[Amps] Decline of homebrewing?

[Kevin]

My initiation was with a 900V AC lab supply in high school electronics 
class. Somehow I managed to get a finger across both binding posts. 
Knocked me on my butt.

A universal law is if the action is proceeded by "Hey!...Watch this!" 
something stupid is about to happen. Like tossing an unfolded paper clip 
at the 120V outlet in the bench back splash. Yep, first try, paper clip 
exploded and blew the breakers.

That class was a lot of fun. The teacher was a ham and had a Swan 700CX 
and Collins 75A4 in the school club ham shack.


On 1/7/2017 3:30 PM, Manfred Mornhinweg wrote:
> Steve, and all,
>
>> I was nearly killed at age 15.
>
> This seems to be a pretty universal initiation rite for homebrewers. I 
> used to be very careful and cautious even when a youngster, but still 
> couldn't avoid my own initiation. It happened when at age 16 or 17 
> somehow I managed to have a close encounter with the plate circuit of 
> an amplifier than ran 2.8kV. It didn't knock me back, instead it made 
> me cling to that circuitry with full force. I couldn't let loose, 
> neither could I speak or scream or anything. My lil' brother, 6 years 
> younger then I was, somehow realized that my strange antics weren't 
> entirely normal, ran to the house's electrical panel and threw the 
> main switch.
>
> I think he later regretted that. Big brothers aren't always nice.
>
> Manfred
>
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