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Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com>: May 07 10:19AM I was winding up one of my old HP spectrum analysers (my best one, as it happens, been sitting around unused for years) on the variac yesterday. Got to about 170VAC from 60 over several hours and just got impatient I admit it. Wanged it straight up to 240 and *POOF* the all too familiar magic smoke came out. Patience was never my strong point. So my Sunday is going to be spent trying to find and fix whatever it was that went bang. I kind of knew something was in the offing when the display started to twitch. You know how it is with a CRT tube when it starts winking at you. Any predictions as to the likely culprit? I'll post back later...

jules <athlon.512@wanadoo.fr>: May 07 02:12PM +0200 > I kind of knew something was in the offing when the display started to > twitch. You know how it is with a CRT tube when it starts winking at you. > Any predictions as to the likely culprit? I'll post back later...   Have a look to condensateur "on" the line first.

Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com>: May 07 12:15PM On Sun, 07 May 2017 14:12:32 +0200, jules wrote:   >> starts winking at you. >> Any predictions as to the likely culprit? I'll post back later...   > Have a look to condensateur "on" the line first.   You mean the X2 type on the incoming power? Good tip. I shall do so. I've been kind of distracted on opening the top cover by the sight of soot over some of the EHT bits, in particular the 18KV line to the CRT anode. I'll try to post a pic if I can overcome Flickr's barriers.

Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com>: May 07 12:31PM On Sun, 07 May 2017 10:19:45 +0000, Cursitor Doom wrote:   OK, here we go:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859641@N02/33664894394/in/dateposted- public/   https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859641@N02/34346617432/in/dateposted- public/   https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859641@N02/34376707301/in/dateposted- public/   But I can't see any sign of anything nearby having burned up. <shrug>

Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll>: May 07 02:52PM +0200 On 07.05.17 12:19, Cursitor Doom wrote: > I kind of knew something was in the offing when the display started to > twitch. You know how it is with a CRT tube when it starts winking at you. > Any predictions as to the likely culprit? I'll post back later...   The culprit's initials are C. D.

thekmanrocks@gmail.com: May 07 03:48AM -0700 Jeff Liebermann wrote: " The US congress critters tweaked the beginning and end of DST in order to somehow save energy in 2007. Many devices didn't clean up their DST act for many years after that. "     Most of Congress probably believes Daylight Saving adds daylight! Remmber: they don't read what they pass.   DST actually increases overall energy consumption, but lazy people like it because it delays sunrise and they can stay up later and sleep in.

"None" <none@nospam.org>: May 07 08:20AM -0400 < thekma @ drooling . retard . com > wrote in message news:a04fdc1d-ff0f-4341-a950-e9251414ffde@googlegroups.com... > DST   Theckmaaaaah the village idiot starts flogging a dead hobbyhorse again! (not even in season ...)     > but lazy people like it > because it delays sunrise and they can > stay up later and sleep in.   The brain damage is obvious. Understanding daylight saving time involves understanding simple numbers, but when it comes to simple numbers, Theckkkahhhmaaammmaaaah is a simpleton retard.

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com: May 07 04:21AM In orgo labs we used acetone to be sure there was no water left on glassware.   Acetone (spozably) evaporates completely.   - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com: May 07 04:18AM Battery could exlode. Why not just open it and find them. THey aren't THAT small. Brush or blower. Fumigation of some sort. (THat's why smoking used to be considered HEALTHY.) Bedbugs (often confused with micrscopic dust mites) have a nasty feature that they can live for months on one (blood suck) feeding, so they stay put in some hiding place.   Are you sure it is bedbugs and that they are in your laptop? Much talk about bedbugs often is hysteria. Unlike mosquitoes or rodents, bedbugs don't spread disease. I never stop being amazed how some folks freak out about supposed bedbugs on the subway at the same time as rats (yes, I've seen them) ride the subway. My dad's shop steward died of West Nile five years ago a block from me yet my neighbors freak out about insect spraying, and they freak out about draining the swamp (former amusement park and airport) where they (and Sullenberger's geese) breed.   DUst mites are microscopic insects that feed on dander (skin flakes). THeir crap is skin bits with enzyme used to digest the skin. THat enzyme can cause nasty itches and asma if gets into lungs. It's not the insects that directly cause problems, but the enzymes in their crap.     - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---

ohger1s@gmail.com: May 06 11:31AM -0700 > That must be one of the 2 most popular connectors on the planet. There are probably billions in Europe.   > NT   And here across the pond as well. I've got a few dozen of these with filtering cans on the back side culled from plasma parts before recycling.   http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/EMI-filter/p/sm/1134192873.htm#1134192873   They're great for adding to older equipment. Clean simple way of adding a ground, easily replaceable cord, and the filtering doesn't hurt either.

"Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien1@virginmedia.com>: May 06 07:53PM +0100 <ohger1s@gmail.com> wrote in message news:84010a60-7ce9-4332-b0bc-63ae4ba47a02@googlegroups.com...   > http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/EMI-filter/p/sm/1134192873.htm#1134192873   > They're great for adding to older equipment. Clean simple way of adding a > ground, easily replaceable cord, and the filtering doesn't hurt either.   Sometimes you can get them with built in fuse holder too.   You can get the basic connector, but the filtered ones aren't rare - a nice touch if there's room for the filter block.

ohger1s@gmail.com: May 06 07:03PM -0700 On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 2:53:44 PM UTC-4, Ian Field wrote:   > Sometimes you can get them with built in fuse holder too.   > You can get the basic connector, but the filtered ones aren't rare - a nice > touch if there's room for the filter block.       Yep, and still others have an AC switch on them..   The only place I ever saw the filtered ones were on older plasmas, which is why I saved a bunch of these when recycling the hosts.. These were big, heavy, power pigs that drew a lot of current. I believe most of filter assys were good for 20 amps.

jurb6006@gmail.com: May 06 01:07PM -0700 >" I found peizos were having a drunken party.... "   Given their theory of operation I am surprised they can even put out a reasonable approximation of a sine wave.

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