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In article , Arny Krueger
writes http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TFH..._OUTLET_03.jpg The ground wires in that picture appear to be in bare copper, borne out by the person using a multimeter with a probe resting on the ground wire. If so, that's pretty shoddy. What's to stop it coming into contact with the exposed hot and neutral screws on the outlet body as the outlet is pushed back into the box? UK wiring regulations require earth (ground) wires to be sheathed in green and yellow sleeving where it is exposed. -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On 06/02/2012 11:56, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In articleWdmdnffl5IsuA7DSnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d@giganews. com, Arny Krueger writes http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TFH..._OUTLET_03.jpg The ground wires in that picture appear to be in bare copper, borne out by the person using a multimeter with a probe resting on the ground wire. If so, that's pretty shoddy. What's to stop it coming into contact with the exposed hot and neutral screws on the outlet body as the outlet is pushed back into the box? UK wiring regulations require earth (ground) wires to be sheathed in green and yellow sleeving where it is exposed. Also, the screws are pretty well recessed (on decent quality sockets anyway) It's difficult to touch them with a finger accidentally. ron |
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"hwh" wrote in message
... On 2/6/12 11:47 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The UK 405-line system was almost certainly kept going for far longer than it really needed to be. There was probably only a handful of people who could not receive the 625-line service. At the time, I recall that many of us said that it would be cheaper simply to buy that last little old lady, living in a remote valley in the middle of nowhere, a new TV set and aerial. Maybe it would have been better to have one 625 line network on VHF, like most other countries used until analog closedown. Of course going from 405 to 625 would have meant ther was no room for two networks there. The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1 and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but it never happened. I guess that the powers that be thought that the spectrum could be more usefully used for other purposes. David. |
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:40:34 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
How are sockets connected on a radial circuit? Separate terminals for in and out? Yes, connecting screws each side of the socket. Completely open as well not shroded at all. Don't like that, damaged cover plate and very easy for little (or not so little) fingers to make contact with a live screw. -- Cheers Dave. |
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"Terry Casey" wrote in message
... In article , says... From http://www.hywel.org.UK/bbc2launch/ QUOTE When BBC2 launched on April 20th 1964, ... UNQUOTE panto mode. Oh no it didn't! /panto mode OK, two can play at this game: panto mode Oh yes it did! /panto mode The launch of BBC2 was PLANNED for April 20th 1964 but a fire at Battersea Power Station blacked out large areas of west London - including the Television Centre - shortly before BBC2 was due to start. In fact BBC2 *did* launch on April 20th, from a news studio at Alexandra Palace, I've seen the recording. Not suprisingly the headline news item was the power cut! OK so a brief news programme wasn't what the BBC had in mind for the 'Grand Opening' of BBC2, but a programme was broadcast on BBC2 on April 20th. As a result, BBC2 opened at 1130 on April 21st 1964 and the first programme was Play School. No, the first programme on BBC2 was a news bulletin, on April 20th. David. |
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Mike Tomlinson wrote: Unless you have unusually long cable runs or other special factors, it's oversized. Better oversized than undersized, especially if the run is long. Then why not use 2.5mm? 4mm? Tables and guidelines are readily available to help you choose the correct cable for your individual requirements. But in general 1mm is just fine for a domestic lighting circuit protected by a 6 amp breaker. -- *I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Ron wrote: Also, the screws are pretty well recessed (on decent quality sockets anyway) It's difficult to touch them with a finger accidentally. Yes - that was one of the things wrong with the design. The faceplate can be removed separately - rather like grid switches in the UK. Excellent idea for re-decorating. But having the terminals so easily touched when it is removed just poor design. -- *How come you never hear about gruntled employees? * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... In article , Arny Krueger writes I'm not so sure about rings, but the doubled voltage looks good to me given that I would have enough appliances that ran on 240 volts to be interesting. I don't. Think about it - your kettle would boil in half the time :-) I get it. However, the 2-3 minute boil times I get with our current technology seem to work out well enough. I can boil 12 ounces of water in about 2 minutes in my 1200 watt microwave. I can boil almost 2 liters of water in about 3 minutes in a 1500 watt plastic pot with a built-in heatnig element. In both cases the starting temperature of the water is about 45 degrees (F). When I have people over for tea I set the pot to boiling when they arrive and then reheat it in a few dozen seconds when needed. A colleague went to work in the USA and complained about the weedy kettles over there that take forever to boil. I suggested he take a UK 230V kettle over with him and run it off an extension to his stove connection (i.e. 220V). Dunno if he ever bothered. Seems like overkill, given the alternatives. |
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"Peter Larsen" wrote in message k... Ron wrote: Surely you remember analogue TV Arny, it's when we had five channels of rubbish, now we have 900 channels and it's still rubbish What's TV? Something that can actually be enjoyable, useful and even a bit educational, managed well. A capacious 2 channel DVR is a big help. |
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"J G Miller" wrote in message ... On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:37:25 +0000, David Looser wrote: So if you'd been glued to your TV from Sept 1939 to June 1946 you'd have seen the film twice, thus not "resumed at the exact point" And complain that all the BBC television service does is show repeats. BBC's service to the US over cable seems to be pretty serviceable. They have at least one channel on our local 999-channel digital system, and they also have a number of offerings on OTA PBS. PBS is a nationwide consortium of TV and radio stations, mostly initially operated by large universities. |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... In article , J. P. Gilliver (John) writes (Nor worse, though it sometimes was.) NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour. NTSC TVs had (still have?) a "Hue" control for the user to twiddle when skin tones started looking a bit green. Our digital TVs still have controls with the same basic concept. Something about adapting to room lighting, preferences. On some digital sets, the profusion of such controls can be quite bewildering. Many are tucked away in submenus and protected service menus. For about the last 20 years of its life, NTSC became very stable. Adjustments to the picture controls were very infrequent - mostly done when the TV was set up. For the first 10 years, it was a nightmare. |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... In article , Arny Krueger writes http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TFH..._OUTLET_03.jpg The ground wires in that picture appear to be in bare copper, borne out by the person using a multimeter with a probe resting on the ground wire. True. If so, that's pretty shoddy. What's to stop it coming into contact with the exposed hot and neutral screws on the outlet body as the outlet is pushed back into the box? Care and skill. UK wiring regulations require earth (ground) wires to be sheathed in green and yellow sleeving where it is exposed. Sounds good to me. |
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ... In article , Ron wrote: Also, the screws are pretty well recessed (on decent quality sockets anyway) It's difficult to touch them with a finger accidentally. Yes - that was one of the things wrong with the design. The faceplate can be removed separately - rather like grid switches in the UK. Excellent idea for re-decorating. But having the terminals so easily touched when it is removed just poor design. Touching the terminals is not so easy, in actual use. There are only narrow gaps around the sides of the outlet and the front of the terminals is maybe 1/4" - 3/8" back and blocked by plastic. |
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Terry Casey wrote:
I've always wondered if somebody might have been seen furtively slipping out of the back door of Broadcasting House that Monday afternoon before setting off to walk down to Battersea Bridge with a box of matches in his coat pocket ... No, no, no it was hit by flying pig dung. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( |
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David Looser wrote:
The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1 and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but it never happened. I guess that the powers that be thought that the spectrum could be more usefully used for other purposes. More likely they thought that getting the free TV from France was too much competition. UHF only TV's could not receive it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( |
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On 06/02/2012 12:59, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , wrote: Also, the screws are pretty well recessed (on decent quality sockets anyway) It's difficult to touch them with a finger accidentally. Yes - that was one of the things wrong with the design. The faceplate can be removed separately - rather like grid switches in the UK. Excellent idea for re-decorating. But having the terminals so easily touched when it is removed just poor design. Do you mean that the US style socket has a removable faceplate? UK ones certainly don't, unless perhaps some metalclad industrial units. With a gridswitch unit, you'd have to be pretty determined to touch a live terminal with the faceplate off. Ron |
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On 06/02/2012 13:18, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Mike wrote in message ... In articlePImdnRhFWezLuLHSnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@giganews. com, Arny Krueger writes I'm not so sure about rings, but the doubled voltage looks good to me given that I would have enough appliances that ran on 240 volts to be interesting. I don't. Think about it - your kettle would boil in half the time :-) I get it. However, the 2-3 minute boil times I get with our current technology seem to work out well enough. I can boil 12 ounces of water in about 2 minutes in my 1200 watt microwave. I can boil almost 2 liters of water in about 3 minutes in a 1500 watt plastic pot with a built-in heatnig element. In both cases the starting temperature of the water is about 45 degrees (F). When I have people over for tea I set the pot to boiling when they arrive and then reheat it in a few dozen seconds when needed. A colleague went to work in the USA and complained about the weedy kettles over there that take forever to boil. I suggested he take a UK 230V kettle over with him and run it off an extension to his stove connection (i.e. 220V). Dunno if he ever bothered. Seems like overkill, given the alternatives. Oh good, we're going to argue about who can boil a kettle the fastest... you couldn`t make it up! Ron |
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In message , Mike Tomlinson
writes NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour. NTSC TVs had (still have?) a "Hue" control for the user to twiddle when skin tones started looking a bit green. Correct. I still have one of the first Sony sets to enter the county which had to use a slight variant of NTSC to get past the PAL patents, it's fitted with a hue control which in effect rotates the quadrature subcarrier (as in NTSC) to get the correct skin tones (the wrong colours being caused by sub-carrier side band attenuation). -- Clive |
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"Ron" wrote in message ... On 06/02/2012 13:18, Arny Krueger wrote: "Mike wrote in message ... In articlePImdnRhFWezLuLHSnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@giganews. com, Arny Krueger writes I'm not so sure about rings, but the doubled voltage looks good to me given that I would have enough appliances that ran on 240 volts to be interesting. I don't. Think about it - your kettle would boil in half the time :-) I get it. However, the 2-3 minute boil times I get with our current technology seem to work out well enough. I can boil 12 ounces of water in about 2 minutes in my 1200 watt microwave. I can boil almost 2 liters of water in about 3 minutes in a 1500 watt plastic pot with a built-in heatnig element. In both cases the starting temperature of the water is about 45 degrees (F). When I have people over for tea I set the pot to boiling when they arrive and then reheat it in a few dozen seconds when needed. A colleague went to work in the USA and complained about the weedy kettles over there that take forever to boil. I suggested he take a UK 230V kettle over with him and run it off an extension to his stove connection (i.e. 220V). Dunno if he ever bothered. Seems like overkill, given the alternatives. Oh good, we're going to argue about who can boil a kettle the fastest... you couldn`t make it up! No argument - the UK ring system seems to be vastly superior over our US 15 and 20 amp circuits when it comes to delivering more actual AC power to appliances. |
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"Ron" wrote in message ... On 06/02/2012 12:59, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In , wrote: Also, the screws are pretty well recessed (on decent quality sockets anyway) It's difficult to touch them with a finger accidentally. Yes - that was one of the things wrong with the design. The faceplate can be removed separately - rather like grid switches in the UK. Excellent idea for re-decorating. But having the terminals so easily touched when it is removed just poor design. Do you mean that the US style socket has a removable faceplate? Yes. unscrew a screw or two... Handy when you repaint the walls. And if you want different style wall plate front piece, they have zillions of them. UK ones certainly don't, unless perhaps some metalclad industrial units. With a gridswitch unit, you'd have to be pretty determined to touch a live terminal with the faceplate off. Agrees with my experiences in Germany. |
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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
... David Looser wrote: The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1 and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but it never happened. I guess that the powers that be thought that the spectrum could be more usefully used for other purposes. More likely they thought that getting the free TV from France was too much competition. You forgot to add the smiley! Just on the offchance that you meant this seriously I'd ask just how many people in the UK would actually want to watch French TV? UHF only TV's could not receive it. Many TVs sold in the UK had multiband tuners, and frequency converters were easily obtainable. So of all the many factors that stopped the British watching French TV that one was by far and away the easiest and cheapest to solve. David. |
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
... "J G Miller" wrote in message ... On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:37:25 +0000, David Looser wrote: So if you'd been glued to your TV from Sept 1939 to June 1946 you'd have seen the film twice, thus not "resumed at the exact point" And complain that all the BBC television service does is show repeats. BBC's service to the US over cable seems to be pretty serviceable. They have at least one channel on our local 999-channel digital system, and they also have a number of offerings on OTA PBS. PBS is a nationwide consortium of TV and radio stations, mostly initially operated by large universities. The last time I was in the States I complained to someone about just how utterly dire all the radio stations were that I had tried to listen to on the radio in my rental car. The response was "try PBS" which I did, and found that about 50% of the output was simply a relay of the BBC world service. David. |
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On 2/6/12 1:16 PM, David Looser wrote:
"hwh" wrote in message ... On 2/6/12 11:47 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The UK 405-line system was almost certainly kept going for far longer than it really needed to be. There was probably only a handful of people who could not receive the 625-line service. At the time, I recall that many of us said that it would be cheaper simply to buy that last little old lady, living in a remote valley in the middle of nowhere, a new TV set and aerial. Maybe it would have been better to have one 625 line network on VHF, like most other countries used until analog closedown. Of course going from 405 to 625 would have meant ther was no room for two networks there. The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1 and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but it never happened. I guess that the powers that be thought that the spectrum could be more usefully used for other purposes. Of course it could, but harmonizing spectrum with the continent might have been beneficial as well. Have these plans been published? gr, hwh |
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 13:47:19h +0000, Ron exclaimed:
Oh good, we're going to argue about who can boil a kettle the fastest... you couldn`t make it up! It is now time to call in the experts to discuss whether or not quickly boiled water tastes better than slowly boiled water, depending of course on how it is going to be used, probably for making tea. This should keep the thread going for at least another 50 posts. |
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On 06/02/2012 15:43, J G Miller wrote:
On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 13:47:19h +0000, Ron exclaimed: Oh good, we're going to argue about who can boil a kettle the fastest... you couldn`t make it up! It is now time to call in the experts to discuss whether or not quickly boiled water tastes better than slowly boiled water, depending of course on how it is going to be used, probably for making tea. This should keep the thread going for at least another 50 posts. Obviously water boiled with AC is far superior to water boiled with DC. Alternating current jiggles the molecules up more. Tea should always be made with boiling water. Ron |
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 08:22:55h -0500, Arny Krueger wrote:
BBC's service to the US over cable seems to be pretty serviceable. You do need to realize that many of the programs on BBC America are not BBC programs or programs made for shewing on BBC, but are in fact programs made by or produced for the commercial tv network ITV, and possibly one or two for the state owned commercial tv network Channel 4. PBS is a nationwide consortium of TV and radio stations Actually PBS is a separate organization from the local tv stations, it is not a consortium, so local stations affiliate with and pay PBS to carry the network programming to fill their schedules. And PBS is TV only. Public radio stations affiliate primarily to NPR (some to American Public Media, and even fewer to Pacifica) not PBS. Except in a very few cases where they pay PBS to broadcast the audio from PBS's Newshour. In the case of the Detroit public TV station, WTVS, is a little unusual at it has always been non-university owned (the Detroit Educational Television Foundation) unlike neighboring WUOM Ann Arbor (University of Michigan) and WKAR East Lansing (Michigan State University). |
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 14:49:39h +0000, David Looser wrote:
The response was "try PBS" which I did, Rather difficult since there are no PBS *radio* stations. PBS is a *television* network. and found that about 50% of the output was simply a relay of the BBC world service. A typical sign of an Public Radio International affiliate station (previously known as American Public Radio, the smaller rival to NPR). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Radio_International Carrying a PRI relay of BBC World Service is far cheaper than paying for NPR programming, so many smaller public radio stations prefer this option for obvious reasons. |
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 12:35:44j +0100, hwh wrote:
Maybe it would have been better to have one 625 line network on VHF Of course it would have been better for the public, but it was better for the Thatcher administration and business friends and supporters to sell off the spectrum for commercial use since higher profits could be made that way instead of tv broadcasts. |
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"hwh" wrote in message
... On 2/6/12 1:16 PM, David Looser wrote: The original plan, drawn up in the early '60s, was to re-engineer Bands 1 and 3 for 625-line operation once the 405-line service was switched off; but it never happened. I guess that the powers that be thought that the spectrum could be more usefully used for other purposes. Of course it could, but harmonizing spectrum with the continent might have been beneficial as well. Well it might, but in practice there don't seem to have been many problems caused by not harmonising spectrum use with the the continent. To be honest I think the government made the right decision, the limited VHF spectrum available in Bands 1 & 3 would only just have been enough for one extra 625-line TV channel. Have these plans been published? I read them in a copy of the Journal of the Royal Television Society published some time around 1961. Can't be more specific than that I'm afarid. David. |
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In message , Ron
writes On 06/02/2012 13:18, Arny Krueger wrote: "Mike wrote in message ... In articlePImdnRhFWezLuLHSnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@giganews. com, Arny Krueger writes I'm not so sure about rings, but the doubled voltage looks good to me given that I would have enough appliances that ran on 240 volts to be interesting. I don't. Think about it - your kettle would boil in half the time :-) I get it. However, the 2-3 minute boil times I get with our current technology seem to work out well enough. I can boil 12 ounces of water in about 2 minutes in my 1200 watt microwave. I can boil almost 2 liters of water in about 3 minutes in a 1500 watt plastic pot with a built-in heatnig element. In both cases the starting temperature of the water is about 45 degrees (F). When I have people over for tea I set the pot to boiling when they arrive and then reheat it in a few dozen seconds when needed. A colleague went to work in the USA and complained about the weedy kettles over there that take forever to boil. I suggested he take a UK 230V kettle over with him and run it off an extension to his stove connection (i.e. 220V). Dunno if he ever bothered. Seems like overkill, given the alternatives. Oh good, we're going to argue about who can boil a kettle the fastest... you couldn`t make it up! OK then. Assuming it survives long enough, a 120V kettle run on 240V will boil in less than a quarter of the time. [Note 'quarter', not 'half', as twice the voltage will provide four times the power.] Conversely, a 240V kettle run on 120V will take more than four times the normal time to boil. In fact, it literally could take forever to boil. I know this to be true as I once took a single-voltage UK travel kettle on a holiday in the USA! These apparent anomalies are because, unless it's perfectly insulated, as a kettle heats up it will radiate more and more heat. Consider the case of the 240V kettle on a 120V supply. The rate of heat radiation eventually may balance the rate of electrical input, so a state of equilibrium is reached before the kettle boils. No matter how long you leave it (or even watch it), it will never boil. It's therefore a pretty good guess that, on a 240V supply, a 120V kettle will boil in less than half the time. BTW, for my next trip to the USA, I made sure that I took a dual voltage kettle. I can confidently report that, when on the correct voltage setting, it seemed to boil just as quickly as it had done in the UK. -- Ian |
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Ron wrote:
Obviously water boiled with AC is far superior to water boiled with DC. Alternating current jiggles the molecules up more. Nothing beats the taste of tea made from water boiled over an old fashioned wood fire. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( |
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J G Miller wrote:
Carrying a PRI relay of BBC World Service is far cheaper than paying for NPR programming, so many smaller public radio stations prefer this option for obvious reasons. Didn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation help pay for it? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( |
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On 06/02/2012 16:14, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Ron wrote: Obviously water boiled with AC is far superior to water boiled with DC. Alternating current jiggles the molecules up more. Nothing beats the taste of tea made from water boiled over an old fashioned wood fire. :-) Geoff. Maybe inferior American water takes long to boil anyway compared with 'proper' Bwitish water Ron |
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On Feb 6, 3:25*am, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Arny Krueger writes I'm not so sure about rings, but the doubled voltage looks good to me given that I would have enough appliances that ran on 240 volts to be interesting. I don't. Think about it - your kettle would boil in half the time :-) A colleague went to work in the USA and complained about the weedy kettles over there that take forever to boil. *I suggested he take a UK 230V kettle over with him and run it off an extension to his stove connection (i.e. 220V). *Dunno if he ever bothered. -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") Back arounf 1968, my sister sent me a "hot water jug" from Australia which is a ceramic jug with a plastic lid and a bare ceramic plate wound with coiled resistance wire immersed in the water at the bottom of the jug. Since our kitchen was equipped with 'split' appliance recepticals, I was able to install a standard 15A 230V outlet and happened to have an ancient [1930s ??] adaptor that converted the Australian 'Y' plug to NEMA 220V. It was indeed impressive how quickly it would boil water compared to the then common GE chrome kettles. I had to replace the element once [she had sent spares], but the jug was eventually dropped and broken :-( Neil S |
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
... On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 12:35:44j +0100, hwh wrote: Maybe it would have been better to have one 625 line network on VHF Of course it would have been better for the public, but it was better for the Thatcher administration and business friends and supporters to sell off the spectrum for commercial use since higher profits could be made that way instead of tv broadcasts. I disagree. Many of the new uses weren't about high profits but were low-power devices used by the public such as wireless baby alarms, wireless microphones, wireless doorbells etc. All of far more use to the public than one more TV network IMO. David. |
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Ron wrote:
Maybe inferior American water takes long to boil anyway compared with 'proper' Bwitish water That's because evironmental activists have found large quantities of DiHydrogen Mononxide (DMO) in what comes out of taps and wells and are trying to get it banned. (look it up on YouTube). Geoff. Ok, I'll put a smiley in here. :-) -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-( |
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In article , Arny Krueger
writes Seems like overkill, given the alternatives. I think you forget that the UK population is fuelled by gallons of tea. The quicker this can be achieved, the better :-) -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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"J G Miller" wrote in message ... On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 08:22:55h -0500, Arny Krueger wrote: BBC's service to the US over cable seems to be pretty serviceable. You do need to realize that many of the programs on BBC America are not BBC programs or programs made for shewing on BBC, but are in fact programs made by or produced for the commercial tv network ITV, and possibly one or two for the state owned commercial tv network Channel 4. PBS is a nationwide consortium of TV and radio stations Actually PBS is a separate organization from the local tv stations, it is not a consortium, so local stations affiliate with and pay PBS to carry the network programming to fill their schedules. Maybe you might want check out the meaning of the word consortium. We can both be right... ;-) |
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In article , Geoffrey S.
Mendelson writes Nothing beats the taste of tea made from water boiled over an old fashioned wood fire. Like the way food always seem to taste better if it's cooked outside :-) -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 16:24:52h +0000, Ron wrote:
Maybe inferior American water takes long to boil anyway compared with 'proper' Bwitish water Depending on the municipality, the water in the US could have an awful lot less chlorine (possibly none) than that supplied by one of the big English water companies. |
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