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Only an Electrician will understand this......

TheEquineFencer

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Only an Electrician will understand this...

One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro Farad decided to seek a cute little coil to let him discharge.

He picked up Millie Amp, and took her for a ride on his megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge, passed by the sine waves and stopped in a magnetic field by a flowing current.

Micro Farad, attracted by Millies characteristic curves soon had her so fully charged and excited that her resistance was at a minimum. He laid her on the ground potential, raised her frequency, and lowered her reluctance.

He pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it into her socket;
connecting them in parallel. He began short-circuiting her resistance shunt and the fully excited Millie moaned "ohm, ohm, ohm!"

With his tube operating at a maximum, and her field vibrating with his
current flow, he caused her shunt to overheat and Micro Farad was rapidly discharged and drained of every free electron.

They fluxed all night, trying various connections, sockets and even tried some circuit diagrams from a magazine. Their E-M field fluctuated in the darkness, until Micro's magnet had a soft core, and lost all of its field strength.

Afterwards, Millie tried self- induction and damaged her solenoids. With his battery fully discharged, Micro was unable to excite her field, so they reversed polarity, and blew each other's fuses until morning.
 
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Since he was capacitive his phase angle was close to +90 degrees , and Mille Amp was inductive at close to 90 degrees.
If their reactances had the same absolute value the impedance would be resistive only and could maybe lead to current overload.
Be careful of tuned circuits!

Ola
 

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If only they told this story in the EE classes before diving into the explanations..... it would have been so much more exciting......

I took a few EE classes to get my ME degree....

I actually taught the low level EE and Physics Labs for a couple of semesters....
 
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That's tame compared to some of the mnemonics we learned in Navy ET School in the early 60's.

Good Chuckle, thanks for posting.
 
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