Quote from: webby1 on April 21, 2017, 11:02:21 AM

I think this would keep the intent of an open community in tact and then using PM you can still have the "closed" discussion when needed.

Like I said before, PM is private and nobody can bother you between important private discussions. But you still have a different navigation of pm than you do with threads. And threads can show pics, pm not. Again if pm is allowed, then there should be no argument against a private thread that allows more convenience to the posters. And if a priv thread dies it should be made public

Mags

Quote from: webby1 on April 21, 2017, 11:33:58 AM
Lets say I start a thread an set it global read write,, then someone starts posting all the usual garbage.

If I could then set that poster to read only for that thread only it would stop any further intrusion by that poster,, let them start there own thread then to have there say,, like what you are talking about and all of the discussion is out and in the public view.

I take my private stuff and keep most of it in email,, a little PM now and then,, but mostly email. 

If *I* could set that condition for the threads *I* start then no moderator is needed until there are posts that need to be removed,, I would also think that when enough threads are read only for a few posters that they would either change there ways or leave.

Just my thoughts on it.

If all thread makers had that ability, there may be some that are tossed because of things that are not legit and all could get messy and not fair at all.

monitoring threads and responding to complaints as a moderator is not a pleasant biz. Having read only threads I believe is best where all can see but cant disrupt and waste time, of which I really value my time.

Yeah we could all just leave and email eachother. But this site is setup for the convenience of not intermixing like having to sort through messages like email or pms if there is a lot of them. At OUR I think that there is a more happy environment in private and read only threads. Im all for happiness. Businesses succeed better with happy workers and so should a smart group of people trying to find OU in a thread where we dont have to have ANY disruptions and the record of the thread is clean and easily read through.

Mags

I really like the idea of read only thread for builders and researchers.  I don't think any of us have anything to hide but it would be nice to carry on a discussion with like minded builders and researchers without all the clutter.  I started a thread at EF just for technical discussion because of this very problem.  Some builders did not want their thread cluttered up with discussion so in respect to that I started that thread.  Sometimes it is used and sometimes not but it is there for use by the ones that want it.

There are a couple of threads there now that are considered builders threads only and most of us that still go to that forum just respect that request.  As far as I know it is not actively enforced by the Admin but just voluntarily respected.  From what I have seen here the voluntary part probably won't work.

If Stefan can set up a read only format with only selected members able to post I do believe it would help this forum a lot.

Respectfully,
Carroll

Haven't followed this (my own) thread anymore. But as it is mine, here is a related post:

I made some more coils. I earlier used bifilar coils to be pulsed. I now tried single wire coils:

I connected the two single wire pancake coil in series, to my IGBT pulse driver.
The IGBT became extremely hot (much hotter than with a pulsed bifilar coil).
I guess this is because of the back emf produced, by the pulsed coils.
To avoid it, i should use a diode and a resistor in parallel with the coil, to burn the energy of the back emf.

So, I guess I will be making another bifilar pancake coil, to pulse in series.

isnt it funny, that the bifilar coil doesnt produce this troublesome back emf?

Telsa in his patent states, the back emf of a normal single wire coil, can be fixed with capacitance... but how?

I must say... these bifilar coils have their advantage (the IGBT stays cool)

This is a quote from Erfinder that was removed while I was reading it. I was going to reply but it said post didnt exist. So I back paged and still was able to copy. I will clean it up for the one that removed it so i can reply.

"Moderation is a waste of time!  You cannot expect to grow if you censor.  If you don't want to read someone's post, ignore them.  This place gets cluster @#$%^& quickly....which is worse, twenty pages of someone spamming, or twenty pages of someone slamming you with every text book ever written, showering you in s@#$ no one needs a lesson in,  and at the end of the lecture you're still as clueless as the guy/gal spamming....


This is not the place for a productive discussion, never was, and probably never will be.  Those whose experience allows them to"represent" the status quo aren't wise enough to shut the $%^& up and let people fall on their faces!  The excuse that you are trying to save people from taking advice from the idiots is idiotic....  The excuse that you just can't stand by and allow the ignorant spread lies is a bold face lie. There are no facts.  Think and believe what you want....  IF you take advice from a fool, and you didn't know the advice came from a fool...what does that make you...not a question.


That coil is the subject of this thread....stop listening to milehigh preach about single sine functions!  I read the patent too....and despite what you think, Tesla said what he said for the likes of milehigh, not you open minded folk!  For the open minded, there's a load you need to catch up on!  But you won't.....you will continue to listen to milehigh and others who know nothing more than the value of silence....."


I am not a fan of moderation. And in ref to the same paragraph I have voiced my concerns with the crap that screw up threads, and I have seen that read only and or private threads help with that a lot. At OUR others make separate threads that deal with further discussions that keep the read only threads clean so it is easier to go through for those that are really interested in the subject. So Im not sure why the beat down there...

As for who is in the thread doing builds and tests and how they do them, well they are doing it. You are not. You are just doing this. Not a great example really. I thought we could get along but you are now just here beating on me. You do have children dont you?........ Is this how you teach them? Come on dude.

As for the coil, maybe you dont see that Im 'trying' to figure out other ways of approaching it other than what the pat says, even though one of the ideas is based on what the pat says. So what if I am way off of what you claim is the proper way to deal with it. Maybe I havnt got there yet and maybe never will. Who knows. What you claim may not even exist 'as far as we know'. How could we know as we are all screwed as you claim.

Anyway, I tried to be on a good side with you but you are just too much.

Mags