Electric Eel Powers Christmas Tree

[bill937ca]

Only in Japan!

 

[westfalen]

Since thieves stole all the copper wiring from the old railway shop building our club is in and left us without power we've been running our N scale layout on solar panels and batteries. I wonder how many of these things it would take to run a layout?

[CaptOblivious]

800W!? Holy f*ing crap, that's an amazing amount of power. That can't be right…and yet, there's a fully lit tree to suggest that it is.

 

Why don't we all have electric eels in our households providing electricity?

[cteno4]

800W!? Holy f*ing crap, that's an amazing amount of power. That can't be right…and yet, there's a fully lit tree to suggest that it is.

 

Why don't we all have electric eels in our households providing electricity?

 

yes but its in a very short burst, hence the flashes on the tree lighting. they pack a wholop as they use the pulses for both defense and to stun prey.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Martijn Meerts]

800W!? Holy f*ing crap, that's an amazing amount of power. That can't be right…and yet, there's a fully lit tree to suggest that it is.

 

Why don't we all have electric eels in our households providing electricity?

 

Because they're butt-ugly? =)

[cteno4]

aww they are kind of cute!

 

seattle aquarium has a fun exhibit with their electric eel a long time back. they use to just have an oscilloscope and speaker hooked up to the current in the tank so you could see and hear it, then someone rigged a midi board to do different notes for the voltage and it was pretty fun to listen to what it played! was mainly running up and down the scales, but at times it would do lower level longer complex sequences, probably the hunting mode. definitely got folks attention. last time i was there it was all gone, guess too much labor keeping it going all the time.

 

jeff