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Where there's smoke...

 
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:34 am    Post subject: Where there's smoke...

...there's a toasty DWIN transformer...

The smoke is coming from right within the Txf...



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Analog Marty



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:36 am    Post subject:

Cooking chips again Curt ?
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paw



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:50 am    Post subject:

WOW! I didn't think you could photograph the magic smoke.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:53 am    Post subject:

Yeah, but did you inhale?

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AnalogRocks
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:56 am    Post subject:

You need to shoot video of that.
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Mr. Green



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:19 am    Post subject:

I seriously hope that's not my pg+. Wink
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WTS



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:08 pm    Post subject:

Oh well just a couple of shorted windings nothing to worry about. Sad
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David_Web



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:29 pm    Post subject:

Didn't you know they run on smoke?
I mean if you let it out it would not run now would it.

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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:45 pm    Post subject:

You forgot to put the upside-down bucket over the smoke so you could capture it and put it back in

You should have known better
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Z-Photo



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:31 pm    Post subject:

I sure hope that is a "BEFORE" Picture and not an "AFTER"

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Curt Palme
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:30 pm    Post subject:

Well, it better be hallucinogenic smoke at the price that DWIN quoted me for a new transformer. Sheesh!
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:44 pm    Post subject:

Actual photographic evidence of the spirits of the transformers leaving as the tranformer dies. Cool.


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zaphod



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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Where there's smoke...

Curt Palme wrote:
...there's a toasty DWIN transformer...

The smoke is coming from right within the Txf...


so. you plug in a board. you see smoke. your impulse is to grab the camera?

yeesh. how close are you to the fire station?
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:45 pm    Post subject:

cmjohnson wrote:
Actual photographic evidence of the spirits of the transformers leaving as the tranformer dies. Cool.

OK, you win. That was hilarious.

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AnalogRocks
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:26 am    Post subject:

ecrabb wrote:
cmjohnson wrote:
Actual photographic evidence of the spirits of the transformers leaving as the tranformer dies. Cool.

OK, you win. That was hilarious.

SC


That projector aint got no soul...

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