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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: My Linux Lair -- A Photo Essay
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On 1/14/25 3:46 AM, flubbering feeb Farley Flud wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:50:54 -0500, -hh wrote:
> 
>>>> With 5V, and not accounting for losses in the conversion,
>>>> that would 360A, which would kick your butt.
>>
>> It doesn't take much, especially when one has sweaty palms.
> 
> You idiots don't have a leg to stand on.  This is pure drivel.

Believe what you want.  Just don't come back bitching to me when you 
learn the hard way about the risk of having contaminants on your hands 
which are conductive.

TL;DR: good housekeeping is integral to operating safely in a proper lab 
space.

Likewise, why there's also the joke about how "Old Guy" EE Techs work 
with one hand in their pocket.  Hint: its not because they're lazy.

> For one thing, the voltage regs would act as fuses and blow
> when the current draw exceeded 100mA -- that's milliamps. 
>
> That's why I always put a 100mA fuse on my circuits.
> But the fuse is intended not to save me but to save the
> voltage regs.

Oh, so your 'glorious' PC runs on <100mA?  That's interesting, because a 
3.5" HDD run on 12V and each one draws up to 12W, so each one of yours 
needs 10x more amperage than your fuze allows.


> The fuse is not visible in the superb photos however.
> It'll be there for a thousand years and will never be
> required.
> 
> If your supervisor ever read your posts you'd be canned
> immediately.

Oh, you didn't hear?  As per Physfitfreak, I'm so wealthy that I just do 
whatever I want:  it even makes Elon Musk jealous of me.


-hh