Recent content by olebuckeye

You are 100% correct ve7lyd. In my youth I worked at a gas station. Sometimes if the lighter "kick out mechanics" (my term) failed to work then it would simply burn out and I would sell another for $2. Pretty high when gas was 33 cents a gallon. Then again the electrial designers may have...

Yes Adder Noir, I think you've got it. Base voltage decides emitter to collector current. You do not want very much base current, only a voltage. The base potential acts like a variable barrier to the emitter to collector current. I like to think of it in plumbing terms in that the base is like...

I wasn't trying to be funny but you posted it as an electrical problem and I thought that maybe the math was leading you to think that a electrical solution would find the answer. This is an electrical forum and you will receive electrical answers. With an infinite power souce and infinite...

If you have a infinitely strong battery and a n number of lamps then I still don't fathom the question other than my first response to your post. The battery could be made of half of the material in the universe and the lamps made out of the other half. Then the brightness of the lamps would...

Since I have to take my shoes off to count over ten then this is out of my experience in regards to math. But by looking at your drawing then it looks like you have two circuits in series and one in parallel. Since lamps are a resistive load then this changes the properties of the circuit.

Being from the old school I am having a bit of trouble trying to decide what you are describing, must be new math. But from what I can glean from your post then I would say that the answer would be close to infinity. You have not given the battery capacity, lamp watts, etc.

I have an idea that your car battery is capable of producing a heck of a lot more than 45A. When you first turn the key on it is probably producing thousands of amps for less than a second. The first thing you have to do is create a magnetic field in the starter. To electrial engineers this is...

I fail to see your point unless you are trying to extract free energy. If you try and harness the exhaust fan power with a pipe you will obstruct the discharge air flow of the fan and decrease the efficiency of said fan. If the fan is discharging too much air then the thing to do is change the...

Being a non-engineer but a tech I would borrow or buy a non-contact thermometer. The area of detection is small but there is a focal point that the literature describes.

Tried it with the bridge rectifier and cap but still no go for developed DC. I put a 12V lamp in series with the speaker coil to see how bright the bulb glowed when the annunciator was on and it did not even glow. I have never worked with audio but thought that the bulb should at least glow a...

Back in the day at some the finer gin joints there would be a brandy sniffer glass with dyed paraffin and wick that was kept lit. Sure was handy for the cigarette or cigar and added an ambiance in the darkened room. The owner would simply heat and make a new one when necessary.

If you are writing about an induction motor then the slip is the difference between the stator and rotor magnetic field. The larger the slip the greater the current pull from the line. When the motor is working there is always slip and if the load is too great for the motor the slip causes a...

Would a general purpose diode work? What size and type of capacator? I have been out of electronics for decades and am strictly electro/mechanical now. I tried using a general purpose bridge rectifier in parallel with the speaker coil to try and extract a DC but was unable to detect any DC...

The location is in a electrical shop in a large bakery. There is a potential for a safety function but I only want to block the tone at one speaker in the shop. There is almost constant usage of the PA calling for ingredients and such so the this tone is going on quite often. I do not want to...

This is my first post and I joined this forum to elicit some help with a aggravating situation. There is a public address speaker in the shop. It has a 1000HZ annunciator signal that lasts for app. one second before the human speech announcement. This frequency must be designed to be the most...