14 Dec
2004
14 Dec
'04
7:40 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
In a few
bulbs, if the geometry is right, they will magically turn into
very low power magnetrons.
EEK! Cool! electromagnetic whistles!
I shudder to think how this effect was discovered... talk about
heisenbugs! Imagine some poor microwave receiver person trying
to find a loss of sensitivity, birdies, spurious output... and
finding out it's some goddamn FRONT PANEL LIGHT BULB!