pishadoot, pishadoot@sh.itjust.works

does 80% 1RM x3 and then juliennes carrot like a mf

Yep this is all I came to the thread for

You’re not wrong and my statement wasn’t truly accurate, I was simplifying a bit because OP probably isn’t well read on frequency dependent reactance, ballasts, LED drivers, etc. It’s pretty rare to have purely resistive devices these days.

Most modern “resistive” devices actually have more complicated circuitry or mechanisms that makes frequency relevant. I guess saying current changes was probably a bridge too far, but I was trying to translate into layman.

For example, a PURELY resistive space heater that just cycles on/off until a temp limit is hit will not be affected, but most have fans and are designed to transfer heat under specific conditions. Depending on how they measure heat the coils can overheat or pieces can melt.

A simple incandescent light will act the same regardless of freq, but anything with a ballast or driver likely wouldn’t, if it wasn’t dual rated. Most are, but really cheap/old ones often aren’t. They might flicker or burn out, burn brighter, etc.

Either way, stuff will likely act weird. Might be minimal effect or none for certain simple things but it’s not recommended.

From my experience, if the device is not designed to handle the frequency in question, it matters to some degree.

I tried using a 60Hz hair clipper in a 50Hz country, it ran but it was LOUD and vibrated harder is the easiest example I can explain in practical effects.

Most things are going to be weird, not work correctly, or fail prematurely if they aren’t rated for the grid freq. You can buy devices that convert for you but they’re heavy and expensive and electrically inefficient because they have to invert the power to DC and then back into an AC voltage with a different frequency.

On the more technical side, the things that care the most are definitely motors, and resistive loads less so but still yes.

60 > 50, your motor will spin about 17% slower, which can cause strange effects but also your current will increase so you get a lot of effects of stuff getting hot and breaking faster.

50 > 60 your motor will spin 20% faster which will mess a bunch of stuff up also. Might work for a bit ok but then you’ll start losing bearings and so on.

For resistive loads like a light or heating element then it’ll pull more or less current than it’s used to, which is why another poster in the thread talked about an oven burning their food or something.

Also anything that uses the grid freq as a timer, which is most things with any kind of timer built in, will not time things correctly.

To answer your question: it’s usually safer, better, and cheaper to buy new stuff that matches the grid frequency vs buying a frequency transformer but it depends on your specific situation.

Short vacation? You might be able to get away with sending it, but your stuff will have unexpected results, might be unsafe, and could break. Like, I would be very cautious of a curling iron or hair dryer, common stuff people travel with. Electric blankets NO, because fires. If it’s a work trip just get the right stuff for where you’re going or a transformer if you have a lot of expensive, specialized equipment.

No restaurant worth their salt is unaware that soda fountains can be broken down. Weekly cleaning minimum, if not nightly, is standard in any clean restaurant.

There’s websites like Music Map where you can put in a band you like and it’ll show bands that are similar in sound. It uses positioning and links to show similarities.

It’s not perfect but I’ve found a lot of bands that I didn’t know existed that sound great that I’d never heard of.

Just another tool in the box for you.

Yeah, super smart with your philosophical theory that the reason people associate yellow cartoon skins with white people is just because the Simpsons did it.

I am SMART! S-M-R-T!

Oof. I love me some HF but I’m not sure I’d buy electrical splice/connectors there.

Edit: at least not for mains voltages. For other projects I’m sure they’re fine.

You shouldn’t directly clamp soldered stranded wires. They will eventually loosen up because the solder doesn’t hold its form under compression, then get warm, and then the problem worsens until you potentially get a fire at your terminals.

That doesn’t sound correct

That’s because it’s not. It’s a commonly held belief of people who don’t understand credit very well.

It’s a measure of your risk to lenders, not profitability.

Risky to lend to = lower score. That’s it.

It’s weird how they calculate risk, but that’s all it is.

I think amtrak is super comfortable, it’s just ridiculously NOT cheap or fast.

For example, driving from Santa Barbara CA down to San Diego, is about 4.5 hours’ drive with light traffic. You can expect to pay like $100 in gas round trip.

Now, the amtrak line is $88 per person round trip last time I checked, and takes like six hours

So

You can drive a sedan and bring several people in your car and spend $100, and have a car in San Diego

Or you can take the train, spend as much as you would on gas for a commuter car for ONE person, take 25% longer to arrive and get home, and then you’re in a city with no car instead of having a vehicle…

Why TF am I choosing the train, again?

So if you’re talking freight, ships are unparalleled in their energy efficiency, even when you look at the disgusting dirty fuel they use. They’re SLOW, which reduces friction with water, and have economies of scale.

However, planes are more efficient for passengers due to the volume (of people). People take up a lot of space, much moreso than cargo, which makes giant boats really not the most efficient choice for human transport because you end up using a giant hull with tons of overhead to move all these lightweight people across the ocean. Once planes get up to cruising altitude they hit a sweet spot where their fuel efficiency improves drastically, but it’s still not nearly as good as trains…. But I have no idea how to calculate how expensive or environmentally damaging it would be to build and maintain a set of trans-continental railways. I can only imagine the insane amounts of marine destruction needed for any amount of transport bandwidth…

And none of this is taking into account time, which is another important factor. A container ship takes 10-14 days to get from New York to London; a direct flight takes about seven hours.

Give up, there’s really no point trying to argue on the internet with anyone that has such a smug superiority complex.

lifts pinky in air because we’re smarter than you

I’ve got a Meat Medallion 4 ur mom lol

Proof that degrees are meaningless and idiots come in all levels of educational achievement

I wasted so much ammo trying to kill this owl

Who is TV is it

On the mini PC set up a homepage in Firefox that has links to all the streaming platforms and stuff. I use Heimdall but there’s many others out there and a lot are probably better. You can just use a browser homepage addon, really.

Get a dongled mini keyboard to use as a remote.

Remove password login from the PC, set it up to auto update every now and then at night when it’s not in use, and forget about it.

If people in your house can’t use that instead of thebaked in apps then they don’t deserve the Wi-Fi password.