Detectable Ballast Interference

Aug 25, 2010 29 Replies

The reference thread, in a hydroponic grower's forum, was a banner suggesting that the EMI was detectable by drug enforcement organizations.

Ho Hum.

RL

Cops use thermal imagers, too, to spot buildings that are dissipating a lot of power. Even if the meters are boogered, I bet the power feeders get warm, too.

John

Spehro Pefhany wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Hell yes. >:) And a far more restrained chemical evolution too. Sadly I can't pun any better without belabouring the point, it's very very late here...

mpm wrote in news:36ed056e-da27-4b24-9b22- snipped-for-privacy@v41g2000yqv.googlegroups.com:

Yep, definitely the same. I have a metal halide that I use for various things, and when photographing stuff I see this as a shift in the colour and brightness of the small LCD display. Usually that gives me enough cues to when to push the button. I still take a couple of pics to be sure though.

You've blown a selenium rectifier too ? :-(

Graham

I'll bet that isn't all you've blown.

Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is enough left over to pay them.

Eeyore wrote in news:4c8493ea$0$8958$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

I think he was thinking of rectifying a bit of abberant evolution... In case you're wondering what all this means, the Truth is Out There. *big hint*

When I was in the USAF (ca. 1970), we had a pressurized power supply for one of the transmitters; it had selenium stacks, which blew, but we didn't smell it until we opened the case and let the pressure out.

It cleared the shop for about half the day. =:-O

Cheers! Rich

You bet. I used to 'blow' some things intentionally for effect.

Graham

The drugs you took did their job quite well.

Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is enough left over to pay them.

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