Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.

: Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.
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I agree with Austin, I have played with old electronics for years, but this "fun with tubes" web site is tops!! I just built the "Inexpensive Line Volt Changer" using a 120 VAC to 12 VAC xfmr. I use it to run my collection of antique radios at 110VAC.
I put the Variac back on the test bench
Chuck

:: Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.
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:I agree with Austin, I have played with old electronics for years, but this "fun with tubes" web site is tops!! I just built the "Inexpensive Line Volt Changer" using a 120 VAC to 12 VAC xfmr. I use it to run my collection of antique radios at 110VAC.
:I put the Variac back on the test bench
:Chuck
Correction: out put is 107.8 VAC. Radios work fine and it sure saves tubes! Several have the 45 audio output tubes

::: Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.
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::I agree with Austin, I have played with old electronics for years, but this "fun with tubes" web site is tops!! I just built the "Inexpensive Line Volt Changer" using a 120 VAC to 12 VAC xfmr. I use it to run my collection of antique radios at 110VAC.
::I put the Variac back on the test bench
::Chuck
:Correction: out put is 107.8 VAC. Radios work fine and it sure saves tubes! Several have the 45 audio output tubes

I think everyone should visit this site a couple of times a year (or more often) to keep his mind sharp. It boggles my mind how he can explain cmplicated things so well and in simple terms. I hated teachers who were so full of themselves that after the course, I knew less about, say calculus, than before I took it.
Lewis

:::: Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.
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:::I agree with Austin, I have played with old electronics for years, but this "fun with tubes" web site is tops!! I just built the "Inexpensive Line Volt Changer" using a 120 VAC to 12 VAC xfmr. I use it to run my collection of antique radios at 110VAC.
:::I put the Variac back on the test bench
:::Chuck
::Correction: out put is 107.8 VAC. Radios work fine and it sure saves tubes! Several have the 45 audio output tubes
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:I think everyone should visit this site a couple of times a year (or more often) to keep his mind sharp. It boggles my mind how he can explain cmplicated things so well and in simple terms. I hated teachers who were so full of themselves that after the course, I knew less about, say calculus, than before I took it.
:Lewis
: Let's ALL give Lewis a BIG hip, hip-horray & a Firm handshake for leading us beginners to an electronic school on the website. We could ALL save a LOT of money by not going to electronics school (saving thousands of dollars) & staying home & using something called the internet. BUT first we have to WANT to learn this. Otherwise we might be wasting our time. My advise is not to start on transistors. Start with the basics & work our way up. Even though tubes are very much out dated, the basics will lead us to bigger things. Normally a person starts to build a house from the bottom up. Same thing is true with corporate big-brass. Some of them were handed their job because they were married to the boss's daughter. That happened to us when a big mans son tried to run the company after returning home from lawyer's school. With-in 2 years the WHOLE company fell thru. He was handed the job of running the company by his father. He NEVER ran a business before. Next thing we all knew we were standing in the unemployment line!! To make a long story short, start with ohm's law first. Then build up as fast as you can but do it positively & solidly. As LEWIS said "how can a teacher teach if he doesn't know what they're teaching?" How can a person run a company if they NEVER ran a company? Thank LEWIS again!!!!

::::: Now I had some more time to look at the site. Is a super fantastic site for the BEGINNER (like me). The thing on the if transformer wind-it-yourself is so detailed even a young kid (7th grader could follow it). This guy is AMAZING. What did he do in the past--design sets or build them--? He, as far as I am concerned seems to be an EINSTEIN! Thanks for the nice feed-back Lewis. Much best to all of you. A little man talking in a box that was not there??!! Blew my mind when I was little! I always learned by watching or listening for a few minutes. Hands-on is the best teacher. My english teacher couldn't figure me out.I got great marks in science, math, physics & mechanical drawing but couldn't catch on to literature, grammer was not to bad, got B- to C+. Diagraming sentenses.
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::::I agree with Austin, I have played with old electronics for years, but this "fun with tubes" web site is tops!! I just built the "Inexpensive Line Volt Changer" using a 120 VAC to 12 VAC xfmr. I use it to run my collection of antique radios at 110VAC.
::::I put the Variac back on the test bench
::::Chuck
:::Correction: out put is 107.8 VAC. Radios work fine and it sure saves tubes! Several have the 45 audio output tubes
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::I think everyone should visit this site a couple of times a year (or more often) to keep his mind sharp. It boggles my mind how he can explain cmplicated things so well and in simple terms. I hated teachers who were so full of themselves that after the course, I knew less about, say calculus, than before I took it.
::Lewis
:: Let's ALL give Lewis a BIG hip, hip-horray & a Firm handshake for leading us beginners to an electronic school on the website. We could ALL save a LOT of money by not going to electronics school (saving thousands of dollars) & staying home & using something called the internet. BUT first we have to WANT to learn this. Otherwise we might be wasting our time. My advise is not to start on transistors. Start with the basics & work our way up. Even though tubes are very much out dated, the basics will lead us to bigger things. Normally a person starts to build a house from the bottom up. Same thing is true with corporate big-brass. Some of them were handed their job because they were married to the boss's daughter. That happened to us when a big mans son tried to run the company after returning home from lawyer's school. With-in 2 years the WHOLE company fell thru. He was handed the job of running the company by his father. He NEVER ran a business before. Next thing we all knew we were standing in the unemployment line!! To make a long story short, start with ohm's law first. Then build up as fast as you can but do it positively & solidly. As LEWIS said "how can a teacher teach if he doesn't know what they're teaching?" How can a person run a company if they NEVER ran a company? Thank LEWIS again!!!!
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Austin:
Another site you might like to peruse is "Bunker of Doom".....This guy seems to be a bit of a squirrel (from the name of the site) but he has receiving and transmitting tube manuals you can download and a bunch of other oddball stuff that I like to scan through occasionally.
Lewis