Mike's Electric Stuff

A friend sent this to me... ^ | Mike Harrison

[El Sordo]

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/

A cool site for all you sparkies out there.

[El Sordo]

Posted this a while back and no one came to see it. : (

Perhaps you folks may find it interesting. If nothing else, it's a good source of ZOT! pics.

"< Old hard disk controller having a really bad day.."

The Dustructo-tron (with the disclaimer: Warning! High voltage capacitors are ridiculously dangerous things. They can store enough energy to kill you instantly. You should not even THINK about messing with this stuff unless you really understand the dangers of high-voltage electrical systems, and even then you probably still shouldn't do it. I'm doing this so you don't have to.)

[aruanan]

Thanks. Here you go: http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/

[Tijeras_Slim]

My record is 18kV and I lived to tell the tale.

Can any FReepers top that?

[Quix]

uhhhh

NO thanks!

One of the more shocking things on my return after 15 years to the high New Mexican desert

is the frequency of static electricity zaps.

Humid Taipei had more of a rust problem.

[HighRoadToChina]

Thank you BUMP!

[Tijeras_Slim]

static electricity zaps

I took out a motherboard by toucing the mouse after walking across the carpet in socks here in NM.

[Quix]

WOW

Wellllllllllll, I have a cordless keyboard and a cordless track ball--both Logitech--big ball trackball--didn't come with the keyboard.

And, a humongous aluminum case for the computer.

And grounded electrical with multiple surge protectors.

So far has been OK.

Was a bit steamed over the case, though--ordered it based on smaller version that had a slide out feature that the mother board etc. could slide out very slickly while all still connected. Loved it. Ordered the largest version.

Just in time for the movers, it arrived . . . no slide out feature. :(.

Ah well.

It's only a thing.

Won't need one in Heaven and couldn't take it with me anyway.

But until then, sure am thankful it works mostly well now.

Though I need to figure out how to set the RAID up as MIRROR again instead of as STRIPE which it somehow mysteriously got changed into on some recent reinstall of XP-P.

[Yeti]

Looks like more fun that a bowl of burnt-out light bulbs in a microwave.

[Yeti]

HEY! I've been to that site before. Cool stuff!

[wcbtinman]

I don't know what the capacitance was, but I got nailed by a pair of MSD racing magnetos. I grabbed the plug wire boot on a running nitro motor. The boot goes down through the center of the valve cover and the boot it'self is about 8 inches long. The current traveled down the inside of the boot, made a 180 and came up the outside of the boot and hit me in the end of the thumb.

Aside from a slight burn mark on my thumb, most of my injury came from thrashing about between the chassis and the body of the race car. It seemed like forever until somehow it turned me loose.

I understand that it's low amperage (relatively), but the voltage is out there somewhere. It takes about 150 horsepower just to drive the dual mags on one of these things.