See replies below. I promise this is the last thing I'll say about date format, metric, and voltage for a long time.
Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gmitrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs. > Ivan, > > Writing dates as MM/DD/YY is the same as writing time as HH:SS:MM. It does not seem logical. There should be linear ascendence or descendence in the order of things, IMO. You're right, it is not logical. But the world is illogical. > > In Australia we have 240V/50Hz. Compared to your 120V/60Hz. We could discuss frequency, but one thing is sure, the current in your system is twice as high as in our system. That means your losses are four times as high. Whatever you do, you will always have higher electricity costs. It might not seem a big to you as an individual. On a national scale, it costs all of you a lot of dough. Component voltage stresses are higher in 240V systems. So components cost more. You need wider PCB track spacing for 240V runs. The losses at 120V are minimal, because it's only 120V from the transformer on the street pole to my house or business. The voltage up to that pole is 7200V or 14400V, I think. Our U.S. energy prices (except California) are probably much cheaper than most places in the world. My home electricity bill last month was $67 USD, and I live in hot, hot, hot Florida. Of course, I do have a high-efficiency heat pump (SEER 14). > > Metric system is based on a decimal numerical system, which is natural to humans. Not U.S. humans! We think 12 in. to a ft., 3 ft. to a yard, 5280 ft. to a mile, freezing water at 32 F, boiling it at 212 F is natural! Yeah, it's crazy... > > So we have reasons for what we are doing. What are your reasons for the things you do? You are just used to? Inertia. Yep. > > Igor ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 4DA42B57FB220D42B10C0D6B54A07C2B4B6C22E3 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
