The most power Sears has seen all week:

 

 

In my case, the supercharger whine.

 

Something for sixshooter to appreciate.

 

Gotta admire proper rigging.

Pic unrelated.

 

At that point, you're no longer strapping the tractor to the trailer; but rather, you're strapping the trailer to the tractor.

 

 

This is fairly long but an interesting watch:

 

Mark Rober is a genius. He's been around for years making fantastic videos. Always great content from that channel.

 

Reminds me a bit of the videogame "Portal 2"

 

I'm thinking more mirrors edge.



Happy memorial day everyone. Thank you veterans.

 

 

Lets get that 3 count.

 

 

It lives!



Despite all the drama this machine has caused over the years, it fired up from a dead-cold shutdown on the first attempt, with zero major faults.

I'll admit that I laughed like an idiot, then patted the cabinets on the front and told it "good girl."

Ran it into the test load for a few hours while I let it warm up and re-calibrate, then switched it to the antenna around 3:30pm.

Internet connectivity is still down, so we're shooting a signal across the river from Hancock with a little Ubiquiti airfiber pair.

 

Joe, I will admit that the pic above reminds me of a science fiction story I read about the challenges of interstellar travel... the premise was that mammals average 80% water by volume, and the fuel cost in moving that much mass across the galaxy was prohibitive, so science had found a way to dehydrate living creatures. The thought being that a suitable planet would with it's plentiful water supply could be used to rehydrate everything to start the new colony. Above is exactly what I envisioned the trays would look like... there should be some much larger ones off to the right for elephants and whales and such.

 

Messing around with squirrels.

https://www.facebook.com/MarkRoberYouTube/videos/727828361391817/

 

^^ "What is ten, Alex".



Semi- related:



^^ "What is two, Alex"

 

Each tray is about 3 feet deep, and contains a stack of six amplifiers feeding into a small combiner. 16 trays per cabinet feed into an intermediate combiner at the back of the cabinet, and then the three cabinets feed into the final combiner (which is quite large and sits on the floor behind the transmitter.)

I can't find a photo of a module from this exact series, but here's one from the VHF version of the transmitter:



Not much to look at with the lid on.

Under the lid there is lots of heavy wizardry. Coils galore, including things that are electrically a coil yet aren't shaped anything like a coil. And capacitors that don't look anything like a capacitor. Imagine two thin U-shaped aluminum bars next to each other. That's a capacitor. Initial factory-turning of them involves tapping the bars with a small hammer to change their shape.


Not a great shot, but you can see the upper half of the main combiner at the left. To its right is the bandpass filter.



And then after the filter is the antenna switch:

 

True story, this happened a few miles from my house. I was coming home from picking up the kid at daycare, saw traffic from the overpassed and looked to see this. Apparently a tire was going down (or gone) and caused it to start to wag and the driver couldn't save it.