Similarly, when I am doing a circuit for myself I don't care, and I may use clear insolation on the wires. But when i sell something to someone it is best if the pos and neg have the red/black or black/white that the consumer market is expecting as the customer may wish to do something inside by themselves. I don't want a call from their lawyer. Plus hey, I need to know that my gray hair is actually very very light green, ya know.
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, [email protected] wrote: > Tom: This is probably a lifestyle question. My wife and I are both blind, > so we don't have ready access to people who can describe colors. My work > uniform/costume is a suit and tie, and while it's true that as long as you > keep the coat and pants together you'll be OK, sometimes dry cleaners just > send them back mixed together. So unless you're going to wear unmatched > suits, you have to identify the colors of the various coats > and pants. > I also, on casual days, wear blazers, and that case you have to be able to > pick slacks and blazers that are going to either complement each other or > hopefully, match. > I have a radio with connectors, some red, some black, so a color identifier > helps tremendously with identifying those. Yesterday, I was in the process > of printing a very large document, and the combo printer/scanner/copier ran > out of paper. I was the only person on duty in the division where I work, > and we have bboxes of paper, some white, some yellow, some blue, some red > which we use in these machines. Without a color identifier, > I would never have been able to reload the machine I was using with the same > colored paper I was using for this particular print job. > I've also used one of these to identify the color of wire in multi-wired > cable packs, and that's certainly necessary for some jobs/projects. > Certainly not an exhaustive list, but you get the idea. > Bill Stephan > Kansas Citty MO > Email: [email protected] > Phone: (816)803-2469 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Hodges <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:44 am > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] What is the best color identifier? >> Bob, >> >> I'm still trying to find out why I need one, even if I do have a >> wife. I >> just can't see the need for me to know what color something is. I >> mean, if >> I'm in a room, it doesn't matter to me if the walls are green or blue, >> because, I'm certainly not going to be out looking for matching >> curtains.Etc. >> >> >> >> Regards, Tom >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of chiliblindman >> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:27 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] What is the best color identifier? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Tom, if you have a wife or daughter there is no need for a color >> indicatorof any type. >> ........bob >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >
