Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats (5)

Soooo quiet in here....

Yeah.. I think everyone's sleeping. I'm working from home today, waiting on the garage to finish working on my car. The weather's not too bad.

Moooo

Moo all

I'm popping on from time to time - bit busy with real life but can't stay away too long at a time

I am working. Mainly copying and pasting text. Booooring.

Pete wrote in post #4456007
So much for squirl-proof....

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Engineering recommends a couple of changes to the design of this contraption.

See the two 'legs' above, attached to the lid of the container. Change the lid to a polycarbonate plastic of some kind which provides sufficient insulation value.

Then, change the legs to 4AWG bare copper. Route 3-phase, 415V AC through each leg. (note to the American imperial hegemony : 3-phase is 208V in CONUS. Rest of the world uses 415VAC. Engineering feels that 415VAC delivers superior one-shot stopping power.)


Alternatively, a battery of 1-Farad capacitors wired in parallel with each leg of the caps wired to each leg of the contraption should also provide sufficient juice for a one-shot stop.


(search for 'resistance welding' to give you an idea of what a 1F cap can do when you accidentally bridge the terminals..)

I know some guys who built their own resistance welder. Now these are the folks with cojones of STEEL. I also know some folks who accidentally bridged one of the supercapacitors with a finger. Needless to say, the finger is an inch shorter today and has remained so since the accident - the cap blew off whatever was in between the terminals......

Lightstream wrote in post #4456466
Engineering recommends a couple of changes to the design of this contraption.

See the two 'legs' above, attached to the lid of the container. Change the lid to a polycarbonate plastic of some kind which provides sufficient insulation value.

Then, change the legs to 4AWG bare copper. Route 3-phase, 415V AC through each leg. (note to the American imperial hegemony : 3-phase is 208V in CONUS. Rest of the world uses 415VAC. Engineering feels that 415VAC delivers superior one-shot stopping power.)


Alternatively, a battery of 1-Farad capacitors wired in parallel with each leg of the caps wired to each leg of the contraption should also provide sufficient juice for a one-shot stop.


(search for 'resistance welding' to give you an idea of what a 1F cap can do when you accidentally bridge the terminals..)

And place a dish under the feeder already decorated with some salad, ... When you hear a "pooooof", dinner is ready. You just have to pick up the plate and bring it to the table. It may take a few tries to optimize the cooking though

DDA wrote in post #4456506
And place a dish under the feeder already decorated with some salad, ... When you hear a "pooooof", dinner is ready. You just have to pick up the plate and bring it to the table. It may take a few tries to optimize the cooking though

mmmmmm squirrrrrlll!

Seriously, truth is stranger than fiction, warped posts, or jokes about squrrl we come up with:
http://www.backwoodsbo​und.com/zsquir.html


And there are the college kids who cook sausages by sticking a fork in each end and wiring the fork up to 120VAC. The sausage apparently cooks in less than half a minute. I lost the URL reference, but it's out there somewhere. I am not too surprised by the fact that you can do this. A rough, back of the envelope calculation of 415V at a very mild 20 amps would instantly sink 10 KILOWATTS into whatever was the circuit load.

WARNING: DO NOT EVER ATTEMPT ANY OF THESE THINGS I DESCRIBE. (these posts are really all gallows humor.) You can seriously maim or kill yourself AND those around you. You may not be too worried. I assure you, those around you won't be so happy about it.

DDA wrote in post #4456506
And place a dish under the feeder already decorated with some salad, ... When you hear a "pooooof", dinner is ready. You just have to pick up the plate and bring it to the table. It may take a few tries to optimize the cooking though

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....gotta hope that first zap is a good one...I'm not real food of having bits of fur in my entree!

Lightstream wrote in post #4456518
And there are the college kids who cook sausages by sticking a fork in each end and wiring the fork up to 120VAC. The sausage apparently cooks in less than half a minute.

Just your basic resistance heating...put the toaster element inside the sausage.

The ancient Romans used to wrap hedghogs in clay and then throw them into fires. After a while, the ball is hoofed out and broken apart. Nice cooked meat inside and all the spines are conveniently stuck in the fired clay.

Pete...you are officially tasked with wrapping all the RRTP squirrels in clay and firing them!

Woolburr wrote in post #4456589
Pete...you are officially tasked with wrapping all the RRTP squirrels in clay and firing them!

I'll leave the tails sticking out so you can turn 'em in the embers...

Pete wrote in post #4456573
The ancient Romans used to wrap hedghogs in clay and then throw them into fires. After a while, the ball is hoofed out and broken apart. Nice cooked meat inside and all the spines are conveniently stuck in the fired clay.

Girl hedgehog to guy hedgehog: "Does this mud pack look good on me?"
Guy hedgehog: "DAMMIT, it's warm in here"