Recent content by Draco_Americanus

fenix-store
  1. Draco_Americanus

    making a 12 volt ballast

    I have i hope is a basic question about the schematic diagram of some transformers? does the dot on the primary and secondary denote pin 1 for that coil. also if the primary was wound counter clock wise would the secondary need to be wound the same way? I wound a 400 turn secondary and cant...
  2. Draco_Americanus

    Kl4 had on an L4

    Wow , that makes me wish i had access to a machine shop, once i lost the L4 i switched to an L2 and that poor thing has been though hell and keeps on going, back when the L4 came out and i bought one my coworkers at the time made fun of me because the cost of it, until the cascade power fail we...
  3. Draco_Americanus

    Kl4 had on an L4

    Hello I just kinda got blown off by sure fire, i have an older L4 from about 8 years ago and lost it for about 5, my couch apparently ate it, but it has something rattling around in the kl4 head and sure fire wont touch it unless the battery life tanks or i have beam quality problems, i have not...
  4. Draco_Americanus

    PC dignostic tools?

    After last nights teardown and cleaning I ran Memtest86 77 times and it all passed, so for the time being i have atlest a stable system till I bump it, thanks for the help
  5. Draco_Americanus

    I...hate...decisions...(cars) - Decision made.

    Re: I...hate...decisions...(cars) walking here is not an option too, no mass transist, no buss, and you even get heckled if you ride a peddle bike around, it's a 220 mile round trip to even the closest worthwhiled naturee park. But my view on a ford fusion? it should be placed in a fusion...
  6. Draco_Americanus

    I...hate...decisions...(cars) - Decision made.

    Re: I...hate...decisions...(cars) I hate shopping for cars, lucky my jeep was repairaible after the house fire even though it's bumper was melted to the ground, started right up though, it has 188kmiles on it now, and i still have my buick, lots of little quality problems with that car but the...
  7. Draco_Americanus

    Mouse & KB Locks Up

    This system somtimes gives me a keyboard error and sometimes the mouse locks up, did it realy bad today, I had to remove the cpu, use deoxit on it, the dimm cards and the video card, This computer was in a house fire and is slowly becoming more unstable, it took 4 washings with foaming cleaner...
  8. Draco_Americanus

    Anybody else have bad luck with usb hubs, memory card readers

    I have had flash media in general fail, one place i worked at had intermentent problems as well, so one must allways back up data on diffrent forms of memory , i have recently been having a lot of copy failers for dvds, i belive it may be my computer, thats for another topic though :(
  9. Draco_Americanus

    PC dignostic tools?

    As most if you guys know my main computers where smoke and water damaged, I was wondering if there is any software tools to find out if i am having memmory errors or misc hardware related instablilty, When I first started with both systems they did not even post, so i am atlest lucky to have...
  10. Draco_Americanus

    List your lowest & highest power lasers..

    My lowest is a 1mw HeNe 5 20 crystalasers, one modded to 60-80mw 1 10-15mw leadlight (?) pointer 1 300mw handheld greenie (optronics i belive, the 2 c cell modle) 1 20 watt diode laser, the controller did not survive the fire as it was ontop of my diswasher, but the 40 amp powersupply and laser...
  11. Draco_Americanus

    Match ignition videos

    The main problem i find when setting things on fire with a laser is cleaning the optics after. I have a 20 watt bar laser that outputs via a fiber optic cable, forgot to clean it after one use and melted the end of the fiber cable, I still don't totaly know how to fix that as i have no way to...
  12. Draco_Americanus

    Can you ID this lamp?

    This bulb looks like a UV lamp from a machine to cure UV set glues and expoxies, defently AC and a lot of eye nasty UVC, I had all the grear to fire one of these up and indeed needed a high kv start pulse and ran on about 4 high current inductive ballasts, Since my fire I do not know where the...
  13. Draco_Americanus

    Pyromaniacs?

    this was from last year, worked very well for starting the camp fire, the cansiter was a 12oz mt dew can, This was also in northren michigan iron ore like hematite is very easy to find
  14. Draco_Americanus

    Pyromaniacs?

    I play with fire and still wet the bed at the age of 31, but i am indeed not a pyromanicac(in the criminal scence of the term) I do more then just play with fire, I build my own fireworks and rockets from scratch, I have about $3000 worth in chemicals and tooling for this hobby. Two very good...
  15. Draco_Americanus

    bedside flashlight

    Re: What flashlight do you keep on your nightstand? Humm stuff at my nightstand a surefire E2E and surefire L4 both with out batteries atm, since the fire i lost all my spare batteries, I have an L2 i floor some place and next to the night stand would creep most people out, I have a colonly of...
See more

Latest posts

Top