Can anyone explain how this battery charger works?...

gnuarm.del...@gmail.com :
= fucking MORON
===========================
As I said, when you reverse connect the battery, you double the voltage in the circuit.
Rather than having a difference of a couple of volts in the EMF opposing the current,
you now have a voltage that is perhaps 10 times that total.
Click to expand...

** What do you think the fucking 1A DIODE in series does ??

Whistle Dixie ???
 
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:14:18 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:33:34 -0000, Birdbrain Macaw (aka \"Commander Kinsey\",
\"James Wilkinson\", \"Steven Wanker\",\"Bruce Farquar\", \"Fred Johnson, etc.),
the pathological resident idiot and attention whore of all the uk ngs,
blathered again:

FLUSH the subnormal sociopathic trolling attention whore\'s latest
attention-baiting sick bullshit unread again


He asked a reasonable, on-topic for S.E.D. question.

It may be a PTC thermistor current limiter.
Click to expand...

He keeps trolling the shit out of these ngs, senile idiot. And you senile
cretins keep playing his game!
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:54:02 +0000, williamwright, another brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blabbered:


They are vastly different.

Bill
Click to expand...

His trolls have only one intent, troll-feeding senile moron!
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:03:34 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins\' endless absolutely idiotic
blather>

--
Another typical retarded conversation between our two village idiots,
Birdbrain and Rodent Speed:

Birdbrain: \"You beat me to it. Plain sex is boring.\"

Senile Rodent: \"Then fuck the cats. That wont be boring.\"

Birdbrain: \"Sell me a de-clawing tool first.\"

Senile Rodent: \"Wont help with the teeth.\"

Birdbrain: \"They\'ve never gone for me with their mouths.\"

Rodent Speed: \"They will if you are stupid enough to try fucking them.\"

Birdbrain: \"No, they always use claws.\"

Rodent Speed: \"They wont if you try fucking them. Try it and see.\"

Message-ID: <g3cjf7FavtgU1@mid.individual.net>
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:16:47 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins\' endless absolutely idiotic
blather>

--
Another typical retarded \"conversation\" between Birdbrain and senile Rodent:

Senile Rodent: \" Did you ever dig a hole to bury your own shit?\"

Birdbrain: \"I do if there\'s no flush toilet around.\"

Senile Rodent: \"Yeah, I prefer camping like that, off by myself with
no dunnys around and have always buried the shit.\"

MID: <fv66kaFml0nU2@mid.individual.net>
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:23:47 -0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org, another obviously mentally
challenged senile troll lover, babbled:

Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid> wrote in news:ZbgOJ.1024713
$X81f.793710@usenetxs.com:

FLUSH

GO AWAY, CHILD.
Click to expand...

Shut your stupid troll-feeding senile gob, idiotic senile bigmouth!
 
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:59:33 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com,
another mentally deficient, troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered:


> Try an ohmmeter.

Try not to play that clinically insane troll\'s game, senile twit! <tsk>
 
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:12:36 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:48:58 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:56:41 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:43:59 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:21:24 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 2:06:28 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:51:37 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail..com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 4:56:32 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:24:16 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 11:53:34 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:28:11 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, exactly. That\'s why it was disingenuous to post about the switched supplies. Saying, \"nowadays they\'re electronic\" would appear to be saying the transformerless supplies are not in use which is not correct.
Never looked inside one in great detail. I assumed they were switched mode, since a £4 LED bulb from China is. Never tried looking inside a tiny one, like a plug in USB PSU.

The light bulb has to be a switched device. Transformerless units waste a fair amount of power. Lightbulbs need to be efficient as they consume a fair amount of power and they also need to regulate the current.
Actually I have an old one which is just a capacitor dropper.. The capacitor recently exploded so I opened it up and replaced it with a larger one.
The lightbulbs are sold through retail establishments that expect a level of quality and safety.
I\'m not stupid enough to buy anything through an expensive retail establishment.
A typical wall wart isn\'t and doesn\'t regulate anything very well. The junk that are sold on the Internet are literally death traps. Watch one of Big Clive\'s tear-downs on various products. He finds dangerous stuff all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive/videos
I\'ve watched a lot of his stuff, but I\'ve never had a problem with a cheapo Chinese USB supply like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303876456847
Mind you I\'m not scared of electricity.

Yeah, sure. Enjoy.
I\'ve had several 240V shocks. That\'s all they are, a shock. Your muscles jump. Big fucking deal.

Wow! It\'s not often you find people who are so ignorant. You didn\'t have the electricity pass through your heart. If it goes in one finger and out another on the same hand, no big deal, but in one hand and out the other or in a hand and out the feet, you may end up a dead duck.
I\'ve had it in all directions. In one hand the hand gets warm, no muscles in your hand. One hand to the other, your arms do a Mexican wave, it\'s quite funny. Not painful at all.
What is the lethal current, 10 mA or so?

You strike me as a particularly ignorant person. Willfully ignorant, you might say. Is that right?
You\'re the ignorant one, it\'s 80mA (and only with a weak heart), why do you think breakers trip at 30mA? Which by the way means you cannot die if you have breakers. I have fuses because I\'m not a girl.

Yes, willfully ignorant. Not only do you appear to ignore safety advice,
Safety advice is for the weak and frail scaredycats.
you don\'t understand the difference between a \"breaker\" and a GFCI.
They tend to go together, you either have them both in the box, or they\'re part of the same unit.

Complete rubbish. I have several houses, all with GFCI and none have it in the circuit breaker panels. GFCI outlets can protect the entire string of outlets.

https://www.google.com/search?q=GFCI+outlets
Click to expand...

Just because you\'re too stupid to install it in the fusebox doesn\'t mean they don\'t exist. The entire UK has one of these (apart from houses like mine which have fuses):
https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ZJIQhmgWwwoj/2p-25A-30mA-Hyundai-RCCB-Residual-Current-Circuit-Breaker-ELCB.jpg
Protects against overcurrent and earth leakage.

Perhaps the USA is behind the times, perhaps you don\'t realise there are countries, better countries, outside of yours.

A GFCI will protect you if the current is flowing through you to ground, but not if you are in a live circuit with both hands, one on each conductor.
That is very unlikely to happen, although I\'ve done it and I\'m still here.

Unfortunately...
Click to expand...

It proves it\'s not dangerous.

Yes, you are not a girl. Girls can understand science, engineering and medicine.
They also shriek at the slightest pain.

Certainly they shriek at an attempt to communicate with you.
Click to expand...

They shriek at everything.

> I\'m done here. It is seldom that even in s.e.d anyone appears to be as willfully ignorant as you.

Then why the fuck did you reply? That\'s utterly childish, replying THEN killfiling me. No doubt you\'ve got one of those shit killfiles that doesn\'t block responses to me, so you\'ll read this when someone else replies.
 
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:11:04 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com,
another mentally deficient, troll-feeding senile twit, babbled again:

You could

Think hard about it
Click to expand...

LOL Troll-feeding senile asshole still hasn\'t checked what\'s going on!
 
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:54:44 -0000, Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:12:36 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail..com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:48:58 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:56:41 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:43:59 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:21:24 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 2:06:28 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:51:37 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 4:56:32 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:24:16 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 11:53:34 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:28:11 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del....@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, exactly. That\'s why it was disingenuous to post about the switched supplies. Saying, \"nowadays they\'re electronic\" would appear to be saying the transformerless supplies are not in use which is not correct.
Never looked inside one in great detail. I assumed they were switched mode, since a £4 LED bulb from China is. Never tried looking inside a tiny one, like a plug in USB PSU.

The light bulb has to be a switched device. Transformerless units waste a fair amount of power. Lightbulbs need to be efficient as they consume a fair amount of power and they also need to regulate the current.
Actually I have an old one which is just a capacitor dropper. The capacitor recently exploded so I opened it up and replaced it with a larger one.
The lightbulbs are sold through retail establishments that expect a level of quality and safety.
I\'m not stupid enough to buy anything through an expensive retail establishment.
A typical wall wart isn\'t and doesn\'t regulate anything very well. The junk that are sold on the Internet are literally death traps. Watch one of Big Clive\'s tear-downs on various products. He finds dangerous stuff all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive/videos
I\'ve watched a lot of his stuff, but I\'ve never had a problem with a cheapo Chinese USB supply like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303876456847
Mind you I\'m not scared of electricity.

Yeah, sure. Enjoy.
I\'ve had several 240V shocks. That\'s all they are, a shock. Your muscles jump. Big fucking deal.

Wow! It\'s not often you find people who are so ignorant. You didn\'t have the electricity pass through your heart. If it goes in one finger and out another on the same hand, no big deal, but in one hand and out the other or in a hand and out the feet, you may end up a dead duck.
I\'ve had it in all directions. In one hand the hand gets warm, no muscles in your hand. One hand to the other, your arms do a Mexican wave, it\'s quite funny. Not painful at all.
What is the lethal current, 10 mA or so?

You strike me as a particularly ignorant person. Willfully ignorant, you might say. Is that right?
You\'re the ignorant one, it\'s 80mA (and only with a weak heart), why do you think breakers trip at 30mA? Which by the way means you cannot die if you have breakers. I have fuses because I\'m not a girl.

Yes, willfully ignorant. Not only do you appear to ignore safety advice,
Safety advice is for the weak and frail scaredycats.
you don\'t understand the difference between a \"breaker\" and a GFCI..
They tend to go together, you either have them both in the box, or they\'re part of the same unit.

Complete rubbish. I have several houses, all with GFCI and none have it in the circuit breaker panels. GFCI outlets can protect the entire string of outlets.

https://www.google.com/search?q=GFCI+outlets

Just because you\'re too stupid to install it in the fusebox doesn\'t mean they don\'t exist. The entire UK has one of these (apart from houses like mine which have fuses):
https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ZJIQhmgWwwoj/2p-25A-30mA-Hyundai-RCCB-Residual-Current-Circuit-Breaker-ELCB.jpg
Protects against overcurrent and earth leakage.

Perhaps the USA is behind the times, perhaps you don\'t realise there are countries, better countries, outside of yours.

A GFCI will protect you if the current is flowing through you to ground, but not if you are in a live circuit with both hands, one on each conductor.
That is very unlikely to happen, although I\'ve done it and I\'m still here.

Unfortunately...

It proves it\'s not dangerous.

Yes, you are not a girl. Girls can understand science, engineering and medicine.
They also shriek at the slightest pain.

Certainly they shriek at an attempt to communicate with you.

They shriek at everything.

I\'m done here. It is seldom that even in s.e.d anyone appears to be as willfully ignorant as you.

Then why the fuck did you reply? That\'s utterly childish, replying THEN killfiling me. No doubt you\'ve got one of those shit killfiles that doesn\'t block responses to me, so you\'ll read this when someone else replies.
Click to expand...

Like me.
 
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:57:26 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com,
another mentally deficient, troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered again:


> It can\'t. Maybe that yellow disk is not a capacitor.

Maybe that PROVEN clinically insane attention whore is just a trolling piece
of shit, senile twit? <VBG>
 
Its called a lossless charger. I encountered something like it in an old
pifco charging circuit in a torch. From what I could see one rectifier one
large capacitor and a small bleed resistor across the mains pins was all
supposed to charge two flat Ni-cads, and it was fine until the capacitor got
leaky, and the room filled with nasty smelling smoke.

I\'m just guessing here, since I cannot see your circuit, but it used to be a
very common practice for small rechargeable devices.
Brian

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\"Commander Kinsey\" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eek:p.1hjp1807mvhs6z@ryzen.lan...
https://imgur.com/a/b8l5qKQ

Look at the circuit diagram. The positive of the battery is only
connected through a capacitor. How can a capacitor possibly pass DC
current to allow the battery to charge?
Click to expand...
 
On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 4:57:01 PM UTC-5, Kimberly Richards wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:54:44 -0000, Commander Kinsey <C...@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:12:36 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:48:58 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:56:41 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:43:59 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:21:24 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 2:06:28 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:51:37 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail..com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 4:56:32 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:24:16 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 11:53:34 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:28:11 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, exactly. That\'s why it was disingenuous to post about the switched supplies. Saying, \"nowadays they\'re electronic\" would appear to be saying the transformerless supplies are not in use which is not correct.
Never looked inside one in great detail. I assumed they were switched mode, since a £4 LED bulb from China is. Never tried looking inside a tiny one, like a plug in USB PSU.

The light bulb has to be a switched device. Transformerless units waste a fair amount of power. Lightbulbs need to be efficient as they consume a fair amount of power and they also need to regulate the current.
Actually I have an old one which is just a capacitor dropper.. The capacitor recently exploded so I opened it up and replaced it with a larger one.
The lightbulbs are sold through retail establishments that expect a level of quality and safety.
I\'m not stupid enough to buy anything through an expensive retail establishment.
A typical wall wart isn\'t and doesn\'t regulate anything very well. The junk that are sold on the Internet are literally death traps. Watch one of Big Clive\'s tear-downs on various products. He finds dangerous stuff all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive/videos
I\'ve watched a lot of his stuff, but I\'ve never had a problem with a cheapo Chinese USB supply like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303876456847
Mind you I\'m not scared of electricity.

Yeah, sure. Enjoy.
I\'ve had several 240V shocks. That\'s all they are, a shock. Your muscles jump. Big fucking deal.

Wow! It\'s not often you find people who are so ignorant. You didn\'t have the electricity pass through your heart. If it goes in one finger and out another on the same hand, no big deal, but in one hand and out the other or in a hand and out the feet, you may end up a dead duck.
I\'ve had it in all directions. In one hand the hand gets warm, no muscles in your hand. One hand to the other, your arms do a Mexican wave, it\'s quite funny. Not painful at all.
What is the lethal current, 10 mA or so?

You strike me as a particularly ignorant person. Willfully ignorant, you might say. Is that right?
You\'re the ignorant one, it\'s 80mA (and only with a weak heart), why do you think breakers trip at 30mA? Which by the way means you cannot die if you have breakers. I have fuses because I\'m not a girl.

Yes, willfully ignorant. Not only do you appear to ignore safety advice,
Safety advice is for the weak and frail scaredycats.
you don\'t understand the difference between a \"breaker\" and a GFCI.
They tend to go together, you either have them both in the box, or they\'re part of the same unit.

Complete rubbish. I have several houses, all with GFCI and none have it in the circuit breaker panels. GFCI outlets can protect the entire string of outlets.

https://www.google.com/search?q=GFCI+outlets

Just because you\'re too stupid to install it in the fusebox doesn\'t mean they don\'t exist. The entire UK has one of these (apart from houses like mine which have fuses):
https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ZJIQhmgWwwoj/2p-25A-30mA-Hyundai-RCCB-Residual-Current-Circuit-Breaker-ELCB.jpg
Protects against overcurrent and earth leakage.

Perhaps the USA is behind the times, perhaps you don\'t realise there are countries, better countries, outside of yours.

A GFCI will protect you if the current is flowing through you to ground, but not if you are in a live circuit with both hands, one on each conductor.
That is very unlikely to happen, although I\'ve done it and I\'m still here.

Unfortunately...

It proves it\'s not dangerous.

Yes, you are not a girl. Girls can understand science, engineering and medicine.
They also shriek at the slightest pain.

Certainly they shriek at an attempt to communicate with you.

They shriek at everything.

I\'m done here. It is seldom that even in s.e.d anyone appears to be as willfully ignorant as you.

Then why the fuck did you reply? That\'s utterly childish, replying THEN killfiling me. No doubt you\'ve got one of those shit killfiles that doesn\'t block responses to me, so you\'ll read this when someone else replies.
Like me.
Click to expand...

That shows how stupid he is. I never said anything about kill filing him. I just said I won\'t be responding to him. He has to be one of the most stupid people here and that includes the likes of DLUNU and Cursitor Dumb.

--

Rick C.

+-+- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+-+- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
Yes stop this silly childish response. Nobody is asking anyone else to read
every post are they?
Brian

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Note this Signature is meaningless.!
<jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com> wrote in message
news:mklj0h96kjckuf3d3hb16pieejjvf0gofl@4ax.com...
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:55:04 +0100, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:33:34 -0000, Birdbrain Macaw (aka \"Commander
Kinsey\",
\"James Wilkinson\", \"Steven Wanker\",\"Bruce Farquar\", \"Fred Johnson, etc.),
the pathological resident idiot and attention whore of all the uk ngs,
blathered again:

FLUSH the subnormal sociopathic trolling attention whore\'s latest
attention-baiting sick bullshit unread again


He asked a reasonable, on-topic for S.E.D. question.

It may be a PTC thermistor current limiter.



--

I yam what I yam - Popeye
Click to expand...
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:33:40 -0000, Brainless & Daft, the notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:

Yes stop this silly childish response. Nobody is asking anyone else to read
every post are they?
Brainless & Daft
Click to expand...

Says of course that idiotic sick senile asshole who will thankfully accept
ANY idiotic trollshit that gives him another opportunity to keep blathering
and gossiping about it endlessly! With useless idiots like you around,
\"euthanizing\" seems to be become an option worth considering.
 
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:30:20 -0000, Brainless & Daft, the notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:

> Its called a lossless charger.

It\'s called a troll, senile cretin!
 
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:37:43 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 4:57:01 PM UTC-5, Kimberly Richards wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:54:44 -0000, Commander Kinsey <C...@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:12:36 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:48:58 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:56:41 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:43:59 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:21:24 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 2:06:28 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:51:37 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 4:56:32 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:24:16 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del....@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 11:53:34 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:28:11 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, exactly. That\'s why it was disingenuous to post about the switched supplies. Saying, \"nowadays they\'re electronic\" would appear to be saying the transformerless supplies are not in use which is not correct.
Never looked inside one in great detail. I assumed they were switched mode, since a £4 LED bulb from China is. Never tried looking inside a tiny one, like a plug in USB PSU.

The light bulb has to be a switched device. Transformerless units waste a fair amount of power. Lightbulbs need to be efficient as they consume a fair amount of power and they also need to regulate the current.
Actually I have an old one which is just a capacitor dropper. The capacitor recently exploded so I opened it up and replaced it with a larger one.
The lightbulbs are sold through retail establishments that expect a level of quality and safety.
I\'m not stupid enough to buy anything through an expensive retail establishment.
A typical wall wart isn\'t and doesn\'t regulate anything very well. The junk that are sold on the Internet are literally death traps. Watch one of Big Clive\'s tear-downs on various products. He finds dangerous stuff all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive/videos
I\'ve watched a lot of his stuff, but I\'ve never had a problem with a cheapo Chinese USB supply like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303876456847
Mind you I\'m not scared of electricity.

Yeah, sure. Enjoy.
I\'ve had several 240V shocks. That\'s all they are, a shock. Your muscles jump. Big fucking deal.

Wow! It\'s not often you find people who are so ignorant. You didn\'t have the electricity pass through your heart. If it goes in one finger and out another on the same hand, no big deal, but in one hand and out the other or in a hand and out the feet, you may end up a dead duck.
I\'ve had it in all directions. In one hand the hand gets warm, no muscles in your hand. One hand to the other, your arms do a Mexican wave, it\'s quite funny. Not painful at all.
What is the lethal current, 10 mA or so?

You strike me as a particularly ignorant person. Willfully ignorant, you might say. Is that right?
You\'re the ignorant one, it\'s 80mA (and only with a weak heart), why do you think breakers trip at 30mA? Which by the way means you cannot die if you have breakers. I have fuses because I\'m not a girl.

Yes, willfully ignorant. Not only do you appear to ignore safety advice,
Safety advice is for the weak and frail scaredycats.
you don\'t understand the difference between a \"breaker\" and a GFCI.
They tend to go together, you either have them both in the box, or they\'re part of the same unit.

Complete rubbish. I have several houses, all with GFCI and none have it in the circuit breaker panels. GFCI outlets can protect the entire string of outlets.

https://www.google.com/search?q=GFCI+outlets

Just because you\'re too stupid to install it in the fusebox doesn\'t mean they don\'t exist. The entire UK has one of these (apart from houses like mine which have fuses):
https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ZJIQhmgWwwoj/2p-25A-30mA-Hyundai-RCCB-Residual-Current-Circuit-Breaker-ELCB.jpg
Protects against overcurrent and earth leakage.

Perhaps the USA is behind the times, perhaps you don\'t realise there are countries, better countries, outside of yours.

A GFCI will protect you if the current is flowing through you to ground, but not if you are in a live circuit with both hands, one on each conductor.
That is very unlikely to happen, although I\'ve done it and I\'m still here.

Unfortunately...

It proves it\'s not dangerous.

Yes, you are not a girl. Girls can understand science, engineering and medicine.
They also shriek at the slightest pain.

Certainly they shriek at an attempt to communicate with you.

They shriek at everything.

I\'m done here. It is seldom that even in s.e.d anyone appears to be as willfully ignorant as you.

Then why the fuck did you reply? That\'s utterly childish, replying THEN killfiling me. No doubt you\'ve got one of those shit killfiles that doesn\'t block responses to me, so you\'ll read this when someone else replies.
Like me.

That shows how stupid he is. I never said anything about kill filing him. I just said I won\'t be responding to him. He has to be one of the most stupid people here and that includes the likes of DLUNU and Cursitor Dumb.
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Why are you referring to me in the third person?

If you don\'t use a killfile to get rid of people you don\'t like, you\'re an idiot.
 
On 2/13/2022 5:33 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:55:51 -0000, Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 3:33:49 PM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
https://imgur.com/a/b8l5qKQ

Look at the circuit diagram. The positive of the battery is only connected through a capacitor. How can a capacitor possibly pass DC current to allow the battery to charge?

Maybe it\'s an AC battery?  They are very useful for grid storage applications as long as you can control the phase.

What makes you think that component is a capacitor?  I\'m assuming you drew the schematic.

I\'ve learned from someone on Quora that it\'s actually a PTC Fuse - a resettable semiconductor fuse.

The second image in the link shows a brown disk, which I thought was a ceramic capacitor.  Looks like it\'s to stop a busted battery from being overcharged when a cell has died.
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The shape of the edge of the device,
hints that it is not a disc capacitor.

One reason for that, is the material the yellow
thing is dipped in, is a hell of a lot harder,
than the softer stuff used on the older disc caps.
The yellow material might be intended to be
flame proof or the like.

As a connoisseur of circuits, I bet you\'ve already
made up your mind as to whether this circuit is a
good idea or a bad idea...

Paul
 
On 13/02/2022 23:57, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:33:34 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

https://imgur.com/a/b8l5qKQ

Look at the circuit diagram. The positive of the battery is only connected through a capacitor. How can a capacitor possibly pass DC current to allow the battery to charge?

It can\'t. Maybe that yellow disk is not a capacitor.



Thermistor more like
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:22:30 -0500, Paul, another mentally deficient,
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered:


The shape of the edge of the device,
hints that it is not a disc capacitor.
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The presentation of his posts, as well as his entire posting history, hints
that he is a fucking stupid troll and attention whore, troll-feeding senile
asshole!
 
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