User talk:Nicdumay

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Nicdumay, good luck, and have fun. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Gyrator
Aside from resembling the shape of the schematic symbol, in what way do those twisted wires make a gryator? --Wtshymanski (talk) 02:11, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Have you even tested it?
 * I don't know what size wire you used or how big you made it, but mine doesn't do anything interesting or gyrator-like - the bulb is passing about 0.6 amps through one wire, but I see no voltage or current on the other wire. This plainly isn't a gyrator. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)


 * If you look very closely at this picture, you'll see something that I later went back and re-checked. Still no volts or amps. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:57, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * What is the frequency of the light bulb current?Constant314 (talk) 05:07, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Good eye. Reset the meter, still nothing. I await further clarification from our correspondent, who may have suddenly retired from Wikipedia. --Wtshymanski (talk) 05:21, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree this is probably nonsense, but if we want to give this a fair test, magnetic wire should be used because that is what the caption said. Is that what you used? It looks like plain enamelled copper wire in the picture.  I'm thinking of ferrite core microwave gyrators here. SpinningSpark 13:11, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Did you mean magnet wire as in the type of wire that is used to wind coils or wire that is magnetic, like steel wire? It someone wants to try steel wire, a ready source is the core of 75 ohm coax for cable TV applications, which is usually copper clad steel for economy reasons.Constant314 (talk) 13:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I was thinking of something that is ferromagnetic, but a material that exhibits magnetostriction might be what is needed. More to the point is not what I meant, but what the hell Nicdumay meant when he added the picture. Spinning<b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 15:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Magnet wire is a thing and the picture certainly looks like the regular enamel-covered copper found in motors, transformers and other electrical gubbinses. It was preposterously easy to "test" it, though I'm afraid I was not really expecting a positive result. We really don't think that ferro-, para-, or dia-magnetic wire is going to make any difference. I'm not carrying out further experiments; even if a couple of lengths of wire knotted together cured cancer or levitated, it would still be WP:OR and inadmissable on WP till it gets published elsewhere. If this thing actually worked as a gyrator, Tom Edison would have invented it a hundred years ago. Our whilom editor is having us on. Unlike most vandals, this one registered a user name. ==Wtshymanski (talk) 16:04, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed, he's probably having us on, but some good has come of this. In the process of attempting to research this I found that compact magnetoelectric gyrators can be made using multiferroics.  I'll add something to the article (with sources) shortly.  Of course, that does not mean that two pieces of wire (even multiferroic wire) crudely twisted together would achieve anything useful. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 16:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

The three revert rule
You have reverted the article Gyrator three times in 2 hours. This is a violation of the 3 reverts in less than 24 hour rule. WP:3RR. You may be blocked from further editing. As you appear to the a beginner, you may get a pass this time. However another revert will likely be noticed. Take some time and explain on the talk page why a picture of two twisted wires is relevant to the article on Gyrator. It appears to be nothing more than a gimmick capacitor. Constant314 (talk) 02:37, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Hahaha, you know nothing about magnetic tracting do you?

Wow


 * Do you mean magnetic tracking? If so, please write that article as it appears to be a notable subject in medicine and we don't have it on Wikipedia yet. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 16:22, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017
Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Gyrator. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. ''You have made four reverts in less than 3 hours. You may be blocked from editing.'' Constant314 (talk) 02:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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