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- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 day ago:
Ok, cool. So if the romex is rated at 15A then I’m going to assume that’s the rated safety limit before things start to get sketchy.
This panel is going to provide 1200w at (I’m assuming) 120v which is 10A.
At that point I plug in something that pulls 1500w (120v for 12.5A total) like a hairdryer.
You’re saying the load on the circuit breaker will be 1500w-1200w for a total of 300w (2.5A), correct? The load on the romex in the walls after the breaker will still be 1500w (12.5A), correct?
What happens if I then plug in a space heater on that same circuit which consumes 1500w (12.5A). The breaker load should then be 15A (the net 2.5A + 12.5A) as it’s rated for and shouldn’t trip, but the load on the romex after the breaker would be 25A (12.5A + 12.5A), 167% its rated capacity.
Am I misunderstanding something? I’m honestly not trying to argue. I’m trying to understand.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 day ago:
Yes, I was conceding that point. I was then worried about the actual romex in the walls entirely contained after the breaker. Are you able to pump as much power as you want at 15A on a 15A rated wire? There’s got to be some limit, right?
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 day ago:
Idk man. It’s probably over my head but I still don’t think the wires themselves could take it. In my thought process you’ve got more electricity flowing around on the circuit and even if it gets used before getting to the breaker things are going to be heating up pretty quick.
To me it sounds like trying to hook up a power plant to a data center via an indoor extension cord. It’s gonna melt.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 day ago:
His point was that if you’ve got 1200w incoming from the panel then you only have 300w of overhead on that circuit before the circuit breaker blows.
Sure, it’s within the limit on its own, but without a dedicated circuit for it you’ll be blowing a fuse pretty frequently when trying to use nearby plugs and lights.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 6 months ago:
Dude…
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 8 months ago:
Cyberpunk 2077 with the VR mod is the only one I can think of. Because it’s not natively built for VR you have to render the world separately for each eye leading to a halving of the overall frame rate. And with 90 gps the bare minimum for many people in VR you really don’t have a choice but to use the 5090.
Yeah it’s literally only one game/mod, but that would be my use case if I could afford it.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 8 months ago:
They probably got tired of those videos where people see how quickly you can fall down an alt-right rabbit hole directly from the home page on a fresh account.
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 8 months ago:
It would still be hurtling towards you nonetheless. And probably at greater relative speed than usual!
- Comment on OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit 9 months ago:
From what I gather, a company is being asked to retain potential evidence during a lawsuit involving said data. Am I missing something? What’s outside the norm here?
- Comment on Automattic Hit With Class Action Over WP Engine Dispute, Accused of Anti-Competitive Tactics - The Repository 1 year ago:
Ahhh WordPress Engine. I was so confused as to how Wallpaper Engine got tangled up in a class action suit.
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- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 1 year ago:
You have to understand we are not normal users. Anyone even remotely interested in federated software are not normal users.
Bluesky may not have 57 third party apps and that’s why people are flocking to it. It’s easy. The signup process through the app involved no selecting of servers, no understanding of what it actually is under the hood, and users are greeted by a default algorithm that feels very much like old Twitter before Musk.
Basically, regular users do not care about the fediverse and just want a competent and polished app and site experience.