Re: non bike ride report

did you catch the thread where they told folks to flux off?
speaking of capacitors.. the capacitor freaks are telling home owners to put
them on their home power to lower the electric bill.. I have always been
suspect of harmonics & such being introduced into unknown setup so the home
oriented units are bound to be riddled with so filters that the efficiency
must be way down that they are hardly worth it...I'd think they'd invest in
insulation & drapes before one of those gizmos

That's a power-factor correction method, that the power company likes
guys with heavy inductive loads to use, so the shifted current phase
doesn't beat the hell out of the grid generators. Unfortunately, with
the exception of the occasional refrigerator or furnace blower, a
residential load is primarily resistive. Sounds like a job for
Mythbusters.

Mythbusters, incidentally, jumped the shark (IMHO) when they did the
test for a bunch of birds in a box truck - the myth is that the weight
of the truck would be reduced if the birds are all flying. Not. Duh,
like seriously.

JayC
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