One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek a cute little coil to let him discharge.

He picked up Millie-Amp and took her for a ride on his Megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge, around the sine waves and stopped in the magnetic field by a flowing current.

Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amps characteristic curves, soon had her fully charged and excited her resistance to a minimum. He laid her on the ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance.

He pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket connecting them in parallel, and began short circuiting her resistance shunt. Fully excited, Millie-Amp mumbled, "OHM - OHM - OHM - OHM".

With his tube operating at a maximum and her field vibrating with his current flow, caused her shunt to overheat and Micro-Farad was rapidly discharged and drained of every electron.

They fluxed all night, trying various connections and sockets, until his magnet had a soft core and lost all of it's field strength.

Afterwards, Millie-Amp tried self induction and damaged her selenoids. With his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his field, so they spent the rest of the night reversing polarity and blowing each other's fuses.

© 1999 Nick Boice