magnetic field

[Don Bruder]

In article <9666$43a7220e$4251374e$14805@DIALUPUSA.NET>,
"RST Engineering \(jw\)" <jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I wanna hear more about the full wave "bride". Sounds like a hell of a deal
to me.

Put 'er in a "g"-string, and you'll have what I meant

O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

Tell 'er to take a number

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or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow"
somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my
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[John Fields]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:11:41 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
<jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

I wanna hear more about the full wave "bride". Sounds like a hell of a deal
to me.

O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

---
If she's just half wave she need never know what's happening in her
dead time.

--
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer

 

[RST Engineering (jw)]

Reminds me of the story of the guy and his wife that were doing it doggy
style...

he was sitting up begging and she was rolling over playing dead.

{;-)

Jim


"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
news:t7eeq1h6oo15nqbkhvj00ioi3d9n31kjr3@4ax.com...

O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

---
If she's just half wave she need never know what's happening in her
dead time.

 

[Joe]

In article <43a61b67$0$95938$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Don Bruder
<dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:

<snip>

One of the *VERY* first things that's going to have to happen to make
this thing more than just a cutesy toy is spray-painting the body
black... With it clear, the backscatter from the bottom of the LED is
blinding. As long as it's kept "wrapped up", it actually puts out a
decent amount of light, but I'm already plotting and planning the "how"
of perhaps ripping the power section out of it and installing it in one
of the little yellow 6-LED "Streamlight" units I've got laying around -
Have to see just exactly what kind up "oomph" it can put out...

Anybody hacked one of these things in an interesting fashion yet?

Maybe someone will use the innards to power a miniature electronic oven.

You know...


--- Joe

 

[LelandGaunt]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:59:57 -0400, Are you kidding?
<support@manuals4you.com> wrote:

http://www.manuals4you.com

Want to Fix Something?

http://www.manuals4you.com

http://www.justmanuals.com

 

[Zak]

Don Bruder wrote:

And even if the rest of the unit is complete garbage, "two for five
bucks" for lithium 2032s isn't exactly "astronomical" pricing -
Especially not when even Wally-world is wanting 4+ bucks a pop for them,
and some online places are saying they'll let you have one for $5.50
plus shipping.

Batteries are a 'what the buyer can bear' market. Not a matter of cost,
but how much it is worth it to you to get your PDA of camera working again.

I'v recently seen prices of 1 euro for a card of 5 2032 and 1 euro for a
card of 20 alkaline buttons in various sized, in 'dollar stores'.

As far as rechargables go, i'm less wary of special rechargable li
battery packs for say a digital camera after finding
www.akkuinternational.de. Lots of Li-ion packs for less than 10 euro.
Makes you wonder about margins... though I never ordered from these guys.


Thomas

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:31:15 -0800, Don Bruder wrote:

On the "It's five bucks, and I've got another one... Who cares if I
screw it up?" theory, I unscrewed the end to find that the innards are
encased in a second clearer plastic tube - a 5/8" long by 9/16" diameter
cylindrical magnet (*QUITE* impressively potent - I'd rate it pretty
close to the supermagnets you'd find in hard drives in the "pull a
screwdriver off it" test) inside a 1 inch long by about 11/16" coil that
appears to be "flat-wound" with ... [etc.]

Wait a minute! ;-) 5/8" long, and 9/16" diam? Isn't that kind of a
squatty-looking cylinder? How does it not jam in its sleeve (or whatever
you call the part it slides back and forth inside of)?

I'd think it would have a tendency to get canted, and bind, stick, or
jam, like an uncooperative desk drawer. That apparently didn't happen.
Anybody got any idea how?

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:31:15 -0800, Don Bruder wrote:

Picked up a pair of those two for 5 bucks shake lights Walgreen's is
pushing this Xmas.

Okay, we've all already read about the shake lights. So I'm gonna
go off here:

D'ya think some of us have had more (or less) practice than others at the
particular hand motion that (presumably) recharges these things? ;-p
--
Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:11:41 -0800, RST Engineering (jw) wrote:

I wanna hear more about the full wave "bride". Sounds like a hell of a deal
to me.

Me, Too! </AOL

O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

But but but, I thought you said, "Full" wave. ;-P
--
Cheers!
Rich
------
"For a house-to-house salesman named Moore,
Getting housewives' attention's no chore:
He's endowed with a dong
That is 12 inches long,
So he wedges his foot in the door."

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:58:31 -0800, RST Engineering (jw) wrote:

Reminds me of the story of the guy and his wife that were doing it doggy
style...

he was sitting up begging and she was rolling over playing dead.

{;-)

Jim

Daddy, turn her over! I'd rather have a puppy!

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

---
If she's just half wave she need never know what's happening in her
dead time.

--
Cheers!
Rich
------
"There was a young lady from Bangor
Who slept while the ship lay at anchor
She woke in dismay
When she heard the mate say:
"Let's hoist up the topsheet and spanker!""

 

[Don Bruder]

In article <pan.2005.12.20.21.46.23.931222@example.net>,
Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net> wrote:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:31:15 -0800, Don Bruder wrote:

On the "It's five bucks, and I've got another one... Who cares if I
screw it up?" theory, I unscrewed the end to find that the innards are
encased in a second clearer plastic tube - a 5/8" long by 9/16" diameter
cylindrical magnet (*QUITE* impressively potent - I'd rate it pretty
close to the supermagnets you'd find in hard drives in the "pull a
screwdriver off it" test) inside a 1 inch long by about 11/16" coil that
appears to be "flat-wound" with ... [etc.]

Wait a minute! ;-) 5/8" long, and 9/16" diam? Isn't that kind of a
squatty-looking cylinder? How does it not jam in its sleeve (or whatever
you call the part it slides back and forth inside of)?

I'd think it would have a tendency to get canted, and bind, stick, or
jam, like an uncooperative desk drawer. That apparently didn't happen.
Anybody got any idea how?

Thanks!
Rich

Ack! Measurements listed bass-ackwards! It's a tad longer than its
diameter, so make that 9/16" long by 5/8" diameter.

And me giggling at the Engrish on the box... <sigh>

--
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or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow"
somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my
ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info

 

[Don Bruder]

In article <pan.2005.12.20.21.59.45.831705@example.com>,
Rich The Newsgroup Wacko <wacko@example.com> wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:58:31 -0800, RST Engineering (jw) wrote:

Reminds me of the story of the guy and his wife that were doing it doggy
style...

he was sitting up begging and she was rolling over playing dead.

{;-)

Jim

Daddy, turn her over! I'd rather have a puppy!

Oh, lord... That was *SO* wrong...

But I can't stop laughing at it!

--
Don Bruder - dakidd@sonic.net - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist,
or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow"
somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my
ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info

 

[Jasen Betts]

I s'pose one could remove the LED and install a small radio circuit,
with the speaker at the business end? Hey, there's a "third world" product!

if you don't mind the dopplering...



--

Bye.
Jasen

 

[Don Klipstein]

In article <43a61b67$0$95938$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Don Bruder wrote:

Picked up a pair of those two for 5 bucks shake lights Walgreen's is
pushing this Xmas.

Complete box copy from mine (typos and "Engrish" *ALL* the box's fault!
- I ain't makin' this stuff up, folks - I don't need to - it's printed
right there in black and white two feet in front of my face!!! )

The Front:
The New Procuct
Come Into The Market

Environment-protective
Torch For 21st Century
Rotate the box vertically 1/4 turn to find:

Features:
1 Only shake it to forward and backward while also use. So as to Make it
Generating to light up for brightness.

<SNIP>

I got a few such flashlights fitting the description so far, and bought
them for $1.99 at a dollar store.

But after that - mine appear to be even worse than described by Don
Bruder!

In the ones I bought, the coil leads were shorted together, the magnet
clearly existed but as a clearly fake magnet that was clearly a
non-magnet, and the flashlight had CR2016 batteries, which I believe is a
non-rechargeable type.

However, true and truly-working-as-advetized shake-to-recharge
flashlights are out there.

As an example:
http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/second/shake2.htm

- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)

 

[dave madden]

"DK" == Don Klipstein <don@manx.misty.com> writes:

DK> I got a few such flashlights fitting the description so far,
DK> and bought them for $1.99 at a dollar store.
DK> But after that - mine appear to be even worse than described
DK> by Don Bruder!
DK> In the ones I bought, the coil leads were shorted together,
DK> the magnet clearly existed but as a clearly fake magnet that
DK> was clearly a non-magnet, and the flashlight had CR2016
DK> batteries, which I believe is a non-rechargeable type.

That's bizarre -- you'd think that the added cost of all that
non-functional crap, _plus_ the batteries and light, would exceed the
cost of really doing it. Hrmph. China. Go figure.

d.

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Rich The Newsgroup Wacko wrote:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:31:15 -0800, Don Bruder wrote:


Picked up a pair of those two for 5 bucks shake lights Walgreen's is
pushing this Xmas.


Okay, we've all already read about the shake lights. So I'm gonna
go off here:

D'ya think some of us have had more (or less) practice than others at the
particular hand motion that (presumably) recharges these things? ;-p

Some of us have wives and/or girlfriends.


Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Autymn D. C.]

Don Bruder wrote:

Ack! Measurements listed bass-ackwards! It's a tad longer than its
diameter, so make that 9/16" long by 5/8" diameter.

And me giggling at the Engrish on the box... <sigh

Check again, ametricer.

 

[Autymn D. C.]

cornytheclown@hotmail.com wrote:

funny how the chinese produce such inferior products....they mangle
english almost as badly as negros....yet they are gonna economically
English
gut the USA

What do you mean almost?? Birds, whales, and toddlers have a better
grasp of speech than most Asians. (Don, don't say "have got" or "off
of".) But the Chinese can't gut anything; they are given more rope to
strangle themselves:
<http://halturnershow.com/ChineseDefenseMinisterTalksWarAgainstUS.html>,
<http://www.botcw.com/talk/showthread.php?t=17992&page=3&pp=10>,
<http://www.botcw.com/talk/showpost.php?p=158077&postcount=43>.

-Aut
Jesus was touching children long before priests were:
http://egroups.com/message/free_energy/21054.

 

[DaveM]

"stebrown182" <stebrown182@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:BoGdnTO2i51W9yXeRVn_vQ@giganews.com...

hi i'm wondering if you can help me with something, i'm in school and
i need to find out what the 555 astable actually does for a peice of
my cousework can you help me with this?
http://www.hardwareplug.com

Read the datasheet. It pretty well explains everything

--
Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters in
the address)

Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time!!

 

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

Disclaimers: Posting formulated from unscientific observations. May
contain small-sample statistics and other fallacies. May have been
written by nuts. But anyway...

Is it just me, or does the trend in alkalines seem to be toward greater
and quicker corrosion, after a window of several years in which we
really didn't have to worry about it too much? I gather that progress
in dry-cell innards has been ongoing (at least in some chosen parts of
their complicated parameter space), and in particular they have been
trying to weed out certain environmental nasties. This may have
something to do with it.

If you really want long shelf life, try the local police supply store
in search of "tactical" flashlights. Expect extreme brightness and
shocking purchase price. Me, I exercise the regular sort and rotate
them through progressively less critical uses, when it comes to car
flashlights. I have started to see this lithium battery technology in
some civilian products (e.g., ten-year 9V batteries meant particularly
for smoke detectors) and it may have filtered into C and D cells by now
-- presumably at a higher price, of course.


(At least one car flashlight belongs in the passenger compartment
anyway, for two reasons. One, there are times and places when you need
to have it in your hand, lit up, and waggling around in the general
direction of trouble before you get out of the car. Two, they work
brighter and better when warm. The trunk is of course a great place
for an extra flashlight.)



Followup back to rec.autos.tech after a detour through some electronics
and consumer newsgroups in search of people who know more than I do
about batteries (not to damn them with faint praise).

--Joe