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[thread_drift]There are a number of watches with offset dials e.g.

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This example is designed to be worn on the left wrist. These were typically military watches.

I have some watches with the crown at 9 o’clock, as opposed to the more usual 3 o’clock position, which sit better on the right wrist. [/thread_drift]
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rjb wrote:If you live near a high voltage power line you can have free lighting using fluorescent tubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQ9H9K ... SANEnglish :D


Our first house when we were married in 1967 had a National Grid pylon where a next-door house would otherwise have been. Getting back to telly, if not TV licensing, we didn't have either but the people in the other semi did and they had to turn it up loud even to get a distorted signal and by 1969 we'd moved to a detached house.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.80276 ... 312!8i6656

Never knew about free lighting
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thirdcrank wrote:Never knew about free lighting

It's not as bright as those pictures make it look, plus I'm curious about the voltage in those wires - they're pretty close to the floor and yet it looks like it's pretty high but then it is the Ukraine...

I used to live near a 120Kv pylon, I tried the glowing fluorescent thing because even back in the late 80's we knew about it and I *think* it glowed but I couldn't be 100% - as for getting electrical discharges from plants - not a chance.

It's a while since I did any high power electrical theory but I think as a rough guide you can assume the voltage gradient is linear, so 120kv at the wire, 60kv half way down etc.
This is at a very high impedance so any load at all reduces that massively.
I also don't think the glow you see from a fluorescent is due to the tube 'striking' since that requires several hundred volts at significant current. I think it's merely due to a low level excitation of the gas/coating in the tube (hence why it's so dim).

A final point, it only works for vertical tubes since you need a voltage differential from top to bottom.
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I spent a couple of hours this morning putting the TV aerial up.
Reception is fine, so it looks like I'll be asking for a TVL. :cry:
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In my job I used to test RF medical equipment using carbon filament lamps.

The output of the system was 500w at 27.12MHz +-0.2% and the electrodes placed only a few inches away from a bank of 6 carbon filament lamps. The glow of them would fall on a receiver that would indicate the output power of the medical device.

Even being that close to a 500w generator the lamps never glowed that bright.

The RF was enough though to cause unusual symptoms on unshielded equipment due to interference.
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The cheque is in the post. :wink:
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First cheque we've written since Nov 2018.
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Does anyone else on here suspect Mick is only buying a TV license to give his moaning about how crap TV is some legitimacy?
It's like those cycling whingers: "I ride a bike but"...

(Implied winky)
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Seeing as Mick has just sent his first cheque in three years or so I thought I’d see if I could find my last chequebook.

Surprisingly I found it quite easily despite the date on the last cheque being just below Christmas 1998. I suspect the remainder of the the cheques will no longer be valid.
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kwackers wrote:Does anyone else on here suspect Mick is only buying a TV license to give his moaning about how crap TV is some legitimacy?
It's like those cycling whingers: "I ride a bike but"...

(Implied winky)
No implied wink from me!
Personally, I wouldn't have bothered with anything telly-wise.
We live as a team, and if my other half would like a telly, I'll agree.

I'll give it a year ............ like the last time we had a telly and paid outright and then stopped and disconnected everything.
If you pay £160 for something, you expect £160's worth of use. I honestly think it's not worth it at all .......... but I'm agreeing to try again.



Question:
What should I watch this week that'll get me hooked?
Is there anything out there in "TV Broadcast Land" that you think I'd like to watch?
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blimey Mick world is your lobster! Howabout something local...
another local boy
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Well ................

The aerial was connected up before lunch.
The cheque for the TVL is now in the post.
The telly signal has been proved good via the £28 aerial from Argos.
It's now just after 7pm.

All we have accessed is Radio4 via the aerial. PM, then the 6pm news, then Just a Minute.
Then switched off.

She's now on FaceBook via her iPad, and I'm on here.
Doggie fast asleep, parrot burying her head in the seed pot, cats I have no idea where, and silence reigns except for the clocks ticking and the parrot nibbling.

£160?
What for? :?:

Rick Stein?
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PS:

Sorry for being cynical.
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What time is Coronation Street on?
Last time I watched it, it was on Mondays and Wednesdays at half seven for half an hour.
Are Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples still in it?
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Mick F wrote:What time is Coronation Street on?
Last time I watched it, it was on Mondays and Wednesdays at half seven for half an hour.
Are Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples still in it?


Only Connect? University Challenge? Both on tonight.
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I think this thread has become a spoof!
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