Driver to drive?

[rickman]

On 4/14/2014 7:50 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:

On 15/04/2014 01:36, miso wrote:


You can do "hold for pickup" with UPS. Kind of tricky to get the
vendor to
go for it. You make the shipping address be the UPS customer center.
Shipping label looks something like this:

Your Name
UPS Customer Center
address
Hold for pickup: your phone number

I do this for anything fragile since it removes one less step in the
transmit, i.e. the guy on the delivery truck.

UPS customer center addresses are online. I don't know if this works
in the
UK.

Fedex always accepted will call shipments. UPS does it kind of
reluctantly.

They might, but they would still require photo-ID for the pickup to the
successful.

I don't think you are going to get around the photo-id thing. I still
don't get why you don't have a driver license with you. That is pretty
mandatory here in the US for most anything. I can't imagine being able
to go anywhere without it. I obviously must have it to drive and it is
required for flying as well. So how can you be working remotely without
it? I guess trains are a lot more practical in the UK, but I think you
need photo ID to board a train here as well.... not sure as I haven't
been on a train in years.

--

Rick

 

[Rich Webb]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:35:04 -0400, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/14/2014 7:19 PM, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote:
...snip...
Has anyone else been in the same situation and how did they overcome the
problem?

Sure, the best thing to do is have the package sent elsewhere next
time.

I have the option to have it sent to my work location, the guy at the
docks just signs for everything that comes in. Just put a ATT: xxxxxxx,
also if you pick those cheap rates, they may even deliver sooner than
normal, over making you wait for the maximum delivery time!

I know the OP is in the UK, but here in the states a very underrated
delivery service is Priority mail with the USPS. Digikey is in a rather
remote corner of Minnesota which makes them a 4 day delivery to me when
shipped by ground. But the USPS consistently delivers in 2 days and is
only $5 for a package regardless of weight. They have a flat rate box
which holds a reasonable amount of electronic parts.

+1 for the USPS priority option! I've found that it usually manages to
hit all three legs of the triangle: good, cheap, and fast.

I won't use UPS
anymore if I have any other choice.

However, I've been okay with UPS as well. I did sign up for a free
"myUPS" account some years ago and with that I get an automated email
whenever there's an inbound package. That gives me an opportunity to
reschedule or re-route the delivery. No complaints. The last delivery
guy even managed to get a box onto the screened-in front porch without
letting the cats get out into the yard. That ain't easy... ;-)

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:36:47 UTC+10, haitic...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:20:01 AM UTC-4, David Brown wrote:
On 15/04/14 18:01, haizticare2011v@gmail.ccom wrote:

<snip>

Friends are more important than diet or anything else!

Explain that, materialist scientists!


snip snip

The determining factor for me about "Hoaxes" is the following:

1. they involve a large amount of money in the perps pockets
2. they involve disinformation to a large group of people
3. official bodies are usually involved.
4. "true believer" advocates push the beliefs in public as proven fact

Not exactly. The determining "fact" for you is that they involve a massive conspiracy theory, which you can congratulate yourself on being "clever" enough to know about.

The reality is that you have persuaded yourself that modern society is totally dominated by hoaxes, to the point that - if you were right - it couldn't possibly work.

The reason I go easy on Homeopathy is it's small change compared to the hidden hoaxes. Homeopathy is a "Brave New World" hoax. It is a hoax that the pols point to and say: "See, there is a hoax." An official hoax.

Now, if the structure of institutional science itself is largely a hoax, then a minor hoax like homeopathy provides a welcome distraction, doesn't it?

Big "if". Nassim Nicholas Taleb in "Antifragile" makes the point that modern technology depends more on individual tinkerers than institutional science, but institutional science provides the structure that allows the knowledge gained by individual tinkerers to be pulled together and made available to other tinkerers.

If you don't understand that, you don't understand enough to be a useful member of modern society.

> In sum, it is a "red herring."

Homeopathy is definitely a "red herring". Your ideas on "hoaxes" are more in the nature of stinking fish - the putrid product of a diseased mind.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Tim Wescott]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:35:04 -0400, rickman wrote:

On 4/14/2014 7:19 PM, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote:
...snip...
Has anyone else been in the same situation and how did they overcome
the problem?

Sure, the best thing to do is have the package sent elsewhere next
time.

I have the option to have it sent to my work location, the guy at the
docks just signs for everything that comes in. Just put a ATT: xxxxxxx,
also if you pick those cheap rates, they may even deliver sooner than
normal, over making you wait for the maximum delivery time!

I know the OP is in the UK, but here in the states a very underrated
delivery service is Priority mail with the USPS. Digikey is in a rather
remote corner of Minnesota which makes them a 4 day delivery to me when
shipped by ground. But the USPS consistently delivers in 2 days and is
only $5 for a package regardless of weight. They have a flat rate box
which holds a reasonable amount of electronic parts. I won't use UPS
anymore if I have any other choice.

Even better if you're not in a hurry and your order is small is 1st-class
mail. Delivery is about as fast as UPS ground, and the prices is about
1/3.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

 

[Martin Brown]

On 16/04/2014 20:40, rickman wrote:

On 4/14/2014 7:50 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
On 15/04/2014 01:36, miso wrote:


You can do "hold for pickup" with UPS. Kind of tricky to get the
vendor to
go for it. You make the shipping address be the UPS customer center.
Shipping label looks something like this:

Your Name
UPS Customer Center
address
Hold for pickup: your phone number

I do this for anything fragile since it removes one less step in the
transmit, i.e. the guy on the delivery truck.

UPS customer center addresses are online. I don't know if this works
in the
UK.

Fedex always accepted will call shipments. UPS does it kind of
reluctantly.

They might, but they would still require photo-ID for the pickup to the
successful.

I don't think you are going to get around the photo-id thing. I still
don't get why you don't have a driver license with you. That is pretty
mandatory here in the US for most anything. I can't imagine being able
to go anywhere without it. I obviously must have it to drive and it is
required for flying as well. So how can you be working remotely without
it? I guess trains are a lot more practical in the UK, but I think you
need photo ID to board a train here as well.... not sure as I haven't
been on a train in years.

You don't need photo ID in the UK to do anything apart from leave the
country. Modern UK drivers licenses do have a photo on them but not
everyone has one and there is no compulsion to carry it with you - only
to produce it at a police station within 7 days if challenged to do so.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[rickman]

On 4/16/2014 4:20 PM, Martin Brown wrote:

On 16/04/2014 20:40, rickman wrote:
....snip...
I don't think you are going to get around the photo-id thing. I still
don't get why you don't have a driver license with you. That is pretty
mandatory here in the US for most anything. I can't imagine being able
to go anywhere without it. I obviously must have it to drive and it is
required for flying as well. So how can you be working remotely without
it? I guess trains are a lot more practical in the UK, but I think you
need photo ID to board a train here as well.... not sure as I haven't
been on a train in years.

You don't need photo ID in the UK to do anything apart from leave the
country. Modern UK drivers licenses do have a photo on them but not
everyone has one and there is no compulsion to carry it with you - only
to produce it at a police station within 7 days if challenged to do so.

You mean you don't need to carry the license with you when you drive in
the UK??? Wow, that largely makes it a pointless document. Wow.

--

Rick

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:20:53 +0100, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

You don't need photo ID in the UK to do anything apart from leave the
country. Modern UK drivers licenses do have a photo on them but not
everyone has one and there is no compulsion to carry it with you - only
to produce it at a police station within 7 days if challenged to do so.

Mmm.. that's civilised.

--sp

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christense]

Den onsdag den 16. april 2014 00.54.12 UTC+2 skrev panfilero:

On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:20:31 AM UTC-5, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:57:11 -0700 (PDT), panfilero



@gmail.com> wrote:







I'm interested in sensing AC and DC currents, 0-8A nominally, but up to 160A for 10msec current surges from both AC and DC sources... I'm after the best resolution I can get... I don't know if it's possible to do this for both AC and DC off the same current sense circuit... I was thinking a shunt through a current sense amplifier then to an RMS to DC converter IC... but I'm not sure if this is the best approach... any suggestions?







much thanks!







Are you only measuring the 0-8A, and just tolerating the 160A surge,



or do you need to measure the 160A as well?







...Jim Thompson



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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.



Measure the 160A surge as well... I'm thinking a shunt (2mOhm or so) with an isolated sigma delta converter right now....



like this guy:

http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD7401A.pdf

why not get it all in one package: http://www.allegromicro.com/~/media/Files/Datasheets/ACS770-Datasheet.ashx

 

[Maynard A. Philbrook Jr.]

In article <limm0i$kn9$1@dont-email.me>, gnuarm@gmail.com says...

On 4/14/2014 7:19 PM, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote:
...snip...
Has anyone else been in the same situation and how did they overcome the
problem?

Sure, the best thing to do is have the package sent elsewhere next
time.

I have the option to have it sent to my work location, the guy at the
docks just signs for everything that comes in. Just put a ATT: xxxxxxx,
also if you pick those cheap rates, they may even deliver sooner than
normal, over making you wait for the maximum delivery time!

I know the OP is in the UK, but here in the states a very underrated
delivery service is Priority mail with the USPS. Digikey is in a rather
remote corner of Minnesota which makes them a 4 day delivery to me when
shipped by ground. But the USPS consistently delivers in 2 days and is
only $5 for a package regardless of weight. They have a flat rate box
which holds a reasonable amount of electronic parts. I won't use UPS
anymore if I have any other choice.

Yes, I have been using the USPS as much as possible in the last couple
of years. At least with them If they don't want to leave the package or
it's too large to bring to your house, they leave a slip and I go pick
it up.. Of course, I still need to show them ID

Jmaie

 

[Mike Perkins]

On 16/04/2014 20:20, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:36:39 +0100, Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com
wrote:


I cannot recommend UPS! No other carrier has ever given me this
magnitude of run-around and grief.

Ah, then you've yet to experience DHL.

Surely, they cannot be worse!!

I made another phone call to see if I might be given a different
fob-off like story, and yes the story was entirely different again.

They said it was still at the shop and for business to business
deliveries there will be only one attempt. So different again, despite
the UPS website saying 3 and not differentiating between business,
private or residential. However this person did say that an "official"
bill with my name and address to match the consignment would be
sufficient to collect the parcel from the shop. Naturally I said I
would be able to print something out that should convince the shop.
Without any drawing of breath she said "yes".

So armed with a bill with my name and the address I finally extracted
the parcel from the shop. Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since then I got an email from DigiKey to say the parcel had been
"delivered". I note the tracking info has now changed from "Exception"
to "Delivered"!

Are you really, really sure DHL are worse? How can they?


--
Mike Perkins
Video Solutions Ltd
www.videosolutions.ltd.uk

 

[Mike Perkins]

On 16/04/2014 20:35, rickman wrote:

On 4/14/2014 7:19 PM, Maynard A. Philbrook Jr. wrote:
...snip...
Has anyone else been in the same situation and how did they overcome the
problem?

Sure, the best thing to do is have the package sent elsewhere next
time.

I have the option to have it sent to my work location, the guy at the
docks just signs for everything that comes in. Just put a ATT: xxxxxxx,
also if you pick those cheap rates, they may even deliver sooner than
normal, over making you wait for the maximum delivery time!

I know the OP is in the UK, but here in the states a very underrated
delivery service is Priority mail with the USPS. Digikey is in a rather
remote corner of Minnesota which makes them a 4 day delivery to me when
shipped by ground. But the USPS consistently delivers in 2 days and is
only $5 for a package regardless of weight. They have a flat rate box
which holds a reasonable amount of electronic parts. I won't use UPS
anymore if I have any other choice.

Despite all the things I have said, I too find it impressive how UPS can
get a parcel from DigiKey to just a mile away from me in 36 hours or so.

What I am very unimpressed with is it then takes a further 6 or 7 days
for me to get my hands on it!

--
Mike Perkins
Video Solutions Ltd
www.videosolutions.ltd.uk

 

[Mike Perkins]

On 16/04/2014 21:44, rickman wrote:

On 4/16/2014 4:20 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/04/2014 20:40, rickman wrote:
...snip...
I don't think you are going to get around the photo-id thing. I still
don't get why you don't have a driver license with you. That is pretty
mandatory here in the US for most anything. I can't imagine being able
to go anywhere without it. I obviously must have it to drive and it is
required for flying as well. So how can you be working remotely without
it? I guess trains are a lot more practical in the UK, but I think you
need photo ID to board a train here as well.... not sure as I haven't
been on a train in years.

You don't need photo ID in the UK to do anything apart from leave the
country. Modern UK drivers licenses do have a photo on them but not
everyone has one and there is no compulsion to carry it with you - only
to produce it at a police station within 7 days if challenged to do so.

You mean you don't need to carry the license with you when you drive in
the UK??? Wow, that largely makes it a pointless document. Wow.

You have to produce the licence within a short timescale if you don't
have it on you. Furthermore it is trivial for the police to check if
you have a licence. Generally, a driving licence is only needed if you
ever need to hire a vehicle and use their insurance.


--
Mike Perkins
Video Solutions Ltd
www.videosolutions.ltd.uk

 

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:36:26 +0100, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 16/04/2014 00:35, krw@attt.bizz wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:20:51 -0700, miso <miso@sushi.com> wrote:

Some vendors insist on getting a signature.

Those vendors don't get it.

I expect they do.

You can expect anything. Whether your expectations are real or not is
a whole different kettle.

Otherwise you get claims for goods not delivered, stolen off the
doorstep or ruined by being left out in the elements.

Doesn't change facts. I always have stuff (that nominally requires a
signature) left when no one is home. It's rare that I have to chase
them down.

It comes in very handy when the courier has delivered your goods to the
wrong address entirely and checking the signature shows indeed that
"someone" has signed for it, but that someone is *NOT* you.

That may be the way it's supposed to work but...

That said most of my regular carriers know where they can hide stuff if
I am not in and these modern digital signature slates make it almost
impossible to do much more of a signature than "his mark" X.

 

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:50:17 +0100, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 16/04/2014 01:53, mike wrote:
On 4/15/2014 6:03 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/04/2014 13:20, mike wrote:
On 4/15/2014 3:49 AM, John Fields wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:09:57 +0100, Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com
wrote:

I ordered components from DigiKey a short while ago.
Unfortunately no one was in when UPS delivered.
The UPS UK website says that 3 delivery attempts will be made.
However the consignment has gone to a "shop" and is now stuck there.

UPS require "government photo-ID" for me me to retrieve the
consignment
from the shop and I currently don't have any at hand and UPS won't
attempt any more deliveries.

Yes I can get my photo-ID but it's not at hand at the moment, I can
have
something sent to me, but this is all very silly and myopic.

Has anyone else been in the same situation and how did they overcome
the
problem?

Carry the photo id with you at all times. Dunno where you live, but
here in the land that used to be free, it's necessary for many
transactions.

He is in the UK and thanks to the Magna Carta there is no need to carry
government issued photo ID around with you here. New drivers licenses
and passports have a photo but there is no compulsion to carry either.

Proof of ID here relies on a haphazard list of random documents
including utility bills and existing bank cards. It is barking mad.

Previous government tried to issue ID cards but cocked it up big time!

Unless he can find his passport the UPS parcel is stuck in the shop.


If a person expects to exist in any environment, they need to
understand and comply
with whatever requirements are imposed by the system.

The point is that the system in the UK is different to in the US - we
don't have any form of national government issued photo ID card.

What makes you think there is in the US? Well, both do, really;
passports.

I am not defending the status quo. I think it is barking mad. I have
lived in Japan and Belgium both of which do have national identity cards
and the Japanese Alien one even includes a fingerprint.

True in the US (alien IDs), too, though it's not enforced anymore.

Failure to carry documentation required by the government or a business
or anybody means that you don't get the job done. That's your problem,
not the problem of UPS.

Whilst I agree. The point I am making is that it is perfectly possible
to live in the UK and have *NO* government issued photoID whatsoever.

It's possible anywhere. It's often done in the US, too.

My mother has no valid UK passport and has never driven a car in her
life. The closest to "government photoID" she has is a local council
issued Bus Pass and Blue Disabled Parking badge with her photo on it.

No NHS ID?

It's really no different from making a phone call. If you don't have
the number with you, you don't get to make the call. And it's nobody's
fault but your own. Bitching about it won't help.

There is a slight difference in that to get a UK passport or drivers
licence you will have to expend a fair chunk of money and time.

Very few people carry either document around with them routinely.

 

[Ralph Barone]

Jan Panteltje <panteltje@yahoo.com> wrote:

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:19:59 GMT) it happened Ralph Barone
address_is@invalid.invalid> wrote in
74523550419266093.557672address_is-invalid.invalid@shawnews>:

Jan Panteltje <panteltje@yahoo.com> wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:57:11 -0700 (PDT)) it happened panfilero
panfilero@gmail.com> wrote in
3cc79148-b2ec-4410-a66a-51666fa01053@googlegroups.com>:

I'm interested in sensing AC and DC currents, 0-8A nominally, but up to 160=
A for 10msec current surges from both AC and DC sources... I'm after the be=
st resolution I can get... I don't know if it's possible to do this for bot=
h AC and DC off the same current sense circuit... I was thinking a shunt th=
rough a current sense amplifier then to an RMS to DC converter IC... but I'=
m not sure if this is the best approach... any suggestions?

much thanks!

I have some nice Hall sensor based DC sensors....
No shunt losses.
http://nl.farnell.com/lem/hx-10-p-sp2/current-transducer/dp/1617421
There are lower current models too.

" No shunt losses". OK, since we all know that TANSTAAFL, would anyone
care to estimate what the additional impedance of running a wire past a
Hall effect sensor is? It takes real force to push those electrons and
holes around, you know. Just the thought of calculating the answer makes my
brain hurt.

You could avoid that pain by spending 6 dolars and measuring it?
Or is measuring no longer of this age, and is slimulation required?

My suspicion is that the increased burden in the primary circuit from
adding a Hall effect sensor is probably unmeasurable, which is why I asked
about a theoretical solution. And it is just out of curiosity, but I
thought that somebody else with better analytical chops than me and better
knowledge of Hall effect device design might take up the challenge.

 

[whit3rd]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:12:40 PM UTC-7, Ralph Barone wrote:

My suspicion is that the increased burden in the primary circuit from

adding a Hall effect sensor is probably unmeasurable, which is why I asked

about a theoretical solution. And it is just out of curiosity, but I

thought that somebody else with better analytical chops than me and better

knowledge of Hall effect device design might take up the challenge.

I'm pretty sure the Hall effect is due to electron drift velocity
and deflection of the moving electrons by a magnetic field. There's
no work whatever done by the magnetic field on such a moving charge.
No work, zero power, zero resistive-like energy losses.

Magnetic force on a moving charge is perpendicular to velocity,
the power is zero because F-vector and V-vector are orthogonal.

 

[Martin Brown]

On 16/04/2014 21:44, rickman wrote:

On 4/16/2014 4:20 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/04/2014 20:40, rickman wrote:
...snip...
I don't think you are going to get around the photo-id thing. I still
don't get why you don't have a driver license with you. That is pretty
mandatory here in the US for most anything. I can't imagine being able
to go anywhere without it. I obviously must have it to drive and it is
required for flying as well. So how can you be working remotely without
it? I guess trains are a lot more practical in the UK, but I think you
need photo ID to board a train here as well.... not sure as I haven't
been on a train in years.

You don't need photo ID in the UK to do anything apart from leave the
country. Modern UK drivers licenses do have a photo on them but not
everyone has one and there is no compulsion to carry it with you - only
to produce it at a police station within 7 days if challenged to do so.

You mean you don't need to carry the license with you when you drive in
the UK??? Wow, that largely makes it a pointless document. Wow.

The only time you need to produce one physically is if challenged by a
police officer and they can't find it online or you want to hire a car.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Martin Brown]

On 17/04/2014 01:07, krw@attt.bizz wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:50:17 +0100, Martin Brown
|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:


My mother has no valid UK passport and has never driven a car in her
life. The closest to "government photoID" she has is a local council
issued Bus Pass and Blue Disabled Parking badge with her photo on it.

No NHS ID?

It is just a random number and can be looked up from Nation Insurance
number or Name and Date of Birth. She has one but I have no idea what it
is and nor does she. We do get issued with NHS cards but no-one knows
where theirs is or what numbers are on them & no photo on it.

NHS cards are so insignificant and irrelevant that the banks would not
accept one as proof of ID (either on list A or list B).

We take slightly better care of the EU wide medical cards which allow
you to access free medical services or use hospitals within the EU when
on holiday (although it is wise to also have travel insurance).

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

Another science hoax is the medical establishment's view of supplements, and the
rda (rec. daily allowance).

Cut to the chase: 70% of the population is D3 deficient, you need 5000 iu a day.
70% deficient in magnesium, etc.

The rda is oriented to preventing disease, like rickets in childhood.
It would be interesting to estimate the number of deaths caused by this hoax -
probably 10m a year world-wide. Could be 50m.
The health impact of the wide-spread D3 deficiency is enormous. As you age, your
chance of getting alzheimers goes up 25X if you are D3 deficient! I can't tell
you how many people have told me they get it from milk. The public ignorance
is vast!

Another one is Pomegranate juice. (just another out of hundreds). This has
the amazing ability to clear out your arteries of plaque. But the FDA has
threatened to prosecute the POM company, forcing them to withdraw scienifically
sound ads. Pom competes with statins, a billion $ market.

In other words, the medical-pharmaceutical industry is desperate to keep you in
the dark. I saw a paper in JAMA a few months ago, claiming that anti-oxidants
have no health benefit whatsoever. A disinformation campaign.

On another front, doctors are now innocently asking you which supplements you
take. This the first attempt to control supplements and make them illegal
without a doctor's prescription. Attempts to pass laws against supplements
in Congress have resulted the largest write-in campaign in the history of
Congress, forcing the proponents to retreat.

This is a classic HOAX, which fits the pattern of group-think, brain-washed
advocates, profiteers, and public harm.

In case you are tired of hearing about hoaxes, I submit to you that your
knowledge of supplements can and will save your health and probably your life!

 

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:03:04 PM UTC-7, Tim Wescott wrote:

I have a customer who wants a USB-powered battery charger designed, with
certification -n- all. I figure the certification part will be harder
than the charger part, so I have to give it a pass.

Anyone do that and have spare cycles, or know someone? He wants someone
with a track record, or I'd talk him into using me!

Yes, i've done USB charger designs, but certifications are usually done by the manufacturer. Cert. means every single aspect of productions needed to be involved. I can certainly get your customer linked to the right people, if they volume is high enough. I would have to pass if they when certification design for a few hundreds or thousands pcs (it happened).