<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have done a fair bit of electronic design in my short short life span.<div><br></div><div>Back when I was in Highschool (no jokes on my age guys ;P I didn't graduate YESTERDAY :D ) I built this robot from scratch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfWiBCFTLA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfWiBCFTLA</a></div><div><br></div><div>Still have it at my place in Sydney, and I do tend to like building things for no particular reason, also love to dabble in high voltage stuff.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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</font></span></i></font></div></span></i></font></div></span></span></i></font></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br><div><div>On 05/07/2010, at 12:24, Curtis Bayne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>LOL! I had a similar incident with an SCR the other day (been building custom power control circuits for our HVAC). Turns out reactive loads require snubber circuits. No boom but lots of pain :(<br><br>Any other electronics nerds on list?<br><br>Sent from my HTC Touch Pro<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Paul Jones <<a href="mailto:paul@pauljones.id.au">paul@pauljones.id.au</a>><br>Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 12:18 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a> <<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs<br><br>The best one I know of is a junior tech who started a job repairing high<br>power amplifiers(+2kw). One of the senior techs found a good specimen unit<br>that was beyond repair and took it apart and reversed the polarity on all<br>the filter capacitors in the power unit. He then gave it to the junior to<br>diagnose, with the instructions "BEFORE removing the case it is necessary to<br>troubleshoot as far as possible, both as a safety precaution and to save<br>time." - You can imagine what happened when the poor guy turned it on -<br>KABOOM!! Needless to say it became a lifelong safety lesson as well as a<br>funny story!<br><br><br><br><br><br>Paul.<br><br><br><br>From: <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hood<br>Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 11:32 AM<br>To: 'Jacob Gardiner'; 'Skeeve Stevens'<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds<br>through internode?<br><br><br><br>Best one we always used to do to juniors, was take them out on a phone<br>system installation or somewhere that required patching (or that we could<br>make require patching)... Then get them to "hold these two bare telephone<br>cables and be a "marker", and tell them "don't drop them or lose them no<br>matter what happens". Then the rest of the boys would head into the other<br>room and call that phone line or extension... Was a great prank. Till one of<br>the juniors packed a sad and called in Workplace Safety... Boo!<br><br><br><br>Dan<br><br><br><br>From: <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jacob Gardiner<br>Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:27 AM<br>To: Skeeve Stevens<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds<br>through internode?<br><br><br><br>I'd like to hear more of these induction ceremonies. <br><br><br><br>Any funny junior stories floating around?<br><br><br><br>JG<br><br><br><br>On 05/07/2010, at 10:21 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:<br><br><br><br>Indeed... all part of the initiation to the industry.<br><br><br><br>...Skeeve<br><br><br><br>--<br><br>Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director<br><br>eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists<br><br><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellego.net">skeeve@eintellego.net</a> / <a href="http://www.eintellego.net">www.eintellego.net</a><br><br>Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954<br><br>Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / <a href="skype://skeeve">skype://skeeve</a><br><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve">www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve</a> ; <a href="http://facebook.com/eintellego">facebook.com/eintellego</a><br><br>--<br><br>NOC, NOC, who's there?<br><br><br><br>From: <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hooper<br>Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:16 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds<br>through internode?<br><br><br><br>And part of every junior tech/network engineers training is to cop a good<br>flaming on a few mailing list.<br><br><br><br>-Dan<br><br><br><br> _____ <br><br>The contents of this email are intended only for the use of the addressee.<br>If you are not the intended addressee, the information in this email must<br>not be copied, disclosed or used. 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