"Ever put a thin piece of carbon like a pencil
   lead across those terminals?

Not yet ... maybe this evening! (I've got a whole
box of new wooden pencils too!)

"RF" Jim


    "Our ability to manufacture fraud has exceeded
     our  ability to detect it."

     - Al Pacino as Viktor Taransky in the movie 'Simone'*


   *Simone, it turns out, stands for:  "SIMulation ONE"





----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Moran" <bmoran@MILLENNIUM.CA>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: The joys of electronics


> > It's good to share.... :)
> > Just found a well out of date disposable camera in my "bits" bin so I
took
> > it apart.....
> > I've still got a large area of my vision that I can't see because the
> flash

 ** snip **

> >
> > Now isn't that so much more fun than just throwing it away!!!
>
> Ever put a thin piece of carbon like a pencil lead across those terminals?
> Now, I tell ya, that's even more impressive than the screwdriver.  I had a
> bit of tintinitis for a while, myself after that one.  And the flash stuck
> around on my retinas for a while too.  Strange thing is, though, that the
> flash kept working after that, and a screwdriver without much trouble.
You
> sure you didn't short something other than the cap leads?  Like short some
> other part of the circuit into the high-voltage circuit?
>
> --Brendan
>

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