Dan,
I've run into that on some metric sized equipment, you look at a weird dimension and wonder why the value is such a strange number and then you realize it is a fractional inch equivalent! Been there done that.
I've run into that on some metric sized equipment, you look at a weird dimension and wonder why the value is such a strange number and then you realize it is a fractional inch equivalent! Been there done that.
Yes but I have to switch now and then, parts and pads are often in imperial and board size, mounting holes etc in metric...
Jan
George,
Why don't you try the coaxial cable terminated with 50 ohms and then turn it around so it is still center to center but the connector that was going to the termination resistor goes to the input and the one that was going to the input switched to the dummy load?
Sy,
Most common place is woodworking here in the USA. Just try and give metric dimensions to a carpenter and see what you get. Like my friend a contractor who told me the 3,4,5 rule for seeing if something was square and I said oh you mean A^2 +B^2 = C^2 and he looked at me so funny. What do those guys do when they have to do an angle?
Jan,
Yes I understand that we often have to integrate both value systems, no real way around it but to convert one value or the other. One day we'll all go metric here in the US but I haven't seen any real push to do it outside technical fields.
Most common place is woodworking here in the USA. Just try and give metric dimensions to a carpenter and see what you get. Like my friend a contractor who told me the 3,4,5 rule for seeing if something was square and I said oh you mean A^2 +B^2 = C^2 and he looked at me so funny. What do those guys do when they have to do an angle?
Jan,
Yes I understand that we often have to integrate both value systems, no real way around it but to convert one value or the other. One day we'll all go metric here in the US but I haven't seen any real push to do it outside technical fields.
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Ed
I can’t understand what you propose. Please make a drawing.
I was seven hours in the hot workshop (35 + d.C ) collecting data for your setup.
Time for some drink now
George
I can’t understand what you propose. Please make a drawing.
I was seven hours in the hot workshop (35 + d.C ) collecting data for your setup.
Time for some drink now
George
Sy,
Most of them can't count that high! Square footage or cubic footage for say a storage shed or something, but they usually don't do the plans so just follow a drawing.
Most of them can't count that high! Square footage or cubic footage for say a storage shed or something, but they usually don't do the plans so just follow a drawing.
Ed
I can’t understand what you propose. Please make a drawing.
I was seven hours in the hot workshop (35 + d.C ) collecting data for your setup.
Time for some drink now
George
Did I miss your promotion? Congrats or condolences, not sure. 😀
And that's a lot of dedication to experimentation! Enjoy a brew or 3.
Oh, we use cc all the time. But other than car salesmen, I can't think of where cu in might ever get used.
(a proper gentleman would help a lady by offering to whip out a calibration tool)
Hmmmm... is this troll bait?
But anyhow the 2 x 4 is 2x4 when rough cut - the stuff you buy in the store has been milled for finish... and besides they take liberties with them these days making them undersize, presumably to increase yields/profits.
Wacking your cables with either the pipe or the 2x4 will have no positive effects, fyi.
_-_-
But I'm not buying a 1.7 x 3.6 or whatever. They still call it a 2x4- and who the heck knows what size it really was earlier in the process?
As for the pipes, the links I gave speak for themselves.
As for the pipes, the links I gave speak for themselves.
Sy,
Throw in the difference between copper pipe and soft copper tubing and things get even more interesting. what a mess they made of all that.
Throw in the difference between copper pipe and soft copper tubing and things get even more interesting. what a mess they made of all that.
Ed
I can’t understand what you propose. Please make a drawing.
I was seven hours in the hot workshop (35 + d.C ) collecting data for your setup.
Time for some drink now
George
Thanks George. The issue is do cables work the same if you just turn them around. You went to the effort to turn them inside out. On a normal BNC cable we have two ends. Lets call one end "A" and the other "B." So the simplest test is to connect "A" to the analyzer and "B" to a 50 ohm termination. The Connect "B" to the analyzer and "A" to the 50 ohm termination.
The second step would be to use a signal generator about 3 dB above the noise level instead of the 50 ohm termination and try that feeding "B" and then swap it so it feeds "A." Look at this with as narrow a frequency band as possible.
Let me know what you are drinking and I'll send you a bottle!
Thanks for you efforts!
ES
BTY Do be careful I have a friend who ended his vacation in Greece with heatstroke.
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When I gave a tour to the big guy from JPL, he didn't mention ego's, just the conversion error when I spoke to him. His brother told him he ""couldn't hit the broadside of a planet...no wait, you did, didn't you ?""
Tough crowd, siblings...
Yah, all the IV bags, transfusion products, and syringes are milliliters.
John
Ah. OK Again in search for directivity clues .
It is a raki from Creta. They call it “tsikoudia” Good stuff!
E-mail me your address and I’ll send you a bottle.
Visitors are in danger of heatstroke. Locals suffer from wifestroke 😀
I do it to satisfy my own curiosity.
I’ll post some photos.
Tomorrow I will arrange for the data
George
There's a hilarious Far Side where it's an alien husband and wife at a back-country gas station (UFO and all) and the guy at the station is looking at their map saying "Man, I could understand a planet, but a whole solar system?"
The wife alien was giving that "if looks could kill" stare too. So funny.
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