Fwd: Dangerous way of getting 220V from 110V outlets

jim rozen · 2003-10-24T18:10:25+00:00

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Oct 24, 2003 29 Replies

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Bill 22 years ago

Thanks Larry, and Gary!!

Your posts set the record straight. The reason I asked is that somewhere in my dark past I was told that it was for reasons of economy. The reason being was that the meter *was said* only to read current through the high side and that value was simply doubled in calculating your usage. Meaning that if you were to only use one side at any given time then you true usage would be exactly half of what you were being charged. (so that is just a fable)

So thanks aga> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:59:16 -0500, Bill

balancing the load. What are

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Scott Moore 22 years ago

Yea, I learned a few things too.

dark past I was told that it was

read current through the high

if you were to only use one side

being charged. (so that is just a

of balancing the load. What are

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Old Nick 22 years ago

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:04:18 GMT, "Scott Moore" wrote something ......and in reply I say!:

Well, one of them was. That's where Einstein started out IIRC.

****************************************************************************************** Whenever you have to prove to yourself that you are not something, you probably are.

Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music

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Scott Moore 22 years ago

I think this is one of the great paradoxes. However, he was a Swiss patent examiner. Maybe they have their act together :)

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Gary Coffman 22 years ago

Einstein was no rocket scientist, he knew nothing about plumbing.

Gary

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Tony Hursh 22 years ago

Though he did say that he'd have liked to have been a plumber. He even held an honorary union card in Chicago.

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DoN. Nichols 22 years ago

Bill,

A request please. Could you find another way of spam-proofing your e-mail address in these? They cause my system to complain (and fail) when trying to save your articles. The '(' and ')' in the address are the ones causing the problems. If you could (as I have done in your modified address above) use '-' instead of parens, it will not cause problems to anyone (except maybe the spammers, I hope) -- because the '-' is a legal character in an e-mail address, even if it is not right for yours.

Thanks, DoN.

P.S. I'm posting this, because you are not the first to do this, and I figure the more people who know about it, the better for everyone.

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Bill Darby 22 years ago

Hi Don

I have no problem with taking the () parentheses out. I simply have been experimenting with a way to smudge my address, *that I like* and is not to intrusive to others.

Bill

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DoN. Nichols 22 years ago

I understand why you are doing this, and I agree that it is (unfortunately) desirable.

Dashes '-', underscores '_', spelling out the dot (perhaps in all upper case (e.g. ), or something similar should work.

I doubt that the parens create a problem for most people, but for a unix system which is using shell processing, it does strange things there. (I guess that I could dig into the source code and make it modify things, so your wg(dot) snipped-for-privacy@sympatico.ca would become:

snipped-for-privacy@sympatico.ca

or something similar -- but I don't know what I might break doing that. :-)

Thanks, DoN.

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