[ARC5] What's a Transformer?

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

Milk is available in my area in glass bottles:)

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 07/02/2018 10:01 PM, Christopher Bowne wrote:
> Reminds me of the old joke about the city kids out in countryside seeing
> a milk box with a pile of empty bottles around it and asking if that was
> a cow’s nest.  If course today’s kids wouldn’t even make the connection
> of the glass bottles with milk!
>
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>
> On Jul 2, 2018, at 10:08, mkdorney--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> <mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
>
>> Try showing a kid a typewriter some time.  When my son saw one for the
>> first time, he asked me where the screen was.
>>
>> 73
>> Mark
>> WW2RDO
>>
>> In a message dated 7/2/2018 9:17:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> releazer at earthlink.net <mailto:releazer at earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>     I previously mentioned my salvaging a big transformer out of a
>>     AM/FM stereo receiver.  Late yesterday I was walking my dog and
>>     ran into a young guy I know, the grandson of my next door
>>     neighbor, and told him about my find.
>>
>>     The kid's  a real wiz at computers and has his own workbench in
>>     the garage with electronic parts and a soldering iron.  He is not
>>     afraid to take things apart and fix them.  But he responded by
>>     saying "What's a transformer?  What's it look like?"
>>
>>     It turns out that he had also salvaged a home video receiver
>>     system, one with a 700W max output, and got an even bigger
>>     transformer out of it but did not know what it was. Aside from the
>>     many IC's he only recognized the big electrolytic capacitors.  He
>>     brought me the remains of the device last night.
>>
>>     It never occurred to me that someone who did so much with
>>     computers would not know what a transformer was.  But inside a PC
>>     you really don't encounter them.  Power supply repair there
>>     consists of swapping out the whole thing with a known good one.  I
>>     think I'm going to have a little educational session with him.
>>
>>     Wayne
>>     WB5WSV
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