Electrical OCD

[OwainDIYer]

I have no idea, it was just a silly joke because of what TTC said! I just assumed

Pulse dial works fine IME. However my 782 / 8782 DTMF phones produce tones recognised by the PABX, but which are not always recognised by the PSTN.

 

[DaveHerns]

Borderline OCD here !

 

[Mikefromlondon]

My wife has a friggin bad habit of putting on plastic protective cover on 3 pin plugs in the kitchen appliances like food mixer, grinder etc, it irritates me so much because I can't plug it in straight without first having to remove the cover, I have binned it many times and she soon scoops it out washes it and puts it back on.

 

[securespark]

You mean these?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ELEC-PA039-3-PIN-NYLON-PROTECTOR/dp/9790811780

 

[Mikefromlondon]

yup, exactly, furirates me, they are suppose to be on when shipping electrical goods to avoid scratching or marking items. She puts them on because one of the appliance (a food grinder) has a suppression capacitor that charges up to mains and retains that voltage when unplugged, there probably isn't a discharge resistor, and you get a jolly good jolt if you touched those plug pins accidently, but I showed her to discharge it by touching the stainless steel toaster, or alternatively first switch off at the socket and then push down the on/off button on the grinder to discharge, if you don't, you see sparks flying when you discharge it on the steel part of the toaster, often when preparing food and you unplug it in a hurry and your hands are wet, you get a mighty jolt though, so that is her excuse to put them on. But I am sure the grinder is a faulty design for not having a discharge resistor or it may have come lose.

 

[PBC_1966]

I have no idea, it was just a silly joke because of what TTC said! I just assumed that pulse dial wouldn't work these days,

Ah, O.K.

Last I heard BT was supposed to be continuing to support it on 21CN, but you never know if that policy might change. A lot of people on broadband cable service (Virgin et al) can use only DTMF though.

 

[Echo the husky]

She puts them on because one of the appliance (a food grinder) has a suppression capacitor that charges up to mains and retains that voltage when unplugged, there probably isn't a discharge resistor, and you get a jolly good jolt if you touched those plug pins accidently, but I showed her to discharge it by touching the stainless steel toaster,

My mother used to have a hair dryer that did that. Fitting a 1MΩ 1W metal oxide resistor between L-N in the plug sorted it.

 

[DaveHerns]

At least I now know why I've had a jolt from the plugs on my pressure washer and hoover. But I don't use plastic covers on the plugs, simply don't hold the plugs with (damp) hands. I'm borderline OCD but mainly having to check I've locked the house and garage. If your habit doesn't take over and impact on your everyday life it's not OCD, I'm told.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Does it annoy you that the letters O C D are in the wrong order?

 

[ericmark]

As to phones I still have a 1980's phone in garage, it came as one of a pair of phones, in the days when you had to count the REN no bell and no dial but allows me to answer phone in garage when I hear it ringing in the house, easy wipe clean as no buttons, and black anyway.

But the thing that grates is silly bits of plastic stuck in the sockets. That must have been the best bit of marketing of all time, to get people to buy and insert lumps of useless plastic in sockets.

 

[securespark]

Does it annoy you that the letters O C D are in the wrong order?

Sh*t, thanks for that. Another thing to fret over added to the list.

 

[Mikefromlondon]

Does it annoy you that the letters O C D are in the wrong order?

There is likely to be 5 in 6 chances that it is in the wrong place, and 1 in 6 it is in the right place.

 

[deadshort]

I loath seeing missing lids on conduit boxes or one lid screw missing, drives me daft during snagging !

DS

 

[securespark]

I thought you said "s h agging"...

I was going to say you'd have to have a serious case of OCD to get distracted by a BESA box...

IOW, "Aren't there better things to look at when doing that?"

 

[EFLImpudence]

Not always - from what I've seen pushing pushchairs.