[amsat-bb] Re: Congratulations Bob on QST plaque!!

[Greg D]

Hi Alan,

I'm not even sure about the intellectually part. Hopefully just the 
exception, but a few years ago I had to gently guide a new ham to 
realize that they should not attempt to run their 12v rig off 120v and a 
lamp dimmer turned down... Oy.

Greg KO6TH


Alan P. Biddle wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Well done on the article!
>
> I will, slightly, sympathize with QST.  In teaching license classes, and
> working with new hams, I find that for some there is truly a lack of
> appreciation of what "high voltage" can do.  I am serious when I say that
> for some if it isn't a wall plug, it isn't dangerous.  Intellectually they
> may understand, but somehow it isn't real. They are faded now, but I have
> some burn scars which make a good training aid.
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Bruninga
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 1:50 PM
> To: Robert McGwier
> Cc: amsat bb
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Congratulations Bob on QST plaque!!
>
> Thanks!
>
> The number of emails and letters I have received on that one alternative
> emergency power article has been 20 times what I have ever received before
> on any paper or article.  The interesting thing is that it took 2 years
> before QST published it.
>
> In the original draft, I had indicated all kinds of ways to use the 300 to
> 500 VDC from ones home solar system, or the 300 to 500 VDC from their
> Hybrid or EV or the 330 VDC that is inside every modern electronics system
> or power supply to power all kinds of things during a power outage.  But
> QST was concerned that publishing anything with voltages over 12 volts was
> too dangerous.
>
> I guess it is easy to forget 40 years ago when the cubscout manual had
> plans for every 8 year old to build a 2 tube radio set running on 150 VDC.
>
> ANyway, to me, this whole new system of high voltage DC that surrounds us
> and exists in EVERY modern electronics power supply is a field that is wide
> open for all kinds of new ideas about power, and without a SINGLE POUND of
> 60 Hz iron.
>
> It is still DANGEROUS, just like it was back in TUBE transmitters, but a
> resistor and capacitor across any HV switch solves the FIRE problem, and
> proper procedure solves the others.  We should not hide from these dangers,
> but learn to embrace them and use them to our advantage.  Such as reducing
> copper wire losses by a factor of 10 to 1 by simply running things (with
> univeral input supplies) directly on 330 VDC ..
>
> I ramble...
>
> See my rambling web page that begins here:  http://aprs.org/APRS-SPHEV.html
> and then goes on to alternative energy and emergency Field Day power (from
> hybrids)...
>
> Bob, WB4aPR
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Robert McGwier<rwmcgwier at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>
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