The star on the HP-15C's display screen

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(09-25-2015 10:13 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Ahh, yes, there were lots of popped circuit breakers at home when I was growing up. I had lots of fun teaching my son how to create a carbon arc with two #2 pencils and a suicide cord!

Dave

You had circuit breakers? We had the round screw-in fuses, which dad had long ago either put a penny behind them or a piece of foil to by bass the fuse.

I never had any problems blowing fuses and luckily we never had a house fire.
But I'm sure there were some close calls that I wasn't aware of.

Bill
Smithville, NJ