230v or 240v

[Stoday]

Wow! I thought BAS was the forum pedant but some here have out-BASsed BAS. I'll reword what I said:

230V is the nominal rms voltage, not the average rms voltage.

If the LV distribution system is run for maximum efficiency, the house by the substation gets 253V rms whereas the house at the end has to put up with a variation between 253V rms when the loading is low to 216V rms at times of peak load. The average for everyone is ~ 240V rms.

 

[Taylortwocities]

I knew that was what you meant to say, but I thought it was worth having a little fun.

Tee hee

 

[Stoday]

Be careful T2C, you might catch something from BAS. I can imagine him getting his rocks off on logic equations — kah.. kah... karnaugh map.. UHH..uhh..uh.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I can imagine him getting his rocks off on logic equations

Well I don't know about that.

But I wouldn't mind doing some integration with her:

 

[LoveRocket]

I can imagine him getting his rocks off on logic equations

Well I don't know about that.

But I wouldn't mind doing some integration with her:

I would bet a large amount of money the Ms Vorderman would have nothing to do with someone who spends their weekend nights drawing up truth tables to win a pointless and embarassing lawn-mowning argument.

She might be a mathematician, but she ain't a pedantic nerd.

Sorry.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I would bet a large amount of money the Ms Vorderman would have nothing to do with someone who spends their weekend nights drawing up truth tables to win a pointless and embarassing lawn-mowning argument.

It must have impressed you though, given how often you keep mentioning it.

Just a shame that you aren't able to understand what it was all about.

Never mind - maybe when you grow up it'll make sense to you.

 

[LoveRocket]

I would bet a large amount of money the Ms Vorderman would have nothing to do with someone who spends their weekend nights drawing up truth tables to win a pointless and embarassing lawn-mowning argument.

It must have impressed you though, given how often you keep mentioning it.

Just a shame that you aren't able to understand what it was all about.

Never mind - maybe when you grow up it'll make sense to you.

It certainly did impress me! It perfectly exemplified your persona.

Did you mow the grass in the end then? (oh, hang on, there's no need because you prefer block paving rather than a lawn - nice)

 

[JohnD]

I see the loan-shark woman has invested in some silicone

 

[ban-all-sheds]

It certainly did impress me! It perfectly exemplified your persona.

Did you mow the grass in the end then? (oh, hang on, there's no need because you prefer block paving rather than a lawn - nice)

You mean it exemplified my desire to help people understand? Because that's what it was all about.

If you're concerned about lawn mowing analogies then why not take it up with the people responsible for creating them, in the thread where they did that?

Oh - hang on -I forgot - you don't do that, do you? You believe that the interests of this forum are best served by you making irrelevant, off-topic (and in this case staggeringly uninformed) posts criticising me in one topic for something you didn't like in another one.

Would you care to provide a logical and reasoned argument as to why this is a good thing, and why you believe your behaviour should be welcomed?

 

[JohnD]

is this some tedious squabble being loaded onto a thread about electricity?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Ask LoveRocket - he is the one who thinks that something I wrote on a different subject in a different thread should be discussed here.

It makes no sense to me - I can't see what the relevance is, but I'm sure that once he has explained himself we'll understand why he brought it up.

 

[JohnD]

no need to prolong it with explanations

and it takes two to make a squabble

 

[ban-all-sheds]

As I have said on many occasions, one thing will never change - I will never sit quietly by and let people criticise me without defending myself.

If LoveRocket decides, through ignorance, laziness or deliberate obtuseness to misrepresent a post I have made in another topic, and drag it up here, then so be it, but I think he should be asked to explain why he thinks he should be doing that.

 

[LoveRocket]

Whatever.

Thanks for posting that lovely pick of Carol Vordeman though. (John, I agree she should be lambasted for advertising dial-a-loanshark, but I don't think there's any silicone there )

 

[winston1]

Hi chaps,

- about the same time as it became compulsory to fit plug tops on all manufactured equipment.

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They are plugs not plug tops. Plug tops are the covers that screw on to cover the terminals.