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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #15 on: 18 April 2008, 01:01:33 »
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sorry i have to say who ever took it [i think kids for a gokert] is not very smart 1 as they will have no use with just the 1 plate they wil need the back,and if they can copy a plate,what about a pen?? so i say kids or very very dum adult  ;D

Not for petrol, camera only take front plate. :)
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #16 on: 18 April 2008, 11:36:26 »
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Easy....555 timer, power Mosfet and a LOPT.....


Nice one, and a camera to take pics as their hair stands on end. What do you recon 50KV ?.

Talking numbers I saw a Mondeo the other day with the reg 746KW. Wishful thinking !

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Takes me back to my childhood days of charging up capacitors on a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my little brothers to play with.
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We have just been doing this in work. opps did i say that i ment to say we always work hard with not skylarking. funny as you like though ;D ;D
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #17 on: 18 April 2008, 11:46:11 »
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We have just been doing this in work. opps did i say that i ment to say we always work hard with not skylarking. funny as you like though ;D ;D

ISTR the next step up from that was trying to make a Jacob's ladder with a big old paper in oil capacitor charged up by a line output transformer. Luckily we tried it round my mate's house and his parents kept finding digital clocks around the house that were stuck displaying 88:88 or other nonsense.  ::)

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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #18 on: 18 April 2008, 11:50:21 »
No, the next step up is a tesla coil....easily made if you have a handy supply of brake pipe  ::)

I should of course have said to use a power transistor capable of with standing 800+V and not a power Mosfet in this application..... :y
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #19 on: 18 April 2008, 13:14:13 »
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No, the next step up is a tesla coil....easily made if you have a handy supply of brake pipe  ::)
Have seen a couple of impressive demos but never got round to making one. Apparently to form the secondary you need a short length of 8" polyester Gas main (the yellow stuff you sometimes see offcuts of by the side of the road..)  ::) Ahem. So I'm told.

Brake line or microbore pipe for the primary as you say, and a neon sign transformer, some tank caps and a spark gap.

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I should of course have said to use a power transistor capable of with standing 800+V and not a power Mosfet in this application..... :y

Ahh, yes. Good old BU208..


I must admit I'm ashamed that I never thought of this:
http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.tucknott/jacobs.htm

Jacob's ladder with added hairspray!

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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #20 on: 18 April 2008, 14:11:48 »
I`ve built a couple of HVTesla coils....`not solid state though; using a surplus overhead-line tranny and homemade Caps.....however, the spark-gap causes just a 'tad' too much interference locally  :-[ so can only run`once in a blue moon....`heaps of fun though! ;)

An enjoyable hour may be had browsing here:
http://www.kronjaeger.com/hv/
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #21 on: 18 April 2008, 14:42:31 »
When you say "overhead line transformer" you don't mean what I think you mean, do you?  :o

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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #22 on: 18 April 2008, 14:50:52 »
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When you say "overhead line transformer" you don't mean what I think you mean, do you?  :o

Kevin

 ;) If you mean steel-cased/oil-filled, 46Kv./230v and [size=8](ahem!)[/size] 'surplus to local utility-requirements'....then yes!
One has to be VERY careful of course!  ;D
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #23 on: 18 April 2008, 14:56:23 »
Makes my suggestion of a neon sign transformer look a bit inadequate. :-[

You must be able to run one serious tesla coil from one of those.  :o

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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #24 on: 18 April 2008, 14:58:51 »
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When you say "overhead line transformer" you don't mean what I think you mean, do you?  :o

Kevin

 ;) If you mean steel-cased/oil-filled, 46Kv./230v and [size=8](ahem!)[/size] 'surplus to local utility-requirements'....then yes!
One has to be VERY careful of course!  ;D


Blimey, you have your own pole pig!

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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #25 on: 18 April 2008, 15:34:33 »
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Makes my suggestion of a neon sign transformer look a bit inadequate. :-[

You must be able to run one serious tesla coil from one of those.  :o

Kevin

[size=14]Oh Yes![/size]  ::) .....`streamers up to 3-4 ft.!  :y

`though I must confess to frightening myself with it at times....`ripping the air apart makes a heck of a lot of noise.  :o

I`d play with it more, but the interference issue is problematic....I try to run it for the local-village show in August; `pleases the crowds!  ;D
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #26 on: 18 April 2008, 20:42:00 »
I once worked with a chap who's trick was to hold on to a plug lead of a running engine then touch whoever walked past him on the back of the leg, he said he found the resultant scream and leap very gratifying.
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #27 on: 18 April 2008, 21:11:28 »
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Just discovered the front number plate is missing from my Wife's Corsa. There is no sign of broken plastic bolts, so it looks like some lowlife has unscrewed it.  How do we stop this trash ?

Ken

actually.... are you sure she didnt just prang it and lose the number plate??? ;D
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #28 on: 18 April 2008, 21:57:12 »
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When you say "overhead line transformer" you don't mean what I think you mean, do you?  :o

Kevin

 ;) If you mean steel-cased/oil-filled, 46Kv./230v and [size=8](ahem!)[/size] 'surplus to local utility-requirements'....then yes!
One has to be VERY careful of course!  ;D

Sounds like a very effective electric counter measures device.....the resulting RF must send receivers within a few miles pretty wappy!
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Re: Some B*****D has knicked my Wife's number plate
« Reply #29 on: 18 April 2008, 21:59:28 »
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Easy....555 timer, power Mosfet and a LOPT.....


Nice one, and a camera to take pics as their hair stands on end. What do you recon 50KV ?.

Talking numbers I saw a Mondeo the other day with the reg 746KW. Wishful thinking !

Ken

 ;D

Takes me back to my childhood days of charging up capacitors on a 500 volt Megger and then giving them to my little brothers to play with.
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Kevin

;D
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