[sdiy] Nothing box

[Moho Disco]

That is the funniest thing I've read in months...

Lava


> I've got a story about this one...
> 
> I bought an EICO kit once that was this exact
> circuit. I was about 12 years old I guess. I had
> a paper route and you had to be at least 12. I 
> had already reverse engineered my first fuzz box 
> but had absolutely no idea about what I was doing 
> or how it worked. ( I was 12) It needed a 90V 
> battery! What!
> 
> There was this guy on my paper route who had
> tv and stereo stuff all stacked up on his carport
> who I knew was a air force tech that fixed stuff
> on the side. So one afternoon when he was home
> I asked if he would help...
> 
> It was fascinating....he drew out a power supply
> on paper then went searching in all sort of places
> for the parts. He built it on terminal strips mounted
> on a small piece of wood. It was the first time I
> had ever seen anybody but me solder and put
> something electronic together. He wouldn't charge
> me for it....so I skipped his house the next month
> when collection time came.
> 
> I took it home, hooked it up and watched the 
> little lights blink for about 15 minutes before the
> power supply exploded!! Well the cap anyway.
> My room filled with tiny pieces of black stuff 
> (insulation material - tar possibly) that weighed 
> nothing and gently settled on everything.
> 
> I took the remains back and he fixed it. It never
> blew up again and thats good because my mom 
> would have banned electronics from the house!
> 
> Now that I think back. The power supply he built
> was just rectified 120VAC that put out possibly 
> 160VDC and then used a 90V zener. How did 
> I survive??..;-) 
> 
> I was only about 2 months from discovering that
> it you take the output of a small tube amp and 
> plug it into a larger tube amp that it sounds great
> right up to the point that the larger amp blows up
> and speaker cones catch on fire....I never told 
> mom about that one....;-)
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> > Not S-DIY but it has _neon_ oscillators and it, err...
> > blinks :)
> > Check it out:
> > http://michaelgellis.tripod.com/nothing.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > marjan
>