Every american in this forum is a traitor and accessory to fraud.

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fuckin magnets, how do they work?

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most of your AC consumer electronics contain buck/boost or other AC-AC converters. one reason is to save power, another is to reduce variations in the wall circuit voltage, which already suffer variations from the shitty line voltage off the pole transformer

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and yes i nearly failed power-signal theory, otherwise i wouldn't still be debating. i'm a life-long learner and i know i'm not always, or even usually right about some things

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we've gotten so off-subject. i'm a degreed computer & electrical engineer, but i'd have to go back for an associates to be an electrician because of the curriculum path a chose (heavy concentration on switching-theory and digital architecture design)
I want to freshen up my knowledge, fill the gaps. there are no IC's on the market that can perform a codeless DFT/FFT. I want to design an ASIC to do that, it would save so much money in any DSP application compared to going the embedded/SoC route which is what every industry seems forced to be doing.

DFT's have been done in the past using fucking flywheels/gyros, differentials, and clockwork. so I'm convinced it can be done without software

back to the matter at hand, how to send myself to Hell where I belong?
id never seen highlander until like a year ago, i avoid movies and series about the subject
but i wonder if i can decapatiate myself with a shaped charge and get out. or if i can even acquire what I need to make an effective one without spooking the the alleycats enough to pounce & send me to rot in jail until the day jails are no longer needed/attended

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my speakers pop on one of my basement workstations everytime the kitchen fridge compressor turns on, though they are on different physical circuits. there's not enough commutated duty in whatever bridge was used in the line-tap xfmr converting from the 3-phase outside, to the 30-40 or so separate 120v circuits inside, to smooth out the bumps. maybe 40 years ago it was enough.

my head-unit supply for my lab uses much better-quality caps & coils, though I probably could've just bent up a couple off-the-shelf surge protectors