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Location: Czech Rep.
Posts: 3384
...the house goes dark and everyone thinks you made a short circuit somewhere. ...there is interference on TV and you hear your name being called. ...any buzz or smell is immediately suspected to be coming from your room. ...you can sit under a HV transmission line and listen to the corona crackle for half an hour. ...you find the hum of distribution transformers/substations fascinating. ...every time you hear a mains hum, you go searching where it comes from. ...your main interest in power distribution is arcing on switches and arc faults.
Registered Member #3429
Joined: Sun Nov 21 2010, 02:04AM
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 288
....when your mother/wife/girlfriend says "The microwave needs to be cleaned", and YOU say, "Well, in that case, it's not worth messing with, and so I'll just take it to my shop and scrap it out for parts!"
....when your credit card bank calls to confirm a charge of $1500 for "50 spools, 30 AWG magnet wire".
....when your friend offers you a free ticket to the Super Bowl, and you turn it down because you are too busy building a Tesla Coil.
....when your wife/girlfriend is "in the mood" and you tell her that you have a headache from inhaling too much Ozone.
....when your wife/girlfriend wants you to take her to a very popular concert, and you tell her that you'd rather stay home and listen to the cool Plasma Speakers on YouTube.
....when you go downtown and ask all the businesses if they have any broken neon signs that you'd be happy to remove for free.
....when you get the bright idea of making your own bug zapper with a 70KV/10mA X-ray transformer, that accidentally (?) electrocutes your mother-in-law.
....when, after building your own X-ray machine, you ask each of your family members to come into your shop and stand very still for a couple of minutes.
....when your electric bill exceeds your income.
....when you constantly brag about how long, thick, and hot your arc is.
....when you get an orgasm while watching a large Jacob's Ladder.
....when you look at an old TV, and wonder how big the flayback in it is.
....when you can easily come up with a large number of reasons why your HV hobby is TOO SERIOUS!
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....when, although the word "ARC" means different things to different people, it means only ONE thing to YOU.
....when your MOSFETs short out, you don't just throw them in the trashcan.... you give them a decent burial.
....when your plasma speaker sings you to sleep each night at bedtime.
....when you upgrade your electronic can-crusher so that it can crush 50-gallon drums.
....when you win millions of dollars in the lottery, you can think about nothing else except building the world's biggest Tesla Coil.
....when your wife's/girlfriend's/mother's car won't run any longer because you needed the ignition coil for a project.
... when you'd rather spend a day building your Tesla Coil than go to the theme park with your friend
... when you spend 8 hours in one day trying to get your Jacob's Ladder working before Halloween
... when people around you in school are scared that you will electrocute them
... when you spent so long building your Jacob's Ladder, you inhaled too much ozone and got dizzy
... when you ask your friends if they have any CRTs that they were planning on junking
... when the Electronics teacher is scared of you
... when you finished your community service, and it is cold outside, and you are waiting for your mom to come, and you were very sleepy, instead of lying down on the unoccupied bench, you lied down on a green transformer box
... when the only reason you do not want to move from Orlando is you will miss all the lightning, and not because your high school is straight across the street from Universal Studios
... whenever you see a substation, you stare at it and drop your conversation
...whenever you see power pylons, you get the urge to climb up it, attach a hammock halfway up, and sleep listening to the hum
... when you can perfectly mimic a Jacob's Ladder
... when you can scream almost as loud as a Tesla Coil
... when you blame your love for HV on Pikachu
... when you like them sparks big and long
... whenever you see a Tesla Coil, you feel very happy
...whenever you get asked "who's your partner?" you reply your Tesla Coil
...whenever you start dreaming about HV consistently
... whenever you have the urge to build an SSTC so you can zap yourself without killing yourself
... whenever your favorite store is the electronics surplus store
... whenever you draw the "N" in your name as a high voltage symbol
... whenever you draw Tesla Coils wherever you can
... when you are mostly the first one in your Electronics class to finish your work
... when you have a hundred in the class
... when you demand to be called "Tesla" in school
... when you reach the point of thinking about high voltage 24/7
... when you shun romantic love and would rather spend the day at a Teslathon
... when you have purposely zapped yourself multiple times using very powerful static, and when possible, others
... when you only watched "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" because you heard that the movie directly depicts Tesla Coils
... when most of your analogies are to electronics and components
... when you have the urge to meet a guy who draws really long arcs
... when you draw SGTC circuits everywhere
... when you are able to create electric arcs using Photoshop
... when you are not scared of being zapped
... when you creep everyone out when you tell people your hobby
... when your hair looks as if you are holding a Van de Graaff generator 24/7
... when you get very staticky no matter what
... when you decide to hand out candy this year, dress up as a mad scientist, and say "I'm not dressed up, I am."
... when my mom has to look carefully on the floor for components before vacuuming
... when you constantly stare at light fixtures and neon signs and want to rip the transformer off of them
... when most of the posters on your wall are of lightning
... when you can think of so far the most of why your HV hobby is too serious
... when you are a GIRL that likes this hobby
... when you are the only girl in 2nd Period Electronics Class
... when you are writing a novel that greatly involves Tesla Coils
... when there is nothing you'd rather do than work with high voltage
... when you make kids in school think you are a genius when you say you built a Tesla Coil and your grades are hanging at A's
... when you spend so much time on 4HV your mom starts yelling at you to get off and start doing my homework.
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... when you spend almost all of your money on components ... when your friends think you're super smart because you can hook up a hv transformer even though you're pretty average in everything ... when you put links to self made plasma speakers in your college applications ... when you set a schematic as your computer wallpaper
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