Lords of the Ring

[turbo]

"The explosion did in fact kill the poor child who was sitting directly in front
but sparred his mother who was some distance away in the kitchen."

Now this is interesting, what was she doing in the kitchen?
Let?s assume she was cooking?

"The explosion was strange because of the absence of expected chemicals
necessary to create the explosion."

Okay, but since she was cooking there was a rather large amount of water vapor in the air.

"And then you can tell them that we found out way back then...
It is because the material some PC boards are made out of can absorb
humidity... So.... depending on the conditions of humidity of the specific
day, the boards would change the characteristics of the SS control
circuits.
It took us a long time just to find that little thing out... we never thought
of it.
No one ever thought of it...."


Nah, can't be can it ? 

[kames]

@Turbo,

You are 100% right. The very first color tvs had a high quality coil to provide a delay. That still wasn?t stable enough. The only reason a coil use was possible for use as a delay line because tv signal is analog. Otherwise, a half-mechanical or a digital device would be unavoidable.
Solid copper circuits is interesting. I have to investigate it a little.

I have seen those devices with my own eyes. It looks like a highly polished piece of a glass stick. One coil and a magnet on one side and another coil and a magnet on another side.

@Dyamios
It is not a mechanical resonance. It is a condition for another type of resonance to occur. Delay line doesn?t work in any kind of resonance.
CRT does explode very nicely, especially if you detonate it with something else. I did it when I was a child, still alive 
Don?t want to try it again, for sure

Kames.

[hartiberlin]

By the way, why did they "bridge" the input via a 56K resistor
to ground and thus directly having the hot phase line plugged
via 56KOhm to the chassis, if the device is turned off ?

I also saw this many times in tube guitar amplifiers
and it is no wonder you always get a nasty electrical shock,
if you touch the ground wire from your guitar and the microphone
is at a different phase line grounded !

[joe dirt]

 

[dani1]

Kames, I have one of those days..
Its about 10cm, and  it is not a simple coil, see attach