LDS-THE STATUE

LDS-THE STATUEFluorescent light (LDS) are widely used today in various industries and in everyday life. Unfortunately, the durability of LDS is extremely low. Their weak spot — helix required for the ignition of the phosphor inside the lamp at the time of inclusion. Two of them — from both ends of the lamp, and if even one of them burn out, to include LDS with the standard circuit (containing inductor, capacitor and starter) is impossible. In such a situation it is necessary to change the blown bulb with a new one. Therefore, where there are a large number of lamps (for example, in manufacturing plants, apartment buildings, stairwells and other similar cases), during the years of operation goes down and accumulates a lot of LDS with blown spirals.

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PAN… WITH BLUE SCREEN

PAN... WITH BLUE SCREENIn the design of devices and equipment before the radio often question about their design: sometimes they place boards and panels of their devices in boxes that slides, fishing gear and other containers. Ham D. Plewinski offers as buildings to use more modern products — cases videokasset: they have a low cost; plastic from which they are made, can be easily processed.

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SECRET BLACK HANDLES

THE SECRET OF THE BLACK PENRevision of power supply EPS-35. Every radio Amateur, equipping a workplace, in its own way solves the problem of providing it with power supply (SP). Some prefer powerful UI with an output current 10 and 20 a, And someone is satisfied with a simple and low-current (up to 2). The taste and color, as they say, no friends. From my point of view, home laboratories should have a SP with output current not less than 5 and the overload protection on the output.

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AUTOMATIC “WAH”

AUTOMATIC Playing the electric guitar that uses the effect of “wah”, artist often have to press a pedal of a special electronic device. This often distracts the attention of the guitarist. In the console, the description of which we offer today, control the “wah” is made automatically from the signal of an electric guitar — like playing solos and chords. The device can be used with the pedal “wah”, in which alteration of the timbre is a variable resistor.

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ELECTRIC LOCKS

ELECTRIC LOCKSUsually they work, if it is correct to type the code on the keypad. Electric locks, which are placed in this article, operate on a different principle. The key for them is a small socket with the pins, for example, finger lamp. Socket is the base — it installed schema key. When enabled, a lock is triggered. And, as we have commotional lead wires, to reveal the secret of the castle will not succeed.

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PROBE-HARVESTER

TEST-COMBINEI work as an electrician. This profession is serious, requires not only deep knowledge in this field, but also special care with electricity trifled with. I have to work in different conditions—indoors, and outdoors in any weather. Here without nice and friendly equipment assistants can not do. So I try to keep up with the technology of today, follow the latest developments in the technical literature, including in popular science. Do not bypass the attention and homemade. I learned a lot of useful information from publications in the magazines “modelist-Konstruktor”, “Radio”, etc. One of my first homemade probe, the design of which was published in the “Modeller-designer” № 5 for the year 1990.

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