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4th Jul 2020, 10:37 am | #21 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis
Are you by any chance the ex Neve chap I have had contact with by wireless?
The import thing was quite sensible. If you wanted to import stuff not being made in Aus. there was no duty to pay. (Most regs. in Aus. were logical, at least at the time...) |
4th Jul 2020, 11:38 am | #22 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis
No I don't think we've had contact before. AWA had been a significant supplier of studio audio gear, but, interestingly, only on their homeground of Australia: decent kit but seemed costly to manufacture. We managed to displace them at Kerry Packer's Channel 9 TV station.
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11th Jul 2020, 12:59 am | #27 | |
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17th Jul 2020, 6:38 pm | #28 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
Thanks Synchrodyne - you've given me a mental image of some dear old lady poking through the back of her beloved Bush set and suffering the results. Had me in fits. Mind you things like that DID happen - my Gran had a good friend whose new electric toaster was a bit 'sticky' so she used to poke down the side of the toast with a knife to loosen it up - was OK for some time as she used a bone handled knife - but one day she picked up a metal handled knife to dig the toast out. They found her the next day with the knife still clutched in her hand - poor soul.
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18th Jul 2020, 12:30 am | #29 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
I have talked about this before!! I'm 67 years old, been in the trade all my life ( although I went into mainframes and away from TV and radio very early in the piece) and I have yet to see a hot chassis radio or TV set. We didn't have TV at all while I lived at home, simply because it didn't exist. ( didn't have a telephone either) It wasn't until about 1965 or so ( I can be corrected on that) that TV came to Canberra, and living in Cooma 70 road miles away, required huge antenna systems, with associated guy wires holding up 12 mtres of 2" water pipe.
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18th Jul 2020, 2:14 am | #30 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
I had to look up "reticulation", it turns out it's a particularly Antipodean word in the context of utility networks.
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18th Jul 2020, 9:01 am | #31 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
Yes I was confused by it on a trip to Western Australia a couple of years ago when it was frequently used with reference to water irrigation systems.
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18th Jul 2020, 5:25 pm | #32 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
Indeed, "reticulation" is a term used overseas for the final distribution of any utility, most commonly electricity, but can also apply to gas or water.
The use of fixed distribution equipment is implied. I don't think that bottled gas distributed by truck counts as "reticulation" |
19th Jul 2020, 4:14 pm | #33 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
I seem to remember that 'reticle' or 'reticule' is another word for a graticule, a set (grid?) of lines in an optical instrument used for measurement. I assume it has a similar origin
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19th Jul 2020, 5:31 pm | #34 |
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Re: Half wave mains rectification and live chassis in Australia and New Zealand?.
Repetition would seem to have the same root.
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