Hi,
Tree years old I got electrified by cutting a mains cable with a pair of scissors. Exiting experience being a little kid
. I’m still alive now 38 years later despite a few electrical shocks over the years. 🙂
Tree years old I got electrified by cutting a mains cable with a pair of scissors. Exiting experience being a little kid
. I’m still alive now 38 years later despite a few electrical shocks over the years. 🙂
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At a very young age, I want to say 5 or 6, I thought it would be wise to charge my controller for a radio controlled car by sticking the antenna in an electrical socket. I blew the breaker, made a loud bang, and burned a hole in the antenna. My mom was not very happy with me. I think that was my first electronics experience. 😉4fun said:Tree years old I got electrified by cutting a mains cable with a pair of scissors. Exiting experience being a little kid
Did the 'hey let's pull this wire from the switch dangling from the lamp because
I don't want to sleep' around the age of three to find out that 220 volt really
buzzzzesss me good and performed the 'hey mom let's make it dark in the house'
trick using a sheet and two rods of mecano which fitted perfectly in our dutch mains
sockets 😉
Can't count the times since then when 220/30 and higher gave me that
special feeling. 😀
I don't want to sleep' around the age of three to find out that 220 volt really
buzzzzesss me good and performed the 'hey mom let's make it dark in the house'
trick using a sheet and two rods of mecano which fitted perfectly in our dutch mains
sockets 😉
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Can't count the times since then when 220/30 and higher gave me that
special feeling. 😀
The first thing I did when sperm hit egg was to pipe up, "The sum of the squares of two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square of the remaining side."
(yes, yes, I know. Tell the scarecrow)
(yes, yes, I know. Tell the scarecrow)
PMA said:
Nice to know PMA ... 40 years into audio 😎
With later design icluding:
DISPRE .. discrete (all transistor based) pre-amplifier by Pavel MA
your lineup
jacco vermeulen said:
...no...the square root of 49 times 7 minus the square root of 49 plus 1. They had to slow up to think about that and I won the race.
🙂
SY said:
I always thought it was " in a right angle triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other 2 sides"
but what do I know?
I'm English, M, and just turned 56
Andy
Let me check!
Male /40 Started first set of real speakers at 13 years of age.
I had a good influence in a uncle who had decent stuff. I played in a band for 6 years and learned the brass section specializing in the french horn. Musicians are the worst people to sell sound systems to. They generally know how things actually sound. And they are not easily fooled by the mediocre stuff sold as most hi-end.
Didn't like the audio stuff I could afford so I taught myself how to build the stuff I lusted after. Sometimes I even get to make stuff for other people. I find that the most rewarding part of this hobby. To share the joy of listening to well reproduced sound is something very agreeable to most everyone. And when you hear really good sound you just can't settle for second best.
So onward and upward. 27 years of farting around and finally I think I'm learning something. I spend a great deal of time on the forum as a fly on the wall. A great many of the gentlemen who have posted here are pillars on this forum and my thanks is indeed profound in what I have been able to learn from you.
Mark
Male /40 Started first set of real speakers at 13 years of age.
I had a good influence in a uncle who had decent stuff. I played in a band for 6 years and learned the brass section specializing in the french horn. Musicians are the worst people to sell sound systems to. They generally know how things actually sound. And they are not easily fooled by the mediocre stuff sold as most hi-end.
Didn't like the audio stuff I could afford so I taught myself how to build the stuff I lusted after. Sometimes I even get to make stuff for other people. I find that the most rewarding part of this hobby. To share the joy of listening to well reproduced sound is something very agreeable to most everyone. And when you hear really good sound you just can't settle for second best.
So onward and upward. 27 years of farting around and finally I think I'm learning something. I spend a great deal of time on the forum as a fly on the wall. A great many of the gentlemen who have posted here are pillars on this forum and my thanks is indeed profound in what I have been able to learn from you.
Mark
DcibeL said:
I did something very similar. Good to hear I wasn't alone.
At 7, I tried to charge my 6v lantern battery by cutting the cord off my boombox, stripping the ends, wiring them to the battery and plugging it in. To top it off, I had several friends in my room spectating, all of whom went running downstairs screaming that my room was on fire after I plugged it in.
It was just smoke and a bubbly battery from what I recall. No actual fire.
Drama queens.
amiklos said:
😀 😀 😀
In my teens I shared a bedroom with an old bachelor uncle. Our beds were opposite each other's. He had the bad habit of not bathing regularly; he would soak his feet in a little tub of warm water every evening, just so his feet would not smell. Once, while he was drying his feet, leaning back, staring at the ceiling, I accidentally dropped a pair of live wires into the tub , while his other foot was still in it. I quickly whipped it out. Thankfully it did not touch his foot, and nothing actually happened. But this did not stop me from bursting into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, spurred on by his puzzled look!
lineup said:
rabbitz said:
More free time = all day at my decision.
True and cool 😎 rabbitz
... some few benefits gettin' old .. luckily
/yours' linie' Lineup
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