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- Comment on Anon's PC works 3 days ago:
I think you’re totally right for a load that needs a certain amount of power. But a CPU just needs to be able to flip transistor gates fast enough. They don’t draw more current at lower voltage, so the lower the voltage, the lower the power. At some point, too low of a voltage won’t let them flip fast enough for a given clock speed (or, eventually, flip at all)
- Comment on bamboozled 2 months ago:
Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current.
My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here…
/shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn’t trip.
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house’s electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won’t help.
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.
- Comment on Installation 3 months ago:
unless the gas pipe melted through
That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me…
- Comment on That explains it. 3 months ago:
So glad my wife is not like that
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 9 months ago:
In all my cases where I installed those, the GFCI protection is upstream in another outlet somewhere or at the breaker. You don’t need actual GFCI outlets at each location. One GFCI outlet can protect a whole circuit.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 9 months ago:
After realizing both shavers and cordless toothbrush chargers are going this route, I gave in and installed these in the bathroom
Leviton T5632-BW R02-T5632-0Bw… www.amazon.com/dp/B002DQT22G?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_s…
- Comment on They asked for it. 1 year ago:
Please take a moment: They’re - they are (the ’ replaces the space and the a) Their - belongs to them There - a place that is not here