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Do we really need this?
Scott A
In lugnet.robotics, David Buhl writes:
> One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to
> seek out a cute little coil to let him discharge. He picked up Milli-Amp
> and took her for a ride on his Megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone
> bridge, around the sine waves, and stopped in the magnetic field by the
> flowing current. Micro-Farad, attracted by Milli-Amp's charactaristic
> curves,
> soon had her fully charged and excited, her resistance to a minimum. He
> laid
> her on the ground potential, raised her frequency, and lowered her
> reluctance.
> He pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it into her socket,
> connecting them in parallel and began short circuiting her resistance shunt.
> Fully excited, Milli-Amp mumbled: "OHM-OHM-OHM."
> With his tube operating at a maximum and her field vibrating with
> his current flow, it caused her shunt to overheat, and Micro-Farad was
> rapidly
> discharged and drained of every electron. They Fluxed all night trying
> various connections and sockets until his magnet had a soft core and lost
> all of its field strength.
> Afterwards, Milli-Amp tried self-induction and damaged her
> solenoids. With his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to
> excite his field, so they spent the night reversing polarity and blowing
> each others fuses.
>
> -- Eddie Currents, "The Sex Life of an Electron"
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