my neighbor keeps threatening to call the cops whenever i play with HV, i used to just poke fun at it but now i'm not sure if its legal in colorado or not and i can't find anything on the web about it. so does anybody here know about that? maybe lti since he/she lives in colorado to?
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Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
"Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me
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You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.
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Re: is playing with high voltage illegal
cooking dead MOBO'S with MOT'S, ladder to heaven, tesla coils, etc. yah that neighbor is a PITA
Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
"Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me
Excuse me while i do something dangerous
You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.
Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore
Follow the white rabbit.Comment
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If you are causing interferance with his equipment them yes it is ilegal.Comment
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well don't do it in PUBLIC. But, well, if hes annoying you make a 'spark gap transmitter'. that thing puts shit out on every frequency. If you're not doing it in public, no proof. If the guy has no cable and uses an antenna it could mess his reception upCap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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Before the days of cable, the neighbor boy across the street got a go kart. He was an only child and spoiled rotten. That's why I never hung out with him. He would drive that thing around for hours after school until dark. Every day. It ruined all tv and radio reception for the whole neighborhood. Neither him nor his parents cared. Bad neighbor.sigpicThe Sky Is Falling
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Spark plugs = spark gap transmitter?PeteS in CA
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Right on the nose.sigpicThe Sky Is FallingComment
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That would hurt!
PeteS in CA
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long antenna wire with an exposed area, one to hv, other from the ground, tie them up high in the house, and touch the two exposed areas. Big high voltage interference antennaCap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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It was kind of sad watching him and his friend from down the road. They both joined the Army on the buddy system right after high school. He had some kind of a psychotic break and was kept for almost a year for treatment and then discharged. His buddy just messed up until he got kicked out. Last I heard in the mid eighties they were both doing a five year stretch for residential burglary. First offense and all.sigpicThe Sky Is FallingComment
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yay for digital allot more immune to interference here as long as i don't hook into the house wiring there are no limit to what i am allowed to do. apart from noise, smoke,fire,interference.My pc
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Laws are only there to be broken!
LOL!
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Laws & safety regulations are not the same.
Even when you are about to perform an experiment many precautions have to be taken.
Smart guy is the one who is capable to use experiments as one form of training, cheap laughs and pranks with electricity is a plain sigh of stupidity.
Basically no one gives a shit if you will live or die from the people who are watching the show, only your family members will drop tears for your loss.
Also the most stupid and unrealistic thought is the one which some people think that such extreme experiments with Tesla coils is an act of bravery.
I am an professional electrician which haves come close to huge electrical sources, I am always thinking before I do even the smallest move, that's how I am staying alive its day.Last edited by Kiriakos GR; 06-07-2013, 05:56 PM.Comment
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Not exactly - I once got the bright idea to get "free" electricity via making a giant inductor from some heavy surplus copper cable and a 55 gallon drum
I buried it near some high voltage transmission lines next to my house, and I got my free electricity!!
until the power company figured out where their line loss was!
lucky I did not go to jail on that one - lol
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What Kiriakos said! High voltage is not something to play with! I work with 1KV-10KV P/Ss these days, not super high energy, but definitely very unpleasant if you get "bit" (I've gotten 1.2KV once, 1.6KV once and 4KV once, in a little over 4 years - BTDTGTTS).PeteS in CA
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I've been bit by enough flybacks to know that I use caution when around HV.....and thats pretty mild/low current compared to a lot of other sources of HV... Be careful....but illegal? Not unless you're causing some kind of disturbance or interference with it.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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