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what's that stupid thing called
Mr Whippy - 8/2/08 at 01:22 AM

oh groan what are they on about now, all this drinking has to stop

you electronic guru's out there, apparently there was some kind of big weird glass glowing warp drive thing in a box that was used in the old days possibly in old radar sets?? what the hell have they been watching X files !!?? anyone know what this mythical beast is called? I did a search on the web and got zip. oh apparently it glowed pink how nice, I think that was on the tommy knockers oh look at the time I've got work in the morning time to clear up I think.

night

TheGecko - 8/2/08 at 03:20 AM

Gosh,

I can't imagine why Googling for "big weird glass glowing warp drive thing in a box""didn't turn up any useful results

Perhaps you mean a Magnetron which is the microwave generating device inside most (all?) radar devices and microwave ovens too.

D

ChrisW - 8/2/08 at 03:47 AM

Was going to say, either a magnetron or a klystron (if that's how you spell it). Only experience I have had of them (klystron) is the huge water cooled ones they have in TV transmitters. Even then, I wasn't allowed to touch it!

Chris

Macbeast - 8/2/08 at 04:27 AM

A Magnetron and a Klystron shouldn't glow pink.

Perhaps a mercury-vapour rectifier or a neon stabiliser ?

VR150/30 stabiliser rings a very old cracked bell here.

[Edited on 8/2/08 by Macbeast]

TGR-ECOSSE - 8/2/08 at 06:46 AM

I wish i could understand this !
This post is the perfect example of what sleep deprevation does to you

Welcome back Mr Whippy What was it like on the "other side"?

JohnN - 8/2/08 at 08:57 AM

Was it a plasma sphere? One of those things you held your hand over and it attracted an electric discharge

http://www-toys.science.unitn.it/toys/en-html/en-e-plasma.html

Mr Whippy - 8/2/08 at 08:57 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
A Magnetron and a Klystron shouldn't glow pink.

Perhaps a mercury-vapour rectifier or a neon stabiliser ?

VR150/30 stabiliser rings a very old cracked bell here.

[Edited on 8/2/08 by Macbeast]


da da! well done! I think this is it, they said it was made of glass and glowed is surely this has to be it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_arc_rectifier

I see what they mean, it's well weird, I want one

Mr Whippy - 8/2/08 at 09:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by JohnN
Was it a plasma sphere? One of those things you held your hand over and it attracted an electric discharge

http://www-toys.science.unitn.it/toys/en-html/en-e-plasma.html


no I have one of those, this is what started them off in the first place as we were laughing at a terrable film 'battle beyond the stars' where the big ship was controlled by a plasma ball how naff is that?

Davey D - 8/2/08 at 09:33 AM

Flux Capacitor?

Alez - 8/2/08 at 11:22 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Davey D
Flux Capacitor?


Nah, that glows blue..



dnmalc - 8/2/08 at 07:31 PM

Its a van der graph generator, you know the large metal sheres they had at school with the rubber belt in side the built up the static and made your hair stand on end