[Hallicrafters] Law of Smokke

[Jim Tripp]

I like the refinement Duane. With S=kPuT you get some interesting
results.  If you integrate S with respect to time you get the total
accumulated smoke emitted from t=0 to t=present.  As they say in math,
in the limit the device will be kaput and the process is irreversible.

Jim

P.S. I have encountered the onosecond several times in my life but did
not realize it had a unit assigned to it.  I will remember that in the
future.

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:35:33 -0700
From: "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Re: The Law of Smoke
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Duane,

That interval of time is called an onosecond (long o as in Oh No!). It
is also defined as 
the interval of time between flipping a switch or pushing a button and
the realization that 
it was an irreversibly bad move.

As for The Law of Smoke, I've also done some work in this area. I
submit for peer review 
the following "refinement" on Jim's law:

The Law of Smoke:  S = kPuT

Where:
S = smoke expressed in cubic feet per minute
P = power dissipated in watts
T = time since the component was installed, in seconds
k = the coefficient of the medium involved in cfm/watt-seconds
u = the unobtanium coefficient

As we can see, the more difficult it is to obtain a replacement the
more smoke.

I am working on a Law of Tears (also know as the Smoke Gets in your
Eyes Law) that 
states:

Te = Ti(S^2)

Where:
Te = tears in grams
Ti = time smoke is produced in seconds
S = smoke expressed in cubic feet per minute

More work is needed in this area.

PHASER = Peripheral Heat Absorption from Smoke Emission in Radio

Sorry - I just couldn't stop myself...
73 Ken kb7rgg