Answering your questions! This one is about questions posed concerning vacuum florescent displays, microwave ovens, and the solar system. More to come!
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15 thoughts on “Ask fran: vacuum fluorescent displays, microwave radiation, the ecliptic.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars zorvlatch says:

    How much rf does your brain radiate?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shaun Stephens says:

    Thanks Fran, I learned a few new things.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael French says:

    You are one groovy lady!! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€ I love these videos on antique display techniques!!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars islandhopperstuart says:

    Fran, a microwave oven heats because the emission frequency – 2.45GHz – is the resonant frequency of the Hydrogen bond in water, and when so excited, the water heats.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lorenzo Boyd says:

    My circa 1982 Sharp microwave oven has a 'hold' function. When setting a cook function, I proceed it with four seconds of hold, followed by the desired cook time. I then press 'start', and move a few feet away, invoking the inverse square law. (I operated radar in the Navy).

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tony turtle says:

    maybe if we put a magifying glass over solar panels we could get more energy from the solar panels ? this was a great video thanks fran !!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul Stubbs says:

    Wow, from creation to now, with a VFD thrown in.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Samantha James says:

    You rock Fran

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars qawsed yhujik says:

    Soviet tube you show at the beginning and call Russian has 0.9 v cathode heating voltage and can work with anodes voltage staring 9v, even less but brightness will be small, max anode voltage is 30v. ะ˜ะ’-11 tube

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Walter Schwede says:

    And do you have any logical explanation for this transition from cloud-like to disk-like? Nummerical simulations show it, nature shows it (spiral galaxies, solar systems). But why? And old galaxies become elliptical, so they go back to a cloud-like shape. Any comprehensible reason for that behavior? Anybody?
    And Fran: Sprich doch รถfters mal deutsch! Das machst du gut.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ะะธะบะพะปะฐะน ะœะตะปัŒะฝะธะบะพะฒ says:

    Super tehnolodgi and "CCCP"
    1980…70. Lamp indekeihon
    Big …!! big .! PRIBORS perspektiw
    taim !!
    ะฃะดะฐั‡ะธ ะธ ัƒัะฟะตั…ะพะฒ !!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul Sthormes says:

    I was at a job site Working near a cellphone tower I suddenly felt light headed and dizzy couldn't figure it out left the job site for a 1/2 hour felt better later on I went back with my emf meter It was The red zone You have to Respect microwaves. 5G is very dangerous.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bruce Millar says:

    Did you know, if you stop a microwave oven by hitting the open-door button, you get a full blast of high-power microwaves right out of the door towards you. Even though opening the door cuts the power to the oven, the power supply high voltage persists for a while and the magnetron heaters stay warm for a while also. This results in a powerful microwave emission from the open door for a second or so. Friendly advice: Never stop your microwave oven by opening the door. Allow it to stop automatically or hit the 'Stop button first; Radio Astronomers will love you for this.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mikeg1 .1 says:

    I used a ULN2803, which contains 8 Darlington transistor drivers to drive the segments.
    A VFD is one of the few vacuum tube applications left.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Markiss Boi says:

    Ask Fran bet i dont get a reply . so i wont ask anything
    hardly anyone replies to comments xd
    i wouldnt reply to all comments my typing hand gets very sore in 1/2 hr

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