Nuclear Meltdown at Oak Point

Wow! That was awesome, and scary given what I know about nuclear power plants. It would make an tremendous Halloween display for the kids...as they come to the door, sights and sounds galore. Zombies appearing would be neat, too

"Norton" prevents me from opening the fogger website.  Can you provide other info on the fogger.

Thanks

If your cooling tower starts glowing green, I say it's time to leave the planet and look for a new condo on Mars...

@rad400 posted:

"Norton" prevents me from opening the fogger website.  Can you provide other info on the fogger.

Thanks

It’s called a microfogger 3. I’m sure you can find it on Google. It’s like a usb controlled fog machine for special effects.

Train smoke is too slow to get going and too hit and miss on density…. but this thing instantaneous goes from no fog to a gallon of fog in like 200ms. It’s a bit costy and needs modest maintenance… a heater change every 6 months and a fluid top up every 3 weeks but about as good as these things can get…

That's really fun, Adrian! How did you do the sound? I agree with Paul about the zombies. Maybe some aliens or a supervillain or two could be added as well. Happy Halloween!

@Dylan the Train Man posted:

That's really fun, Adrian! How did you do the sound? I agree with Paul about the zombies. Maybe some aliens or a supervillain or two could be added as well. Happy Halloween!

Hey,

The sound was done with the sparkfun wavetrigger. It's pretty easy. It has an SD card and you just copy WAV files onto it labelled like 001.wav 002.wav and so on, then it has several TTL discrete inputs and the sound plays on a rising edge. If you trigger pin 1 then 001.wav plays, if you trigger pin2 then 002.wav plays and so on. It has an audio jack so you just plug in a pair of speakers for a desktop PC and that's basically it.

@Homey B posted:

If your cooling tower starts glowing green, I say it's time to leave the planet and look for a new condo on Mars...

Cherenkov radiation—the equivelant of the sonic boom for the speed of light—is actually a purplish-blue. (The Simpsons got it wrong.) It's one of the coolest things that I've ever seen.

@Adrian! posted:

Some fun updates to the Menard's power plant. Push button, get meltdown.

Engineering details...

Sound

Strobe Lighting

Fogger

Kaboom!    Well done

@Matt_GNo27 posted:

Cherenkov radiation—the equivelant of the sonic boom for the speed of light—is actually a purplish-blue. (The Simpsons got it wrong.) It's one of the coolest things that I've ever seen.

If you've seen it, you've been much to close to an operating core.  Are you sure your retinas are still attached?

One of my old physics profs spoke of this in the cooling pool, where spent fuel rods sit, trying to lose the secondary decay heat and eject particles out faster than the speed of light through water.  Of course, he was battling leukemia and said he had no regrets.

Way cool!

Very cool!

@Homey B posted:

If you've seen it, you've been much to close to an operating core.  Are you sure your retinas are still attached?

One of my old physics profs spoke of this in the cooling pool, where spent fuel rods sit, trying to lose the secondary decay heat and eject particles out faster than the speed of light through water.  Of course, he was battling leukemia and said he had no regrets.

Yes, I've seen an opened nuclear reactor core and "short-term" storage tank, but it was during a refueling procedure.

A COOLING Tower melt down!?

Ron

Cool Adrian, glad to see you back.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Cool Adrian, glad to see you back.

Thanks GRJ! Sadly, space has been too busy lately.

"A rocket is just like a train except there's no track and the cars catch on fire and fall off the end one by one"

Well, I guess you gotta' keep that train money flowing.

@Adrian!

Now THAT’S a come back! Very slick! You pretty much re-enacted the Chernobyl meltdown. Your creativity is out of this world.

Yes….you have been missed.

Way cool Adrian