Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?
Feb 11, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1848 Replies
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Cindy Hamilton
I don't live inside the city limits, but the post office that handles my mail is in Ypsilanti, so that's the city name for my address. It's always "fun" when I have to give my address on the phone to someone far away. A substantial portion of the people who live there don't pronounce it correctly.
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Cindy Hamilton
Because Hell is a fiction.
Some of them do.
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Cindy Hamilton
Depends on the fan. My ceiling fan blades are pretty flat. They're designed to switch rotation direction for summer/winter operation.
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Dan Purgert
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Max Demian
Ancient Greek has three "number" forms: singular, dual and plural.
That's correct British English. Time away for recreational purposes is always holiday (vacation in the US).
Time away from school is holiday, from college or university is vacation, and work is holiday or leave.
Similarly a communal eatery is canteen in school, refectory in a monastery or college/university, and canteen in a factory. In an office it is usually canteen too, but some call it the staff restaurant to be posh.
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Max Demian
That's a form of address, not the same as you. People might say, "Can you come here," but not "Can darling come here."
(In Lancashire/Manchester shop girls call you "luv", which is a bit of a degradation of meaning.)
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Max Demian
I suspect that the masculine form is used when gender is unknown or both meant, like the Greek "paed" meaning boy is used for both sexes as in paediatrics.
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Max Demian
Deiseil is more common for clockwise, or sunwise, sunward. (These alternative names are only needed when discussing the origin of the direction of clock hands.)
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Carlos E.R.
I have seen them. I had no idea about the different threads.
Aren't they a bit expensive? Amazon doesn't help, because it wants to ship to Spain before citing a price in those I find.
Each old switch or socket in my house has one of these:
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And the whole house had this:
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In the site you can move to the inside photo:
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Maybe when multiplied by the voltage it gives a nice power figure.
My air conditioning unit is "inverter" type. Max power I think is
800Watts, not sure now. Say 1 KW. When the room has reached a stable temp, it draws as little as 200 watts.
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Commander Kinsey
I've never encountered a non-sprung one.
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Commander Kinsey
By an insignificant amount. If I draw the full 100A from my house feed, I drop 4 volts.
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Commander Kinsey
Why would it matter where you plugged in?
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Commander Kinsey
Maybe it's for s*it drivers.
Mind you the whole idea of metal wheels on metal tracks is crazy. If I drive my car with bald tyres, I'm breaking the law.
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micky
That's not a good reason not to threaten people with it. If it causes them to not murder someone, what does it matter if it's fiction or not?
Maybe some of them do, but I'll bet the vast majority stopped before they were 17. The last killer was 42.
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Commander Kinsey
I had a Corsa, cheap s*it, bottom of the range. The worst model you could get form GM/Opel/Vauxhall/Holden (why the f*ck can't they use the same name worldwide?) I can't believe they ever put anything electronic in a Corsa. I went over a speed bump at only 4 times the speed limit and snapped the rear axle in half. If there was any justice the council would have paid for that criminal damage.
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micky
Any that is bad will do. Very bad is better.
Interesting.
"In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations, the biggest examples of which are Christianity and Islam,"
Yes, tell people that if they murder they are going to the place described here.
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Commander Kinsey
Remind me never to live in that communist state. It really is none of anyone's business how safe you are.
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NY
Widdershins is the only one I *have* heard of. Turnwise, Deiseil, Sunwise/Ward - can't say I've ever heard of those.
Clockwise is all very well until you see a clock like this
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which is a very "peculier" way of telling the time. The one I have used a conventional self-contained quartz clock mechanism (ie no after-market
1:1 gears to reverse the direction) which suggests that they had the mechanisms specially made - maybe with the stepper motor wired the opposite way round.
It had never actually occurred to me until now that "clockwise" is the same way that the sun appears to move in the sky, so the hour hand will follow the sun (except at double speed). I must have been singularly incurious to accept what "clockwise" meant without relating it to the direction of movement of the sun.
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Commander Kinsey
Regulations. Code implies encryption, if Merkins are to socialise with the rest of the world, they need to learn to use English correctly.
But afterwards you can change it and modify it and add to it, just don't tell them.
Which is pointless, as they still catch fire.
Aren't you breaking your precious code?
I've got one 2 feet away, am I a naughty boy? Makes the kettle easier to fill without unplugging it.
WTF has tribal to do with it?
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Commander Kinsey
Who gives a f*ck about the theiving insurance? They refuse to pay out because it was a Wednesday, or an act of god, or whatever.
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