Re[2]: melting through 2901s?

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From: Zonn <zonn@zonn.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:14:54 -0800
Subject: Re: VECTOR: melting through 2901s?

>
> Yeah, I remember in the "good ol' days" when we had eproms go bad (we're talking
> 2708 and 2716, the real "old" days), we would solder all the legs on one side
> together, and then all the legs on the other side together.
>
> We would then solder a power cord to the two sides, and then using a nice long
> extension cord we'd plug it in, and duck!
>
> The results were anything from "Three mile island meltdown" to "4th of July
> Roman Candle". We had one roman candle that lasted for a good minute! Cool!
>
> These things got REAL hot! They usually left a 1/4 inch whole in the bench,
> burning through the first layer of plywood.
>
> Children, don't try this at home!
>
> And speaking of vector related stuff, anybody ever put a CD in a microwave for
> few seconds? That's cool!
>
> -Zonn

I put a CD on the end of a 60kv stungun the other day just to see what happened.

let's face it, AOL and COMPUSERV keep the world supplied with junk cd's to wreck. :)

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Received on Wed Feb 7 20:57:05 2001