ECN Electrical Forum - Discussion Forums for Electricians, Inspectors and Related Professionals
ECN Shout Chat
ShoutChat
Recent Posts
Increasing demand factors in residential
by tortuga - 03/28/24 05:57 PM
Portable generator question
by Steve Miller - 03/19/24 08:50 PM
Do we need grounding?
by NORCAL - 03/19/24 05:11 PM
240V only in a home and NEC?
by dsk - 03/19/24 06:33 AM
Cordless Tools: The Obvious Question
by renosteinke - 03/14/24 08:05 PM
New in the Gallery:
This is a new one
This is a new one
by timmp, September 24
Few pics I found
Few pics I found
by timmp, August 15
Who's Online Now
0 members (), 265 guests, and 15 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate Thread
Page 1 of 2 1 2
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 276
T
trollog Offline OP
Member
anyone come across one of these in the course of their service work, or demoing old industrial work?

http://www.floobydust.com/turbo-encabulator/ge_turbo-encabulator.pdf


a little more history on this device can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,445
Likes: 2
Cat Servant
Member
Thx for the second link. I looked at the first, and I think I would have understood it better, had it been written in Chinese, Farsi, or Swahili.

I was completely lost in the language, and didn't understand a word [Linked Image]

Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 827
Likes: 1
J
Member
I just bumped it up in the Theory & Discussion area from when Sandsnow shared it with us last Feb. A video is just so much better for understanding high brow theory of this type.
Joe https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000469.html

[This message has been edited by JoeTestingEngr (edited 01-20-2007).]

Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 167
S
Member
I had no idea just how old this joke was

Thanks for the link to the history


Larry LeVoir
Inspector
City of Irvine, CA
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 886
H
Member
Went to the first link and after reading parts of that spec sheet I knew it had to be a joke.

Apparently somebody has too much time on their hands. That document really does look real.

-Hal

Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 167
S
Member
do a search for turboencabulator. A bunch of stuff out there.

Here's one:

Legend has it that GE engineers were frustrated by product managers
signing off on products they had no business reviewing - mainly because
they had no technical background whatsoever.

According to the story, the Turboencabulator was submitted to the GE
product management team and signed off as a product!

I know a GE engineer who may have been around close to that time, I will have to ask him.


Larry LeVoir
Inspector
City of Irvine, CA
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 806
N
Member
Fake datasheets have a long history in the engineering field--here's one for a "WOM", or Write Only Memory:
http://academics.vmi.edu/ee_js/Research/IC_Datasheets/digital_cmos/Write%20Only%20Memory.pdf

I love the plot of socket insertions vs. number of pins remaining... [Linked Image]

Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 827
Likes: 1
J
Member
http://www.rane.com/pi14.html

Here's the nifty gadget we were thinking of buying when I worked at Ch. 61 in Cleveland.

I think many of these things would come out in early April. Go figure.
Joe

Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 176
P
Member

Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 276
T
trollog Offline OP
Member
when I said they don't make em like they used to, I mean hoaxes like that one [Linked Image]

Page 1 of 2 1 2

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5