Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

WTF? Why do they need your readings that often?!

There was never any need for smart meters. What a waste (economically and environmentally) making all that new equipment.

Please don't tell me you're one of those stupid tactical voters. If every small party voter says "not enough people would do", then they themselves are creating that situation!

Nobody NEEDS to keep warm, it's just nice.

Go to here:

Does your E.R. stand for emergency room?

But the rechargeables last 10 years.

Ah, I'm not familiar with LR44. Only the AAA/AA/C/D series, PP3, and the CR series. Clocks (at least the proper ones with moving hands) are usually AA.

Was it as heavy as my Fed 4?

Obviously the people that held the purses did not think like you, thus you are mistaken.

At a lower voltage: 1.2 vs 1.5. That's enough to make the LCD readout of a clock nearly unreadable, too dim. On some devices, it triggers the low battery warning.

I know, I use rechargeables.

Can't you take to the streets and yell like the French?

What an absurd place to choose to live.

If you do not see it then it isn't very big.

Then they must have had a poor sense of smell. I smelt mine when I didn't do up a connection very well under the floor.

Both, well never mind.

Well I've managed to never remain in a dangerous position.

Just read reviews. Alkaline is alkaline. NiMH and LiIon, shoddy workmanship galore - Panasonic 100% of what it says on the tin. Samsung 80%. Any Chinese s*it like Trustfire or anything with the word fire in it, 20%. I've tested all these by charging and discharging through a torch. Best to weigh the battery, when you get ripped off, they're much lighter!

The clock is bad when it fails to keep time.

I guess what we need is something better than a thermal engine.

That's not why they made them. It's environmental bullshit to encourage us to use less power. How ridiculous, we use what we want or need to, until the bill is too high, then we use less. Seeing it in realtime is pointless.

I haven't seen a device that can't handle the lower voltage for about 15 years. And that was a mechanical clock. F****ng terrible on any kind of battery, as it slowed down as the voltage changed.

When you're old, a slow clock is your friend :-).

Clocks are for the government to keep everyone doing things correctly and on time. I find it easier to do things when you want to. Sometimes I'll go to bed in the afternoon and get up in the middle of the night.

I put two CPU fans in my fridge freezer (fridge section). It was somehow creating 13C at the top and 1C at the bottom. It works by air blowing from the freezer section, I can't see how it could be doing that badly, or how the laws of physics permit such a huge temperature differential.

That's supposed to happen. That's where the cold comes from, it has to be less than the food to be able to cool the food.

If the thermostat was keeping it on too long, that's exactly what would happen.

That would result in nowhere near enough cooling.