Cool Looking Electronic Components

[MOSFET KILLER]

I have been going through my vast heaps of electronic components in an effort to organize things and I have found some cool looking components in there. Some of which include:
2 SOT-227 (ISOTOP) IGBTs
1 Glass Encapsulated Resistor
A Few Vacuum Tubes

What kind of cool looking components have you found laying around in your parts boxes?

 

[Speakerguy]

Probably a tube, but it was an odd one. An 85V reference vacuum tube that came out of an old oscilloscope calibrator. I looked up the data sheets and everything, basically a "zener diode" function in an octal tube IIRC. 85 volts +/- a few volts at a few milliamps current.

 

[HiTech]

IMHO the klystron and magnetron look VERY cool.... much more mysterious and serious looking then almost any other electronic component.

 

[Mikebits]

When I worked on radar we had magnetrons like in the image. The magnets would suck a watch off your wrist...

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[HiTech]

Try being in the same room with an NMR machine!! It will remove your belt buckle at 10-15 feet and your pants will drop from both gravity and sheer surprise! I have one of these where I work at.

 

[jrz126]

I have a couple of these little igbts:
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3300V, 1200A continuous.

I also have some "hockey puck" style SCRs that are the same size as a real hockey puck.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Try being in the same room with an NMR machine!! It will remove your belt buckle at 10-15 feet and your pants will drop from both gravity and sheer surprise! I have one of these where I work at.

When we were taking our daughter round Universities looking at Chemistry departments, they all had them - York (where she's gone) had two, the 'old' one, and the new BIG one - but we were only allowed to look down at that one, it has it's own balcony

All the others we were allowed to enter the room, after been advised to leave watches outside.

 

[HiTech]

Just your watches? Not credit cards and belt buckles? Wallets w/ magnetic striped cards will get trashed real quick unless kept at 15' or more... and even that that's subject to the field of the unit being observed. I know those units cost thousands to start up. If the liquid nitrogen is left unmonitored, it can cost tens of thousands of dollars (US) to restart the machine.

 

[t.o.]

No wonder you dress up like this. Ha!Ha!