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I'm that snarky, sometimes cranky YouTube person who told you about how dishwashers work.

I post many things which should not be taken too seriously (on account of the cranky snark thing). If you think I'm mad at you, I'm almost certainly not!

Friendly and helpful, if strongly opinionated.

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fo0bar, to random German

@TechConnectify thanks for your rain sensor video. I might have accidentally skipped or missed it, but where exactly are the emitters and the sensor here? And is the squiggly line only the adhesive?

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@fo0bar I only explained that you can't see them because they're under a filter - those black shapes are IR-transparent parts of the filter and they're under those

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Anybody need a wet wipe?

https://youtu.be/TLm7Q92xMjQ

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Proposal to refer to solar arrays as amp farms.

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@teotwaki I think it has potential, personally.

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Great video about simmerstats in stovetops:

https://youtu.be/ff04ecF9Dfw?si=p2Fr8KgeC16YIePT

@TechConnectify Can you also explain European stovetops with
A) 3-phase 400V power compared to the two 120V phases?
B) knobs with individual positions, compared to the continuous cams?

I am especially wondering about the latter. I remember our stovetop from my childhood having something like 6 discrete steps or so.

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@root42 I'm not intimately familiar with the three-phase setup but I think it's likely that each element is wired phase-to-neutral and thus only has 230V across it. Access to all phases just allows for better balancing.

As far as those with discrete positions, it depends. Some hot plates have multiple resistors and you're selecting different combinations (apparently this was big in Germany?), others might be stepped simmerstat-like controls.

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Things are really heating up in this new video:
https://youtu.be/ff04ecF9Dfw

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@vykend Indeed. Couldn't... resist.

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@trantion Yes, induction is a whole other kettle of fish relying on very high frequency switching through copper windings.

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@cs My guess is that these select between different resistor values to heat up the bimetallic strip at different rates.

I have seen really thick coils which could have multiple heating elements going through them but that doesn't look to be the case here, so I think it's more likely this is basically a conventional simmerstat but with several discrete settings (which would absolutely annoy the living daylights out of me)

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I don't know who needs to hear this (that's a lie: ~80% of drivers) but when you're in a turn lane or an exit only lane, you should still signal to confirm to those around you that you are aware of the lane you're in and where it's about to go.

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@qgustavor Whether it's a law depends on your jurisdiction, but I don't care about that. It's just the right thing to do and I want to help people understand why.

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A point of clarification:

If a new lane appears which you have to enter in order to exit, once there I consider that "on the ramp" - your choice to move into it is clear enough.

I'm mainly talking about lanes which become exit-only up ahead.

To describe this more generally, if there's a situation where an inattentive driver could find themselves on a path they don't mean to take, then if you, the attentive driver, intend to take that path - signal to confirm this.

Don't make people guess.

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@admin In fairness, I think that's an edge case which is effectively impossible to solve. Reckless drivers gonna do reckless things.

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@andrewt Yeah, in turns lanes - signal on, no exception.

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@wonka Oh to live in a country where I could assume everyone A) understood the rules of the road and B) actually followed them.

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@TomF I was on a road trip through Washington about a year ago, and there were some signs on two-lane country roads explaining this but with the most confusing verbiage I could imagine. It took reading three of them for me to parse!

(edit: well, not specifically this but something about slow vehicles must use pull-offs if they're causing a blockage)

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@CrisLuengo In fairness, I simply do not understand how signaling that you're entering a traffic circle is helpful. Any car at the entry points WILL enter, they have no choice.

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@skolima You should be. We all suck. It's a miracle there aren't more traffic fatalities.

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@TomF I think it was even worse. I tried googling for it but since search is crumbling I didn't get anywhere useful

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@darwinwoodka (this is one of the reasons I'd be OK with us ending right-on-red. It's very pro-car and anti everything else)

thomasfuchs, to random
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If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel back 30 years to the 90s; ten years after the original movie was made.

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@thomasfuchs I had this thought recently. It does freak me out a bit that my nostalgia for the 90s is equivalent now to that era's nostalgia for the 50s

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I have apparently developed a knack for going on a grocery run and loading my fridge up with stuff juuuuust before it hits a defrost cycle.

It's happened like three times this year!

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@tomlegamer Not being familiar with your fridge I can't be certain, but usually the key determinant for me is that it becomes completely silent for an extended period of time.

Samsung fridges often have separate fridge and freezer evaporators which confounds things, but if you hear any mechanical noise at all, say from a fan, it can't be defrosting. Any airflow through the evap would heat up your food and also slow the defrost.

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@tomlegamer if you can log that, then its power consumption is definitely going to be highest in a defrost, by a lot. The compressor usually will use 100-200W at the most and the defrost heaters are around 500W

I myself don't know if there is any logic behind when it happens. Prior to microcontrollers, it would have just been a clock-based timer, maybe once a day. But newer fridges may have a way to detect ice buildup - there's tons of ways that could be done but I don't know particulars

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@tomlegamer oh wow, that's a tiny heater! But cool, now you know ;)

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@tomlegamer that's a cool label, I've never seen one here distinguish the defrost heaters as a load. All the ones I've seen just list a max current draw, which is always during defrost.

IIRC my fridge says it's a ~4A device, 400-500W ish, but plugged into a power meter it only draws about 100W when running

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