Take to Audiojumble or restore? ESL 63s
These were Sir Clive Sinclair's (allegedly). His cat has savaged the "gloves", he smoked like a chimney and stood coffee cups on them.
Sell or keep?
These were Sir Clive Sinclair's (allegedly). His cat has savaged the "gloves", he smoked like a chimney and stood coffee cups on them.
Sell or keep?
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: Your Fave Artists
- Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
- Replies: 6164
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Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
If he's still in north Africa, it might be local mores...Dave the bass wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:43 amI dunno MrI, it seems work ok on my phone, laptop and tablet.andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:10 pm There's nothing Spanish about 'this video is unavailable ' - or is it my phone? !
Maybe it's a Bedford thang?!
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Assorted Stuff
- Topic: what are you doing ?
- Replies: 1308
- Views: 475787
Re: what are you doing ?
Super stuff. Really lovely