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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Antigravity Project | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Board Assembly Steps | |
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| Testing Steps | |
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| Notes | |
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| Tethering Setup | |
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| Lifter Troubleshooting Guide | |
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| The Lifter Is Not Moving, and I Don't Hear a Hissing Noise | |
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| The Lifter Is Not Moving, and the High-Voltage Supply Seems Completely Dead | |
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| The Lifter Is Not Moving, and I Do Hear a Hissing Noise | |
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| The Lifter Is Moving a Little but Is Not Taking Off | |
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| The Lifter Is Moving but Has a Lot of Electrical Arcing | |
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| The Lifter Is Lifting Off, but When Arcing Occurs It Suddenly Drops or Loses Height | |
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| The Lifter Is Lifting off and "Bouncing" the Tether, but Thrust Is Not Stable | |
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| Arcing Is Occurring Between the Ground Wire and the HV Wire | |
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| The Lifter Lifts Off and Immediately Shorts the HV and Ground Wires | |
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| The Lifter Lifts Off and Immediately Pulls to One Side | |
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| The Corona Wire Flutters During Liftoff and Causes Thrust Problems | |
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| The Foil Skirt Flutters During Liftoff and Causes Thrust Problems | |
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| The Lifter Hisses but Just Will Not Lift Off | |
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| Author's Note: General Troubleshooting Guidelines | |
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| Low-Power Electrokinetic Gun | |
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| Basic Theory | |
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| First and Preferred Method | |
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| Second Method | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Board Assembly Steps | |
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| Fabrication | |
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| Electrical Pretest | |
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| Obtaining More Velocity (Under No Condition Point or Shoot Toward a Person) | |
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| High-Energy Pulser | |
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| System Description | |
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| Circuit Theory of Operation | |
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| Special Note | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Electrical Pretest | |
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| Main Test | |
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| Helpful Mathematical Relationships with This Equipment | |
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| Mass Accelerator | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Setup and Operation of the Mass Accelerator | |
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| Plasma Thermal Gun | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Assembly Steps of the Thermal Gun | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Wire-Exploding Project | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Setup and Operation | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Magnetic Can Crushing | |
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| Setup and Operation | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Handheld Burning CO[subscript 2] Gas Laser | |
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| Basic Description | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Circuit Operation | |
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| Assembly Steps | |
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| Laser Head Construction | |
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| Testing Your Laser | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Optional Focusing Lens | |
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| Battery Operation | |
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| Cleaning Output Optics | |
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| Purging the Cooling System | |
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| Operating Time | |
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| Increasing Power Output | |
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| General-Purpose Test Fixture for Line-Powered Circuits | |
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| Handheld Burning Diode Laser Ray Gun | |
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| Applications | |
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| Basic Theory | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Assembly Steps | |
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| Circuit Pretest | |
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| Safety | |
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| General Handling | |
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| Static Electrical Damages (ESD) | |
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| Excessive Forward Voltage | |
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| Excessive Forward Current | |
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| Reverse Currents | |
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| High Temperature | |
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| Long-Range Optical Laser Project | |
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| Handheld, Ultrabright Green Laser | |
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| Applications | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Assembly Steps | |
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| Electrical Pretest | |
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| Collimation and Final Assembly | |
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| Laser Property-Protection Fence | |
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| Special Note | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Construction Steps for the Receiver and Controller | |
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| Construction Steps for the Laser Beam Generator | |
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| Laser Window Bounce Listening Device | |
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| Special Note | |
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| Basic Theory | |
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| Project Description | |
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| Project Construction | |
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| Laser Transmitter | |
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| Circuit | |
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| Construction of the Electronics Assembly Board | |
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| Assembly Is Ready for Pretest | |
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| Special Note | |
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| Final Enclosure and Optics | |
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| Fabrication | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Test-Tone Module Construction | |
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| Laser Receiver | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Unit Is Ready for Pretest | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Laser Receiver Is Ready for Final Testing | |
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| System Application, Safety, and Legality | |
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| Setup Using Direct Reflection | |
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| Assembly of a Field-Worthy, Integrated System | |
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| Parts and Fabrication Description | |
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| Twelve-Inch-Spark Tesla Coil | |
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| Use Caution Around Sensitive Electronic Equipment | |
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| Tesla Coil | |
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| Brief Theory | |
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| Introduction to Your Easy-to-Build Tesla Coil | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Application and Operation | |
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| Experiments Using Your Coil | |
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| Two-Inch-Spark Tesla Coil with Timer | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Electrical Pretest | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Tesla Plasma and Ion Projects | |
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| Experiments and Applications Using Plasma | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction | |
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| Pretest | |
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| Mechanical Assembly | |
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| Test and Function Selection | |
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| Experiments and Applications Using Plasma | |
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| Experiments and Applications Using Ions | |
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| Solid-State Tesla Coil | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Test Steps | |
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| Thirty-Inch-Spark Tesla Lightning Generator | |
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| Basic Points to Consider Before Building This Project | |
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| Brief Theory of Operation | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Description of Major Components | |
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| LS1 Secondary Coil | |
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| Output Terminal | |
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| LP1 Primary Coil | |
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| Coupling | |
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| SPKGAP Spark Gap Switch | |
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| C3 Primary Capacitor | |
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| CHK1--RF Choke | |
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| Assembly Steps | |
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| Testing Steps | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Traveling-Plasma Jacob's Ladder | |
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| Origin | |
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| Basic Description | |
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| Circuit Descriptions | |
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| Assembly Steps | |
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| Testing the Circuit | |
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| Amazing Plasma Tornado Generator | |
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| Theory of Operation | |
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| Project Description | |
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| Assembly Instructions | |
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| Application and Operation | |
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| Special Note | |
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| Plasma Lightsaber | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Mechanical Assembly Steps | |
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| Test Points and Troubleshooting Suggestions | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Batteries | |
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| Applications | |
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| Ion Ray and Charge Gun | |
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| Circuit Operation | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Board Assembly Steps | |
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| Testing Steps | |
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| Mechanical Assembly | |
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| Operation and Applications | |
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| Experiments | |
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| Negative Ion Information | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| See-in-the-Dark Project | |
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| General Description | |
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| Basic Theory | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Circuit Assembly | |
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| Circuit Board Testing | |
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| Fabrication and Mechanical Assembly | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Fish Stunning and Wormer Project | |
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| General Description | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Subassembly Pretest | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Operation | |
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| Verification of Operation | |
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| Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Generator | |
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| Basic Description | |
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| Project Objective | |
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| Hazards | |
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| Theory | |
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| Capacitor | |
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| Inductor | |
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| Spark Switch | |
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| Exploding Wire Disruption Switch (High-Power, High-Frequency Pulse) | |
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| RFC1 Radio Frequency Choke | |
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| R1 Resistor | |
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| Charger | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Application | |
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| Sources | |
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| Ultrasonic Microphone | |
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| Applications | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Electrical Pretest | |
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| Special Note: Utilizing a Standing Wave | |
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| Supplementary Application Note | |
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| Recording | |
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| Phaser Pain Field Gun | |
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| Circuit Theory | |
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| Construction Steps | |
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| Subassembly Pretest | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Pain Field Property-Protection Guard | |
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| Project Description | |
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| Driver Circuit Description | |
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| Detection Circuit Description | |
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| Construction | |
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| Final Assembly | |
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| Test Procedure | |
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| Testing Detector-Sensing Circuit | |
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| Special Notes | |
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| Application and Setup | |
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| A Word of Caution | |
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| General Information on Ultrasonics | |
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| Index | |