Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[Bud]

When you are young and blonde, you need no stinking flux or soldering wire to repair random power supplies.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Came across this picture on Facebook of a woman working on a communications tower. I'm guessing it's a wireless ISP tower since the kinds of antennas look too diverse to be a cell tower.

If there's one good use of modern technology, it's being able to look up old friends. Or complete strangers, in this case.

[Ed.Kloonk]

When you are young and blonde, you need no stinking flux or soldering wire to repair random power supplies.

That desk lamp would be annoying.

[NiHaoMike]

Easy to tell that's most likely a model because very, very few electrical engineers paint their fingernails. So far, I have only seen 2 electrical engineers who painted their fingernails. (It's more common for software engineers.)

But then again, what model would wear pantyhose that's long overdue for replacement on a photo shoot? Maybe they're really going for the "amateur" look?

That desk lamp would be annoying.

Looks like it's for backlighting PCBs to aid in reverse engineering. Most power supply boards are 2 layers at most so such a trick is effective.

[magic]

Yes, that's the real question. Not that a woman in plain clothes and sandals, with no tools, is working on transmission equipment presumably high off the ground. I hate to think she climbed on live equipment for a rear-focused photo op.

Looks like a chimney or something like that, probably on a flat roof.
Anywhere more dangerous than that and neither the model nor the photog would bother to climb

[NiHaoMike]

Another one from Facebook, I guess she's skinny enough to get away with it.

[McBryce]

I'd assume they are cells that you can walk on, otherwise it would be almost impossible to use the boat and access certain areas.

McBryce.

[magic]

I'd assume it's just NHM again using any and every excuse to post a picture of some chick on the forum
Neither of his posts are stock nor really much of a serious fail.

Maybe he should start a "post a picture of a chick" thread. Cats and dogs already are here...

[Alti]

Check out which jacks are being used for that AC measurement...

This multimeter has unfused 10A shunt. I suppose they used a special asbestos "palm probe holder" for these pictures.

[MarkL]

I'd assume they are cells that you can walk on, otherwise it would be almost impossible to use the boat and access certain areas.

McBryce.

Right.  No fail here at all.  They're made for foot traffic as long as the mounting surface is solid.

Example:  https://solbian.solar/en/

She even has booties on her footwear to protect the surface.

[NiHaoMike]

I'd assume it's just NHM again using any and every excuse to post a picture of some chick on the forum

That's not just any random chick, that's Physics Girl.

Right.  No fail here at all.  They're made for foot traffic as long as the mounting surface is solid.

Example:  https://solbian.solar/en/

She even has booties on her footwear to protect the surface.

One of the few places where solar walkways (kind of) make sense?

[helius]

There are still a multitude of problems with practical usage. Do you think any of the world's Coast Guards will put on little booties when inspecting that ship? Do you have any idea how fast those panels will get covered in seagull droppings?

[fourfathom]

There are still a multitude of problems with practical usage. Do you think any of the world's Coast Guards will put on little booties when inspecting that ship? Do you have any idea how fast those panels will get covered in seagull droppings?

Not really. 

These flex panels are widely used on ocean-racing sailboats (not a huge market to be sure), where power generation is critical.  The deck-shoes that we wear while offshore are have very soft non-slip soles, and we don't get a lot of gravel in the shoe tread when at sea, so booties aren't needed.  My sailboat has rigid solar panels and when seagulls (or boobies) crap on them I have plenty of seawater available to wash them off (and I do).  If things are calm enough that I get salt crystals forming on the panel I use a bit of fresh water to take that off.  Actually, washing salt crystals off the running gear is a daily maintenance activity anyway.

The coast guard isn't likely to use much in the way of solar panels as they use power boats with plenty of electrical generation capacity.

[timelessbeing]

what model would wear pantyhose that's long overdue for replacement on a photo shoot?

You've never seen a punk chick?

[floobydust]

It seems building your own Tesla coil was all the rage in the 1930's, as well as getting rid of your girlfriend 

[Fungus]

Anybody have a scan of page 94?

[McBryce]

Anybody have a scan of page 94?

https://archive.org/details/modern-mechanix-1937.07

Btw: It's an Oudin Coil, not a Tesla Coil.

McBryce.

[Fungus]

Anybody have a scan of page 94?

https://archive.org/details/modern-mechanix-1937.07

Oh, damn. There goes my morning!

I love the old adverts... 

[floobydust]

Anybody have a scan of page 94?

The plans for the 1937 Modern Mechanix Tesla Coil are here: https://archive.org/details/1937-tesla-coil/mode/2up But it's called an "Oudin Coil" whatever that is.
1932 vacuum tube Tesla Coil https://archive.org/details/1932-vacuum-tube-tesla-coil
Hugo Gernsback Experiments With Tesla Coil https://archive.org/details/hugo-gernsback-experiments-with-tesla-coil/mode/2up not sure of the date.
Even back as to 1915... wow

[Cubdriver]

Anybody have a scan of page 94?

The plans for the 1937 Modern Mechanix Tesla Coil are here: https://archive.org/details/1937-tesla-coil/mode/2up But it's called an "Oudin Coil" whatever that is.
1932 vacuum tube Tesla Coil https://archive.org/details/1932-vacuum-tube-tesla-coil
Hugo Gernsback Experiments With Tesla Coil https://archive.org/details/hugo-gernsback-experiments-with-tesla-coil/mode/2up not sure of the date.
Even back as to 1915... wow

I think that 'official' Tesla coils have isolated primaries and secondaries whereas Oudin coils tie the bottom of the secondary to the bottom of the primary.  At this point I think the distinction has largely been lost and both are now usually called Tesla Coils.

-Pat

[olkipukki]

Easy to tell that's most likely a model because very, very few electrical engineers paint their fingernails. So far, I have only seen 2 electrical engineers who painted their fingernails.

Who knows may be she is inventor?!



P.S. Taken from ... p.74

https://archive.org/details/modern-mechanix-1937.07

[helius]

Maybe not new or exciting, but there's WTF in every corner here.

[xrunner]

It's all about the adsorption - get too close to the tip and it will adsorb YOU!

[helius]

As is often the case with commercial ad copy translated from Chinese, it is literally correct if idiomatically strange.
Adsorb means for something to stick onto a surface, which is what steel screws do to a magnetic screwdriver.

[Howardlong]

This bugged me. In case it's not obvious, the hot air iron's in the wrong way around in the stand.



I realise that the presenter also does unboxings of various electronics bits and bobs sent to her. Good production quality (I'd say over produced) but not much in the way of depth.