I had forgotten the details, but that sounds right.
Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?
Nov 06, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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I think HPIB was abominable, but it was the only thing that worked at the time. Its only merit was that there were lots of electronic instruments that had that interface.
Has anyone read the original HPIB spec? There is a state diagram that will give you nightmares. And words that have to be translated into concepts like "logic high".
There was a hardware ack line in the cable. When SCPI began to be used over RS232 and Ethernet, ack was forgotten somehow. It's post and pray.
So not required. With wind turbines, you'd use the electricity obviously.
Do you always go through life worrying about possibilities?
Pssst, move away from the hot thing.
And your buildings need insulated pipes running everywhere.
Where I used to live (Dundee, Scotland) there was a furnace for burning rubbish. Never noticed the smell above the leaking gas from the gas storage towers.
Probably more to do with morons thinking it's dangerous to be next to one.
Which begs the question why do the bugs die?
Condensing boilers break down.
California is full of morons affected presumably by the heat.
Hang on, they heat water in California?!
Running cost maybe, but not purchase cost, those things cost a fortune and wear out.
We could use giant internal combustion engines. 50% from a diesel.
When are people going to stop this carbon s*it? Where do they think the carbon used to be?
FFS just have a mud wrestle will you?
Then you live in an uncivilized country which doesn't have enough power at peak times.
Ah a leftie thief.
Ikea ROTFPMSL!
You meant "steal".
So they don't have enough. Oh dear. Canadia and Mexico should shut them off.
I treat Europe as one country, since you have that Brussels s*it.
I can kill you, whether there are consequences doesn't matter, it can still be done.
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