🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 09 Jun 1996 13:46:47 -0400, Troy Wollensak <bossjock@frontiernet.net>
wrote:
>In that case, when I parked my van less than 50 feet from KPLA's transmitter
>near Valley Home, as I did for five years, the 12 volt lights should have 
>burned and my battery should have charged itself up.  Didn't happen.

Not surprising since it was encased in a metal shield, your antenna was small,
and probably wasn't tuned properly.


>I have my 
>doubts about the 100 watt bulbs used in homes or the 300 watt bulbs used in
>the poultry industry.  Tell you what, I'll be near WHAM's 50,000 watt 
>transmitter later this week and I'll run some experiments.

I help install a security system at one of those u-rent places, which system
consisted of a grid of wires, with each intersection being a room.  The
computer would scan rows and columns to read the switch on each door.  The
wires were as long as 200'.  When we hooked up the wires to our drivers (power
transistors), ever transistor blew.  A new batch did the same thing.  It
finally occurred to somebody to check the lines, and they found they were
getting ~300VAC on the grid.  There was a radio station about half a mile
away.  We ended up using high-voltage drivers.

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