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ectronics.design
XPost: sci.electronics.repair
From: jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net
John Fields wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:43:13 -0000, "Ian Field"
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>"John Fields" wrote in message
>>news:gh9qi8t3alcietnh2r674clj7ne976j2af@4ax.com...
>>
>>>On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:46:14 -0000, "Ian Field"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"John Fields" wrote in message
>>>>news:2dvni890e0mu6d56odaunfsqgu8ssjt7qm@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:36:52 -0000, "Ian Field"
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
>>>>>>news:kgcpgh$ipp$1@news.albasani.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On a sunny day (Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:06:18 -0800) it happened Mike Cook
>>>>>>> wrote in
>>>>>>><0001HW.CD4F09FA05B8251DB04179BF@news.eternal-september.org>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>A friend has a battery powered Ryobi lawn trimmer ("weed whacker")
>>>>>>>>which
>>>>>>>>doesn't work. The 12vdc wall wart puts out only ~ 12.4v.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I charged the lead-acid gel cell using a car charger. The charge rate
>>>>>>>>(selectable) was 0.5A. Afterward the trimmer seemed to work as new.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Can the car charger be used to charge this battery? He can install a
>>>>>>>>timer
>>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>>limit charge time if that's something required.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Old trick was to put a car headlight or some other low voltage bulb
>>>>>>>(break
>>>>>>>light)
>>>>>>>in series as current limiter.
>>>>>>>Maybe modern car has only LEDs, dunno, :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Its a trick I often use if I have to, but increasingly I turn to the
>>>>>>more
>>>>>>modern electronic/microcontroller type chargers that automatically
>>>>>>switch
>>>>>>to
>>>>>>trickle charge.
>>>>>
>>>>>---
>>>>>That's a good thing, since it puts you squarely into the rank of a
>>>>>"consumer", where you clearly belong, instead of into the ranks of
>>>>>designers, where you've clearly demonstrated you don't belong.
>>>>>
>>>>>I could be wrong of course,
>>>>
>>>>Indeed.
>>>
>>>---
>>>But, more than likely not, since I requested that you elaborate with
>>>an explanation of your "tricks"
>>
>>No you didn't (the senility really is robbing your faculties!) The trick was
>>already described by someone else - I merely replied I do that too (and no -
>>I can't be bothered drawing pictures because you're too thick to
>>understand).
>
>
> ---
> My request was about having you describe the dynamics of a
> light-bulb-in-series-with-a-battery current limiter which, no matter
> how loudly or how long you squeal excuses about why you can't, you
> can't, of course.
>
> Unlike you, I've done empirical work which has resulted in published
> plots of tungsten lamp filament resistances being functions of
> voltages across, and currents through the filament.
>
> I'll email you the plots, if you like.
>
> Your admission to being a copycat hardly qualifies you as an
> authority, and certainly explains why you "can't be bothered drawing
> pictures" of what you can't envision.
> ---
>
>
>>You're not only wrong, but stumbling about in a state of advanced dementia.
>
>
> ---
> Wow, with your super-quick response, you must really want me to notice
> you and have you suck my dick or have me fuck you up the ass...
>
> Sorry, Charlie...
>
One of your fetishes?
Jamie
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