Thanks, Bill!
On 12/03/2009 08:14 AM, William Beaty wrote:
Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DKblzdbJI
Yeesh! Like pouring a bucket of live spiders down your pants.
Well he SAYS it's at "reduced power" (in one of the comments). Doesn't
say how reduced, but notice that in this one there's no fan on the
magnetron, so it's presumably not working very hard.
And if you thought THAT was bad...
danyk and his unshielded x-ray source
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMXKxadnVw
Holy Flying Mice. I hope Danyk isn't planning on having a lot of kids
(or maybe he wears lead shorts when playing with this stuff).
danyk makes a jacob's ladder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJzQ0QPx9g
I had a roommate in college who had a very nice Jacob's ladder which
he'd made from an old neon sign transformer. He just took two lengths
of very heavy gauge, very stiff bare copper wire, about 2 feet long, and
screwed them to the terminals, pointed the ends up, bent them apart in a
reasonably neat curve so the closest point was right between the
electrodes (where they were maybe an inch or two apart), and voila, plug
it in and get a repeating traveling arc running up between the posts.
(Of course it's convection of the heated air in the arc which makes it
climb.)
Sometimes it didn't start right away, but then spitting on it just a
little would generally get it going.
Never touched either one of the terminals, so I don't know what the
effect would have been. I would guess that the secondary floated so it
wasn't as dangerous as it looked, but for all I know it could
conceivably have had one side grounded internally, which would have made
it a rather different story. He used to keep it on a table next to his bed.
danyk microwaves a cup of water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DofLTIDszI
danyk zaps a CDROM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Re0njZ4mY
Am I wrong, or will the gaps around the CD, when he leans it up against
the horn, produce occasional flat beams going off in random directions?
Czechoslovakian roulette?
What happens if you get a shot straight in the eye? In an old Doc
Savage novel, where Doc plays with unshielded microwaves, that meant an
instant cataract but I've never known if that's also true in the 'real
world'.
