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| What are your favourite electronics smells? |
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| coppercone2:
how about PCB etchants, film, and so forth? They were weird alien uncomfortable smells at first but when you realize what they do, you don't mind so much. |
| jmelson:
Texas A&M University has a copy of the smaller superconducting cyclotron from Michigan State U's National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab. It uses 3 20+ KW transmitting tubes running off about 18 KV DC. They had a fire in one of the RF amps, that stunk up the whole building for at least a day. I was on some zoom calls with their people and they were still complaining about the smell in the evening. I'm guessing some plastic insulating material got arced over and started to burn. Hope it wasn't Teflon! I don't know the actual power input to the TAMU cyclotron, but I know when MSU was running both of theirs at the same time, the DC supply was delivering 42 A at 18 KV DC! YIKES!!! That's 3/4 megawatt! Jon |
| Bud:
The smell of burned flash when i touched the anode of a keyed-in RF amplifier output tube... Cant say if was my favorite one but 40 years later i still remember it >:D |
| AlbertL:
I'll go with the classics: rosin flux smoke, and the general under-the-chassis scent of warm vintage electronics (probably a mix of wax, varnish and phenolics). Worst smell: the vomit-like odor of whatever plastic is used in cheap imported consumer electronics; think Radio Shack before they became cell-phones-only. |
| strawberry:
gasoline |
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