In most cases the belt that drives the alternator is not turned by the drive shaft (you can see occasional exceptions to this on scratch built hot rods). It is turned by a pulley on the front of the engine which is driven by the crankshaft.
Alternators do not produce excess power, at least not if they're operating properly, and if they go bad and do produce excess power, that excess power burns out a fusible link, which makes you have to fix the problem.
Alternators have voltage regulators that keep the voltage right around 13.8, or whatever voltage the manufacturer has designed for, despite fluctuations in the load. It does this by increasing or decreasing the magnetic field of the rotor. This rotating field induces a current in the stator that, after rectification, is the output of the alternator. When load increases it draws more current. This will cause the alternator output voltage (the pressure that forces current through the load) to drop unless the alternator is caused to produce a higher current, which results in the voltage not going down. In order to produce that higher current, the strength of that rotating magnetic field is increased. Rotating an armature in a stronger field or rotating a stronger field with the "armature" held fixed is electrically the same--you have relative movement. If the magnetic field strength increases it takes more energy to move one relative to the other. That increased energy has to come from the engine, which means it uses more gasoline.
Radios, or any other electrical load, draw current. Some draw a little, some draw a lot, but none of them run on "free" power. The more current you have to supply to all the loads on the system, the more energy you have to use to generate that current.
I'm not trying to flame you, but until you have a better understanding of how electricity works you might want to avoid endangering yourself and your equipment by not opening your system and messing with the insides. Of course I learned a lot of what I know about how electricity works by opening up stuff and messing with the insides, but fortunately I was lucky enough (not smart, lucky) to not have severely damaged myself or started a fire.
Interesting. I got a 5.25 floppy version of Windows 3.1 on eBay a little while back with Unitron on the box and the front cover of the manual. I guess they were the OEM in this case. Haven't installed it on anything yet so I don't know if it's on the splash screen or not yet. Gotta get around to that.
If you see unitron without an email address appended as a bidder or seller name on eBay, by the way, that's not me, somebody beat me to it by the time I got interested in auctions. Apparently an abandoned account, no reply to my e-mail.
If the entire audience isn't hearing the same thing (different ads), if it's no longer a shared experience, is it still radio? I define radio here as the experience, not the delivery mechanism. (At one time radio was an important part of my life, then I got a job as an announcer and could no longer ignore the man behind the curtain)
If the "internet-only ads" are on a different server at a different IP, like banner ads, what happens to the radio part when the ad part screws up?
"there are many non-lethal and justifiable uses for guns..."
Guns and people who seem just a little too fond of them scare me, but one non-lethal and justifiable use for them is deterence. You might even make the arguement that it prevents injury to both the innocent and the would-be bad guy if it pursuades them to re-think their illegal plans.
Tobacco peddlers spent billions over the years in advertising and placement in movies and television shows to convince people to actually light up and take the smoke into their bodies. Gun makers advertise "stopping power", that is, being able to disable another person by inserting one or more bullets into them at high velocity.
I've never ever seen an advertisement for a hammer that suggested any use for it other than pounding nails into wood or pulling them back out with the claw.
This of course makes the entirely reasonable assumption that the original poster was referring to those types of hammers used by carpenters.
I suspect that most of the ACs are in the continental US which would mean GMT would be 5 or more hours off from the AC's local time and that would probably lead to even more AC whining.
There is some down side to being an AC. F'rinstance, you can't go to your preferences page and check which time zone you want used when times get plugged into the mix. So you get the default and they don't have to remember to reset the time on the server twice a year (and put up with a hundred whiney posts if they're a second or two late doing it, though I can't imagine what else they could possibly rather be doing at 1 or 2 am on a Saturday night then messing with the server).
Leave some of those computers using Windows. Maybe even throw a Mac into the mix. Getting them and the others to network together and play nice with each other might be a big headache but you'll learn a lot that you can use in the real world where such "mixed marriages" might be unavoidable.
One of the problems with the last "mile" is that the consumer at the end of it doesn't own or have any control over it, the monopoly at the other end does.
(In the case of power lines I don't mind it so much. 60 Hz 120 volt AC is pretty much the same no matter from whom you buy it. The company from whom we buy electrical power is the same company from whom we buy delivery of that power. If we were buying power from some company other than the one that owns the wires that run to the house, the people with the package deal would probably get any of their problems dealt with first.)
I'm a lot less happy that our choice of cable TV providers is either Time-Warner or Time-Warner.
I'm beginning to wonder if the local telco (Carolina Tel&Tel as swallowed by Sprint--they've been saying "real soon now" on DSL for a couple of years) isn't waiting for Road Runner to put all the (few) local ISPs (which are all owned by regional companies now anyway, my account's been absorbed twice so far) out of business before they offer DSL so that they can be the only ISP available over DSL, and then they'll undercut cable by a few bucks to steal some Road Runner customers and grab all the new ones that come along.
I wonder if a lot of people will stay with cable anyway (I'm sure TW will offer some sort of TV/Internet package deal and make up the difference overcharging cable-only customers) just to avoid changing their email addresses.
If you're so far away from the Central Office that voltage drop eats up that 48 volts, then your phone wouldn't work either. The problem with DSL and distance is that DSL runs at a higher frequency, i.e, needs more bandwidth, better high frequency response, than your phone. As wires get longer not only does resistance go up, but impedance does as well, and that tends to roll off high frequencies, so there's a point beyond which the length of the wire between you and the phone company is too long to deliver those higher frequencies.
That's what I get for doing math in my head at this early hour. 1000 mbps would be 1 bit per second. I was obviously thinking something about seconds per minute for some reason.
"A spokesperson for the Minister for Justice and Customers Senator Chris Ellison was unavailable for comment but said in a statement: "The large amount of data that can be stored on computer drives and disks and the complex security measures, such as encryption and passwords, which can be used to protect that information present particular problems for investigators. The legislation will enable police powers to copy computer data and examine computer equipment and disks off-site and enable them to obtain assistance from computer owners."emphasis added
That makes it sound as though instead of hauling away everything you own that has anything to do with computers (and eventually auctioning it off and pocketing the proceeds--that's why they seize the speakers and monitors and power cords and keyboards, they get more money selling compete systems), they could just copy everything you have on any and all storage media, and crack into it back at the station house, without leaving you unable to persue any legal and legitimate computer use. After all, you might be innocent, and this way they inconvenience you the least while still investigating.
Unfortunately this makes sense, respects individual rights, forgoes photo-ops of officers rendering the "danger to society hacker" impotent by taking away all that "sophisticated hardware" that was no doubt financed by selling drugs and dirty pictures to pre-schoolers, and creates less opportunity to augment department budgets with auction proceeds, so don't hold your breath.
"Philosophers never could quite agree on a word or phrase that captured the weird sense of nostalgia for the present that seemed to emanate from that word."
Considering that nostalgia is "A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past", I can see where they would have a problem.
They call it "Google Zeitgeist", not "Zeitgeist of the entire planet". I'm sure that at some point someone has used the term "American Zeitgeist" and it wasn't too hard to figure out that they weren't talking about Europe or Asia.
"I'd especially like to be a mentor to young women of secondary school age..."
If a man had said that, no matter how innocent his motives, the cops would be breaking down his door and hauling him and all his hardware away in a quinstant.
I read a lot of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein all around the same time so I'm sure I'm remembering wrong, but it does seem as though 30 or 40 years of common use of "Waldo" or "Waldoes" to refer to these things would amount to the copyright or trademark equivalent of "prior art".
I was so sure that the name came from a character (named Waldo) in an Asimov story (that I read 35 years ago and it wasn't new then) that invented things that you stuck your hands in and that allowed remote manipulation of radioactive stuff, and when scientists actually developed them they had already read the story, so I went to Google and chanced upon a link to a company that discovered nobody had copyrighted the term, so they did. Looks like a lot of their stuff could be usable in an exoskeleton, especially "Warrior Waldo®".
No doubt the "Where's Waldo®" people's lawyers will be sending them a nastygram first thing next week.
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Alternators do not produce excess power, at least not if they're operating properly, and if they go bad and do produce excess power, that excess power burns out a fusible link, which makes you have to fix the problem.
Alternators have voltage regulators that keep the voltage right around 13.8, or whatever voltage the manufacturer has designed for, despite fluctuations in the load. It does this by increasing or decreasing the magnetic field of the rotor. This rotating field induces a current in the stator that, after rectification, is the output of the alternator. When load increases it draws more current. This will cause the alternator output voltage (the pressure that forces current through the load) to drop unless the alternator is caused to produce a higher current, which results in the voltage not going down. In order to produce that higher current, the strength of that rotating magnetic field is increased. Rotating an armature in a stronger field or rotating a stronger field with the "armature" held fixed is electrically the same--you have relative movement. If the magnetic field strength increases it takes more energy to move one relative to the other. That increased energy has to come from the engine, which means it uses more gasoline.
Radios, or any other electrical load, draw current. Some draw a little, some draw a lot, but none of them run on "free" power. The more current you have to supply to all the loads on the system, the more energy you have to use to generate that current.
I'm not trying to flame you, but until you have a better understanding of how electricity works you might want to avoid endangering yourself and your equipment by not opening your system and messing with the insides. Of course I learned a lot of what I know about how electricity works by opening up stuff and messing with the insides, but fortunately I was lucky enough (not smart, lucky) to not have severely damaged myself or started a fire.
If you see unitron without an email address appended as a bidder or seller name on eBay, by the way, that's not me, somebody beat me to it by the time I got interested in auctions. Apparently an abandoned account, no reply to my e-mail.
In my case it's short for University Electronics.
If the "internet-only ads" are on a different server at a different IP, like banner ads, what happens to the radio part when the ad part screws up?
Guns and people who seem just a little too fond of them scare me, but one non-lethal and justifiable use for them is deterence. You might even make the arguement that it prevents injury to both the innocent and the would-be bad guy if it pursuades them to re-think their illegal plans.
There isn't anything in the Constitution about a right to ammunition is there? Hmmm.
I've never ever seen an advertisement for a hammer that suggested any use for it other than pounding nails into wood or pulling them back out with the claw.
This of course makes the entirely reasonable assumption that the original poster was referring to those types of hammers used by carpenters.
I suspect that most of the ACs are in the continental US which would mean GMT would be 5 or more hours off from the AC's local time and that would probably lead to even more AC whining.
There is some down side to being an AC. F'rinstance, you can't go to your preferences page and check which time zone you want used when times get plugged into the mix. So you get the default and they don't have to remember to reset the time on the server twice a year (and put up with a hundred whiney posts if they're a second or two late doing it, though I can't imagine what else they could possibly rather be doing at 1 or 2 am on a Saturday night then messing with the server).
Leave some of those computers using Windows. Maybe even throw a Mac into the mix. Getting them and the others to network together and play nice with each other might be a big headache but you'll learn a lot that you can use in the real world where such "mixed marriages" might be unavoidable.
(In the case of power lines I don't mind it so much. 60 Hz 120 volt AC is pretty much the same no matter from whom you buy it. The company from whom we buy electrical power is the same company from whom we buy delivery of that power. If we were buying power from some company other than the one that owns the wires that run to the house, the people with the package deal would probably get any of their problems dealt with first.)
I'm a lot less happy that our choice of cable TV providers is either Time-Warner or Time-Warner.
I'm beginning to wonder if the local telco (Carolina Tel&Tel as swallowed by Sprint--they've been saying "real soon now" on DSL for a couple of years) isn't waiting for Road Runner to put all the (few) local ISPs (which are all owned by regional companies now anyway, my account's been absorbed twice so far) out of business before they offer DSL so that they can be the only ISP available over DSL, and then they'll undercut cable by a few bucks to steal some Road Runner customers and grab all the new ones that come along.
I wonder if a lot of people will stay with cable anyway (I'm sure TW will offer some sort of TV/Internet package deal and make up the difference overcharging cable-only customers) just to avoid changing their email addresses.
If you're so far away from the Central Office that voltage drop eats up that 48 volts, then your phone wouldn't work either. The problem with DSL and distance is that DSL runs at a higher frequency, i.e, needs more bandwidth, better high frequency response, than your phone. As wires get longer not only does resistance go up, but impedance does as well, and that tends to roll off high frequencies, so there's a point beyond which the length of the wire between you and the phone company is too long to deliver those higher frequencies.
That's what I get for doing math in my head at this early hour. 1000 mbps would be 1 bit per second. I was obviously thinking something about seconds per minute for some reason.
mbps=millibits per second. 6000 mbps would be 1 bit per second, meaning about 10 seconds, including overhead, to transmit one byte.
Yeah, but it would have made more sense if I'd said "selling complete systems" instead of "selling compete systems". :-)
That makes it sound as though instead of hauling away everything you own that has anything to do with computers (and eventually auctioning it off and pocketing the proceeds--that's why they seize the speakers and monitors and power cords and keyboards, they get more money selling compete systems), they could just copy everything you have on any and all storage media, and crack into it back at the station house, without leaving you unable to persue any legal and legitimate computer use. After all, you might be innocent, and this way they inconvenience you the least while still investigating.
Unfortunately this makes sense, respects individual rights, forgoes photo-ops of officers rendering the "danger to society hacker" impotent by taking away all that "sophisticated hardware" that was no doubt financed by selling drugs and dirty pictures to pre-schoolers, and creates less opportunity to augment department budgets with auction proceeds, so don't hold your breath.
Considering that nostalgia is "A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past", I can see where they would have a problem.
Aren't they the ones who gave us "gestalt"?
They call it "Google Zeitgeist", not "Zeitgeist of the entire planet". I'm sure that at some point someone has used the term "American Zeitgeist" and it wasn't too hard to figure out that they weren't talking about Europe or Asia.
The way I heard it, they each lead to 40 other pop-ups.
Then how would Stomberg and Strombecker translate?
Community colleges can definitely use people who actually know what they're talking about, especially with regard to hardware.
If a man had said that, no matter how innocent his motives, the cops would be breaking down his door and hauling him and all his hardware away in a quinstant.
I read a lot of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein all around the same time so I'm sure I'm remembering wrong, but it does seem as though 30 or 40 years of common use of "Waldo" or "Waldoes" to refer to these things would amount to the copyright or trademark equivalent of "prior art".
Does that mean that script kiddies will be trying to hack into them over the internet?
No doubt the "Where's Waldo®" people's lawyers will be sending them a nastygram first thing next week.