What is this thing?

Feb 15, 2008 31 Replies

I'm wrong! T'was the Flying Spaghetti Monster what did it. It provided all us H. Saps. with ears to flap when we fell off tall parapits. A curious side effect that in earlier years they served a different purpose and were larger than today and were a saving grace. Without them, we would be extinct!

Another side effect that was not anticipated those many years ago was that these flapping machines could hear in stereo. Without that development Bose and Dolby could not have made money!

surge protection for old style (open wire} phone lines. outdated, they use different type now.

I think Scotty left it behind, on the episode when they came to save the whale. It's from the 22nd century.

Helm controls. Can't quite get warp four, any more. Also the port side phasers don't fire. Scotty, you got to get that fixed.

Whooosh ..... I missed that, tha th....

Yup, I found that each is a .25 UF capacitor.

If the house dates back to the 50's or

That was kind of what I thought.

Flux Capacitor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should have a voltage rating. That would be clueful as to where they'd be used. Also, do the terminals have any polarity (+,-) labels?

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If it's from the 50s, then it might be a low temperature PCB- containment device.

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