Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:28 PM 11/9/03 -0500, David Hobby wrote: David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. How about 20 questions? 1) Did it use an explosion? A capacitor. Which expoded

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-11 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I was trying to clean and straighten out the lab supply closet this afternoon and came across some capacitors labeled 2500 MFARAD. I hope that the M in this instance is supposed to stand for micro, otherwise I am somewhat leery about putting the equipment in the

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-09 Thread David Hobby
David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. How about 20 questions? 1) Did it use an explosion? A capacitor. Which expoded once when I was test firing it. This design

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 9 Nov 2003 at 19:28, David Hobby wrote: David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. How about 20 questions? 1) Did it use an explosion? A capacitor. Which

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-06 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Andy-- I've done a little research, and I still don't buy it. You do mean EMP, and not HERF? (high-energy radio frequency) Even then, it doesn't sound like something you can just throw together in the field. You do seem to be a bit reticent on the details

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 6 Nov 2003 at 22:56, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Andy-- I've done a little research, and I still don't buy it. You do mean EMP, and not HERF? (high-energy radio frequency) Even then, it doesn't sound like something you can just throw together in the field.

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-06 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. How about 20 questions? 1) Did it use an explosion? A capacitor. Which expoded once when I was test firing it. This design flaw fortunately was

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-05 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 2 Nov 2003 at 22:45, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are trying to sleep, ... My reaction to s

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-05 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 5 Nov 2003 at 21:24, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: On 2 Nov 2003 at 22:45, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 2 Nov 2003 at 22:45, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are trying to sleep, ... My reaction to s similar incident involved the one and

EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-02 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are trying to sleep, ... My reaction to s similar incident involved the one and only time I used an EMP generating device in the