WTF, bizarre electrical disturbance at my house

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May 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: yukichigai
Where do you live? Anywhere close to a research lab or a university? 'cause that sounds like some sort of electromagnetic effect. Could be some grad student forgot to carry a 4 in his equation somewhere.

Oh yeah, anything that uses a lot of juice in your house? When transformers go they tend to send out little EMPs

Reminds me of the case where the guy turned a microwave oven into a weapon and was beaming it at his neighbors all the time through the shared wall of their apartment. The husband and wife he was using it on got pretty fscked up.
 

Schadenfroh

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Where do you live? Anywhere close to a research lab or a university? 'cause that sounds like some sort of electromagnetic effect. Could be some grad student forgot to carry a 4 in his equation somewhere.

Oh yeah, anything that uses a lot of juice in your house? When transformers go they tend to send out little EMPs

Reminds me of the case where the guy turned a microwave oven into a weapon and was beaming it at his neighbors all the time through the shared wall of their apartment. The husband and wife he was using it on got pretty fscked up.

link?

i got a ballast plant not to far away, nearist university is about 45 minutes away
 
May 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Where do you live? Anywhere close to a research lab or a university? 'cause that sounds like some sort of electromagnetic effect. Could be some grad student forgot to carry a 4 in his equation somewhere.

Oh yeah, anything that uses a lot of juice in your house? When transformers go they tend to send out little EMPs

Reminds me of the case where the guy turned a microwave oven into a weapon and was beaming it at his neighbors all the time through the shared wall of their apartment. The husband and wife he was using it on got pretty fscked up.

link?

i got a ballast plant not to far away, nearist university is about 45 minutes away

I can't find the site that covered the case now, just a bunch of "how to" pages. I will post it if I find it.
 
Jan 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
What happened:

im sitting in my recliner, i have my ipod clone sitting there listening to it on my headphones. im watching tv with the subtitles on so i can listen to my music and watch tv at the same thime. Well, the following thing repeated itself 4 times over a period of 2 minutes. uniform space between the times it happened. NOTE: my ipod clone was running off of its lithium polymer cell with good charge, so it was not connected to anything but the headphones going to my head. and BTW, Its a clear blue sky outside

TV:
Tv went crazy for about 10 seconds, not static, but like multiple channels blending together at the same time.

iPod clone:
Music skipped to differant locations within the same song, right channel went off and on. This occured while the tv was going crazy and stopped when the tv stopped doing its crazy thing.

the two things happened at the same time. the same thing repeated itself 4 times before it stopped. after which, the final time it happened, my ipod clone's right channel failed and i have not been able to get it working.

you better check for anal probes stat