The Asteroid Project

This is a blogular cluster by me, Damian Marley. I am a teacher-hubby-dad-nerdburger from Melbourne, Australia. Astronomy, space, science, books, filmmaking, education and music are some of the things I bang on about. Most stuff I post is original.

Dad sent us all an email about an electronic transformer output he captured on his smart phone and converted to Flash format:

Having replaced a 240V/12V electronic transformer for a down-light, I was curious as to the output waveform. I fixed the transformer (it was a dry-joint on the printed circuit board) and connected a 12V, 21W auto globe to the output, along with my cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO).  See the attached for the output waveform.  The fuzziness is as it is: the CRO focus was set to give the sharpest trace.  It’s a bit shaky, because I used the phone camera video mode. I then converted the resulting 1.5MB MP4 video file to Flash SWF format. Setting were vertical 5V/DIV giving 20V peak or 14V RMS, horizontal 5ms/DIV or 20ms/cycle, equating to 50Hz (naturally – it would have been odd if it didn’t!)

MY DAD IS AWESOME!!! I will try and post his final product when I can get Flash working properly.

  1. sans-pants said: I think our Dads would be ace mates.
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