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Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

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Jim Thompson skrev:

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:13:38 -0500, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

Si Ballenger wrote:

I would put a 100 watt lamp in series thereby limiting the current. I
would shave the ends down to points so they heated up rapidly. I put
them into a hollowed out fire brick and made a cheap furnace. Of course
don't look at it; it's like looking at the sun.


The current limiter I saw used a glass pie pan with pieces copper
metal on each side with salty water as the electrolyte. It would
start to steam some when in operation. The furnace was a small
clay flower pot with holes in each side with the carbon rods
sticking inside until they touched.


As a boy, I used an electric teakettle as a ballast for a two-D-cell carbon
arc lamp--worked great.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

I've used a light bulb in series with a rectifier to charge a car
battery (just make sure that line ground goes to chassis ground ;-)


I've seen several speakers where there was a light bulb, in series with
the tweeter, as a power limiter

-Lasse

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.

* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.

Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"

Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."

I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.

* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:03:28 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:48:02 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.

* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.

Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"

Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."

I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Ha. Well, there's a nice dry maple log in the fireplace, an ice-cold
Sapporo in one of my Royal Selangor double-wall frozen pewter
tankards, my VHDL code is working with minimal tweaking and all is
right with the world. ;-)


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

We burned a log in the fireplace last night also. It was sufficient
to keep the inside temperature above 68°F. Don't know yet if I'll
need to turn on the heat this year or not.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Unusual functions of cheap parts
 

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:48:02 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.

* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Expect more nasty weather... it's heading your way. Here on Saturday
night... very windy, Sunday night plunged to about 25°F.

Got in the wife's car on Saturday and backed out into the street, and
commented, "Why is the AC blowing warm air?"

Wife replies, " I don't know, it did that for awhile yesterday, too."

I pushed the Ambient button on the dash... it was 65°F outside...
winter has arrived in Arizona ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Ha. Well, there's a nice dry maple log in the fireplace, an ice-cold
Sapporo in one of my Royal Selangor double-wall frozen pewter
tankards, my VHDL code is working with minimal tweaking and all is
right with the world. ;-)


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

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Am Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:14:17 GMT schrieb Rich the Newsgroup Wacko
:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:

Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries.

Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect
the
attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please).

Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary.
Very
bright! Much brighter than you are.

I put mine in series with Mom's iron, but the thermostat kept turning
it off.
One time I used an old Iron as a dummy-load for a 230V/1kW TRIAC power
control circuit (we had it in the lab for improvised BGA soldering). To
"satisfy" the thermostat I used a 30cm room fan.


--
Martin

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snip

I've seen several speakers where there was a light bulb, in series with
the tweeter, as a power limiter

-Lasse

I once owned a Knight transistorized amp that used incandescent bulbs in the
output stage to limit current. When you had some brighteness, you had a
problem.

I remember that it was the very worst-sounding amplifier that I ever owned.

jon

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, John Perry wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)

My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

You must have to cook the bejabbers out of them - I chopped up a dill
pickle once into a stew I was concocting from leftovers ane expired stuff
in the pantry, and it was kind unnerving every time I bit into a pickle
chunk. Or maybe I didn't chop them finely enough. (more like I "cubed"
them.) My Mom [RIP] used to put weiners and sweet pickles through the meat
grinder. Simultaneously. I refused to even taste the stuff. ;-)

Thanks!
Rich

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:05 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:52 -0500, the renowned John Perry
wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
...

But who wants a cooked pickle? ;-)


My ethnic Russian daughter-in-law, just arrived from Tatarstan, made a
Russian soup, into which she chopped several dill pickles.

Wonderful stuff!

John Perry

Recipe? ;-) It's getting into soup/curry/stew weather here in the
frozen* north.

* Actually just cold nasty rain, but there was some snow earlier this
week.

Recipe? For _STEW_??!!?????

You brown some meat, throw it into a pot with some veggies, add enough
water so it doesn't boil dry, cover it, and simmer it until it starts to
smell like food. ;-)

(Then again, I used to watch Mom cook. ;-) )

Cheers!
Rich