Superb images and great information! We had a lot of discussion and images of haemotococcus several years ago, but not so much the last few years. Perhaps your post here will renew interest.
CE
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- Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Haematococcus pluvialis
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8378
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:55 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Re: Some of my current micro habitats
Here is the pickle jar after two partial water changes a couple of weeks apart. Things are greening up nicely again. Still plenty of amphipods here, I drop in a few fish food pellets every week or so for them.
CE
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: 2 marine diatoms
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6594
Re: 2 marine diatoms
Great detail.
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- Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:23 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Polyethylene Pipettes (Single use?)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4348
Re: Polyethylene Pipettes (Single use?)
I reuse mine many times. Sometimes I'll bleach them out, but only when I worry about cross contamination between sample jars, which is not very often.
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- Fri Apr 13, 2018 1:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Diatom tree
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2629
Re: Diatom tree
You certainly seem to be in a great area for cool specimens.
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- Fri Apr 13, 2018 12:30 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Advice on Leitz Ortholux 2
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3458
Re: Advice on Leitz Ortholux 2
Good advice. If you can locate a group of amateur radio operators, one of them could probably do the repair work for you in exchange for a cold beverage or two.
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- Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:26 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
Yes, I use this scope regularly for QC. Occasionally I'll take photos to document various issues for future reference. This is the first time I have used it to view "pond life". I'll admit to spending quite a bit of time before work this morning just watching the amphipods, ostricods, and various ot...
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:38 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
I brought some algae and amphiopds to work and tried a few shots with this system, and am so far disappointed in the results. I see a good quality image through the eyepieces, but the photos leave something to be desired. Here is an example, the best of today's lot: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/88...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Re: Some of my current micro habitats
Thanks Bill, it is a lot of fun, I'm glad other folks are interested. Regarding #3, the pretzel jar, I believe I can blame it's altered state on the amphipod explosion. I was puzzled as I thought they ate leaf litter and such things, but a little reading reveals: "...feeds on detritus and sediments,...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:57 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
Re: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
Yes, I have heard of them, they are still in business. 1988 was the year I started here by the way.
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- Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
Re: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
Our company? No, we are Sun Transformer, part of STC, Inc. in McLeansboro Illinois. Our old files come from the original company, National Transformer.apochronaut wrote:Is the company by any chance; Northlake Engineering, in Antioch Ill.?
CE
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Re: Some of my current micro habitats
Both useful links, thanks. I have read the "Hints on Collecting and Growing Algae for Class Work" before, but it had been a while. The other link discusses the algae nutrient medium BG-11, this looks interesting, I'll have to look into that. I am beginning to suspect that the silicone used to seal t...
- Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:10 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Re: Some of my current micro habitats
:lol: Well, with the crazy spring weather we are having so far, I'll have a while to think about that. But getting back to the algae, what would be a reasonable solution to "feeding" an indoor algae culture? I know that the nice layer of mud on the bottom of the tank or jar will go a long way, but i...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Getting back into photomicrography - pol crystal shots
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3870
Re: Getting back into photomicrography - pol crystal shots
They show up as links now... following the links is a little unhandy but it works... gorgeous photos.
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CE
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:52 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Re: Some of my current micro habitats
These micro environments are a lot of fun to tinker with over the colder months. When it warms up a bit I might try setting up an outdoor ecology similar to what Charlie G described some time ago. I think if I pitch it to the wife as a "water feature" for the front yard butterfly garden I might have...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:36 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Objective has defect
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7624
Re: Objective has defect
Odd that it is green, or is that a trick of the lighting?
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CE
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:51 am
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Some of my current micro habitats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7162
Some of my current micro habitats
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/814/40550149154_5344fa7826_c.jpg This 10 gallon tank was started this past fall using aged tap water and gravel, and seeded with water from a pond in town that I often use for cultures. Not evident in this photo is a buried airstone set to release a small stream of bu...
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:07 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
Re: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
Interesting speculation, but really it could have been just about anything with vacuum tubes.
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CE
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
Re: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
It just says "prototypes" and doesn't indicate actual quantities. Oh well.
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- Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
Re: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
6.98v wound with #23 wire, possibly a filament supply.apochronaut wrote:what were the voltages?
18.8v with a center tap
460v with center tap
411v no tap
The letterhead on correspondence reads "AO American Optical Medical Division" and the address was Bedford MAS. Dated 1979.
CE
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8442
American Optical, what did they make that used tubes?
Our company has files dating back to the early 60's, I decided to search the archives for familiar manufacturers. Sure enough I found 2 entries for American Optical. In the late 70's we made prototype units for them that never went into production, a transformer and a choke. From the voltages on the...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:46 pm
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: My Zeiss Microscopes
- Replies: 143
- Views: 124377
Re: My Zeiss Microscopes
Beautiful instruments!
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CE
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:31 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
My edit after looking at link to your stereo scope, CE! Guess it's my age...but I would term your fine instrument a: trinoc head stereo microscope....not an: inspection scope! So much for me asking if this instrument would function outdoors! Sorry, my fault really. That's what I use it for so that'...
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:18 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
Thanks all for the nice comments. About the Amscope 'scope, it is adaquate for what I use it for at work, but it's the only one I have ever used so I don't have anything to compare it to. The image out the trinoc port is pretty representative of that seen through the eyepieces, but is likely degrade...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
Sorry, I was mistaken , the photos were taken at the 7x setting, it zooms up to 45x. I do have a 2x aux lens that screws in front of the objectives, but have never used it.
CE
CE
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:13 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Re: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
No, it is closer to this one: http://www.amscope.com/stereo-microscopes/industrial-inspection-stereo-microscopes/7x-45x-simul-focal-fluorescent-trinocular-boom-stereo-microscope-5mp-camera.html but with LED ring light instead of florescent. I was never happy with the supplied MU500 camera, so I took...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6852
Cross section of high voltage transformer coil
I thought you might be interested in something you don't see every day. Here we have a cross section (via bandsaw) of a small high voltage transformer coil. The larger wires (input coil) are #19, and the smaller wires (output coil) #30. The insulating papers between layers of the smaller wires are a...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: New objective dusty inside... Amscope poor quality control
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6503
Re: New objective dusty inside... Amscope poor quality control
The objective was cheap so I thought I would give it a fair trial. It didn't work out so I got a refund. Nothing lost, but experience gained.
CE
CE
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: HA2307 HDMI industrial camera
- Replies: 49
- Views: 34976
Re: HA2307 HDMI industrial camera
Very interesting, thanks for the overview. Your photos look very good, and the price is certainly attractive. The .5x relay lens looks just like the one on the Amscope camera on my inspection scope at work.
I'll be very interested in your further adventures with this camera.
CE
I'll be very interested in your further adventures with this camera.
CE
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:54 pm
- Forum: Sandbox
- Topic: videome imbed test
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11798
Re: videome imbed test
Works fine for me in Chrome after giving Flash permission to run.
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