On Friday, 27 April 2018 11:36:45 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 27 April 2018 02:37:46 UTC+1, tabby wrote:
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:20:58 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:52:26 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/04/18 11:48, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:39:53 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/04/18 10:29, whisky-dave wrote:

it's not a cable it's a wire. Do you know the differnce.


I certainly do not.

Then why not look it up, educate yourself.
http://www.differencebetween.info/di...cable-and-wire



one man's semantic pedantry

When working in education you really should try to get things like this correct.
As I explained to the academic that asked me to take the Vandergraaf generator and a meter to a lectuer room.
I asked her what sort of meter as I don't think we've ever used one in the past, she said oh sorry I'm bulgarian when I said a meter I ment a metre stick, you know the rulers you keep in the lab.



Tell us oh great one, when is a wire not a cable and vice versa?

Now you need to educate yuorself on the differnce bewteeen potential difference and voltage.
http://www.differencebetween.info/di...ial-difference


Oh dear.

In that article: "Electric potential difference is the same as voltage"

But NOT in calculations, we always use voltage when we mean potentail differnce.
We say that V=IR so without current there is NO voltage so in that case a live wire could be considered dead, but that doesn't mean there is NO potentail differnce, and that for me is the differnce.

It;s like standing on the edge of a cliff, theer'es the potential to kill yuotself by falling but if you don't fall that deosn't mean there is no danger/risk.



you might also need to understand what is actual meant by live.

I am smiling - do carry on.

OK Live today we are watching live football but is it at 240V ?
Why use the term live do you even know ?
So what voltages do you think we can say the wire/cable is live can we say it's live if we have 1V on it ?
Is static electricity live ?
So a charged ballon can be live.

and when is a PP3 battery dead or any other battery.
I have about 100 AAs, AAAs, 2032, PP3s and other batteries in a bucket to be recycled people tell me they have dead batteries but some of them sghow 0.8V and when tested have 20% power remaining and measure above 1 volt are those batteries dead or alive ?

you're a hoot

If yuo're going to use such stupid terms as dead or alive to decribe such things then maybe you also think that everything is black & white right and left , right and wrong.
The word live comes from the 1500s it meant having energy it, originaly came fron alive as a person could be alive or dead.

(As I explained earlier Dead or Alive the band fronted by Pete Burns)

But I''m not sure if they knew what dead was either. I think it was fist used in describing amunition as in live amunition and dead amunition (already used).

anything to veer away from admitting that you're lost.