I relate!

 

IDK. It needs to be clean, constant and grounded. Straight battery power is the ultimate solution, but I can't afford to power a PC, a couple o' racks of equipment, ext synths and 300v gear, etc.. etc.. from stored energy. :-( Instead I use old Monster Power PowerCenter PRO 3500 racks, Works great! Or, os it a placebo effect??? :-|

 

placebo, all that dc has to be inverted into a.c. to work on standard gear. so your taking all that pure direct current and bending it into a sine wave, and then turning it on and off every 60 seconds and making it alternate polarity. its like adding koolaid to glacier water. I myself use 3 phase 240 volts and run it through a sieve, a sifter, a filter and an old sofa i found by the dumpster, before converting it into single phase and using it to power the lava lamp next to the desk. can't be too careful these days..

 

When I was in high school in front of the teacher's parking lot there was a tall metal light pole with a powerful sodium vapor light with a brightly painted metal barrier pole about four feet high and three feet in front of it to protect it from being smashed into from a vehicle. Perhaps the light pole wasn't properly grounded, as when we discovered that if you grabbed both with your outstretched hands you felt a nice current passing through you, the tighter your grip on each object the stronger the effect. Well, a bunch of us were all stoned on Panama Red weed and drunk on Budweiser beers (not the good Czech shit, the piss Bud from the USA breweries) and one of us, maybe my friend, Phil figured out that if a person not holding onto those poles touched the tooth of the smiling kid that electrical current would be focused blam onto that tooth...which HURT LIKE A MUTHERFUKKER so much so that one would see a flash of blinding light and then a moment of temporary blindness! So, of course people would get the uninitiated to see how cool it was to grab the "Buzz Poles" and zap the the shit out of them every chance that they could! That was what we did for fun on a Friday night in 1976. Yea!!

 

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this is exactly why you had to be over 21 to buy electricty in Ohio back then.

 

Damn, I was so wrong about limiting electricity uses. What did you do to me, fuckin' Pentagon!!? (lame but fun excuse )

Seriously, seems like a very good read.