electro-Physics: 17.3409 volts

[Tom Jennings]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, William Donzelli wrote:

> > Ah, the "Edison Effect".  Some electrons (especially those
> > closer to the negative side) would jump away from the filament
> > and then, thanks to the electric field, land on the filament
> > but closer to the anode.
> 
> In a few bulbs, if the geometry is right, they will magically turn into
> very low power magnetrons.

EEK! Cool! electromagnetic whistles! 

I shudder to think how this effect was discovered... talk about
heisenbugs!  Imagine some poor microwave receiver person trying
to find a loss of sensitivity, birdies, spurious output... and
finding out it's some goddamn FRONT PANEL LIGHT BULB!

Do you have any references to this? I have a friend who would
appreciate such horrors...