The Flyback Transformer project page has some pretty choice quotes. If safety was a factor, then these gems would probably never have been written.
"You will not be able to locate the high voltage return pin with a multimeter. The only way to do it is to bring the high voltage line down to the pins and whichever one it arcs like mad to is the one yer looking for. Try to stay away from arcing to any of the pins used for coils."
"With such small current at this voltage you can even touch the glass with only a tingling sensation to your fingers (no permanent damage) but don't bet your life on it."
"I intend to keep pushing a flyback until the coils melt or it explodes."
In the first film, they took some cutting-room floor footage of Han talking to Jabba as he's preparing to take off in the Millenium Falcon. (I thought I read somewhere that Marlon Brando was actually playing Jabba in that scene). Anyways, they put in a computer generated Jabba walking alongside Han, and it looks pretty cheesy to me.
It's not Marlon Brando. It's a big Scottish guy dressed in some furs, and he speaks English (not Huttese). They show a large portion of the original version of the scene in the documentary "From Star Wars to Jedi: the Making of a Saga". I could never find a copy of it for sale; luckily, I taped it off HBO about 20 years ago, and I still have it.
I think the original version of the scene was pretty good. It worked. You just have to ignore the issue of Jabba being human in one movie, and a Hutt in another. Certainly, I'm more apt to accept that then a bunch of unnecessary CG garbage.
An interesting thing that Lucas says in that documentary is, in regards to it taking 3 months just to construct Jabba's sail barge set, "A story isn't a setting. A story is a story," (or something close to that). I wish he'd remember that he said that, and maybe use that philosophy on his current projects. Fewer animators, better writers.
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"You will not be able to locate the high voltage return pin with a multimeter. The only way to do it is to bring the high voltage line down to the pins and whichever one it arcs like mad to is the one yer looking for. Try to stay away from arcing to any of the pins used for coils."
"With such small current at this voltage you can even touch the glass with only a tingling sensation to your fingers (no permanent damage) but don't bet your life on it."
"I intend to keep pushing a flyback until the coils melt or it explodes."
It's not Marlon Brando. It's a big Scottish guy dressed in some furs, and he speaks English (not Huttese). They show a large portion of the original version of the scene in the documentary "From Star Wars to Jedi: the Making of a Saga". I could never find a copy of it for sale; luckily, I taped it off HBO about 20 years ago, and I still have it.
I think the original version of the scene was pretty good. It worked. You just have to ignore the issue of Jabba being human in one movie, and a Hutt in another. Certainly, I'm more apt to accept that then a bunch of unnecessary CG garbage.
An interesting thing that Lucas says in that documentary is, in regards to it taking 3 months just to construct Jabba's sail barge set, "A story isn't a setting. A story is a story," (or something close to that). I wish he'd remember that he said that, and maybe use that philosophy on his current projects. Fewer animators, better writers.