You don't need any parts the Shack was selling.... Even if it was the EXACT part number, they sold stuff that was literally crap and you'd be lucky if they worked. I purchased a card with 15 2n222's on it, only ONE in the bunch was marginally within the accepted specifications for that part and the rest where literally junk. I had the same experience with other components, like a whole bunch of 5% resisters which barely fell within 10% of specifications. They literally sold trash for components.
Putting a higher rated fuse into a device is usually not a good idea. Not to mention that finding a 5.5 amp fuse for that 5 amp one is not going to happen.
For devices that regularly blow their fuse, I've occasionally bypassed the fuse under test conditions to find out what's failing by looking for the smoke, but I'd caution you that one needs to first evaluate the circuits and do some diagnostic work to eliminate as many catastrophic failure modes as you can before you take the chance of burning something up (and your house down). Never, NEVER just put in a fuse that is above what is called for, unless you KNOW what you are doing and don't intend to leave it that way.
But I also work on old tube type Ham Radio gear.... Where an improper fuse can be a one way ticket to a blown power transformer and the destruction of circuit cards and parts which are not readily available for purchase or easily replaced. I can tell you that rewinding a power transformer, while possible, is tedious and time consuming and sometimes finding a suitable coupling capacitor with a high enough voltage rating is every expensive.
I can repair apple products. I've replaced screens, buttons, and batteries in a number of iPhones and tablets. It's usually not any harder than Android based devices of the same type. The issue is obtaining the parts, which is drop dead easy for nearly all Apple products, just look on EBay...Android devices are harder to get parts for, mainly because there are so many variants out there and they sell less of each type as a result, which makes it less cost effective to build replacement parts so less android devices have readily available parts. Apple devices don't have this problem.
And this is why we have an environmental problem. If people would fix what they have instead of constantly replacing it, lots of environmental damage caused by manufacturing and transport could be avoided.
But I notice no "Green" group ever mentions this.
Put the blame where it belongs here, on Consumers... Manufacturers have little incentive to build electronic stuff that is repairable, it's too expensive. Couple that with intellectual property licenses, logistics and making their designs public though the publication of service manuals it only makes sense that manufacturers do this. We are lucky manufacturers care enough to make things like TV's durable enough that we can reasonably expect them to work well past the warranty.
Consumers want CHEAP electronics, and will usually buy the cheaper device all things being equal. We get what we want and trying to market your device as "green" doesn't enhance a manufacturer's profits. Oh sure, they will give lip service to "green" by getting certifications like "energy star" and the like, but marketing yourself as "Green" because it can be repaired just doesn't make sense to most consumers.
You don't "repair" anything, you replace circuit cards these days. Failed capacitors and you replace the circuit card..
You see, the consumer wanted CHEAP acquisition costs, not something that was easily repaired. The manufacturer doesn't care about much about repair after the warranty runs out. These things are NOT built for easy repair, they are throw away devices now.
Surface mount components make repair work a matter of just replacing a circuit card these days. NOBODY in their right mind digs out the soldering iron and replaces that capacitor these days, unless the cost to replace the card exceeds the logistical costs of maintaining the staff and equipment. It rarely does.
The damage that water does to phones/electronics is not always apparent. The residue that evaporating water leaves behind tends to be conductive and when it soaks connectors it will encourage corrosion of the contacts. Water can also damage individual components, though most cell phones use coatings on circuit cards to keep that from happening. So, that phone that survived the dunking is pretty likely going to have future problems and I'd start planning to replace it.
The best way to deal with this is to totally disassemble the phone and rinse in distilled water, blow dry with low pressure clean air, clean all the contacts with a light solvent and then allow the device to completely dry before reassembling. Replace any parts where water intrusion is an issue, this includes batteries, cameras and possibly touch screens.
What? Now I have coffee all over my desk.... Carter? Where you even alive then? I remember the national speed limit, gas rationing and the brain dead energy policies he put in place.
Until the current administration, Carter was the worst president in history and was a career politician like the rest since then. His foreign policy was a disaster (curiously with Iran and the middle east in tatters by the time he left office) and his economic policy a total failure during his term in office (curiously like we have now) which prolonged the recession we fell into as he took office. He may have been too little of a politician actually, who was prone to say stupid things which just shouldn't have been said.
Carter may have been a nice guy, but he was a horrible president... I salute him for his activities since leaving office, but IN office he was a disaster.
McAfee as president? This isn't even funny. McAfee is just about certifiable, In fact about all that keeps him out of a publicly funded mental institution is his money. Should he run out of money, he would be locked up in pretty short order for either breaking the law or being a danger to himself and others.
Where I understand the general "we hate politicians" bent in this country right now, can we please stick with supporting people who are something more than just bombastic loudmouths who say outrageous things, even if we think they generally give lip service to our pet issues? What this country needs is a bit of carefully thought out leadership by somebody who isn't beholden to either their ego or the people who fund their campaigns. An outsider perhaps, but one who isn't going to drive us headlong into stuff by being driven by their egos to say stupid things and act rashly. This ISN'T McAfee...
I've been war driving for years using software that collects, among other interesting things, the MAC addresses of every device it hears. Google got in trouble doing this kind of thing too.
This is NOT new, nor should he get a patent on this....
The results where inconclusive, so I suggest that we organize additional experiments which include public taste testing up to and including intoxication and long term experiments which address the long term affects of light to moderate "Space Aged Spirits" consumption.
Too expensive you say? Not so, sell raffle tickets for a chance to be part of the study to varying degrees with the grand prize being a lifetime supply of Space Aged Spirits to offset the costs. Heck, it the stuff is good enough, you could make enough money to fund the launch of a couple of barrels a year with a bunch of extra space for things like replacement parts and crew members... Heck, if it's good enough, we might be able to fund all of NASA doing this...
1. He calls himself a "Democratic Socialist" which is left of the democratic party which is itself left of the center in this country. Yea, I know he was "independent" but that does NOT mean center in this case, as he's his own brand of socialist light...
2. He's running to the left of Hillary right now, trying to erode her support with the democratic base. Hillary is running just left of center (well she's not really doing anything right now but staying out of the fray and cashing donor's checks) trying to protect her base and force Sanders et.al to run left of her because there is no room on the right in the democrat party. He will be forced further left in an effort to garner support from the base once Hillary unleashes all her money and actually starts the campaign...
3. It's what democrats ARE. They crowd the center from the left, just like the republicans crowd from the right. Democrats are generally left of center, almost without exception.
Sanders may want to SAY he's centrists, Clinton will run as one too. Heck, Obama ran as a centrist but he's been decidedly left of center in his policy and actions. Everybody wants to SAY they are "in the middle" but few really are. So my policy is to ignore what the candidates claim they are and look at their track records, assuming they have one. Obama was *clearly* a left of center politician even with his short record, and has lived up to my expectations fairly well. Sanders would make Obama look like George Washington if he made it to office.... Not that I'm worried he would, Hillary is going to squash him like a bug with all the money she has once she actually *starts* her campaign.
And I suppose his "I'm a democratic socialist" claim doesn't mean anything then... Not that he is a socialists but he does claim to be one... I'm prepared to believe he's pretty much to the left of center because that's what he claims he is, what most commentators call him, and what he appears to be to this guy on the right...
He may look centrist to you, but I'm guessing that's just a prospective problem on your part.
Now you are trolling.... Blindly claiming some position to be true is a bad thing too...
Where would you like to start here?
Let me see.... How about discussing the historical basis for the text of the Bible, specifically the OT books? There is a lot of evidence, shared by the top three religions in this world (Islam, Judaism, Christianity), that these writings have existed in their current form for at least 3,000 years.
Or, how about the NT? It claims to have been written by a handful of Jewish guys prior to 100AD. What say you about that?
There are two basic pieces of evidence for the historical existence of the text of protestant Bible that indicate that this text was written by the authors it claims during the likely time they where alive. So, as a historical text, it needs to be taken seriously....
With me so far?
Then, there is the general facts around this character Jesus of Nazareth. Think about how insignificant this guy would have been, the first son of a poor tradesmen carpenter, living in a poor military town in the backwater of a insignificant Roman province. His father was likely dead, leaving him responsible for his widowed mother and he was executed as a criminal by a hapless Roman governor in order to stop a riot. He owned no property, had no money and had no descendants. He only had 12 followers, well make that 11 by the time he died. How is this guy important enough in history that we now count the years since his advent? How is this insignificant minor rebel who died with nothing at the hands of the Romans even discussed today? I contend that this is because there was something historically unique about him.
Sure, if they are streaming the same event you use "broadcast" or "MultiCast" addresses and you transmit it once to everybody.... But that's not the same as having 50gbps pipe to everybody at the same time.
I suppose I'm guilty of brainwashing my kids in your mind... However, the rest does not even remotely describe me or my faith.
You see, it's not MY religious duty to make you follow the law, the very law I've failed to follow myself. How can I even condemn you for failing to follow the law if I'm not able to myself? The Bible clearly says that judgment of sin awaits even if you don't believe it will. It is your choice to believe or not. God makes it clear that he will honor YOUR choice, if it be sin and punishment or life is entirely up to you.
So if God isn't going to force this issue, how is it even remotely my place to do so? In my view this is between you and Him and has nothing to do with me. It's like we are two children and God is the parent. You are doing something wrong, and all I can do is warn you about the punishment to come.
Never said I could prove it, only that the arguments being used to disprove it are naïve and ignorant of the known facts. I was appealing to one's intellectual interest in the topic in an attempt to get some independent investigation of the facts and theories done before proceeding to debate the topic.
You see, It's not about trying to mentally arm wrestle folks into submission to my perspective, but keeping everybody honest about how they came up with their perspective. I think may folks just made up their mind and don't really care what the evidence so they remain ignorant. I say this because they don't argue the real issues that lead up to their conclusion, nor do they know how they arrived at their conclusion and how to support it.
Ignorance is not a bad thing if you've never had a chance to investigate and learn about something and admit that you don't know. It's willful ignorance that is bad. You don't go bury your head in the sand because you've made up your mind.... And YES, I do practice what I preach in this... If I don't know, I don't know and I admit to it. If I want to argue some point I don't know, I go out and investigate before making up my mind. That goes for religion as well as my professional career.
As long as they are not worshiping the image, it doesn't matter.
How is worshipping the image any more nonsensical than worshipping the zombie jesus it allegedly depicts?
I'm sure your local Muslim would explain it much better than I, but if you think about the 10 commandments you learned as a child, think about #3. Folks who would hold the shroud to be proof of Christ's resurrection would likely hold to a literal reading of the 10 commandments too, so worshiping the image on the shroud would be inconsistent with their profession.
Oh, you want to have a philosophical argument about the existence of God... Sorry, I'm not sure you have even a basic command of the facts given your wording, and there is a saying about "Not casting your pearls before swine" that comes to mind...
Yep, you are ignorant about the necessary theology and facts... I suggest you read "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" before you proceed in ignorance here.
There IS a bit more to this you know. You are jumping to the final question but you haven't investigated and answered the preliminary questions yet.
I'll give you a hint... If you want to argue the point with me, you need to go back to the start and argue the virgin birth, death and resurrection of Christ, which is going to require you to understand a good bit of history and the theology which pre-dates Christ. You see, Christ is the key to it all, past, present and future, so go after that issue and not straight to the sarcastic comments.
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You don't need any parts the Shack was selling.... Even if it was the EXACT part number, they sold stuff that was literally crap and you'd be lucky if they worked. I purchased a card with 15 2n222's on it, only ONE in the bunch was marginally within the accepted specifications for that part and the rest where literally junk. I had the same experience with other components, like a whole bunch of 5% resisters which barely fell within 10% of specifications. They literally sold trash for components.
Putting a higher rated fuse into a device is usually not a good idea. Not to mention that finding a 5.5 amp fuse for that 5 amp one is not going to happen.
For devices that regularly blow their fuse, I've occasionally bypassed the fuse under test conditions to find out what's failing by looking for the smoke, but I'd caution you that one needs to first evaluate the circuits and do some diagnostic work to eliminate as many catastrophic failure modes as you can before you take the chance of burning something up (and your house down). Never, NEVER just put in a fuse that is above what is called for, unless you KNOW what you are doing and don't intend to leave it that way.
But I also work on old tube type Ham Radio gear.... Where an improper fuse can be a one way ticket to a blown power transformer and the destruction of circuit cards and parts which are not readily available for purchase or easily replaced. I can tell you that rewinding a power transformer, while possible, is tedious and time consuming and sometimes finding a suitable coupling capacitor with a high enough voltage rating is every expensive.
I can repair apple products. I've replaced screens, buttons, and batteries in a number of iPhones and tablets. It's usually not any harder than Android based devices of the same type. The issue is obtaining the parts, which is drop dead easy for nearly all Apple products, just look on EBay...Android devices are harder to get parts for, mainly because there are so many variants out there and they sell less of each type as a result, which makes it less cost effective to build replacement parts so less android devices have readily available parts. Apple devices don't have this problem.
And this is why we have an environmental problem. If people would fix what they have instead of constantly replacing it, lots of environmental damage caused by manufacturing and transport could be avoided.
But I notice no "Green" group ever mentions this.
Put the blame where it belongs here, on Consumers... Manufacturers have little incentive to build electronic stuff that is repairable, it's too expensive. Couple that with intellectual property licenses, logistics and making their designs public though the publication of service manuals it only makes sense that manufacturers do this. We are lucky manufacturers care enough to make things like TV's durable enough that we can reasonably expect them to work well past the warranty.
Consumers want CHEAP electronics, and will usually buy the cheaper device all things being equal. We get what we want and trying to market your device as "green" doesn't enhance a manufacturer's profits. Oh sure, they will give lip service to "green" by getting certifications like "energy star" and the like, but marketing yourself as "Green" because it can be repaired just doesn't make sense to most consumers.
You don't "repair" anything, you replace circuit cards these days. Failed capacitors and you replace the circuit card..
You see, the consumer wanted CHEAP acquisition costs, not something that was easily repaired. The manufacturer doesn't care about much about repair after the warranty runs out. These things are NOT built for easy repair, they are throw away devices now.
Surface mount components make repair work a matter of just replacing a circuit card these days. NOBODY in their right mind digs out the soldering iron and replaces that capacitor these days, unless the cost to replace the card exceeds the logistical costs of maintaining the staff and equipment. It rarely does.
Works fine... For now...
The damage that water does to phones/electronics is not always apparent. The residue that evaporating water leaves behind tends to be conductive and when it soaks connectors it will encourage corrosion of the contacts. Water can also damage individual components, though most cell phones use coatings on circuit cards to keep that from happening. So, that phone that survived the dunking is pretty likely going to have future problems and I'd start planning to replace it.
The best way to deal with this is to totally disassemble the phone and rinse in distilled water, blow dry with low pressure clean air, clean all the contacts with a light solvent and then allow the device to completely dry before reassembling. Replace any parts where water intrusion is an issue, this includes batteries, cameras and possibly touch screens.
What? Now I have coffee all over my desk.... Carter? Where you even alive then? I remember the national speed limit, gas rationing and the brain dead energy policies he put in place.
Until the current administration, Carter was the worst president in history and was a career politician like the rest since then. His foreign policy was a disaster (curiously with Iran and the middle east in tatters by the time he left office) and his economic policy a total failure during his term in office (curiously like we have now) which prolonged the recession we fell into as he took office. He may have been too little of a politician actually, who was prone to say stupid things which just shouldn't have been said.
Carter may have been a nice guy, but he was a horrible president... I salute him for his activities since leaving office, but IN office he was a disaster.
McAfee as president? This isn't even funny. McAfee is just about certifiable, In fact about all that keeps him out of a publicly funded mental institution is his money. Should he run out of money, he would be locked up in pretty short order for either breaking the law or being a danger to himself and others.
Where I understand the general "we hate politicians" bent in this country right now, can we please stick with supporting people who are something more than just bombastic loudmouths who say outrageous things, even if we think they generally give lip service to our pet issues? What this country needs is a bit of carefully thought out leadership by somebody who isn't beholden to either their ego or the people who fund their campaigns. An outsider perhaps, but one who isn't going to drive us headlong into stuff by being driven by their egos to say stupid things and act rashly. This ISN'T McAfee...
What the hell. I'd vote for McAfee before I vote for Trump. If Trump can run, why not McAfee?
McAfee has experience with the "running" part. How long did he avoid extradition?
I've been war driving for years using software that collects, among other interesting things, the MAC addresses of every device it hears. Google got in trouble doing this kind of thing too.
This is NOT new, nor should he get a patent on this....
The results where inconclusive, so I suggest that we organize additional experiments which include public taste testing up to and including intoxication and long term experiments which address the long term affects of light to moderate "Space Aged Spirits" consumption.
Too expensive you say? Not so, sell raffle tickets for a chance to be part of the study to varying degrees with the grand prize being a lifetime supply of Space Aged Spirits to offset the costs. Heck, it the stuff is good enough, you could make enough money to fund the launch of a couple of barrels a year with a bunch of extra space for things like replacement parts and crew members... Heck, if it's good enough, we might be able to fund all of NASA doing this...
Drinking Whiskey enters the space age..
Of course he's left of center, here's why:
1. He calls himself a "Democratic Socialist" which is left of the democratic party which is itself left of the center in this country. Yea, I know he was "independent" but that does NOT mean center in this case, as he's his own brand of socialist light...
2. He's running to the left of Hillary right now, trying to erode her support with the democratic base. Hillary is running just left of center (well she's not really doing anything right now but staying out of the fray and cashing donor's checks) trying to protect her base and force Sanders et.al to run left of her because there is no room on the right in the democrat party. He will be forced further left in an effort to garner support from the base once Hillary unleashes all her money and actually starts the campaign...
3. It's what democrats ARE. They crowd the center from the left, just like the republicans crowd from the right. Democrats are generally left of center, almost without exception.
Sanders may want to SAY he's centrists, Clinton will run as one too. Heck, Obama ran as a centrist but he's been decidedly left of center in his policy and actions. Everybody wants to SAY they are "in the middle" but few really are. So my policy is to ignore what the candidates claim they are and look at their track records, assuming they have one. Obama was *clearly* a left of center politician even with his short record, and has lived up to my expectations fairly well. Sanders would make Obama look like George Washington if he made it to office.... Not that I'm worried he would, Hillary is going to squash him like a bug with all the money she has once she actually *starts* her campaign.
Oh how left we lean....
And I suppose his "I'm a democratic socialist" claim doesn't mean anything then... Not that he is a socialists but he does claim to be one... I'm prepared to believe he's pretty much to the left of center because that's what he claims he is, what most commentators call him, and what he appears to be to this guy on the right...
He may look centrist to you, but I'm guessing that's just a prospective problem on your part.
LOL.. Well my copy dated to after 2030 after I dipped it in Carbon 14 dust...
There are no facts in dispute so nothing to debate, religion is an opinion at best a tool to control others at worst.
So, I say you are unaware of the facts and you say there are no facts in dispute.... You do see the logical disconnect there right?
Now you are trolling.... Blindly claiming some position to be true is a bad thing too...
Where would you like to start here?
Let me see.... How about discussing the historical basis for the text of the Bible, specifically the OT books? There is a lot of evidence, shared by the top three religions in this world (Islam, Judaism, Christianity), that these writings have existed in their current form for at least 3,000 years.
Or, how about the NT? It claims to have been written by a handful of Jewish guys prior to 100AD. What say you about that?
There are two basic pieces of evidence for the historical existence of the text of protestant Bible that indicate that this text was written by the authors it claims during the likely time they where alive. So, as a historical text, it needs to be taken seriously....
With me so far?
Then, there is the general facts around this character Jesus of Nazareth. Think about how insignificant this guy would have been, the first son of a poor tradesmen carpenter, living in a poor military town in the backwater of a insignificant Roman province. His father was likely dead, leaving him responsible for his widowed mother and he was executed as a criminal by a hapless Roman governor in order to stop a riot. He owned no property, had no money and had no descendants. He only had 12 followers, well make that 11 by the time he died. How is this guy important enough in history that we now count the years since his advent? How is this insignificant minor rebel who died with nothing at the hands of the Romans even discussed today? I contend that this is because there was something historically unique about him.
Sure, if they are streaming the same event you use "broadcast" or "MultiCast" addresses and you transmit it once to everybody.... But that's not the same as having 50gbps pipe to everybody at the same time.
The only answer...
I suppose I'm guilty of brainwashing my kids in your mind... However, the rest does not even remotely describe me or my faith.
You see, it's not MY religious duty to make you follow the law, the very law I've failed to follow myself. How can I even condemn you for failing to follow the law if I'm not able to myself? The Bible clearly says that judgment of sin awaits even if you don't believe it will. It is your choice to believe or not. God makes it clear that he will honor YOUR choice, if it be sin and punishment or life is entirely up to you.
So if God isn't going to force this issue, how is it even remotely my place to do so? In my view this is between you and Him and has nothing to do with me. It's like we are two children and God is the parent. You are doing something wrong, and all I can do is warn you about the punishment to come.
Never said I could prove it, only that the arguments being used to disprove it are naïve and ignorant of the known facts. I was appealing to one's intellectual interest in the topic in an attempt to get some independent investigation of the facts and theories done before proceeding to debate the topic.
You see, It's not about trying to mentally arm wrestle folks into submission to my perspective, but keeping everybody honest about how they came up with their perspective. I think may folks just made up their mind and don't really care what the evidence so they remain ignorant. I say this because they don't argue the real issues that lead up to their conclusion, nor do they know how they arrived at their conclusion and how to support it.
Ignorance is not a bad thing if you've never had a chance to investigate and learn about something and admit that you don't know. It's willful ignorance that is bad. You don't go bury your head in the sand because you've made up your mind.... And YES, I do practice what I preach in this... If I don't know, I don't know and I admit to it. If I want to argue some point I don't know, I go out and investigate before making up my mind. That goes for religion as well as my professional career.
As long as they are not worshiping the image, it doesn't matter.
How is worshipping the image any more nonsensical than worshipping the zombie jesus it allegedly depicts?
I'm sure your local Muslim would explain it much better than I, but if you think about the 10 commandments you learned as a child, think about #3. Folks who would hold the shroud to be proof of Christ's resurrection would likely hold to a literal reading of the 10 commandments too, so worshiping the image on the shroud would be inconsistent with their profession.
Oh, you want to have a philosophical argument about the existence of God... Sorry, I'm not sure you have even a basic command of the facts given your wording, and there is a saying about "Not casting your pearls before swine" that comes to mind...
Yep, you are ignorant about the necessary theology and facts... I suggest you read "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" before you proceed in ignorance here.
Ha ha... How insightful....
There IS a bit more to this you know. You are jumping to the final question but you haven't investigated and answered the preliminary questions yet.
I'll give you a hint... If you want to argue the point with me, you need to go back to the start and argue the virgin birth, death and resurrection of Christ, which is going to require you to understand a good bit of history and the theology which pre-dates Christ. You see, Christ is the key to it all, past, present and future, so go after that issue and not straight to the sarcastic comments.
Really? This would come as a surprise to all the Jews READING the Torah in their synagogues at the time of Christ.
Or the guys that translated the Torah into Greek about 300 years before Christ... (See The LXX...)