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Oh I've gotten shit from the FBI too! :san: Check this out! It's from Paypal@Service.com ... SERVICE.com? This crap comes from Africa all the time and the sad part is alot of people really fall for it. Read this crap! It's hilarious! -Tony

K, so it's been months since I've fixed my Xbox but I was still weary of spending money on new games. I feared it might break again. Well it's worked perfectly fine since. So I figured "what the hell, I'll buy Halo Reach" after all I've been looking forward to it's release for a while. I stop at...

Got my diode today, thanks! -Tony

Yeah I know, technically speaking they're still heatsinks. I'm just making the point that they aren't very efficient at radiating heat off into the air. Once they get saturated with heat you really just have to let them cool down. In other words they absorb heat from the diode faster that they...

Nearly all of the heatsinks I've ever seen for custom built lasers are not really heatsinks. They're heatdumps. A true heatsink will transfer it's heat to the air by means of thin fins. The best you can do is to minimize medium junctions. If the heat has to be dissipated from the diode ->...

You got my order, right Pontiac? -Tony

^Correct So CO2 tubes do need smooth DC? If figured the lasing would emulate the voltage waveform. Like if you had a square wave you'd get pulsed output. I've never really been into tube lasers much. I think I may make another Tesla Coil out of it. -Tony

Dr. Lava is out of them. If you have a new, never been used, Flexdrive I'll take it off your hands. Thanks! -Tony

K, I bought one. Thanks! -Tony

Well most flybacks have a diode built in on their output so the output is DC. It doesn't say it has to be smooth DC. From what I've read about them I think a ZVS based driver would work, but I'm not 100% sure so get a second opinion first. The inductor value can tune the ratio of output voltage...

Good question. The voltage is certainly high enough, but I don't know if the waveform is appropriate. I'm not sure what frequency those CO2 lasers use. -Tony

Are there diode still available? I'm surprised there aren't more people interested. I never thought the 445nm craze would die down. -Tony

Variacs | AllElectronics.com -Tony

I think the universe does exists because of that imbalance. I've never read about antiblack holes though. Huh, you'd think all of the antimatter would have been destroyed by now. Gravity is still a weak force, I can't comprehend how a large collection of antimatter can exist in such a large...

It depends. The most expensive part is probably the high current DC supply. That could be a couple of big batteries or you can get a variac like I have. I got that for about $150. But I use it for other stuff too. You could also cut away the secondary of a microwave transformer and rewind it...

How do you figure that? The polarity of the mass should affect only the gravitational forces, but it shouldn't affect the electromagnetic forces between them. Also black holes absorb antimatter, so either antimatter's mass is positive, which I don't see how it could be without violating E=mc^2...

Hello peeps. I made a video of my new ZVS driver. It's a neat little High Voltage project. I like it alot because it makes some pretty impressive arcs considering it's so simple to build. I don't usually make any videos but this was special. So I'm writing this in the hope that some of you...

Yeah I agree. I believe gravity only attracts, like the nuclear forces (the forces that hold protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom). Electromagnetism is a polarized force, so is can do both. Bit off topic again but, it would be neat if we could somehow create a gravitational...

Yes the Schwarzschild Radius equation can be used to determine the radius of the event horizon of black hole of a given mass. The radius of the event horizon of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is roughly 7 million miles. -Tony

LOL, well that's not the only reason we've built them. They let scientists conduct controlled collisions with particular particles. They have the biggest detectors in the world focused on an atomic scale area. The likelihood that a particle-antiparticle pair would appear right where they're...