good morning all. Happy Eclipse Day for the US. They are making this out as very unusual, but only for here, total eclipses happen somewhat regularly in other places, other hemispheres. I read that when the sky goes black, animals react in interesting ways. Birds stop singing.
Bees buzz louder. Cows and horses head for the barn. And when the sun comes back out, there is supposed to be quite the braying from all animals celebrating/discussing the return of the light.
real question for me is at 91 percent occlusion, do I wear my welding helmet or should I put on the eclipse glasses with faulty CE rating?
Probably would be a good time to mow the lawn, should be cooler out right?
Eric, you are a wealth of knowledge. my memory of reading about capacitors is that manufacturing tolerances were broad/bad enough that high end makers like Macinstosh would have to test many capacitors to find ones with the range tolerance they needed. Basically they would cherry pick the capacitors with the closest ratings and the rest went to the general public, like me running a Radio Shack for five years. Microfarads, picofarads, all this not so useful info learned.
I remain in awe of those of you willing to poke around in a/c units, tv's, refrigerators, washing machines, etc without getting zapped. Some of those big caps can give you quite the jolt. Was never sure quite how to dissipate that stored energy.
A capacitor at least has a number on the side of it. Resistors? boy try reading all those funny little colored lines...
