Me when I have to work on anything remotely high voltage... ⚡💥🔥
Dad was an electrical engineer, and his stories of stuff he's seen both in and out of the Navy STILL haunts me.
Art by: @shapoco
Me when I have to work on anything remotely high voltage... ⚡💥🔥
Dad was an electrical engineer, and his stories of stuff he's seen both in and out of the Navy STILL haunts me.
Art by: @shapoco
@catsalad
One of the pioneering/mad-genius engineers who kept the “border-blaster” radio stations on the air at up to 1,000,000 watts of power (in radio terms), died when an inexperienced employee came in and changed something in their very unorthodox setup
“Who cleaned my desk?”⚡️💀
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
by Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
@AccordionBruce @catsalad I think I'd heard of this one before or something similar - some "brilliant" person separated the HV power supplies and power amplifiers of two different but identical transmitters, which allowed HV to be applied to a cabinet that was opened for service, defeating the interlocks, if the switch to cross over the output of one's PSU to the other's cabinet was used.
Thankfully I have never seen such an arrangement but if I did I'd refuse to work on it