Hi Mike
On (31 Dec 97) MIKE ROSS wrote to Alec Cameron...
 AC> When cornered, the Alec animal will use all possible tricks....
 AC> E times I does not equal watts thru a wire, a closer definition is
 AC> needed.
 MR> While a closer definition is certainly available, I still remember the
 MR> last time I tried something like that, you cried "foul"...
The most entertaining wrestlers fight dirty. Why should I differ? My shape is
about right....... Alfred Hitchcock style, profile wise.
 MR> Water cooled 3-phase full-wave mercury arc ignitron rectifiers were a
 MR> fun light show too and they sure gave off some sweet x-rays.
In 1940s I maintained 6- phase steel tank versions. Nil radiation. 3000 kW 
er
tank. Trannies were Zig Zag connected, so called interconnected wye 
condary.
 MR> the cool diode thing...
 AC> No No No! Not cool. Just less hot!
 MR> Man, you missed your true calling in life: should have been a 
litician.
You sure know how to hurt a guy ;-)
[re Tungar bulbs]
 MR> What a co-incidence, I still have one of those. The sockets are on
 MR> porcelain slabs with all copper busses for its huge globe rectifiers.
 MR> Still use it from time to time for nostalgia. I did however replace the
 MR> frankly scary '20s cloth wiring with electric oven high temperature
 MR> wire. Unfortunately one MV tube has an open filament so it's really a
 MR> half-wave battery charger now. Transformer gives one a hernia to lift
 MR> and could probably double as an arc-welder if fed with 240 volts.
                                               
In the 1950s my [bachelor] bedroom was a partly weather exposed verandah,
feezing cold in winter. The Tungar having been retired, I recycled the 25amp
2.5 volt trannie to feed the innerspring mattress to which I stitched 
ichrome
resistance wire was a bed heater. Electric blankets were not available in
those prehistoric days, here. Arranged the wires with pseudo- logarithmic
spacing, in and out of the mattress ticking. Those wires near the [cold] edge
of the mattress were pitched very close, but those at centre far apart. Very
effective!
 AC> Cheers....ALEC
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