Very fast rise time generator...

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:49:23 -0000, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

\"Max Demian\" <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:tsdeg3$25g75$3@dont-email.me...
Some people seem to confuse left and right, not sure how, they must
remember which hand they write with.

Don\'t joke. My dad is in the early stages of dementia: normally he is fine
but if he gets an infection he becomes more confused. He\'s recovering in
hospital from an infection at present. He\'s right-handed, but when an
occupational health nurse asked him the other day \"Are you left or right
handed\" he answered very confidently, and without a moment\'s thought
\"left-handed\". But then he thought for a moment and said \"No I\'m not.\" It
doesn\'t help that he knows my mum is left-handed: he could have been
thinking of her in that split second.

Your dad has an excuse, others do not.

I know someone who can\'t tell left from right without touching herself.

Why, is she asymmetrical?

As a young child, I would just pretend to write.

I\'ve never understood people who get left and right confused.

It\'s blindingly obvious if you\'re right handed, since the words right and write are so similar.

I can never
remember which of the two is port and starboard (*), but left and right are
as ingrained in the \"immediate lookup table\" in my brain as counting,
addition and the days of the week are. I\'ve never had to go through the
motions of \"which hand do I write with?\" to work it left and right. Of
course, some people can\'t do the mirror-image processing needed to work out
that a person\'s right hand is on the left side as you are facing them.


(*) I always have to think of \"port red wine\" (to give the colour of a port
light, starboard being green) and \"port and left both have four letters\" -
so there\'s a brief period of processing rather than it being instinctive.

It\'s far easier to do what I do. Port is a shorter word than starboard, left is a shorter word than right. So I\'ve stored them in the same place in my memory.

As for bow and stern, stern means nothing to me (apart from someone who\'s angry), but we all know what a bow-wave is.

 

[Don Y]

On 2/15/2023 11:27 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:24:54 +0000, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 15/02/2023 10:48, Mike Monett VE3BTI wrote:
Martin Brown <\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

The remaining big power hog is the garage lights.

Your fridge is a big power hog. Set the refrigerator temperature to the
highest setting, usually around 45 degrees F or 7 degrees C. This is an
excellent temperature for keeping vegetables, especially potatoes.

UK fridges are much less of a power hog than US ones. The power it takes
to keep cool depends mostly on how often it gets opened and how full it
is. 4C is a widely recognised safe temperature for storing uncooked meat
and fish much above that and you are asking for trouble.

Set the freezer to -14 F or -10 C. Once the temerature is below freezing, it
doesn\'t matter how cold it is.

Yes it does! Frozen stuff keeps much longer at -18C than at -10C.

Also -18C gives you some leeway when there is a powercut provided you
keep the freezer door shut. I can see the power consumption in realtime
from fridge and freezer when they are on. They would only be a problem
if the insulation gets compromised (as happened to a previous unit).
Then the compressor is on almost permanently fighting a thermal bridge.

Replace filament bulbs with LEDs. The power savings is amazing. For example,
a 100 W LED bulb only draws 12 watts. A 60 W LED bulb only draws 9 watts.

LED bulbs are a win but they have been a win for nearly a decade now. I
doubt if anyone has a significant number of filament bulbs in use today.
Even so the lighting circuits are trivial when compared to cookers and
water heaters (which is our single biggest heavy load if the central
heating isn\'t on).

This is low enough that I keep the one in the bathroom turned on all the
time. The main switch is in an awkward location, and I hate having to search
for it in the dark.

That sounds like a very good reason to move the switch or install a
proper night light! You can even get motion activated ones - no switch
at all.

Easier solution by far is to change the switch to one with an
illuminated toggle, so it can be found in the dark.

Mike is not ambulatory. So, getting *to* the switch is a concern.

Here is a USA brand example. I assume that something similar exists
everywhere.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:34:13 -0000, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:

On 2/12/23 07:39, Carlos E.R. wrote:

[snip]

Reminds me when I lost the diamond \"needle\" or pickup point of the
record player in the cabin of a cinema theatre. I was going to examine
it, and if fell to the floor. Gosh. I needed it to buy a new one.

My father always said \"stylus\", which he seemed to think was much better
than a \"needle\".

I\'ve always called them that. They said stylus on the box.

 

[Rod Speed]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 04:28:32 +1100, The Natural Philosopher
<tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 20/02/2023 17:16, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/20/2023 10:40 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Exactly, I dont think adobe construction is that bad either. Surprised
they never lit a fire and turned it into bricks

Fuel

Cow shit is fairly common

Now cows where adobe was used and cow shit can\'t be used to turn it ijnto
bricks either.

 

[Rod Speed]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:11:30 +1100, NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

On 15/02/2023 17:21, John Larkin wrote:
We own the language now. Tiny old monarchies and former empires don\'t
matter much any more.

LOL

You own the language used in the USA.

We own the language that we use here in the UK.

That is very arguable with the way you lot have adopted
americanisms like OK, airport, googling something etc.

There are remarkable similarities (as well as some differences) between
the languages

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:08:55 -0000, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk> wrote:

On 13/02/2023 13:49, NY wrote:
\"Max Demian\" <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:tsdeg3$25g75$3@dont-email.me...
Some people seem to confuse left and right, not sure how, they must
remember which hand they write with.

Don\'t joke. My dad is in the early stages of dementia: normally he is
fine but if he gets an infection he becomes more confused. He\'s
recovering in hospital from an infection at present. He\'s right-handed,
but when an occupational health nurse asked him the other day \"Are you
left or right handed\" he answered very confidently, and without a
moment\'s thought \"left-handed\". But then he thought for a moment and
said \"No I\'m not.\" It doesn\'t help that he knows my mum is left-handed:
he could have been thinking of her in that split second.

I know someone who can\'t tell left from right without touching herself.

Why, is she asymmetrical?

As a young child, I would just pretend to write.

I\'ve never understood people who get left and right confused. I can
never remember which of the two is port and starboard (*), but left and
right are as ingrained in the \"immediate lookup table\" in my brain as
counting, addition and the days of the week are.

Two friends of mine took part in a driving challenge, part of which
involved driving a course blindfolded, with the passenger giving
directions. They had to resort to \"your side\" and \"my side\".

I hate it when a garage says \"your offside front tyre needs changing\". What?!? Now I have to picture a car parked on the side of the road you\'d drive on, and work out which side would be furthest from the kerb. Left and right are so much easier.

When I say this, I often get the monumentally stupid response \"but are you facing the car or not?\" FFS, the CAR\'S left and right!

 

[Dean Hoffman]

On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 12:38:13 PM UTC-6, Don Y wrote:

On 2/15/2023 11:27 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:24:54 +0000, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 15/02/2023 10:48, Mike Monett VE3BTI wrote:
Martin Brown <\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

The remaining big power hog is the garage lights.

Your fridge is a big power hog. Set the refrigerator temperature to the
highest setting, usually around 45 degrees F or 7 degrees C. This is an
excellent temperature for keeping vegetables, especially potatoes.

UK fridges are much less of a power hog than US ones. The power it takes
to keep cool depends mostly on how often it gets opened and how full it
is. 4C is a widely recognised safe temperature for storing uncooked meat
and fish much above that and you are asking for trouble.

Set the freezer to -14 F or -10 C. Once the temerature is below freezing, it
doesn\'t matter how cold it is.

Yes it does! Frozen stuff keeps much longer at -18C than at -10C.

Also -18C gives you some leeway when there is a powercut provided you
keep the freezer door shut. I can see the power consumption in realtime
from fridge and freezer when they are on. They would only be a problem
if the insulation gets compromised (as happened to a previous unit).
Then the compressor is on almost permanently fighting a thermal bridge.

Replace filament bulbs with LEDs. The power savings is amazing. For example,
a 100 W LED bulb only draws 12 watts. A 60 W LED bulb only draws 9 watts.

LED bulbs are a win but they have been a win for nearly a decade now. I
doubt if anyone has a significant number of filament bulbs in use today.
Even so the lighting circuits are trivial when compared to cookers and
water heaters (which is our single biggest heavy load if the central
heating isn\'t on).

This is low enough that I keep the one in the bathroom turned on all the
time. The main switch is in an awkward location, and I hate having to search
for it in the dark.

That sounds like a very good reason to move the switch or install a
proper night light! You can even get motion activated ones - no switch
at all.

Easier solution by far is to change the switch to one with an
illuminated toggle, so it can be found in the dark.
Mike is not ambulatory. So, getting *to* the switch is a concern.
Here is a USA brand example. I assume that something similar exists
everywhere.

There are indoor motion detector light switches and lights.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 22:00:34 -0000, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:42:33 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-02-12 20:34, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 2/12/23 07:39, Carlos E.R. wrote:

[snip]

Reminds me when I lost the diamond \"needle\" or pickup point of the
record player in the cabin of a cinema theatre. I was going to examine
it, and if fell to the floor. Gosh. I needed it to buy a new one.

My father always said \"stylus\", which he seemed to think was much better
than a \"needle\".

My first language is not English: I had to seek for a word I am not used
to using

Stylus was the new word, starting in the 1960\'s iirc. The original word
was needle, and they looked like needles, steel pins with a point, about
an inch long. Held in place with a finger screw. . I still have my
mother\'s 78 rpm record player, probably from the 20\'s, and a couple
boxes labeled \"needles\" \"Guaranteed to play 10 records\". I think it
also says \"genuine steel\".

TEN!?

I couldn\'t really see the difference between a used needle and a new
one, and I hope I didn\'t damage any of the records.

Her record player doesn\'t have speakers, not even one, or any controls
except on/off. For sound you have to turn on a nearby AM radio and tune
to the right frequency. I meant to check if that means I can listen all
over the house, which would be really nice, but until just now, I\'d
forgotten about

They transmitted?!

Didn\'t find her brand but this is similar:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144780107371

Ouch, they look like they\'d cut through the record if played enough times.

Etsy.com also has old needles. I thought it just sold new stuff to make
crafts, or newly made crafts.

Last time I looked at Etsy it was just hand made stuff at 10 times the price I\'d pay.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 20/02/2023 18:44, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/20/2023 12:28 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 20/02/2023 17:16, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/20/2023 10:40 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Exactly, I dont think adobe construction is that bad either.
Surprised they never lit a fire and turned it into bricks


Fuel
Cow shit is fairly common
How much cow shit is needed to run a modest sized brick kiln. You need
about 1800 degrees for 8+ hours.

Cow manure has about 7500 BTU per pound. Takes about 6000 BTU to fire a
brick. Even a small 8\' square cabin would be about 800 bricks. Depending
on kiln efficiency, between a half to a ton of manure. About a month of
poop from a well fed cow.
Cheap at half the price 😈

--
\"First, find out who are the people you can not criticise. They are your
oppressors.\"
- George Orwell

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:05:31 -0000, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 13/02/2023 21:08, SteveW wrote:
I\'ve never understood people who get left and right confused. I can
never remember which of the two is port and starboard (*), but left
and right are as ingrained in the \"immediate lookup table\" in my brain
as counting, addition and the days of the week are.

Two friends of mine took part in a driving challenge, part of which
involved driving a course blindfolded, with the passenger giving
directions. They had to resort to \"your side\" and \"my side\".

Probably apocryphal, but in the American civil war, the Confederate farm
boys had a piece of straw tied to one foot and hay to the other and were
drilled as \'Hayfoot!Strawfoot!\' etc.

They did know straw from hay, but not left from right. So the story
goes. Probably a lie. Most stories are.

I can beleive Americans being that thick.

 

[Don Y]

On 2/15/2023 11:50 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
> There are indoor motion detector light switches and lights.

You can also buy switches that you can remotely control.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:08:57 -0000, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-02-12 23:00, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:42:33 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-02-12 20:34, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 2/12/23 07:39, Carlos E.R. wrote:

[snip]

Reminds me when I lost the diamond \"needle\" or pickup point of the
record player in the cabin of a cinema theatre. I was going to examine
it, and if fell to the floor. Gosh. I needed it to buy a new one.

My father always said \"stylus\", which he seemed to think was much better
than a \"needle\".

My first language is not English: I had to seek for a word I am not used
to using

Stylus was the new word, starting in the 1960\'s iirc. The original word
was needle, and they looked like needles, steel pins with a point, about
an inch long.

I actually have seen those. I have an electric gramophone somewhere. Or
did I give it to someone?

Held in place with a finger screw. . I still have my
mother\'s 78 rpm record player, probably from the 20\'s, and a couple
boxes labeled \"needles\" \"Guaranteed to play 10 records\". I think it
also says \"genuine steel\".

:-D

I couldn\'t really see the difference between a used needle and a new
one, and I hope I didn\'t damage any of the records.

They do, new or not. Lots of weight in the arm.

Her record player doesn\'t have speakers, not even one, or any controls
except on/off. For sound you have to turn on a nearby AM radio and tune
to the right frequency. I meant to check if that means I can listen all
over the house, which would be really nice, but until just now, I\'d
forgotten about

No, that\'s not how they worked.

Radios of that era had a setting named \"phone\".

You mean \"phono\". Just an AUX input but lower voltage.

And a socket. You
connected the output of the \"electric gramophone\" pickup to the phone
input of the radio, which was actually the audio amplifier section.

The radio could have a switch to disable the radio section or not, in
which case you would have to \"tune out\" the stations.

Some didn\'t think to turn off item A when using item B?!

Didn\'t find her brand but this is similar:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144780107371

Etsy.com also has old needles. I thought it just sold new stuff to make
crafts, or newly made crafts.

I bent down and slowly examined the tiles and the cracks one by one,
methodically. I found it. :-D

The thing was not mine, I was crestfallen to have lost it, so I still
remember the incident.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:02:25 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:05:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 13/02/2023 21:08, SteveW wrote:
I\'ve never understood people who get left and right confused. I can
never remember which of the two is port and starboard (*), but left
and right are as ingrained in the \"immediate lookup table\" in my brain
as counting, addition and the days of the week are.

Two friends of mine took part in a driving challenge, part of which
involved driving a course blindfolded, with the passenger giving
directions. They had to resort to \"your side\" and \"my side\".

Probably apocryphal, but in the American civil war, the Confederate farm
boys had a piece of straw tied to one foot and hay to the other and were
drilled as \'Hayfoot!Strawfoot!\' etc.

They did know straw from hay, but not left from right. So the story
goes. Probably a lie. Most stories are.

In SW Louisiana the local language was Cajun French, not very
intelligible to Parisians. In WWII draftees were forced to speak
English, which contributed to the decline of French in Louisiana.

We should have got rid of all these silly languages by now.

 

[Peeler]

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Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

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[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:59:24 -0000, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:08:57 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-02-12 23:00, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:42:33 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-02-12 20:34, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 2/12/23 07:39, Carlos E.R. wrote:

[snip]

Reminds me when I lost the diamond \"needle\" or pickup point of the
record player in the cabin of a cinema theatre. I was going to examine
it, and if fell to the floor. Gosh. I needed it to buy a new one.

My father always said \"stylus\", which he seemed to think was much better
than a \"needle\".

My first language is not English: I had to seek for a word I am not used
to using

Stylus was the new word, starting in the 1960\'s iirc. The original word
was needle, and they looked like needles, steel pins with a point, about
an inch long.

I actually have seen those. I have an electric gramophone somewhere. Or
did I give it to someone?

Held in place with a finger screw. . I still have my
mother\'s 78 rpm record player, probably from the 20\'s, and a couple
boxes labeled \"needles\" \"Guaranteed to play 10 records\". I think it
also says \"genuine steel\".

:-D


I couldn\'t really see the difference between a used needle and a new
one, and I hope I didn\'t damage any of the records.

They do, new or not. Lots of weight in the arm.

That\'s for sure. In fact it\'s lifting the arm off of its support that
turns the steel turntable on.

A cheap stereo from the 90s was like that. Switch built into the arm.

I prefer the Garrard turntable my grandfather built into a big wooden box with big amplifiers. Auto stop, cushioned lowering of the stylus etc. Very smooth everything, the turntable had a lot of inertia in it, must have been a big heavy flywheel underneath for smooth rotation.

Arm weighs maybe 1/2 to 3/4 pound? Just
guessing, but it\'s steel too.

Her record player doesn\'t have speakers, not even one, or any controls
except on/off. For sound you have to turn on a nearby AM radio and tune
to the right frequency. I meant to check if that means I can listen all
over the house, which would be really nice, but until just now, I\'d
forgotten about

No, that\'s not how they worked.

Not like you to think you know more about my phonograph than I do.

Radios of that era had a setting named \"phone\". And a socket. You
connected the output of the \"electric gramophone\" pickup to the phone

Mine has no output jacks or cords. Just a small nice wooden cabinet
with no holes, no jacks, maybe one 12\" wire as a transmitting antenna (I
have to go look again. Not sure if there\'s a wire.)

Maybe 14 or 16\" square and 5\" high.

It might be from the 30\'s after my mother got married in 1929.

input of the radio, which was actually the audio amplifier section.

The radio could have a switch to disable the radio section or not, in
which case you would have to \"tune out\" the stations.

I have been lucky enough that there was no strong station at the
frequency. I left a note inside so I or the next owner doesn\'t have to
hunt for it.

Sounds like a good way to stop your neighbour listening to the radio.

 

[Peeler]

On 20 Feb 2023 18:51:38 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Ever burned cow shit? Probably more important it takes a lot of acres of
mesquite scrub land to support a cow so it\'s going to be widely dispersed.

Is it now about cow shit, you endlessly driveling old washerwoman?

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\"I save my fries quota for one of the local food trucks that offers
poutine every now and then. If you\'re going for a coronary might as well
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[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:03:56 -0000, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 14/02/2023 18:02, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:05:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 13/02/2023 21:08, SteveW wrote:
I\'ve never understood people who get left and right confused. I can
never remember which of the two is port and starboard (*), but left
and right are as ingrained in the \"immediate lookup table\" in my brain
as counting, addition and the days of the week are.

Two friends of mine took part in a driving challenge, part of which
involved driving a course blindfolded, with the passenger giving
directions. They had to resort to \"your side\" and \"my side\".

Probably apocryphal, but in the American civil war, the Confederate farm
boys had a piece of straw tied to one foot and hay to the other and were
drilled as \'Hayfoot!Strawfoot!\' etc.

They did know straw from hay, but not left from right. So the story
goes. Probably a lie. Most stories are.

In SW Louisiana the local language was Cajun French, not very
intelligible to Parisians. In WWII draftees were forced to speak
English, which contributed to the decline of French in Louisiana.

Try speaking Afrikaans in Holland, they will understand you, but laugh.

Only if you\'re blick.

 

[Peeler]

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Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

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[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:33:36 -0000, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 13/02/2023 03:59, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:08:57 +0100, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-02-12 23:00, micky wrote:

Her record player doesn\'t have speakers, not even one, or any controls
except on/off. For sound you have to turn on a nearby AM radio and tune
to the right frequency. I meant to check if that means I can listen all
over the house, which would be really nice, but until just now, I\'d
forgotten about

No, that\'s not how they worked.

Not like you to think you know more about my phonograph than I do.

Radios of that era had a setting named \"phone\". And a socket. You
connected the output of the \"electric gramophone\" pickup to the phone

Every mains valve radio had a \"Gram\" or \"PU\" socket with switching,
usually combined with the waveband switch.

Did valve radios use Cockcroft-Walton multipliers?

Mine has no output jacks or cords. Just a small nice wooden cabinet
with no holes, no jacks, maybe one 12\" wire as a transmitting antenna (I
have to go look again. Not sure if there\'s a wire.)

Maybe 14 or 16\" square and 5\" high.

It might be from the 30\'s after my mother got married in 1929.

input of the radio, which was actually the audio amplifier section.

The radio could have a switch to disable the radio section or not, in
which case you would have to \"tune out\" the stations.

I have been lucky enough that there was no strong station at the
frequency. I left a note inside so I or the next owner doesn\'t have to
hunt for it.

I don\'t think that would have been legal, certainly not in the UK.

I doubt it was illegal at that short a distance. You can (or could recently) buy a transmitter to convert something (mp3?) into FM to go to your car stereo. It wouldn\'t get far outside the car.

 

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