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It's an interesting idea but probably beyond my modest capabilities. Sounds like a job for Alan! I have to admit, I'm not totally convinced about the long, narrow bowl idea. I will need to do some experiments. My Ehle 250mL arrived last week :brow: so I'm finally starting to see the benefits...

Here's some info on how to make your own screens. I've got a big sheet of stainless steel mesh so I just cut it into approximately 20mm squares. If you've already got circular screens, you can use those instead. Either way you will need to trim off the excess with some sturdy scissors. Or you...

I'm only 3km from Albert Park so I could hear the engines screaming around today. Weather became rainy yesterday which must have annoyed a lot of people. Back in the "good old days" I used to ride my motorcycle around parts of that track :brow: I'm using an 18 Ohm resistor for the hotter...

I love that pod too, OTA. It is one of my favourites and I was very reluctant to part with it! Wet and snowy over there eh? We've been having a heat wave here. It reached 37C today and it's still 32C at night as I type this. It has been really hot in this apartment and the aircon is broken...

Noted ;)

While it's true that there aren't any super-hot parts actually in contact with the wood, in my experiments I found that the heat from the heating element is so intense, it is able to char wood through radiant energy alone. There is a certain zone around the heating element within which wood will...

Very neat job :tup:

There is a post in another thread where I show the internals of the pod. I experimented with the distance that the chamber's inner wall needed to be from the centre tube to prevent charring. Although I've tested the pods at higher voltages for several days at a time, I can't honestly say what...

Oh no, not another shitty cable...

Don't get me wrong Stu. My attitude may seem indifferent but it is just one point of view in the context of this particular discussion. I do believe in protecting the environment and have been involved in forest activism in the past, for example. I also support the work of organisations such as...

I should have qualified that statement instead of relying on anyone to do their own research. While there is no doubt about the interconnectedness of things, it is false to think that any of these systems are stable or in any kind of equilibrium. Our entire lifetime is only like the briefest...

Haha yes I know the feeling :ko:

Did you measure that without any load? If so then that is what you can expect from an unregulated supply. Mine showed a similar reading, as I mentioned in the last sentence of the first paragraph in my post above. I was shocked when I first discovered it but I asked a friend who is an...

I've had a bit of a slowdown here lately, so no I haven't put the glass order in yet :uhoh: They will be coming though, "trust me!". On a few of the pods the top hole was slightly smaller than the rest for some reason. I need to discuss this with my woodturner as I would like to improve...

There is a BBC documentary that debunks the idea of the ecosystem. I don't know if it's on youtube but you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)

I think nature would rebalance itself. It has undergone far more drastic events than losing a few species, and species are going extinct all the time. Also, amongst sharks, crocs, etc there are many species that are not man eating, and I don't advocate killing those. This is correct...

I'm not a vegetarian, but I am sympathetic to vegetarianism for its non-violence philosophy. Animals deserve respect and should be treated humanely. Also as Harry Vapes mentioned, I don't think that we in the affluent west actually need meat. I think it causes more problems than it solves...

I'm very much an amateur when it comes to electronics, but this is what I know (and I could be wrong). A transformer is a lump of iron with two sets of wire wrapped around it. One set is called the primary, the other is called the secondary. The ratio of the number of turns of wire of the...

Wow :o those photos look fantastic! That was a fun session. I barely remember riding my bicycle home... Something else we figured out while I was there. Some of you beta testers might have noticed that I wrote "hand warmer" on the customs declaration. While we were playing with the pod we...

One of the things I liked about this power supply is that the control knob is quite stiff on my unit. However I've now realised that this is not by design :\ The voltage jumping around is not as bad as it seems. I've had a voltmeter hooked up to it and it only moved hundredths of a volt. If...