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Suggestion for keeping oil dry?
I've seen the musical ones. Thats a feature thats going to have to be some way down the track. I jus ...
15-7-2012 at 17:56
by: Twospoons
Suggestion for keeping oil dry?
Vacuum tube Tesla coil :D
The variable cap is so I can easily tune the primary side oscillator into ...
15-7-2012 at 15:12
by: Twospoons
Suggestion for keeping oil dry?
I am making a high voltage variable capacitor by submerging a variable air-spaced capacitor in oil, ...
15-7-2012 at 14:34
by: Twospoons
identification of unusual electronic component, large.
[rquote=253116&tid=20610&author=watson.fawkes] That's enormous, and would be very instantly ...
2-7-2012 at 14:14
by: Twospoons
Sciencemadness turns ten! Congradulations!
Been nearly 8 years for me, and I still drop in every day (mostly lurking now). How time flies. Con ...
10-6-2012 at 19:06
by: Twospoons
High temperature, high speed thermometer
I would have said 'spectroscope' too. Ordinary IR pyrometers are not that fast. At 7000K analysing ...
7-6-2012 at 13:55
by: Twospoons
Water flouridation
I wonder how many smokers there are in the anti-fluoride brigade?
I have a mate who tells me about ...
4-6-2012 at 19:11
by: Twospoons
Cracking Diesel Fuel
I recall an experiment in chem class ( ~30 years ago) where we passed kerosene vapor over heated por ...
20-5-2012 at 14:36
by: Twospoons
air liquefier attempt, questions
Don't forget to put some kind of safety shield between you and those compressors. Just in case ...
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30-4-2012 at 22:12
by: Twospoons
air liquefier attempt, questions
^ what he said. Also post compressor and water cooling you could add an air tank placed in a domesti ...
11-4-2012 at 21:27
by: Twospoons
How to control the temperature of an oil bath & PID controller equipment basics
Dann2, you are over thinking it. The PID algorithm does control the on:off timing ratio of the outp ...
4-4-2012 at 18:48
by: Twospoons
How to control the temperature of an oil bath & PID controller equipment basics
The Omron controllers I use at work have an adjustable cycle time - down to 0.5 seconds. Unless you ...
4-4-2012 at 15:55
by: Twospoons
Substances with near room temp phase change
bahamuth : thanks for the "stormglass" tip. What a neat idea. I love it how these weird little thing ...
27-3-2012 at 16:33
by: Twospoons
On solar hot water systems
Used to be that PV cells needed as much energy to manufacture as they could produce in their lifetim ...
31-1-2012 at 00:22
by: Twospoons
Change wavelength of light?
[rquote=235106&tid=18700&author=Polverone]Most green laser pointers work by frequency doubli ...
31-1-2012 at 00:16
by: Twospoons
On solar hot water systems
3/4 of a litre of warm water makes for a very short shower!
26-1-2012 at 18:49
by: Twospoons
On solar hot water systems
Where did you get the idea that painted radiators are better than evacuated glass tubes with heat pi ...
26-1-2012 at 14:55
by: Twospoons
Recovering useable components from a car battery
There's the messy, toxic, environmentally unfriendly way : put the whole battery on top of a forced ...
24-11-2011 at 20:36
by: Twospoons
Eggs down car air vent
Trade up on a new car before it starts to smell.
People say H2S smells like rotten eggs: well I've ...
9-11-2011 at 20:38
by: Twospoons
Solar energy a pipe dream?
The only use I can think of for the fluidyne is pumping water in areas where the only energy source ...
9-11-2011 at 17:30
by: Twospoons
Garden Sulfur for Oxidizing Copper?
Yes Lime Sulphur definitely works - I've used it for that purpose myself. I usually add a bit of po ...
8-11-2011 at 18:56
by: Twospoons
Solar energy a pipe dream?
[rquote=226633&tid=17015&author=497]

Not really. As far as I know you can not build a sti ...
6-11-2011 at 15:33
by: Twospoons
Voltage varying centrifuge problem
Its only a low power motor, so a cycle skipping controller might do it. Don't know where you'd get ...
22-9-2011 at 22:25
by: Twospoons
A patent claiming 60-80% efficiency in solar energy
the efficiency claim probably only applies for a single wavelength. The same issue occurs with phot ...
2-8-2011 at 15:16
by: Twospoons
Solar energy a pipe dream?
I've always thought the first step for introducing solar should be domestic water heating. Its more ...
19-7-2011 at 14:11
by: Twospoons
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