Bank of Batteries ?

On 25 Jul 2007, LFS wrote

And doesn't that feel good!

(Alas, he/she/it's rapidly becoming an uninterestingly -- nay, boringly -- cross poster, doncha' think?)

On 25 Jul 2007, Oleg Lego wrote

One of the strangest things is the way this poster responds to each point that Peter makes by creating an entirely separate message.

I guess he hasn't realised that one can respond to more than one thing at a time -- or finds it all too frighteningly complex. (Or thinks Peter will read and respond to each one....nah, even "Multi- tasking R'nt Us" wouldn't be that deluded.)

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:59:27 +0100, HVS posted:

Limited attention span, I figure.

On 25 Jul 2007, Oleg Lego wrote

Yes, probably, and also he seems to oh, look: a bird just landed on the window ledge.

Umm...where was I?

Fuck you. I do not have to utilize your lame paradigm for post responses.

You got a problem? Piss off.

Yet another E-1 grade retarded assessment from a total twit that should not even be making such assessments about others.

Straighten out your own house, dipshit.

More utter stupidity.

You are about as mature as a freshly laid turd.

No, dipshit.... A read of a segment of some lame twit's baby bullshit, and a response to that baby bullshit.

If I can engineer a product and author several hundred pages of specifications for it, I can handle some dipshit's Usenet blather.

The object was called an "accumulator". The place to which I took it was called, in common parlance, "the battery shop".

Cheers, Sage

Well, have a look at this most recent NASA Tech Briefs, and examine the article about CELL types, and when they become BATTERIES of cells.

BTW, "Battery shops" back then were primarily for the lead acid batteries of the time, and they were multiple celled devices. Their servicing and recharging or various other CELLS of the day, and the name of their shop were not related.

Care to try again.

While I'm not usually one to quibble, there are times when I allow a small indulgence.

I reckon if you monitor the terminal voltage of your battery/cell blackbox then as it reaches the end of its life you'll see, especially when on low load, that the terminal voltage drops in discrete steps as one by one the component cells die and become reversed. So you can discover the makeup of the power source inside the blackbox without x-raying it, ripping it open, etc.

Where would Science be today without such dedication to careful experimentation?

This from someone who apparently doesn't know how to trim his posts.

Oh, no! Now you've done it. They aren't posts. They're anodes.

Spurious Emission (a.k.a. "Dimbulb") doesn't know how to tie his shoes. Don't make things too hard for him.

For every anode there is a cathode. Behind every Spurious Emission there is a Dimbulb.

(shockingly snipped)

No! NO! My husband tells me those are "electrodes."

I merely wrote about what these things were called by the locals in my part of England during WWII. Whatever you might think battery shops were for, that's what they were called -- battery shops. People didn't give a tinker's about the technology; they just wanted their wirelesses to pull in the stations and listen to Alvar Liddel (sp?) or Stuart Hibbard (sp?) reading the news or Mr. Churchill (Well some wanted to listen to them; others wanted Monday Night at Eight or Workers' Playtime or ITMA or Children's Hour).

This is an English usage group and it's what I'm interested in. Hence my two-penn'orth.

Cheers, Sage

"Throws up", indeed. (That's not an expostulatory "indeed. It's an agreeing-with "indeed.)

Cheers, Sage

Game, set, and match!

Thanks for the confirmation.