On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, John Berry wrote: > in the general region as both Hiddink claimed and was to a lesser degree > reported by Stiffler, also a guy on a Ed Gray conversion tube list after > listening to me tried some stuff out and fried a pack of distant diodes.
Stiffler's reputation on this list is a bit low, to say the least. He claimed to have a self-oscillating FE device which lit some LEDs, and posted youtube video about this. Then suddenly he wouldn't talk about it, and went on to other subjects. At the same time on another video he mentioned that he'd been doing things to mess with people who criticized him. So perhaps that FE LEDs video was completely fake. At that point I decided that he was a possible scammer, or possible dishonest sociopath who enjoys fooling people. He left this list right about the time that a subscriber found him using "sock puppet" online personalities to praise his own work. After leaving, he joined Vortex again under more than one false name. He may still be here right now. So at present I see him as totally untrustworthy, and I put zero faith in any results he reports. I don't think he's after money, I think he's after attention, or perhaps is an example of a common type of person found online: the schadenfreude addict. Where FE is concerned, we should permanently turn away from anyone who violates trust like this. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
