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Tick Tock

2007-02-13, 9:25 pm

Mark you're post is making the hairs in the back of my neck stand tall
:-)

Soundz Like More Power To Ya Literally ! ! !
(Teeheehee)

My cousin Rick Miranda (Veteran & great influence in my electrical
adventures) was a human test meter on any Panelwork years ago he's
probably stretching sixty now - no need to wonder what he maybe up &
headed to now -

About Your Experimentation: Until you take a lightbulb in your hands and
make it work at full capacity you ain't done shoop };-) though given the
voltages in that car tranfer the poor filament would've probably popped
without even a glimer.....you might want to try it with a new compact
flourescent

Takecare old boy & keep em comin...

Oh ! How many Viagras where you on when you did this ?????? LOL

GBY ~ Tick Tock =AE}:-)

Mark Conrad

2007-02-14, 3:25 am

In article <18901-45D274C0-1112@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net>,
Fromthebeginning@webtv.net (Tick Tock) wrote:

> About Your Experimentation: Until you take a lightbulb in your hands and
> make it work at full capacity you ain't done shoop };-)

Oh I do that all the time here, but I cheat a lot when I do it.

Here is how:

To make it more interesting, I use a 1,000 watt photoflood bulb, the
kind used by photographers. Those special bulbs only have a two hour
life span before they blow out.

That bulb looks exactly like a regular 100 watt 115 vac bulb, base and
all. The bulb is screwed into a regular socket, with flat braided bare
wires coming off the two contacts, about a foot long for each flat
braided bare wire.

I allow my audience to inspect everything, my hands, the 1,000 watt
bulb, everything, to make certain there are no tricks.

Let them screw the bulb out of its socket, etc.

There are two very large menacing wires which I caution my audience not
to touch, because I tell them that the wires are live with voltage,
which I tell them is 115 vac with a lot of current behind it.

To prove that fact to them, I gingerly take the 1,000 watt bulb and
connect it to those two wires.

The blinding light from the 1,000 watt bulb convinces everyone!

Then, to convince any remaining skeptics, I gingerly touch the two hot
wires together and draw a satisfying large arc between the wires, which
makes various snapping noises. bzzzz- SNAP !!!

Now for the demo' < long drum roll >

Taking my shirt off, I have an audience member tape the flat braided
wires of the 1,000 watt bulb firmly to my chest using ordinary duct tape.

I generally arrange for a pretty 20 year old female to do this, because
of being a horny old guy.

I have another audience member, wearing his protective gloves, hand me
the bare end of one of the hot wires.

I grab the bare wire with one hand.

Then he hands me the other hot wire, which I grab with my other hand!!!

1,000 watt bulb taped to my chest lights up, blinds everyone, I keep it
glowing as long as I can stand the heat.

That is a good 8.5 amps of current passing through my chest area.

They are convinced that I am nuts.

I am convinced that I am nuts.

Does this get me the prize for stupid human tricks?

Mark-

--
heh heh, trick is that I used RF (radio frequency) from my ham radio
amplifier.

Because of "skin effect" at high frequencies, the juice travels on the
very surface of my body, can not get inside to affect my heart.

....of course I do not tell the audience that.<g>

Don Kelly

2007-02-14, 9:25 pm

"Mark Conrad" <noneof@urbusiness.invalid> wrote in message
news:noneof-715D10.23391713022007@news.west.earthlink.net...
> In article <18901-45D274C0-1112@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net>,
> Fromthebeginning@webtv.net (Tick Tock) wrote:
>
>
> Oh I do that all the time here, but I cheat a lot when I do it.
>
> Here is how:
>
> To make it more interesting, I use a 1,000 watt photoflood bulb, the
> kind used by photographers. Those special bulbs only have a two hour
> life span before they blow out.
>
> That bulb looks exactly like a regular 100 watt 115 vac bulb, base and
> all. The bulb is screwed into a regular socket, with flat braided bare
> wires coming off the two contacts, about a foot long for each flat
> braided bare wire.
>
> I allow my audience to inspect everything, my hands, the 1,000 watt
> bulb, everything, to make certain there are no tricks.
>
> Let them screw the bulb out of its socket, etc.
>
> There are two very large menacing wires which I caution my audience not
> to touch, because I tell them that the wires are live with voltage,
> which I tell them is 115 vac with a lot of current behind it.
>
>
> To prove that fact to them, I gingerly take the 1,000 watt bulb and
> connect it to those two wires.
>
> The blinding light from the 1,000 watt bulb convinces everyone!
>
> Then, to convince any remaining skeptics, I gingerly touch the two hot
> wires together and draw a satisfying large arc between the wires, which
> makes various snapping noises. bzzzz- SNAP !!!
>
>
>
> Now for the demo' < long drum roll >
>
>
> Taking my shirt off, I have an audience member tape the flat braided
> wires of the 1,000 watt bulb firmly to my chest using ordinary duct tape.
>
> I generally arrange for a pretty 20 year old female to do this, because
> of being a horny old guy.
>
> I have another audience member, wearing his protective gloves, hand me
> the bare end of one of the hot wires.
>
> I grab the bare wire with one hand.
>
> Then he hands me the other hot wire, which I grab with my other hand!!!
>
>
> 1,000 watt bulb taped to my chest lights up, blinds everyone, I keep it
> glowing as long as I can stand the heat.
>
> That is a good 8.5 amps of current passing through my chest area.
>
>
> They are convinced that I am nuts.
>
> I am convinced that I am nuts.
>
>
> Does this get me the prize for stupid human tricks?
>
>
> Mark-
>
>
> --
> heh heh, trick is that I used RF (radio frequency) from my ham radio
> amplifier.
>
> Because of "skin effect" at high frequencies, the juice travels on the
> very surface of my body, can not get inside to affect my heart.
>
>
> ...of course I do not tell the audience that.<g>
----------------------------
Tesla did the equivalent trick over 100 years ago.

--

Don Kelly dhky@shawcross.ca
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MassiveProng

2007-02-15, 3:25 am

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:18:44 GMT, "Don Kelly" <dhky@shaw.ca> Gave us:

>----------------------------
>Tesla did the equivalent trick over 100 years ago.

I just ULd a nice backyard (garage actually) pic of an eight foot
tall TC up in abse.

Mark Conrad

2007-02-15, 3:25 am

In article <oiQAh.978522$1T2.634853@pd7urf2no>,
"Don Kelly" <dhky@shaw.ca> wrote:

> ----------------------------
> Tesla did the equivalent trick over 100 years ago.

Yeah, that is old hat. As electrical workers, we should be devoting our
efforts to more modern pursuits, such as designing a good antimatter
engine for a spacecraft.

Such an engine is essentially electrical, so that falls into our domain
of expertise.

Here is the website to get us started:

<http://filebox.vt.edu/users/forum/i...o2_2002_april.p
df>

See pages 8,9,10, and 13 of that site, for a layman's overview of
antimatter, page ten addresses general propulsion problems.

14 nanograms of antimatter would be enough fuel to propel a spacecraft
to Mars.

(a nanogram is a billionth of a gram)

Contrast that to the millions of pounds of chemical fuel presently used
by the Space Shuttle.

Chemical engines are doing good to get us to Mars at an average speed of
21,000 miles per hour, taking roughly four months to cover the 60
million mile journey.

A antimatter engine would take one hour to cover the same distance,
traveling at one-tenth the speed of light, or roughly 66 million miles
per hour.

Hop to it, guys, enough of this crap of trivial experimentation.

My own specialty would be to engineer the magnetic rocket nozzle
thruster of the spacecraft engine. Many problems there, not the least
of which would be the intense gamma radiation spewed out the nozzle of
the antimatter engine, which would spell death for any other spacecraft
caught in the "wake" of that exhaust.

I would suggest a covey of smaller unmanned spacecraft surrounding any
main spacecraft, whose sole purpose would be to generate a strong
magnetic field to protect the main spacecraft, in much the same way that
the earth's magnetic field protects us from deadly radiation.

Mark-

MassiveProng

2007-02-15, 9:25 am

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:09:30 GMT, Mark Conrad
<noneof@urbusiness.invalid> Gave us:

>Yeah, that is old hat. As electrical workers, we should be devoting our
>efforts to more modern pursuits, such as designing a good antimatter
>engine for a spacecraft.

Control nuclear propulsion will come long before that does.

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