new innovative, crazy ideas!!!????

[mustangt69]

hey all i thought it would be fun to start a post about different ideas they have for their fish houses. Any ideas that will make some cool electronic gadgets for our house or whatever. i will start and throw a couple ideas i have. I might try to make a small 110 to 12v converter out of a computer power supply...to power my lights and stuff in my house. also i plan on getting a windshield washer fluid pump from the local junkyard and getting some rubber hose and making a 12v pump to pump fresh water into my minnow bucket with the flick of a switch and have a overflow hose by the top so it cycles itself back into the lake.....

lets hear your ideas

[mustangt69]

i have also noticed that anything that plugs into the wall with one of them clumsy black plug ins is 12 volt or less.....kinda nice to know. Also, the smaller playstation one and game cube will work on battery also. I have the schematics to wire up a nintendo 64 to a car battery also. you can look on the black plug in box and it will tell you the voltage and you know what it runs off of.

i purchased a powered tv antenna from the local big lots for $10....it had a big clumsy plugin......said 12volts, cut the plugin off and hooked it to 12volts and viola powered antenna for $10 and it draws like 400 milliamps

[mustangt69]

if it is less than 12volts though my may need something to drop the power like one of them universal cigarette lighter power supplies where you select the voltage from like 3 to 12. i think they are made for walkmans under $10 i think. otherwise you will probably fry whatever you are hooking up

[mustangt69]

one more, lol check out this HSOforum i found......i am in the process of building one myself, last saturday i got it to hit 24 volts!! (it was free spinning but still!!)

http://www.mdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/index.html