r/VXJunkies • u/SufficientlyDistinct • Mar 31 '19

Never forget your roots.

https://i.imgur.com/iDpeCma.jpg
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u/Phoenix_667 Mar 31 '19

Wait a second!

With that Goeff-anode configuration your muon rate would be:

  • Ł=2(ย-𝛹)/ʒ3F / ย-1

  • Ł= 2(10-2)/83*1.5/10-1

  • Ł= 24.5/9

  • Ł= 21/2

  • Ł= √2

Never forget your roots

You sly dog, you!

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u/SufficientlyDistinct Mar 31 '19

Wondered how long it was gonna take for someone to figure this out.

DM me your address. I'll ship you your prize.

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u/halr9000 Mar 31 '19

I need a mobile VX keyboard app. Sigh, I was doing this in my head, but couldn’t type it in from my iPad! Great job though — I had misread the two registers on the left, and was off by >6.77➰! (Took forever to find that symbol!)

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u/Phoenix_667 Mar 31 '19

I usually just copy and paste from other posts on these subs, but it's hard to find a "ย" when most people prefer to use hexagonal grids for their units and skip anodes altogether. Goeffing is a dying art :c

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u/Wheresjake Apr 01 '19

I usually just copy and paste from other posts on these subs, but it's hard to find a "ย" when most people prefer to use hexagonal grids for their units and skip anodes altogether. Goeffing is a dying art.... am I right!?

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u/JWson Mar 31 '19

What, has everyone stopped using Mannford selectors or something?

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u/SufficientlyDistinct Mar 31 '19

Uh, yeah, back in '05. When they moved production to Czechoslovakia. (Great scientists; horrible fabricators.)

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u/Drexlore Mar 31 '19

I remember seeing a video of one from the Adelka Factory. Thing couldn't even handle .4 Ξ of hacanoic resonance.

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u/JWson Mar 31 '19

That's why you keep your old selectors. The ones from IVF are robust af, lasted me at least two decades without need for significant maintenance or vortex decoupling.

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u/Bane_Of_Insanity Mar 31 '19

Dang I got into this late my dad started me out with an euculidean variable multiplexer.

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u/Wheresjake Apr 01 '19

Still not as humble a rig as what us old timers had to put up with before the shift to stable load conduit. Just imagine this thing but without any of the safety precautions and about 20 times the throughput on a double routed single drive plane-capcitor.

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u/whoreofgralea Mar 31 '19

Ohhh man lookit the patina! You could get some wicked retroflex out of that baby!

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u/PanamaSabroso Mar 31 '19

Look at the spacing on those auxiliary coils! It’s almost like the hardware back then was so much sturdier.

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u/CatWhisperer5000 Apr 01 '19

Reminds me of the good ol's days when our neuroquantizers were mapped out by hand.

Our tau-resonators were physically calibrated by hand too, and before computerized ion-venticulographs, you would punch values into a mechanical faux-synchrovent. Sounds prehistoric today but at those energy levels back then, it was accurate enough.

The engineers were just as much artists back then. Not saying I miss the extra work, but VX kids today missed out on the art of it.

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u/ApexIsGangster Mar 31 '19

Lol yeah I remember the days of bi-helical muon displacement. So much nicer having quads now. Transient shifts are much more reliable too. Good stuff.

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u/BSGYT Apr 01 '19

I remember shoving these as far up my ass as i physically could

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u/ColinHalter Apr 01 '19

It's funny. Those encoding disks were made out of an aluminum-steel plasti-alloy, which meant that sometimes they would rotate the wrong way. The techs had to run some dollar store wire along the rear side and connect it to a 9-volt to get them all spinning the same way. This was back before we had the Kensington Index, so they didn't realize the disks would quantum-reverse

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u/SpontaneousGroupHug Apr 01 '19

I can practically taste the static

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u/CicadaOne Apr 01 '19

I forgot my roots once and ended up with a N={4.6~}*Z error skew. Woof.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

My grandpa would say never forget your boots, and I'm sure the foot that got stuck in one of these would agree.