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| Authored by: squib on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 01:43 PM EDT |
<quote>Fellow students found it amusing to plug small electrolytics into
the 240VAC
mains socket then throw the switch.</quote>
I thought it amusing when two newbies were working on a power supply with a
whole farad or two and made a whoopsey by mistake. Seeing them come staggering
out of the 'cloud' with that look on the face - I just could not resist saying
“ I'm going to dock you money for that” They knew they were very expensive
capacitors and to catch them at that very moment took the wind out of their
sails competently. It gave me that chance to say “ Look Sunshine’s you might
have enough degrees to get a job here as a laboratory thermometer but you don't
just jump in and to fiddling with apparatus you don't know anything about nor
have been given permission to work on” ( I was towards the end of my tether
with them) . Despite being duly chastised, they only then went and repeated
their performance a few days latter! The chairman of the monthly departmental
meetings could hardly contain himself when he come to the their complaint they
made against me (they had apparently got dismissed by this time – and they
where not happy bunnies). He roared with laughter and said he'd had done the
very same thing, not once but several times himself. So that's the way the
cooky crumbles, if the boss does it - its `OK'- but anyone else they are
complete idiots ( I was, by then, beginning to feel a little guilty and wonted
to back peddle). Yet... Up and till then, it was a was a very awkward time
for me, because I had just started dating this chairmans daughter and I did not
know at that time which side of the fences I stood upon – So, I owe a lot to
electrolytic capacitors! On the other-hand, it might have been that this
impartial chairman took my side for other reasons? I don't know, and I don't
what to know – but the sight of those two staggering out of that 'cloud of
capacitor debris' will say in my mind for ever.
Folks – <b>Do not try this at home - really</b>. Without an audience
of a whole load of lab-technicians falling about with laughter -it won't have
the same effect. Trust me on this.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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