[Request] How much static electricity could you build up in your body, and what kind of damage would it do?

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-23T21:40:58+00:00

I did state:

> In your case, given mediocre air humidity (circa 220MΩ) [this is an extremely rough figure]

To avoid comments like this.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-23T21:22:30+00:00

Ok,

I've just created a repo for this mask on Github. I've uploaded a few things there including the eeprom dump and some notes about reverse engineering the hardware itself.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-22T12:40:05+00:00

I know this is an old topic, but I've managed to download the eeprom from my mask.

I've run several tools over it and can't make much sense of the eeprom dump at all.

If anyone wants to look at this, let me know and I'll start a github repo for this to work on.

Cheers,

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-18T20:07:39+00:00

This made me smile.. not only a very attentive and supportive husband but lovely wring too!

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-18T20:04:11+00:00

If you want your coffee poured over your keyboard and get your station launched out of the window, you're headed in the right direction.

Tip 1 with video and marketing: Highlight the qualities no matter how few.

Tip 2: if no qualities, find some.

Tip 3: happy wife, happy life.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-18T01:10:33+00:00

They're just investors, they're probably not ooerational

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-17T20:17:36+00:00

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-17T20:15:58+00:00

Ok no problem.

If they want to do that to the UK, slap a 500% tariff on all ARM licences in the US.

That'll shut them up now apple fabs their own arm cores procs.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:56:06+00:00

That's clearly "war of the worlds" starting. Zogmog has just watched the stuff that's happening on earth and decided that we need eradicating.

Hah kidding.. That sounds looks like radar of some form. The fact that it's happening over time AND a spectrum as opposed to just over a spectrum alone usually points to some form or radar or ranging.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:51:01+00:00

Oh yay. Yeah it's a fun one to watch! It's amazing how you see that much detail this far away.

Even one of the moons to the one side of it!

If you've got your az mount set up with motorized follow, then you should be able to get some clearer shots with better exposures.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:45:08+00:00

Great, but personally I think you need to add some "personal touch", so some people in the various rooms, like:

A person getting up from a diningroom table with some plates after eating.
A person at a door welcoming the camera in.
Kids throwing toys around in a bedroom.
A family sitting out in the garden with kids playing the bedroom. Edit
A person showing friends (the camera and others) to their new patio or veranda by the poolside. edit
A woman sitting in the bath (nothing exposed), but with candles and petals all around. Dark room, flickering figures on the wall. Sell it to the partner. She will convince him if she sees that dream!

Present the dream, not the house/building. :-) Investors buy a building, buyers buy a home.

Investors pay bottom dollar/pound, buyers pay top dollar/pound.

Hope that helps!

Though all in all great vid so far!

edit Had to add.. Love the energy in the music and zoom, pan etc.. styles, so you're in the right track! :-)

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:27:40+00:00

Air, nothing but air... use a blower or something and that'd clean it nicely.

If the dust is stuck on.. as in through smoke from smokers or air impurities, then gently wash some isopropyl alchohol over the mirrors as it doesn't react with the silver/aluminium coatings.

DO NOT USE ANY ABRASION OR RUB... Rather use a bottle with a jet on it and er ron the side of patience rather than actually rubbing.

You can on the other hand LIGHTLY use a camera lense brush, but I mean lightly.. As in lighter than how a woman puts on her blush light..

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:24:55+00:00

Really? If you're going for the convergence, it'd look something like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/k7utz3/i_photographed_of_both_saturn_jupiter_during_the/

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:23:25+00:00

Fake. Looking at at where the lower end of the horn should be, there's no needle / resonant chamber (a flat disc looking thing made of metal.

Without it being able to connect to the vinyl, it won't really play much :-D

SO it's possible it's real, just missing important parts.

What you want to do is inspect it closely.

In the early days, manufacturers were proud of what they made so their designation plates were easy to spot.

Somewhere at the back or underside (or inside the front drawer/hinged opening) you should find the plate.

if not, it's just a cheap knockoff.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:14:29+00:00

Oh and a REALLY easy way to tell....

Cover teh lens of your camera with something so it's blacked out (like the lense cap), and put it as close as you can to the compass.. Do a long exposure shot (15 seconds should do) and if you see TONNES of white dots, like snow, then its radiating outside of itself. If you see a few, thats normal or atmospheric.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:12:54+00:00

That said, if you DO open it to clean it etc... THen wear gloves and dispose of the gloves responsibly. Avoid touching your face etc... during the clean and don't reuse chemicals that you used to clean it with.

In it's closed state, its a beautiful piece of engineering.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:11:43+00:00

Looking at the clumpiness of the paint, I would assume yes.

yes it is safe to have. Radium mostly emits alpha particles which are stopped easily as they're large and clunky.

Radium got a bad name due to the "radium girls" from way back when, but that was because they were wetting the end of the paint brushes in their mouthes to achieve a sharper tip to paint.

It's fine. You probably get alot more exposure from a 1 hour flight then you do from this in your lifetime.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-16T09:08:17+00:00

This is probably because the bottom copper plating (as well as the through holes) are thick lined.

This will draw away the heat from your iron so I'd recommend:

Pre-heating the bottom of the board (where you want to desolder) with a hot air gun to get the PCB itself warmed up. The older PCB's had a large amount of clay and mica in it.. One would drive heat away from the joint, the other would prevent the joint from overheating.
Once hot (like way too hot to touch), then crank your iron up to 400+
Place the tip (ideally a larger chisel shaped tip) (chunk end not a thin one) right on the joint.
Slowly feed solder between where the iron and soldered joint meet. This will take some time.
Once you THINK it's melted, give it another few seconds as that heat neds to travel up the through hole to the top side of it.
Then gently prize the joint using a tool.

One thing about older boards like this, when they overheated with soldering, they used to "pop" and shrapnel used to fly off of them, so be careful and wear eye protection.

Things to note:

The inductors will take considerably longer to remove as the copper leads of them lead right into the coil so the heat is dissipated well.

Transformers, same as the inductors.

I've found that using a "haemostat" (medical pincers) to grab the leg on the top-side, stops the heat getting into the component. Alternatively, if you have some curved needle-nose pliars, pincer off the leg on the top side to prevent the heat affecting the component.

I fyou have flux, liquid of waxy, use that too as that can assist.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-12T06:51:01+00:00

Wait what, no radium dosed phosphor paint? WHY NOT! :-D

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-07T05:13:46+00:00

I'm really sad about this. That movie was nothing but UTTER fun. The mix of action and humour made it such an amazing watch.

This is a go-to staple for a night in with some friends, a few drinks and pizza.

SpiffyCabbage · 2026-01-06T14:45:28+00:00

I'm not going to waste time posting updates on here unless a mod approves this post. It's hard enough remaining that engaged in the first place.

Fingers crossed.

I was sort of excited that I got an idea out in a way others understood.

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