Re: Toroid question and HV Disease

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Unfortunately, I don't have the limiting factors of a spouce, children, 
etc. Thusly, the disease in my case is acute. I don't have a house 
anymore....I have a habitat. A gear-storage facility that I somewhere have 
a kitchen and bedroom stuffed inside of. The house is filled with gear 
everywhere, we built a custom basement staircase that holds Thumper (a few 
hundred pounds of caps) the staircase also holds over a dozen coils from 3" 
to 15". We've got, 20 or so active computers, and shelves and shelves of 
gear. In the basement, there's a complete computer lab, a recording studio 
in progress, and a *pile* of gear that's waiting out the remodel to be shelved.

There's a half-dozen geiger counters on the couch (they just arrived), and 
150lbs of Geek Caps on the dining-room-table.

I have a garage that will easily fit 2 cars, and 4 if they're small. That I 
can't park in. Out there, we've got 9 250lbs spools of magnet wire, a 
2000lbs 75kV power supply (plus it's control console), 8 racks of computer, 
MV-4 (a 8' tall, 2' deep, 4' wide power supply), a 1-meter diameter toroid, 
a few miles of wire and cable, a transmitter, overhead projector, an 
autopsy table, blood-boxes, bio-lab gear, and somewhere in the pile I can 
see the tail-end of Geek-3 poking out. Geek-4 is in the driveway.

Geek-0 is across town, along with another garage that has a dozen XRTs 
(including a pair that weight about a half-ton each), a 10'x4'x1" sheet of 
UHMW, a 55gal drum of new transformer oil (plus several 5-gal containers of 
it), dozens of computers, and hundreds of pounds of parts, crates of books, 
LASER and optics gear, etc ad nauseum enough to fill a 1-stall garage to 
the rafters.

There's a dozen projects around the country in various states of completion 
(see, the disease is communicable as all my friends have it too).

I have found a cure though! Get a lab! Once we have the new lab, then at 
least I'll have a HOUSE again!


Christopher "Duck" Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
The Geek Group
www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
     - André Gide, 1869 - 1951





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Toroid question and HV Disease
>Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:20:39 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz 
> <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> > There is also another factor that seems to limit the spread of this
> > disease. Living in a house that dosen't have any wiring that's suited for
> > more that 120V/15A. Since that prevents pole pigs (which are the main
> > carriers of this disease) from feeding off of the house, it really keeps
> > the HV bug at bay. =D Oh well... mabye later on...
> >
> > Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> > Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz "
> >
> > At 10:51 31/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >  >Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
> >  >"
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >Oh no! BEWARE OF THE HIGH VOLTAGE DISEASE ! ! ! ! It may destroy rational
> >  >life as you
> >  >know it. I was bitten by the bug last May and now one year later I have
> >  >already built
> >
> > Dan you are one sick man. But fear not, there is a cure, all you need to do
> > is get married, have three kids, and a $200,000 mortgage.
> >
> > Steve C.
> >
> > -Chris
>
>
>         Can't resist jumping in on this one.  When I first got a mobile 
> ham rig
>in my car (~1950) I used to talk to a local ham who kept inviting me to
>come see his station.  One day I did!  He had a wife and two kids living
>in a converted 2-car garage.  The family crawled up into the attic to
>sleep and the "rig" occupied almost all of the "living" area.  Amazingly
>his wife was proud of the whole setup!!!  I wonder how long the marriage
>lasted?
>
>         On a similar topic one morning a buy in my gun club came out with 
> what
>he announced was a "$30,000 rifle".  The full story was that he'd spent
>several hundred bucks on the gun and his wife announced that she was
>leaving unless they moved from an apartment into a house of their own,
>which they did.  Back in 1952 you could buy a pretty decent house for
>that price!
>
>         Of course nothing of the kind happens around here.  Radio/electronic
>work is done in the basement or a small bedroom which serves as a
>combination study and "radio room".  My wife just looks in the door,
>shakes her head, and closes the door whenever "company" arrives.  TC
>work is done in the attic of the garage and machine shop is one half of
>the two-car garage.  Her car is in the other half and mine sits out in a
>carport.
>
>Ed
>

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