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[Sam Goldwasser]

"JohanWagener" <rebeldog@webmail.co.za> writes:

What can be used as an element in a simple homemade kettle running off
220V?

Not sure if this is a serious question but replacement elements for domestic
water heaters are available around here at least.

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[JohanWagener]

I need a high resistance material that I can found in or around the house
now.

 

[Richard Crowley]

"JohanWagener" wrote ...

I need a high resistance material that I can found in or
around the house now.

Nichrome wire from your toaster?

Sounds pretty un-safe. Would you care to explain the problem?
Are you aware of the problems and risks of electric heating?

 

[Wim Ton]

I need a high resistance material that I can found in or around the house
now.

Use the water in the kettle (2 carbon, titanium or platinum electrodes).
Just don't stick your fingers in it while it is heating (which is also not
recommended with a proper element)

Wim

 

[John Larkin]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 01:46:17 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:42:16 -0400, Keith R. Williams
krw@attglobal.net> wrote:

Precisely. It fails because force must be used to "stabilize"
the system. Force isn't compatible with a democracy, thus the
system degenerates into a totalitarian police state.

As I understand RSWs plans, it *starts out* that way.

John
-------------------
It won't ever start UNTIL a majority wants it,

That gives me a great deal of comfort. In the long run, the American
public is remarkably sensible.

John

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:39:36 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:44:03 -0700, Jim Thompson
Jim-T@analog_innovations.com> wrote:


(4) With W's recent cuts, families earning under $40K don't pay *ANY*
income taxes.
...Jim Thompson

Right. Poor folks! The ones the rich have stolen everything from.
Miserable downtrodden masses can barely make the payments on the SUVs,
what with the cost of premium-channel satellite dishes these days.
John
------------------------------
Families of 4 earning under $40K can't even afford medical insurance in
any of the major cities because their rent is 2/3rds to 3/4ths of their
income, which money is funneled immediately to the upper 10% of the
population directly from their paychecks.

3/4 of $40K is $30K, $2500 per month. Geez, not even San Francisco is
that expensive except for the boring, ritzy neighborhoods. Plus SF has
rent control and gobs of public housing, limited to 20% of family
income. Owning rental property here is a loser: rents generally don't
cover the mortgage, much less maintenance and taxes.

Ever heard of MediCal?

They can't afford SUV's.
They have smaller, older, and most often used cars. They often manage
to have plain cable, but with no premium channels.
-Steve

What? No Showtime? No HBO? No PPV boxing matches? *Used* cars, for
Pete's sake? Or even - sputter! gasp! - public transit? Oh, America is
a cruel, cruel place!

John

Vile Capitalist who is nonetheless forced to drive a '93 Golf.

 

[John Dyson]

John Larkin wrote:

While we were traveling in Ireland, my wife had a problem. We walked
into a local clinic in a small town, saw a doctor after a 10 minute
wait, got a diagnosis and prescription, paid 10 pounds cash, and
trooped off to the drug store. The drugs were expensive, though, we
not being citizens covered by National Health.

During my first business trip to UK (High Wycombe, Bucks), I stayed

there for about 3months. I brought my clothing along for May/June
in Indianapolis, and that was BY FAR not sufficient for UK. Ended
up with a persistent cough, and it lasted for 2wks before I seeked
medical help. I visited one of the 'clinics', and they gave me
some cough medicine (dispensed almost from a container that would
have been suitable for Coca-Cola syrup.) I don't know what was
in that syrup, but it didn't cause any narcotic effects, and
IMMEDIATELY suppressed my cough (well, within about an Hr.) I have
never had positive effects from the DMT based nonsense here in the
US ( when taking a large dose -- trying to stop the cough, then
other effects totally neutralized ANY advantage.) I wonder what
kind of medication that it was, but it stopped me from coughing
all night!!!

John

 

[Roger Johansson]

"JohanWagener" <rebeldog@webmail.co.za> wrote:

What can be used as an element in a simple homemade kettle running off
220V?

If you have a quarz halogen lamp you can use that to heat the kettle.
A 350-500 Watt lamp gives off most of the effect as heat, and the
light becomes heat too, if you use the kettle to stop the light from
escaping.

It needs heat proof stones around it of course, and you might need sun
glasses to use it when you take the kettle off this home-made stove.

Or turn it on only when the kettle blocks the light from coming out.


--
Roger J.

 

[R. Steve Walz]

John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 01:46:17 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:42:16 -0400, Keith R. Williams
krw@attglobal.net> wrote:

Precisely. It fails because force must be used to "stabilize"
the system. Force isn't compatible with a democracy, thus the
system degenerates into a totalitarian police state.

As I understand RSWs plans, it *starts out* that way.

John
-------------------
It won't ever start UNTIL a majority wants it,

That gives me a great deal of comfort. In the long run, the American
public is remarkably sensible.

John
-------------

So you say now... Let's see what you say THEN!
-Steve
--
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http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[R. Steve Walz]

John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:39:36 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:44:03 -0700, Jim Thompson
Jim-T@analog_innovations.com> wrote:


(4) With W's recent cuts, families earning under $40K don't pay *ANY*
income taxes.
...Jim Thompson

Right. Poor folks! The ones the rich have stolen everything from.
Miserable downtrodden masses can barely make the payments on the SUVs,
what with the cost of premium-channel satellite dishes these days.
John
------------------------------
Families of 4 earning under $40K can't even afford medical insurance in
any of the major cities because their rent is 2/3rds to 3/4ths of their
income, which money is funneled immediately to the upper 10% of the
population directly from their paychecks.

3/4 of $40K is $30K, $2500 per month. Geez, not even San Francisco is
that expensive except for the boring, ritzy neighborhoods. Plus SF has
rent control and gobs of public housing, limited to 20% of family
income. Owning rental property here is a loser: rents generally don't
cover the mortgage, much less maintenance and taxes.

Ever heard of MediCal?
------------------------

Ever realized you can't get it without kids?
Ever realized there is a co-payment that prevents people from using
it?
Ever realized that that $40K is TAXED FIRST?
Etc.

They can't afford SUV's.
They have smaller, older, and most often used cars. They often manage
to have plain cable, but with no premium channels.
-Steve

What? No Showtime? No HBO? No PPV boxing matches? *Used* cars, for
Pete's sake? Or even - sputter! gasp! - public transit? Oh, America is
a cruel, cruel place!

John
---------------------

Let's see YOU do it.
When some have more than others, they have stolen it from those others.
-Steve
--
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Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[R. Steve Walz]

Leonard Caillouet wrote:

"R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message
news:3F07CB65.9F8@armory.com...
Chris Mann wrote:

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
news:vgeu7ookqumn38@corp.supernews.com...
"Richard Crowley" wrote ...
How do you use a PIC to "decode" an analog video signal?


"Chris Mann" wrote...
Most PICs have ADCs built in. Sounds interesting.

Maybe if the ran 20-50x faster they could be used for video.
What's the fastest PIC ADC?
High quality video needs ~ 10-15MHz sampling rate



We're talking about stabilizing a video signal which deals mainly with
the
sync and possible AGC levels. There's no reason to mess with the video
info
so that kind of speed isn't needed. A PIC should be able to easily
handle
the sync and detect black level, too, without speed being an issue.
----------
You don't even NEED a damned PIC.
-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew

Once again, a really USEFUL post by Steve. Why not use your great intellect
to be more helpful to people, Steve?

Leonard Caillouet
------------------------------

Look:
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public/RF_Ccts/

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

 

[DarkMatter]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:41:50 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
Gave us:

Blather, there is no "Free Will". Everything in the Universe
only finally happens one way, and in any life you can experience
it was always going to come out how it did in fact come out.
To believe anything else is to disbelieve cause and effect,
and then you're saying to hell with every bit of Science, which
is the USE of this predictability to explain and predict for
our benefit, which, if it weren't so, obviates any reason to be
conscious and alive!!

You have some very fucking bent perceptions, despite whatever
technical expertise you may have garnered over the years. You can
take THAT to your "It was meant to happen that way..." bank.

Obviously, I was meant to be on earth to tell you of this grave
error of yours, and you were meant to take it the wrong way as usual,
and spout some nonsense reply, which I'm sure is forthcoming.

Put that in your pipe, and smoke it, on your way to that bank.

 

[DarkMatter]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:45:18 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
Gave us:

When some have more than others, they have stolen it from those others.

I didn't know that someone that at times appears to be so smart
could outrightly be so fucking butt ugly stupid. Is that the yin that
goes with your yang?

You're fucked in the head, boy. You SHOULD HAVE done drugs when you
were growing up. Sadly, your stupidity here proves that you did not
participate in reality then either.

 

In sci.electronics.design Wim Ton <wimton@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

I need a high resistance material that I can found in or around the house
now.

Use the water in the kettle (2 carbon, titanium or platinum electrodes).
Just don't stick your fingers in it while it is heating (which is also not
recommended with a proper element)

Ahh yes, an electrode boiler, used to have one at work. 400V 3phase into 3
electrodes with a set of baffles on a worm gear to vary the power level.
As long as all 3 phases were present it seemed to be OK, but very strange
things happened if the plant lost a phase or if the water became seriously
contaminated.

Got replaced with a boiler using surplus heat from a generator much more
energy efficient.

Regards, dan.
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And on the evening of the first day the lord said...........
..... LX 1, GO!; and there was light.

 

[Peter Gottlieb]

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3F078633.4A887D07@earthlink.net...

Try it, then tell us how well it worked with a low sample rate and a
slow processor.

With a decent S/H it shouldn't be a problem. I haven't looked at recent PIC
devices to even get a good gut feeling whether or not they could do it, but
in theory they have the speed and power.

 

[DarkMatter]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 13:47:53 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> Gave us:
Steve Ditz said...

When some have more than others, they have stolen it from those others.

Then, you said...

Or maybe they took better care of their stuff, or preferred enduring
things to junky consumables and sleazy entertainment. You can't have
equality when tastes differ.

You forgot to mention to him just how utterly stupid that remark is.

Does he even claim to be an American? Did he go through life with
"Stupid Boy" brand blinders on?

 

[Bill Sloman]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote in message news:<dflggvghponrdvliep57fc2pia0m8jh58q@4ax.com>...

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:58:12 -0400, JohnM <eaotis@removethiscbpu.com
wrote:


The "not enough to go around" issue comes up at least twice in your post-
both in the indication of rent taking up most of the wages of the people
you refer to and in the apparent support for some sort of health
insurance for all. Why didn't you go the other route and propose some
sort of housing so that these people have more money to pay for
insurance? Because it's been tried already and it didn't work (the
Projects). Effectively free "health insurance" for all would result in
the same sort of mess in medicine as occurred in the projects.

Actually, the British/Irish/Canadian nationalized health care systems
work reasonably well.

By a number of measures, they work better than the U.S. system, which
delivers very poor health care to the poor, which depresses up the
average life-time adn infant mortality scores, amongst others.

They trade off the bureaucracy of a
government-based noncompetitive system against the advantage of not
feeding megabuck lawyers and doctors off the system. I suspect that if
that sort of thing were installed here, political and legal forces
would make it work less well.

The British national health system is still recovering from fourteen
years of sabotage under Thatcher.

While we were traveling in Ireland, my wife had a problem. We walked
into a local clinic in a small town, saw a doctor after a 10 minute
wait, got a diagnosis and prescription, paid 10 pounds cash, and
trooped off to the drug store. The drugs were expensive, though, we
not being citizens covered by National Health.

The Dutch health system dealt with my wife's brother-in-law equally
expeditiously. It cost him a little bit more, but not much - probably
in proportion to avarge salaries in Ireland (still pretty low) and the
Netherlands (high).

------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[ob723bg9]

JohanWagener wrote:

What can be used as an element in a simple homemade kettle running off
220V?

I've had luck with the FTL resistors from Matt Orman. As a matter of fact, the
water heats up before I even apply power, which is handy for when I come home
and want tea right away.

 

[Mark Zenier]

In article <608b6569.0307052142.79621506@posting.google.com>,
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards <larwe@larwe.com> wrote:

testing_h@yahoo.com (Andre) wrote in message
news:<2c2cf14c.0307050541.4221ab8c@posting.google.com>...

If they patented every possible circuit, did that include using a PIC
to decode the signal ?

I notice that my posting listing all the patent numbers is no longer
on Google's archive. The conspiracy theorist in me says this isn't
coincidence.

It's still there, but it doesn't come up in the thread index that you get
from the group's subject list pages. I found it by doing an advanced
search in sci.electronics.repair (it's not cross-posted, like much of
this thread), limited with postings only from you as author, sort by date.

Then under the returned article list is an article with the thread index
with a higher article count than the one in the group's subject list.
(44 vs. 39 as of this afternoon PDT.) (Let's see how long that still
works. :-( Maybe it's an artifact of how the thread indices are cached.
Probably not.)

Hell, let's test it out.

From: larwe@larwe.com (Lewin A.R.W. Edwards)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair
Subject: Re: Video Stabiliser
Date: 30 Jun 2003 13:18:02 -0700

LAE> But it is an infringement of MV-owned patents to build almost any
LAE> device you can think of that will remove the copy protection.

It is legal for a technician to experiment on *any* circuit they build.

Well, actually no - the fucked-up DMCA could getcha if you're trying
to crack a hardware copy-protection scheme unless you show it's for
academic research (which could be difficult). It's the same, legally,
as reverse-engineering smartcards to steal DSS service, or
reverse-engineering a DVD player's firmware so you can work out how to
turn off Macrovision on the analog outs.

But anyhow, that's not what I was talking about. Patent violation is
tort law, not criminal. Macrovision filed - and was granted - a large
number of patents related to cracking their technology. The intention
was to enable enforcement action against people who build and sell
Macrovision scrubbers.

For example, see the following US patents:

6,295,360 "Method and apparatus to defeat composite video signal
protection"
6,285,765 "Method and apparatus for reducing effects of copy
protection of composite video signal"
6,173,109 "Method and apparatus for removing or defeating effects of
copy protection signals from video signal"
6,058,191 "Method and apparatus for modifying the envelope of a RF
carrier signal to remove copy protection signals therefrom"
6,002,830 "Method and apparatus for removing or defeating effects of
copy protection signals from a video signal"
5,953,417 "Method and apparatus for digitally removing or defeating
effects of copy protection signals from a video signal"
5,784,523 "Method and apparatus for defeating effects of color burst
modifications to a video signal"
5,748,733 "Method and apparatus to reduce effects of certain copy
protection purses within a video signal"
5,661,801 "Method and apparatus for stabilizing and brightening
prerecorded TV signals encoded with copy protection"
5,625,691 "Method and apparatus to defeat certain copy protection
pulses within a video signal"

Just search USPTO for "macrovision" and you'll see some of their raft
of patents. About 30% of them are patents specifically covering
*defeating* technology, not the copy protection systems themselves.

....

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com Washington State resident

 

[GC]

In article <7c584d27.0307061338.131bd36e@posting.google.com>,
bill.sloman@ieee.org says...

The British national health system is still recovering from fourteen
years of sabotage under Thatcher.

I don't think any sort of recovery has started yet, it's still heading
down the pan, just taking more money with it.

BTW, Thatch was only in power for 11 years, did she use Mr Orman's FTL
approach as well?