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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: electrical deaths Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:22:42 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <1r3qb00.1fgzoxb1tmjhzN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <1c8m1lxq3c.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:22:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="91f6c56077a3bd8c399c29b307a15535"; logging-data="1249006"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19368/RpxfJ9y32+M8e6oF5" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/my/IONx9mExdkUsnPMatcnKp64= Bytes: 2359 On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:32:01 +0100, "Carlos E.R." wrote: >On 2024-11-28 21:17, Cursitor Doom wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:33:59 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote: >> >>> I have a similar story, from a colleague who had worked at one of the >>> big accelerators in the US Argonne National Lab in the 1960s. He worked >>> in the powerhouse that provided 20,000 amps at 10 volts DC to the >>> accelerator field coils (which were water-cooled copper then), delivered >>> over a par of large copper bus-bars side by side. One day, >>> he happened to drop a big steel wrench across the buss bars. The wrench >>> evaporated with a bang, and the power system carried on. Startled but >>> unhurt, he called the accelerator control room and asked - they looked >>> and saw no indication of that momentary short. >>> >>> . >> >> This crazy English guy shorts out 50,000 Amps for a bit of fun! >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGhhdPgXG8&t=7s > >!!! Cool. I wonder is there is a market for 10,000 amp pulse generators. Sounds interesting.