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Ssevensages reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short? with
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Ssevensages replied to the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short?.I am not an engineer like you. In the OP, I asked you to explain it to me like I am a five year old.
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Ssevensages reacted to phinds's post in the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short? with Like.
No, I am not TRYING to tell you that, I am TELLING you that. Can you not follow the math?
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Ssevensages reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short? with Like.
Yes. Ohm's Law. I = V / R. Current is equal to voltage, divided by resistance. The main AC supply distributes a standard voltage. The...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short?.What are you telling me? Are you trying to tell me that the reason that the low voltage short caused the fuse to blow is that the low...
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Ssevensages posted the thread Why does the amperage go real high if there is a low voltage short? in Electrical Engineering.I used to be an HVAC technician. One time I had a service call in which there was no power to the thermostat. The thermostat did not...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.And we would have a better educated population if the summer vacation was reduced to two weeks.
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.I think that two weeks is a proper amount of time for a summer vacation. The summer vacation's lasting three months is a tradition that...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.It's more important than vacations. I did not look at summer vacation per se with disdain. In my childhood, I always got excited...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.No. You're assuming that I am assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is a lack of education. But I am not assuming that. I...
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Ssevensages reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
You're assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is lack of education. I don't think that's true. I think the primary cause of...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Yes. Yes. A 2 week summer vacation would be a much better work/life balance than a 12 week summer vacation. There is an enormous...
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Ssevensages reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
It would be easy to read this as saying that unproficient students is a solved problem. That the solution is called "special education"...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Japan has public schools in session year round. There is no summer vacation in Japan. And in Japan, students have to attend class six...
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Ssevensages replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Students would get a better education if public school was year round.