The safety warning about CRTs is no joke. My dad used to work appliance repair in the 80s. These guys were all well trained in that shop. They had a shelf of tvs with dates on them. No tv was to even be looked at until at least 3 days from dropoff, then they discharged the capacitors. They hated the tvs most, because they ran test after test before plugging them back in. I miss the free crap Dad would drag in due to missed payments or abandoned electronics. We had a 24 in industrial microwave that I miss to this day. I could be lazy and microwave anything in that damn thing, regardless of metal content, and could defrost a small turkey.
What do you mean about the metal content in the microwave? Does the larger chamber make it somehow immune to arcing?
I was a kid, so don’t remember everything as my Dad explained it, but it used a more powerful magnetron with a pulse system and used a fan to blow the heat. It also cooked hot pockets without leaving the outside cold and lava inside. Moreso than that, I don’t remember as it was a tech geek dad talking to a 12yr old teenager that only cared to listen to the first half. I was a shit, and I regret ignoring the trove of knowledge that man had.
Also, most microwaves won’t do much with silverware as is, this just kinda went a level higher. It was from a restaurant that never paid up, and the shop always sold the leftovers for cost of parts to make up the difference. Our vcrs, vacuums, audio receivers, and other things came from that shop (also scratch and dent from some store I can’t remember the name of, it had a weird shopping procedure. They had display items and cards, and at checkout you handed the cards over and the items were brought down a conveyor belt from the storehouse in the attic. The broken things were sold cheaply in a room in the back)
Edit: looked it up, the name of the store was Service Merchandise
Probably a “strong enough to still heat stuff in a metal bowl” thing.
Taps on top “this bad boy can kill so many Wi-Fi networks”
And then they invented the colour wheel. And the DMD with lots of tiny mirrors. And afterwards they used LEDs and laser diodes…
So they used to be ridiculously cool, but they’re still ridiculously cool too.
RGB flashing sequentially is the wooooooorst. Most people can’t see it but holy shit i can and it’s like random colored strobes flashing everywhere. Bleh
Yes, I could tell if dlp, whenever my eyes moved.
They fixed the issue by increasing the color changing frequency in led beamers.:)
I still see it in even the most modern projectors, but I’m also able to see the flicker in phones that use pwm dimming which only a very small percent of people can see, so sucks to be me. My eyes seem to work at a much higher image capture rate than most people, which has no apparent benefits, only problems
Useless superpowers… :) CRTs must have been fun.
Interestingly enough crts didn’t seem to cause a problem, my guess is because the pixel phosphors don’t actually flash off, they fade out. But that’s just a guess
Interesting.
It was hard for me to tolerate the 50hz flickering. Especially in peripheral vision. Same with fluorescent tubes. Good times (not).
Oh yeah fluorescent tubes are a awful. They’re not white, they’re sequentially yellow blue yellow blue yellow blue
I used to have one of these. Traded an electric guitar for it, then never set it up, while it sat like a beast in my basement taunting me. As cool as it was, I should’ve never traded that guitar. :(
I remember Center Parcs having one of those things. Lots of fun for overexcited 10 years olds.
