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Steve Conner

Wed Jun 02 2010, 12:39PM

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A pretty successful attempt at that!

Avalanche, any more news on your epic bike ride?

Arcstarter

Wed Jun 02 2010, 07:48PM

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Henry will not give me a 45kw plate transformer (piggy) till I finish the LP, man you guys are hard to me, ahhhhhhhhhhh.

Please, come drive out here to Texas and pick up my 50kw 7.6kv pig. I can't be bothered to take it out to the street, and that'd be a shame to let them rip it down to the raw materials! Just buy a new gasket and fix some plastic that broke inside that held the HV input wire up away from the transformer itself

Avalanche

Wed Jun 02 2010, 07:48PM

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I keep meaning to finish my blog and get it online, but it's one of those things I just never seem to get around to

It took me about 17 days to get from Derby up the west coast of Scotland and then across to Inverness, and that includes rest days. I had full camping gear with me, but ended up mostly staying in hostels and bunkhouses which wasn't the original plan! Having said that, I didn't really plan the thing anyway, other than loading nearly 100 campsites, bunkhouses and hostels into my GPS and marking them on the map. My daily routes were usually planned the previous night, with the help of folk I met in the hostels and google maps whenever I could get on the internet.

Full route was: Derby > Standedge (Yorkshire) > Windermere > Keswick > South of Dumfries > Newton Stewart > Ayr > Isle of Bute > Inveraray > Ft William > Mallaig > Isle of Skye > Torridon > Badrallach > Scoraig and then Inverness. Couple of days in Inverness and then got on a 4.50AM train back to Carlisle via a change at Edinburgh. I was picked up from the Lake District the next day. The ride from Badrallach on the west coast to Inverness was the fastest ~60 miles I've ever done, as it was mostly downhill and nowhere to stop!

Awesome scenery, loved every minute of it. I was there early April - just timed it right with the weather

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That's a pretty random selection of photos out of over 1000, must get my act together and finish the write up!

brtaman

Wed Jun 02 2010, 11:11PM

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Renesis wrote ...

Whats the difference? Im too cheap to get a proper soldering station, but i seem to do fine enough with my regular inexpensive pen. What exactly makes it worth the investment?

Well for me personally it boils down to three things ranked here in order of importance:

1. Versatility (I tend to solder PCB's and a minute later I need to solder a large wire etc. by twisting the pot I am ready for the large wire within 10 seconds, with several pens for each different task warm up time is a real time killer for me)

2. Heat up time (I plug in the station it heats up to 350C in ~20 seconds...with my pens the wait is much longer)

3. Temperature stability

Of course the benefits of a station vary with each user and his specific requirements/habits, but I have to say the past months with the pens were a real dent in morale for me personally. So, if your workstation habits requirements are similair to mine, I would recommend spending the money on a station.

Dr. Spark: I have also attempted to find a datasheet of the GU-10X tubes containing plate curves in the past, however my search came up empty. Hope you have better luck! Please be sure to inform us of the parameters of this new beast once you have them. I can say that I am extremely interested!

Best Regards,
brtaman

Dr. Drone

Thu Jun 03 2010, 01:32AM

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Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Thu Jun 03 2010, 02:06AM

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When you get it done make sure you post it's pics in the right thread... The ART one! ;p

Finn Hammer

Sun Jun 06 2010, 06:19PM

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The Tesla Midgets.

Nowadays, when Tesla Coils are gaining ever increasing popularity, even the little people are giving a hand.....

Cheers, Finn and Daniel

The tesla midgets of Denmark

Dr. Drone

Sun Jun 06 2010, 06:35PM

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Renesis

Sun Jun 06 2010, 07:42PM

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Finn Hammer wrote ...

The Tesla Midgets.

Nowadays, when Tesla Coils are gaining ever increasing popularity, even the little people are giving a hand.....

Cheers, Finn and Daniel

The tesla midgets of Denmark

I think someone wants their coil to look really big

Steve Conner

Sun Jun 06 2010, 08:06PM

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Well, putting the coil on would be a good start. When do we see this thing working

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