> Well, one potential issue that springs to mind is that DC 120V might overstress the diodes in the full bridge rectifier. I see what you're saying but it's a bit theoretical. Nothing in a switcher is run at that tight…
Diodes are used with a constant DC load all the time. Look at any power supply where you don't want a downstream regulator's decoupling capacitors to have an effect on other regulators.
> to very minimal and hyperspecific firmware (300 lines of assembly) So, just normal BIOS boot?
I'm a little further north than you, north of the Tay but not so far as Aberdeen. My solar panels down south here are also facing more-or-less southwest and I'm seeing similar figures. Up north of course I've got the…
It was an obsolete design before they even started. A modern nuclear power plant using a pebble bed reactor could be the size of a couple of Portakabins, with a third Portakabin to contain the wellies and gardening…
> Nearly no equipment uses 120VDC by itself, so you would need specialized DC-DC converters that can deal with the 120VDC input to go down to usual voltages like 48VD, 24VDC or 12VDC Most switched-mode power supplies…
I run my garden tools and shed on a 1.2kVA 12V inverter, bought for pennies off eBay. It's just about enough to run my little "lunchbox" flux-core welder on a low enough setting to do thin metal and tubing, perfect for…
I've been rednecking up some panels and storage and I'm buying second-hand 250Wish panels about 10p/watt. It's already getting close to "not really economic" to buy second-hand panels, because people have slightly…
This is precisely the setup I'm planning for my place up north. A few kW of solar, which ought to still kick out useful power even in winter - down south here at 56°N days are pretty short, and I'm about a degree or two…
Ah, yeah, it kind of does, doesn't it? That's a bugger. But then you have to *retain* the CSAM as evidence anyway.
Ah, see that's what I thought at first. But then I thought, no, don't delete it. Because then you can bust them for possessing CSAM again, just about as soon as you hand it over, if you've a suitably vindictive frame of…
These days of course you capture off your DV and HDV cameras with a cheapy PCIe firewire card, dvgrab, and ffmpeg ;-)
But the bendy bananas!
Can you give specifics there? Which laws "bog down" businesses?
Can you give specifics of that? When have you ever had to do that? Which country?
But it's not actually a real law, and cannot be enforced.
> Yes and you would blow in one if the first time wasn’t recognized. I dug out one of my Ataris and plugged it in for my son to have a shot of a couple of years ago, when he was four. One of the carts didn't work…
Spoiler: it isn't. This is made up.
> > “A plank of wood must not be carried along a pavement. It can only be moved if it is being unloaded from a vehicle or taken into a building.” This isn't a real thing. It's like the thing about it being legal to…
I worked quite a bit for a company that had a lot of Asian developers in the early 2000s, and it reminds me a lot of textbook-Indian-English dialect. The AI-dialect sounds very much like Harold, Clive, and Penelope from…
What would you like to see less "legal paperwork" about? What regulations would you want rid of? Do you think you would stand even the tiniest chance of hiring European tech workers into a company run the way they are…
> The issue is that if I wanted to found a new company, I'd be confronted with lots very strict regulations with lots of implications and induced overhead Yes, like for example you have to actually pay your employees…
Lol. You think that wages in the US are competitive?
"Chocks", not "cholks".
Oh, people who moved in recently and act all full of themselves? In Scotland we call those "tourists".
> Well, one potential issue that springs to mind is that DC 120V might overstress the diodes in the full bridge rectifier. I see what you're saying but it's a bit theoretical. Nothing in a switcher is run at that tight…
Diodes are used with a constant DC load all the time. Look at any power supply where you don't want a downstream regulator's decoupling capacitors to have an effect on other regulators.
> to very minimal and hyperspecific firmware (300 lines of assembly) So, just normal BIOS boot?
I'm a little further north than you, north of the Tay but not so far as Aberdeen. My solar panels down south here are also facing more-or-less southwest and I'm seeing similar figures. Up north of course I've got the…
It was an obsolete design before they even started. A modern nuclear power plant using a pebble bed reactor could be the size of a couple of Portakabins, with a third Portakabin to contain the wellies and gardening…
> Nearly no equipment uses 120VDC by itself, so you would need specialized DC-DC converters that can deal with the 120VDC input to go down to usual voltages like 48VD, 24VDC or 12VDC Most switched-mode power supplies…
I run my garden tools and shed on a 1.2kVA 12V inverter, bought for pennies off eBay. It's just about enough to run my little "lunchbox" flux-core welder on a low enough setting to do thin metal and tubing, perfect for…
I've been rednecking up some panels and storage and I'm buying second-hand 250Wish panels about 10p/watt. It's already getting close to "not really economic" to buy second-hand panels, because people have slightly…
This is precisely the setup I'm planning for my place up north. A few kW of solar, which ought to still kick out useful power even in winter - down south here at 56°N days are pretty short, and I'm about a degree or two…
Ah, yeah, it kind of does, doesn't it? That's a bugger. But then you have to *retain* the CSAM as evidence anyway.
Ah, see that's what I thought at first. But then I thought, no, don't delete it. Because then you can bust them for possessing CSAM again, just about as soon as you hand it over, if you've a suitably vindictive frame of…
These days of course you capture off your DV and HDV cameras with a cheapy PCIe firewire card, dvgrab, and ffmpeg ;-)
But the bendy bananas!
Can you give specifics there? Which laws "bog down" businesses?
Can you give specifics of that? When have you ever had to do that? Which country?
But it's not actually a real law, and cannot be enforced.
> Yes and you would blow in one if the first time wasn’t recognized. I dug out one of my Ataris and plugged it in for my son to have a shot of a couple of years ago, when he was four. One of the carts didn't work…
Spoiler: it isn't. This is made up.
> > “A plank of wood must not be carried along a pavement. It can only be moved if it is being unloaded from a vehicle or taken into a building.” This isn't a real thing. It's like the thing about it being legal to…
I worked quite a bit for a company that had a lot of Asian developers in the early 2000s, and it reminds me a lot of textbook-Indian-English dialect. The AI-dialect sounds very much like Harold, Clive, and Penelope from…
What would you like to see less "legal paperwork" about? What regulations would you want rid of? Do you think you would stand even the tiniest chance of hiring European tech workers into a company run the way they are…
> The issue is that if I wanted to found a new company, I'd be confronted with lots very strict regulations with lots of implications and induced overhead Yes, like for example you have to actually pay your employees…
Lol. You think that wages in the US are competitive?
"Chocks", not "cholks".
Oh, people who moved in recently and act all full of themselves? In Scotland we call those "tourists".