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Cool Stuff You've Encountered

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 3:15 pm

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Just post some of the small things you've seen that were still pretty cool.

With my old computer (which had one of those big 2000 era monitors) if I set the speaker right next to the monitor, turned on the speaker but turned the volume all the way down, I could hear one of the local radio stations in my area. Turning up the volume drowned out the radio with weak static, and if I moved the speaker away from the monitor I couldn't hear the station anymore.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:53 pm

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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:55 pm

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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:00 pm

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Definitely DeathRowKitty. I think they're actually the coolest of everything I've encountered!
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:01 pm

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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:12 pm

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this could be a good thread
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sat Aug 20, 2016 10:30 pm

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In the complete dark when I touch the metal casing of this lamp I have, if you look directly at it it flashes very dimly for a moment. Must be static electricity, I'm not sure if I should touch it with a battery to see what happens.

Even when turned off, there's a faint buzzing feeling if I run the back of my finger along it so a charge builds up there? It could just be the texture but I don't think it is.

I know enough about electricity to know I'm not at risk anyway, the cord has an adapter with an output of 15V / 300mA. I don't know if this is a fault or just poor design.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:17 am

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I once stayed in a chalet near Lake Baikal (Russia), and the lights would randomly come on even if the switches were off at the wall. We speculated that there was some non-ghosty explanation for this but I don't know enough about industrial /power gen facilities in the area to say what it was.

Re: Expe's lamp buzzing and tingling, my macbook did that while I was in Thailand but has stopped now that I'm back in Aus. Electrician husband speculates it's something to do with the earthing-or-not of the power points.
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