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Jigenjuke:
--- Quote from: XNIF on August 15, 2010, 05:29:46 am ---
--- Quote from: bkenobi on August 14, 2010, 12:16:42 am ---I'm not an EE, but I asked one about lightning protection a few years back. He basically said that there is no circuit that activates fast enough to stop the lightening current from getting through before it shuts off. Even the best protection circuits will allow some of the power through before the kick off. Considering that a lightening strike is millions of amps, even if a fraction got through, everything that's plugged in at the time and is struck will be AFU.
The only protection from lightening strikes is not having the equipment plugged in at the time a lightening strike hits. :dunno
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Actually it is more accurate to say that a lightning strike is millions of VOLTS and about 50,000 to 100,000 amps. But hey maybe he need a 1.21 gigawatt strike to power this contraption. I have to say it's better that than trying to get it up to 88 MPH. Heh heh.
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drventure:
@Bender
--- Quote ---Why not protect your whole house by installing one of these in your main panel.
Whole House Surge Prot
if anyone can verify that that thing would work against a lightning strike I'm getting one!
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Sorry I missed that comment, bender. Actually, I +had+ a whole house surge suppressor installed when I got hit. Damn thing didn't do squat. I called the electrician and complained pretty bitterly. He did stand up, though, came out, told me that they'd stopped installing that particular model in favor of a different make that works differently (according to him).
No idea if it'll work better or not. Also, no idea whether the suppressor prevented damage to other equipment that "could have been" had it not been installed.
Personally, i think you're better off with one that without, but I'm still not 100% convinced.
@Jigenjuke
--- Quote ---Actually it is more accurate to say that a lightning strike is millions of VOLTS and about 50,000 to 100,000 amps. But hey maybe he need a 1.21 gigawatt strike to power this contraption. I have to say it's better that than trying to get it up to 88 MPH. Heh heh.
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Not sure who's quote that is but it's pretty damn funny. Early on in this thread, i talked about wanting to put a Jacob's Ladder in it, till I discovered those things can actually kill you if they're powerful enough to be big and visible.
I decided against it :)
gryhnd:
--- Quote from: drventure on September 09, 2010, 08:55:09 pm ---Not sure who's quote that is but it's pretty damn funny. Early on in this thread, i talked about wanting to put a Jacob's Ladder in it, till I discovered those things can actually kill you if they're powerful enough to be big and visible.
I decided against it :)
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Ond:
Good use of 'sickie' days :) , great to see this coming back online :cheers: The lightening strike is now a part of the cabs history, maybe I should re-do the vid, it does after all have the Jacobs ladder effect at the end ;)
drventure:
Well, the Arqadium is back online, so it's actually been getting some play, and not much work :-[
Still, I've done a few little things.
First, almost all the lighting is up.
The CP and most of the accent lights are operational. Still need to get power to some of the el wire, but, here's a vid showing the Arqadium running Animation #7 from LEDblinky's default arsenal of animations (no time yet to build up a custom one).
You can't really get a good look at them, but each button has a light wired to it embedded beside it in the CP that will light up when that button is active in a game. Still working through getting LED Blinky setup for all that.
I also realized that with all the power bricks in the CP, and given the fact that it is TOTALLY closed up, could lead to some heat problems.
So, I pulled out an adjustable circle cutter I picked up ages ago, but never had had a chance to use, and gave it a workout.
Worked great!
And from beneath....
There's one fan, an intake port, and exhaust port. They're underneath, so nobody will ever see them, but I found some gold colored fan guards and just used brass screws for everything. The fan's not adjustable, but I can pick up any ol case fan with a speed adjuster to take care of that later.
One bonus, I suppose, is that you can actually feel the air blowing out from beneath the sticks and trackballs. In the long run, i'm not sure that's a good thing (what with dust and all), but it feels nice while you're playing.
Now I've got to get Visual Pinball and FuturePin reset and operational.
Then, I can test those nudge switches!
@ond
Too true, a lightning strike vid could be very cool.
I also need to work up a good sound set. The sounds that come with mala are ok, but don't quite fit the theme :)
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