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I don't see it often but here's an instance:   Oh, WXP and latest (xp supported) FF [this post was last edited: 5/7/2020-22:33] https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82869_18~1

Thanks Eddie.  I thought that might be good for a snicker.  True too.   I can scratch-cook many of my favorites but it's a disproportionate amount of work/time for one serving so I fall back on frozen maybe 1/3 of the time.  The frozen dinner market is in a pretty sorry state.  Like the...

Where's the beef?  Didn't Wendy's use to ask that?  Now YOU can ask THEM.  One out of 5 will say "we don't have any".   Eddie:  I dunno why they call this hamburger helper, it does just fine by itself. I like it better than tuna helper, don't you Clark? Clark:  You're the gourmet around...

Friend had a Tesla coil.  Don't know what the freq was.  Threw about an inch arc.  Could touch it with your finger, no sensation of shock at all.  But when you looked at your finger there were holes burned in it.

Neighborhood (distribution) levels should be 7~14kV.  Austin was 7.2k; I hung out with some line guys, told me that.   Then there's lightning.  Unmeasurably high voltage and current, yet only kills an average of one in ten people it strikes.

More people are killed by chevrolets than ferraris.  Not because chevrolets are that much more dangerous, there's just a helluva lot more of them.   I've brushed across 120V a number of times.  Gets my attention, is about all.  Bee sting hurts worse. Graciously, my skin resistance is over...

<blockquote> We have had one guy get killed out here and that's enough </blockquote> Pardon the expression, that'snuff for me too.  Not the scaredy type, but certain levels of danger I'd sooner avoid.   I was fine with heights.  Climbed straight up the front of Diamond Head hand over hand...

4160 eh?  Count me out.  I'm not too uncomfortable with 25~30kV monitors, the danger parts are well known, easily avoided.  Even if they do bite you, there's no real oomph behind it.    Nothing like power mains can do.  Anything over 240V is pretty unforgiving.  One false move is all it...

I still miss my old appliances Those too.  Wish I had my 1973 Panasonic twintub back.   Besides the nostalgia, there were practical elements.  That machine doubled my salary in return for reducing its failure rate from 1 commercial lost per day, to 1 per week.  The chief kept records of...

OMG, the washer has to google specialty cycles?  Then forgets them??  Pardon my technosaur but that's going too far.   With all that razzmatazz going on, perhaps it has a child lock that your dear one could not figure out.  A password, like "password".

I love it too.  Revisiting that video raised my spirits.  Sounds daft, but I miss that machine.

Power is 10:1 step DOWN?  That's not how we used to do it, is it?  Station got SS Larcan (VHF 4) just before I left.  I had some idea what went on in the old RCAs.  No idea what goes on in SS.  Or digital.  Pay me $60K and I might care.   Ampex was not <span style="text-decoration...

<blockquote> Only one station had the Ampex machine.The others used RCA </blockquote> Many markets were like that.  The Ampex machine cost about twice what the RCA cost.  It was much faster, smoother and more versatile but 'most' stations just wanted 'a cart machine' and beyond that they didn't...

Just the metrology, principally measuring/correcting timing/positional errors in electromechanics.  Broadcast video is a pretty-well controlled environment.   Having this many closed loop mechanical systems in one machine made for some very entertaining times.  Whether watching it work or...

Meteor- and metr-.  Metr- being measurement.  Like the capacitive transformer.  In NTSC video we measured primarily in quarter cycles of 3.579545 MHz, which for mechanical parts can be counted down to horizontal or vertical rates.    Early machines had to wait 16ms to measure vertical rate...

My field was videotape.  Few voltages over 80VDC and none over 240VAC.  Power T&D is a whole 'nother world.  The crossovers are instrumentation/metrology, feedback, control.  Or I'd be pretty much lost.   Dad was apparatus sales engr/mgr for Westinghouse.  But he wasn't so much a talker at...

Right there is a component I didn't know existed, much less that under ideal configurations it can reveal that it is failing before it actually does.   That's part of what I mean by "FAASScinating" [Leonard Nimoy's most exaggerated delivery].

Car being only a coarse analogy.  That the system sometimes is going 'as fast as it can go' is derived from the times the utility comes on TV and begs us to reduce AC demand, or cycles us on and off.  Analogy breaks down in that, yes, that's nowhere near 'all the time'.  Still, it does happen...

Never having been privilege to the exact workings of power transmission and distribution, nonetheless can deduce the dynamics to which the unfamiliar terminology refers.  At former address (Euless TX) we had consistent/persistent outages in the 3-hour range.  I asked the utility for this kind of...

Glad for ya Johnny and thanks for the followup.