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From: Martin on 28 Nov 2005 21:13 Am Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:14:17 GMT schrieb Rich the Newsgroup Wacko <gfy(a)example.net>: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote: > >> Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries. >> >> Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect >> the >> attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please). >> >> Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary. >> Very >> bright! Much brighter than you are. > > I put mine in series with Mom's iron, but the thermostat kept turning > it off. One time I used an old Iron as a dummy-load for a 230V/1kW TRIAC power control circuit (we had it in the lab for improvised BGA soldering). To "satisfy" the thermostat I used a 30cm room fan. -- Martin
From: Jon Yaeger on 28 Nov 2005 22:18 <snip> > > I've seen several speakers where there was a light bulb, in series with > the tweeter, as a power limiter > > -Lasse I once owned a Knight transistorized amp that used incandescent bulbs in the output stage to limit current. When you had some brighteness, you had a problem. I remember that it was the very worst-sounding amplifier that I ever owned. jon
From: Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie on 28 Nov 2005 22:23 On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, John Perry wrote: > Rich Grise wrote: >> >> But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-) > > My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a > Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles. > > Wonderful stuff! You must have to cook the bejabbers out of them - I chopped up a dill pickle once into a stew I was concocting from leftovers ane expired stuff in the pantry, and it was kind unnerving every time I bit into a pickle chunk. Or maybe I didn't chop them finely enough. (more like I "cubed" them.) My Mom [RIP] used to put weiners and sweet pickles through the meat grinder. Simultaneously. I refused to even taste the stuff. ;-) Thanks! Rich
From: Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie on 28 Nov 2005 22:30 On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry > <jp(a)no.spam> wrote: > >>Rich Grise wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-) >>> >> >>My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a >>Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles. >> >>Wonderful stuff! >> >>John Perry > > Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the > frozen* north. > > * Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this > week. Recipe? For _STEW_??!!????? You brown some meat, throw it into a pot with some veggies, add enough water so it doesn't boil dry, cover it, and simmer it until it starts to smell like food. ;-) (Then again, I used to watch Mom cook. ;-) ) Cheers! Rich
From: Tim Williams on 28 Nov 2005 23:34
"Jon Yaeger" <jono_1(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:BFB132A4.43C18%jono_1(a)bellsouth.net... > I once owned a Knight transistorized amp that used incandescent bulbs > in the output stage to limit current. When you had some brighteness, > you had a problem. > > I remember that it was the very worst-sounding amplifier that I ever > owned. Heh heh. I have a Knight kit-built amp that glows too, but that's a bias problem in the tube output... ....No, I don't use it regularly... Tim -- Deep Fryer: a very philosophical monk. Website: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |