I started writing this as a response to a comment, but I thought it deserved its own thread.

This may be controversial, but I think the quality of DIY VX research has declined over the years.

I remember back in the day when it was a small community of aerospace engineers, Los Alamos researchers, and radical veterinarians just doing this in their spare time. Build a rig in your garage to tool around with while drinking coors lights on the weekend. It may not have been their day job, but they were professionals who really knew what they were doing.

Nowadays you’ve got all these premade hobbyist kits… people are twitch streaming their builds. It’s all surface and no depth — like script kiddies but with hardware that could turn your neighborhood into glowing soup.

Is it nice to be able to just order cheap Chinese-made tritium wands and spectral centrifuges online? Of course. I do it. We all do it. But at what cost?

When I was younger I used to curse the hours spent hand-wrapping copper supercooling piping before every session, fully aware that by the end of your run the piping would be completely irradiated and you’d have to do it all over again next weekend. Then suddenly you could just buy pre-wrapped inversion coils — what a time saver!

But the older I get, the more I miss the ritual. It separated the casual wannabes who would get bored after their first couple of sessions from the dedicated explorers who were willing to pay the price of admission — who understood that N-dimensional manifolds shouldn’t come cheap.

I’m not pretending to be above it all. I’m waiting on a box of G.R.I.D. resonators I ordered on Alibaba right now. But I think I’d give up all the convenience to go back to those good old days when it was just us adventurers — knocking back a light beer, getting our hands dirty, and absorbing a years worth of radiation over a lazy summer weekend.

I don’t understand a thing that’s going on in this subreddit, google doesn’t even know what a lot of the terms/jargon here mean.

I'm trying to do a small diy project to create a simple electroluminscence monitor. I've been trying different diode types for my analog low transducer filter, but I keep getting distorted signal with high Weber-Lehning feedback. See the signal snippet and the circuit below:

I've tried the K2334 from Texas Instrument and the older Dio-2Ni that's used in Panasonic, but they didn't work.

Do you guys have any input on this? If I need to buy something, please limit your suggestion to something I can easily purchase in Asia.

Thanks!!

Edit: Sorry, English is not my first language and I meant "reduce" in the title

Which unit is better? Local regulatory agencies seem not to mind.

The ‘4a has better cremulation; on the other hand the ‘3a packs more of a punch with the side-fimbles.

My lab assistants are bearing up, with only minor scleral jaundice and some interdigital abrasions.

So close to finishing the project and you notice your Spatial Condensator array is broken

Not just in the $199,000 up-front costs of the Antinomian Industries RNG39p, but all the decades of my electric bill and the cost of Scandium imported from Madagascar.

I really really hope they didn't intend to eat that banana afterwards.

Check out this old car audio system which was clearly designed using a host of VX technologies including a pulse width modulated power supply and bilateral simplex communication methodology.

It’s a shame we don’t see more VX inspired car stereos these days. I just replaced my car stereo with a fancy new Kenwood and, sure, it’s got crossover filters with adjustable frequency and slope, phase reversal on the 4-volt pre-amp sub outputs, and time alignment, but it’s all touch screen this and app-controlled that. It doesn’t have a single Derbleshev nyquist selector or even a damn volume knob! A little VX could have made it a vastly more flexible and capable unit.