[sdiy] Electronics Funny

[groovyshaman]

I actually remember it as "MHO...MHO...MHO..." and some bit about his tube
running well into class C..

George

-ahem, and now back to our regular program..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Bissell Jr" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: "William Berzinskas" <WBERZINSKAS at nc.rr.com>;
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Electronics Funny


> Might they be this couple ?
>
> THE SEX LIFE OF THE ELECTRON
>
>                             by D.C. Current
>
>
>    One night when his charge was pretty high,
> Micro-Farad decided
> to seek a cute little coil to let him discharge.
>
>    He picked up Millie-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 a flowing current.
>
>    Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amps
> characteristic 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 in her socket
> connecting them in parallel, and began short
> circuiting her resistance
> shunt.  Fully excited, Millie-Amp mumbled, "OHM - OHM
> - OHM - OHM".
>
>    With his tube operating at a maximum and her field
> vibrating with
> his current flow, he 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 it's
> field strength.
>
>    Afterwards, Millie-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 rest of the
> night reversing
> polarity and blowing each other's fuses.
>