14 Nov
2008
14 Nov
'08
11:36 p.m.
Quoth James Cameron at 2008-11-15 13:30...
What you describe reminds me of a very low frequency
RF oscillator with
an audio tone added in. I'd like to see a photograph of the wiggly
line, as I suspect it is not a simple sine wave,
Here are the photos so far, per Plutek's request:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmiffy/sets/72157609086659400/>
I might pull the rotor off completely once I've put penetrating oil on
all the rusty bits - then I'll get a close-up of the entire rotor.
I'm pretty sure that the way that the line is marked would mean that the
tone would run as a sweep between the lower and upper frequencies - and
25 times per second at that. Should be an interesting noise -
especially once it's been fed into a synth ;-)
Does it start slowly?
That I can't tell as I
haven't powered it yet. Think I might replace
the capacitor first - don't know what will happen if I energise a 40
year old capacitor, but don't want my office full of shrapnel.
Rotor spins very freely so I'd guess that it would get to full speed
quite quickly.
Cheers
M
--
Matthew Smith
Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development
Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/
Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy