Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Feb 11, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1839 Replies

Absolutely. A new design should start with maximal confusion and deliberate silliness. Mere impossibility is no reason to avoid ideas.

Math and discipine can come later, when the new idea is implemented.

Not many engineers are comfortable doing both, being goofy and being careful.

That explains it. In the US and endorsement is a positive thing. For example my license has a motorcycle endorsement. When I had a CDL it had hazardous materials, double/triples, and tanker endorsements.

Do you have to wrap URLs?

By the way my old NiCads were detectable with the tongue. The paper (!) insulation had come off, hence the negative chassis was exposed right next to the positive. You could lick both. Trouble is, when I put 10 of them in a bag to go on holiday, some shorting occurred.

Best thing for a car is an amp clamp, those things are pure dead magic so they are.

What a strange place to keep batteries. I've heard of putting them on the radiator to give them a boost, but cooling them?

It cycles whatever I set it to. I set a min and max as close as 0.1C apart.

It won't be completely silent. Mine is between cycles.

Mind you in summer it's just on full blast all day. You can't be anywhere very hot if 800W is enough.

A large capacitor designed for 12V connected to the output of a microwave transformer. Sometimes you'd get an explosion, sometimes it'd go up in the air like a firework. But you could be guaranteed of a neighbour moaning about it.

Best to buy 100 fireworks and make them into one firework.

Why wouldn't you care? We only have to avoid touching one of them. And you can also use the other to ground the chassis.

And you still haven't invented sleeves. On any of the SEVENTY THREE different plugs.

The lines aren't vertical.

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least we don't split our country into 4, that's preposterous.

No, you lot are just thick.

Stop chatting me up, I don't like Americans.

So you admit you wrote crap.

Sorry my reasoning was too much for a Merkin mind.

They should send them all back to Europe.

"protect peregrine falcons from human disturbance or harassment" How do you harass a peregrine?

Picked what up?

Isles, as in British Isles.

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Six, actually, if you count the Hawaiian Islands. When you live in a little bitty country you don't have to worry as much about time zones.

That's between you and your newsreader.

Endorsement really means no more than 'write on the back of'

In the case I witnessed, the thing had been on charge all night and still wouldn't start so they tried to jump it and the spark ignited the hydrogen.

Split the battery wide open and dropped sulphuric acid on the floor

Yes, a well known effect. Should have had the final connection on remote battery.

No, reality has been adjusted. We are all correct with our memories.

Another example is "soft rinse". It was always called that, everyone called it that, now hardly anyone remembers it and thinks it was always fabric conditioner.

Now there's a Frog spelling.

There's some websites like that (on purpose). Snail news or mushroom news or something? It's got a weird name.

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