Re: LEDs, drama

On Sun, 04 May 2025 12:18:12 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Fri, 02 May 2025 08:10:44 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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One of my young engineers just got the first unit of a thing he
designed. He was all cautious about bringing it up a step at a time,
so I just pulled rank and switched it on in self-trigger mode. It
works.
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https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wl51ennrq60edw9ina3za/P800-1Hz-Selft-Trigger.mp4?rlkey=ravaj03c330jjfmplylxr2k7j&dl=0
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It's an 8-channel high voltage pulse generator. We're not sure what
it's used for and the customer won't tell.

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Could be for the timing capacitors in a fusion bomb. I really wouldn't
worry about it.

I've done timing to fire implosion fission bombs, and this doesn't
look to be one of those.

Some of the things that could be really fun aren't, because the good
bits are secret.

One of my son-in-laws has a PhD in engineering mechanics and works for
a big lab that blows things up. He says it's not much fun because the
booms happen miles away and all he gets is data.