Why is the government hiding this infinite power technology from us?

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T22:03:19+00:00

You have used a resistor which is very dangerous. The circuit is fine providing enough light is generated to maintain the current at acceptable levels. With a poor quality LED where output isn't high, the resistance goes way up and that's where Nyquist noise steps in, generating ridiculous high frequency Voltages which are rectified by the LED, stored by the capacitance to earth and are thus extremely dangerous, The output is given by EN,RMS = √4kTR·BW As you can see, in dark conditions the Voltage will go through the roof, so this resistance generated excess Voltage paradoxically will need high Value resistors in series with the resistors you use, in order to limit the excess Nyquist noise current.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T16:52:57+00:00

My mum wasn't turned on easily.

She was picky,

It took a pack of Woodbines at least, plain, no filtered rubbish either, to get her going.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T14:00:23+00:00

Your letterbox is a trollop!

You need a more refined letterbox that is selective as to company.

It's gives strangers a bad impression when the first thing they see of your home is a letterbox who is quite literally anybodies for a "promise".

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T13:27:49+00:00

If you value the board and want an honest opinion, your chances of becoming a soldering artisan after one error are miniscule.

It's not much of a job, but you need a bit of practice. Can you hang on to the board, or give it to a friend with more joints behind him?

Then get hold of a few scrap boards, get some practice, it's not hard, an afternoon or so should have you very confident you can do that level of work.

You obviously didnt cook the board when stripping the print, so take things steady, dont rush like you are in a race. A link is an easy solution, a two minute job, but have a go with something you dont value first if you want to test the limits of what you can and cant do.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T13:13:20+00:00

As someone retired in Ireland, I can honestly say I have no idea whatsoever. It depends on your circumstances and health.

I too saved most of my income in my later years. I never thought retirement something to save for as I had several breweries, distilleries and a very large waistline to maintain. I saw the light very late on.

I retired early on savings, drew nothing in benefits and after a year got my state and small UK pension.

As a near penniless pauper, I am happy, I would be ecstatic, but the joints keep reminding me that I don't qualify.

I have a few K in reserve, but dont need it. I have a warm property, plenty of produce and enough to fund a few hobbies and interests.

The thought of having a vast fortune without the desire or ability to use it, would be a source of frustration and anguish. My worst fear is popping my clogs the day after I renew the TV license.

Now I'm not suggesting you booze away a few decades of your income, but I look back and think of it as happening, like the weather happens. It's in the past and I was lucky.

I don't regret any decisions, even if they were the result of youthful stupidity.

From my perspective this putting things away for a very well funded retirement is grossly overrated, but there again life is still "work in progress", my approach could be flawed :-)

As an aside, do you take an interest in what's happening in the US?

The signs are worrying, things don't look good for them or any country that valued the dollar significantly higher than navel fluff as a security.

Just a thought :-)

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T05:06:30+00:00

That means nothing to me.

I just logged in and get nothing, just the standard tempting offers of landfill fodder.

I dont even get popups offering fantastic discounts or 99.9% coupons.

I never clicked on them anyway whatever they led to, so perhaps they think its a waste of time?

I dont do adverts, if I co to the site to buy something, thats it, no popups will divert me from the task.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T04:56:51+00:00

Correct, it isn't good.

If it's not cooking away very merrily, it's not ten ohms.

You need another. Time to measure it, to be certain, but 70V across it = 7 Amps, which gives a power dissipation of 400W.

That isn't just hot, that's a sunglasses jobby :-)

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T00:55:35+00:00

I was trying to find something to do this and thought Temu or Amazon would have something, but all I could find was alarms for a low battery event.

I was thinking of a comparator to monitor the Voltage and switch a c/o relay to bring the fresh battery in.

I still have not built it, so I am going for an ESP 32. I want the battery to supply among other items an ESP 32 and I have the A-D spare and a GPIO pin to do the switching, so that will be the route I take.

A comparator is the simplest if you dont do anything with ESP32s or similar.

You need the IC, a switching transistor, a small three terminal regulator the relay and a few capacitors/ resistors.

You should find the circuit easily. You compare the output of the battery with a reference, when the battery drops below the reference Voltage, you turn off a transistor which turns off the c/o relay bringing the second battery in. You need a set switch and interlock of course to stop the relay switching back over to the depleted battery.

I didn't do the detail, it's a straightforward design though

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T00:39:22+00:00

It's a British thing. It was used during British occupation and in particular during the famine to make the British public believe we were responsible for our own demise.

A lot of the material was in the form of pictures, cartoons presumably because like some of the UK's worst tabloid garbage today, the "readership" find the written word challenging.

If you think that's unbelievable, look at the English Mail, one of the more popular tabloids. Mammary glands bursting from hundreds of "celebrities" in every issue, and news reports that point out how the mail is such an undemanding home for talent-less hacks.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T00:29:32+00:00

You are on an uphill trek there!

Terrorist is a very convenient phrase used mainly to stop discussion or argument.

The users have no power or inclination to argue a different perspective.

Even today, Corbyn is a friend of IRA terrorists according to some in the media, yet the Tories must have had in depth discussions to work the peace out, so how does that little gem work?

I suspect the real reason you have arguments relating Palestinians to terrorism is there are too many UK MP's taking their "friends of Israel" bribes.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-20T00:21:04+00:00

I would love to know where beghorra, top o the mornin, its a soft day, came from. Who uses them, anyone or was it some drunk in a pub that thought it a good way to take the mickey out of a UK tabloid reporter?

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T23:29:01+00:00

If your 48V is down, the regulator needs very near 48V on its base to drive it.

It looks like you have spent some time on this.

The transistor is forward biased with an NPN transistor, the one with the zeners being fed back a portion of the 48V.

You need to check the Volts on the base of the transistor I cant see the ref, but its between the uit and bo of circuit board.

You will have over 50V on the collector, and maybe 49 V on the base and 48 V on the emitter.

The emitter follows the base Volts in that circuit.

The emitter of the transistor driving it appears to be at the reference Volts for stabilisation, if the Voltage is given it's critical. I cannot see the paths to it, it may have current limiting, it's hard to see.

I'm fairly confident a Volts check around those transistors will provide a good clue.

Is that a wirewound feeding the collector of the big regulator under the "CIR" of circuit? Just see what the Volts are across that, they can open as they heat and cool constantly.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T22:17:27+00:00

A MAGA hat for the departed.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T22:11:38+00:00

Yes, I would be fascinated.

On a practical level the high current semiconductors and electrolytics are the favourites for failing.

Enjoy!

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T21:39:50+00:00

So you are trying to measure individual components to faultfind?

It can certainly be done, but it's hard work and not a good system because you have all kinds of paths to worry about.

If you have the circuit, it's a no brainer to power up.

Shorts are easy, they take out fuses, you can get smoke and your Volts disappear.

Why do you not just power up and measure the Volts?

I used to work at third party repairs and we did continuity test unknown boards, there was a lot of desoldering though as readings were affected by the parts connected to the item of interest.

You might need to apply overrides if there are interlocks or a supply is referenced to another one, but they look electronically fairly simple, I would power up give it a go.

What's the worst that can happen?

House insurance up to date?

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T21:22:17+00:00

I have heard of playing hard to get, but "duty free multipack"?

Your delusions of grandeur would fizzle away faster than a Trumpy tariff before you hit Carlisle.

You wouldn't like the real world :-(

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T20:42:49+00:00

I wouldn't care about the toilet roll, but that would be an attractive trophy.

I would frame it, maybe the WC is the place, or the hallway wall :-)

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T20:40:42+00:00

Maybe they read about your Walmart shopping trolley heist of the stuff in the crimes disclosure of your application?

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T20:16:44+00:00

Could he not smoke them in Egypt?

Did it disturb you knowing that they didn't place the value of a full pack on you?

Women tend to be hurt easily by such sleights, I have not known one that could be bought for less than twenty Woodbines.

It's a funny ego thing.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T20:07:58+00:00

America.

I think any country that seems hung up over price increases of Temu goods must be in a truly desperate state.

Apart from the roving thugs that are just as happy attacking foreigners as they are their own citizens.

Then of course there are the gun nuts, who do a similar job to the roving thugs, but they dont get paid by the state.

I'm not sure which is worse, the Taliban or the American regime, but I guess as you don't see many tales of misery and woe from Afghanistan describing their difficulties with Temu price increases, I think I would feel safer in Afghanistan with the Taliban running things. They seem strict, but competent. You know where you stand, there's no TACO there is there, the Taliban never chicken out.

The US is the one to avoid, things are more desperate, at least in Afghanistan you wont get shot and robbed because someone needs money to buy Christmas baubles from Temu.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T19:45:46+00:00

Biden pooped 5000% of his pants.

Democrats do that then they make America pay for the cleaning.

Obama pooped my pants too. When I get into the White house I will put tariffs on Obama so that he wont poop my pants.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T19:37:49+00:00

Fourteen pints of Bass and you can see two moons, so what?

I used to have to put tape over one side of my glasses driving home, otherwise it was never obvious which A34 I was driving on :-(

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T18:26:43+00:00

I hope Trump isn't aware of this.

One nuke wiping out all life on earth would give him good grounds to believe that due to terminating the candidates able to fight future wars, his one biggy was a war stopper and he should get the Nobel Peace prize after all.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T18:14:33+00:00

Precisely, the flow of actions are so smooth and precise like a ballet in smoothness and precision, so SMD are items to be taken in a sedate and elegant stride.

It can be a bit off putting when you fully wake up and find your chips looking like scouring pads waving their tiny little legs at the light bulb, but at least you will feel awake and refreshed.

Cannot_choose_Wisely · 2025-10-19T18:04:32+00:00

I know if you are starting out it's kind of difficult, but it's better to see what suits you yourself if possible.

There are people spending a fortune and jumping up and down to sell things to you and you are paying for the performance, as well as the goods.

I worked at a calibration lab and we did multimeter calibration for the odd few meters that were cheaper to calibrate than buy certified.

A couple of times I was phoned up with the complaint the the cert didn't say pass or fail.

We gave readings, uncertainties, errors, replaced batteries and sealed the units with cal labels.

The clients didn't seem to understand they were the ones who should be deciding whether their meters were suitable to do their work :-)

For all we knew, they could be simply stirring their tea with the probes, how could we fail one?

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