{"id":5159,"date":"2023-02-22T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:00:32","slug":"silicon-mumbo-jumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"Silicon mumbo-jumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this thing crossed my path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HubbardMeter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HubbardMeter1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3620\" height=\"2285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HubbardMeter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HubbardMeter2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4380\" height=\"3036\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TopText.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TopText.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s as much of a disclaimer as you&#8217;re going to get.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~dst\/Secrets\/E-Meter\/\">pure snake oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inside1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inside1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2525\" height=\"1757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of <em>course<\/em> I took it apart and reverse-engineered it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DodgeBattery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DodgeBattery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2412\" height=\"1584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The battery was a bit dodge so I disconnected it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tracks-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tracks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone else had been here before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inside2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/inside2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2188\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schematic.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schematic-1024x550.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schematic-1024x550.gif 1024w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schematic-300x161.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The schematic is very similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~dst\/Secrets\/E-Meter\/homer-emeter.gif\">the one on the cs.cmu.edu web page<\/a>. The power supply is&#8230; interesting. Unless there&#8217;s an external transformer that I don&#8217;t have?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~dst\/E-Meter\/hubbard-patent.html\">US Patent 3,290,589 issued Dec. 6th, 1966<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a long but interesting history of the e-meter: <a href=\"https:\/\/scientologymoneyproject.com\/2020\/06\/03\/a-brief-history-of-how-scientologys-e-meter-came-into-existence-parts-1-10\/\">https:\/\/scientologymoneyproject.com\/2020\/06\/03\/a-brief-history-of-how-scientologys-e-meter-came-into-existence-parts-1-10\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/serial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/serial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3147\" height=\"1509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this thing crossed my path. I suppose that&#8217;s as much of a disclaimer as you&#8217;re going to get. Because it&#8217;s pure snake oil. Of course I took it apart and reverse-engineered it. The battery was a bit dodge so I disconnected it. Someone else had been here before. The schematic is very similar to the one on the cs.cmu.edu web page. The power supply is&#8230; interesting. Unless there&#8217;s an external transformer that I don&#8217;t have? US Patent 3,290,589 issued Dec. 6th, 1966 Here&#8217;s a long but interesting history of the e-meter: https:\/\/scientologymoneyproject.com\/2020\/06\/03\/a-brief-history-of-how-scientologys-e-meter-came-into-existence-parts-1-10\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}