ELECTRONIC DISCONNECT SWITCH

Many motorists in a hurry to install in your car the so-called device to turn off the “masses” with which, without removing the terminals, the battery easily detaches from the electrical outlet. Nothing difficult here — just need to buy at the store is one of the commercially available mechanical switches and secure it in a suitable place under the hood. Is and switch the RAD-1 remote control, which will save you from having to open the hood. It is true that the control device remains under tension, and to disable the “masses” directly from salon of the car there lay a long negative cable and drill the hole in the cowl panel.

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FOR NEW YEAR EVENING

NEW YEAR EVENINGAlmost three hundred years ago Peter the great issued a decree “On the celebration of the New year,” which was ordered “by the noble and carriageways streets at the gate and houses inflict some decoration of trees and branches of pine, spruce and juniper”. This custom caught on with us and became very popular. In the forest nurseries of the country annually produces more than ten million specially grown trees. Nurture each tree on the “new” plantations, accounting for at least 10 years.

TRAFFIC PINCUSHION

Although the industry produces a wide variety of beds, making the simplest variant, shown,will take just a few seconds — you just have to insert in the hole on a spool of thread the filter from a cigarette or a piece of foam. Important feature: needles are stored together with the thread.  

HEAT AS THE FIREPLACE

WARM AS THE FIREPLACENice in the dark frosty evening to sit by the radiant heat of the heater. But it becomes more comfortable when in it, like in a real fireplace, flickering “flame” and crackling “wood”. However, the industrial designs, simulation of burning firewood slowly, and all attempts to improve the installed impeller foil give only partial improvement results.

POWERED FLASHLIGHT

POWERED BY FLASHLIGHTDuring the experiments, building various electronic projects there is often a need for a DC source of relatively high capacity. For example, the battery voltage of 4.5 V is composed of three elements of “373.” To do this, you can put them in the original container tape out cut Velocimetry (see “M-K”, 1986, № 4), bonding like candy wrappers, wrapped in heavy paper (“M-K”, 1988, № 6), or dock in a unit with paper capsules-“shirts” from the same items (“M-K”, 1989, № 11). But still to provide a sufficiently reliable contact in such cases is not always possible. That is why many are still doing the old-fashioned way — connect the elements with each other lengths of wire with rations.

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