Continued from the last post:
"E, who ran the department, was under a lot of pressure from P to bring in some income. In response to his begging for help, P sent down three snakes, two small rattlers and a young boa. But the move was largely symbolic, as the snakes were total loners and refused to work with the cats as part of the collection team. They insisted on working alone and while they did manage to dispose of a few animals who were not paying up, they were still not able to collect anything at all. Regarding these snakes, after one simply disappeared while out on a job, the other two were frightened by a rumor that the small animals had employed a mercenary king snake that was responsible for his disappearance. They refused to go out and hence became quite useless to the department."
"It wasn't too long before E's disappearance was planned. T, P's previously mentioned 'right paw', had doubts of E's loyalty and suspected that E was pocketing the income that the department was bringing in rather than sending it to P. So I was to lead E into a trap where he would be assaulted by T and several other cats, who would dispose of him. In exchange, I would be promoted to the new leader for the department."
"Recognizing this was a spoiled deal, instead I crossed T and explained the situation to E. We schemed up the plan of leading T and his followers into our own trap, involving some of the dogs that C's small animals were employing. I met with my patron and told him of the planned scheme, he called C on his radio and after a discussion, C agreed to send two dogs and a 'fighting bunny' squad to assist. The plan was to wait for the two of us to go to the ambush point (as T had instructed) and then wait for T's forces to surround it and move in. Shortly after, C's fighting bunnies would charge in to assist us, as well as the Pomeranian, while the Dachshund would stand by to chase down any of T's cats who tried to escape."
"The plan worked quite well, leading to an almost comical scene where the fighting bunnies had formed a circle trapping T and his followers in the middle. Meanwhile the Pomeranian and the two of us squared off against T and his several followers, once the Pomeranian identified T by his scent, he charged and tried to bite T, the rest of us kept the other cats from interfering and when some of them tried to split, they received powerful kicks from the bunnies, knocking them square off their paws and back into the center of the circle. The fight went on for a short while, the Pomeranian grazing T with a few bites, enough to grab some fur but nothing else; despite being outnumbered by T's followers, we were able to at least hold our own and keep them from from defending T. One of the cats that had tried to run and took a kick from the bunny was lying paws up on the ground, T grabbed his submitting comrade and swung him around, knocking the Pomeranian off balance and proceeded to throw his comrade at a bunny. The bunny was knocked back by the impact, and he ran through the hole full speed before the bunny could recover. As formerly planned, the Dachshund took after him, but would return empty handed. Several seconds later, the rest of T's followers were either unable to fight or showing submission, they were taken away by the bunnies and once we learned P had escaped, we figured reinforcements would not be far behind so I bade E farewell and told him to take care of himself."
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It is still a work in progress. I will put up a new video when it is ready. This is 6-7 times the power of the one in the video. There is nothing wrong, it is just the usual development process delays. The system itself works great, but it was a bit overpowered for the front-end supply. The supply worked fine up to about 80W, but died when I tried to push it over that. So now everything is powered direct, which meant redesigning the power source, mostly done. Temperatures are okay, at full operation, the limiter core temperature is est. 105-110C of 125C rated maximum, surface temperature of that part 85C and the cooling is now powered separately rather than trying to get it from the direct source. Everything else is well below its limits so it should work this time without any big problems.
Update: Probably next week, or whenever I have time. Limiter core is down to about 85C at room temperature, surface around 65C. Emitter surface is nominal, even at full power, 40C or less.
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I am still getting questions about Cat Y, I know he had a lot of fans but this is starting to get kinda ridiculous. I know like one person who is semi-close to Cat Y's owner and that's it, and people can talk to this guy on their own. It's not like I care too much about Cat Y irl, he's not much of anything to me. I saw him once in person, once, and I didn't think much of him. Really, what's the big deal?