Units moderator. There should be a units moderator assigned.

[Hedges]

I don’t suppose you know anyone who may actually be of any help?

Nope, no contact with those programs.

I have worked inside a couple "other" programs.

"Negative masses" - yeah, right!
It works in math, so must represent reality!

So did the program publish a bit of data but not all?

 

[OffGridForGood]

Same here with AWG. Sure, let's indicate bigger conductors with smaller numbers. Oh no, we reached 0, let's go 00 and 000 and 0000. Yeah, makes sense

...and when we get to too many zero's , we can change again to MCM ! so we can end up with a system AWG, aught, and MCM instead of something simple like cross-sectional area in mm...LOL/ Yeah I buy wire by AWG sizes, by the lineal meter! (mixed units, even worse!!)

But then again, if people still want to refer to nails by how many pennies can buy could buy 100 nails in 1910 ... there is going to be some room for improvement!

 

[Hedges]

I believe common core math is now the standard to be adopted when doing electrical calculations.
It's what sets apart America from the rest of the world.
And mentioning "gender" with reference to electrical plugs and sockets is now a form of hate crime.

My Sunny Islands are confused. They still refer to each other as "Master" and "Slave", but different pronouns are used by marketing: "Main" and "Secondary".

https://files.sma.de/downloads/SI6048US-DS-en-28.pdf?_ga=2.244239693.91889725.1708042737-1993228563.1689978929

(and some people never liked the name "Sunny BOY".)

 

[OffGridForGood]

I'm too tired and stuck with a flue

Flu - tftfy!

 

[Zwy]

kW (power) vs kWh (energy) is critical to understanding what you're up to. However calling people out who use KWh is just plain bonkers, only adds confusion.

I only use Kw and Kwh and will continue to do so.

I guess you can call it my hallmark.

 

[HighDesertOffgrid]

(and some people never liked the name "Sunny BOY".)

Young adult masculine identifying interface.

 

[OffGridForGood]

Chairman
Chairperson
Chairperchild Fixed!

Now what will we do with French...!

 

[Hedges]

Chairperchild Fixed!

This needs to be automated.
And of course, must re-run wokeCheck on the results, to ensure we didn't inadvertently create a forbidden character string.

Chairper<birthed person> Fixed!

Oops,

Chairper<birthed perchild> fixed!

Oops,

Chairper<birthed per<birthed person>> fixed!

... etc.

 

[RV8R]

And there's this:
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Eh ?

 

[Crowz]

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Eh ?

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Yep and they had to learn our system of measurements too

 

[exmarkretired]

Thanks for the smiles today !

All I know is that 1/2" = 13mm when I'm looking for a socket. But take that with a grain of salt . 7000 grains per pound. Wait. never mind that's 7000 grains of powder per pound. or is that Drams ???

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups

www.doneyles.com

The Metric vs Imperial units at NASA at the time of the moon landings is interesting.

The Apollo Guidance Computer was programmed in SI, but displayed and accepted data in Imperial units (see link above). The astronauts received burn information, like the contingency burn 90 minutes after Trans Lunar Injection in Imperial units, in what was called a PAD (the Apollo Flight Journals, and the corresponding Apollo Lunar Surface Journals are well worth a read). Mission reports, which documented the results of the mission from an engineer and scientific standpoint, used a mix of units, with the trend being engineering data (orbits, launch and landing reconstructions, performance of the various systems) being in Imperial and scientific data (sample descriptions, landing site geology, experimental results) being in Metric, although these weren't absolute rules.

 

[Bop]

Why do we ignore kWd, kWm or kWs? Watts are so elusive if you do not give a time scale. Than there is that pesky ah. Should it not be Vah where V =voltage the amps are measured at? Than we have the metric conversions where you have to guess that a certain wire awg size is equal to some odd metric area size.

Units are so confusing it would take a thousand moderators to keep them right. Or 1 moderator reading a thousand posts. Or would that be 1.5 Mods reading ~666 posts?

Or posts that use AWG instead of metric...

 

[SeaGal]

I used to have model railways using 2 mm = 1 foot scale.

Don't get me started on tyres (=tires for those that claim to have visited the moon). Not sure about in the USA, but in the UK tyres are sized in a format like 255/35 R18 where 255 is the width in mm, 35 is the % of the sidewall depth compared to the width, and the 18 is the diameter of the wheel... in inches!

And yes, we still measure fuel consumption in miles per gallon here, despite only being able to purchase fuel in litres for the last 29 years.

 

[OffGridForGood]

not in L per 100km

 

[SeaGal]

not in L per 100km

no... that's just what those Europeans do

We still measure road distances in miles, not like Canada!

 

[Mattb4]

Don't get me started on tyres (=tires for those that claim to have visited the moon). Not sure about in the USA, but in the UK tyres are sized in a format like 255/35 R18 where 255 is the width in mm, 35 is the % of the sidewall depth compared to the width, and the 18 is the diameter of the wheel... in inches!

And yes, we still measure fuel consumption in miles per gallon here, despite only being able to purchase fuel in litres for the last 29 years.

But your Imperial gallon is different than the US gallon which is different than a Spanish Galleon. It all is too confusing for me to keep all the conversions straight. I say we adopt the Chinese standard of measurements that seem to have no standard at all. If it looks good, ship it.

 

[OffGridForGood]

We still measure road distances in miles, not like Canada

HA HA HA!
in Canada we talk about highway distances in Hours!

It is handy to be comfortable with SI and Imperial units, it's like being bilingual.

 

[Bop]

no... that's just what those Europeans do

We still measure road distances in miles, not like Canada!

Us Aussies use l/100km too lol
My Hilux uses 10l/100km- which makes it real easy to figure out my fuel 'kilometreage'
It's funny- I was one of the last Aussie generations taught both systems- and even I have to use the net to do gallons (imperial or US???) to litres, or look up distances in anything other than metric- I use metric exclusively (apart from the occasional weirdness like the tyres thing- and caravans (travel trailers for the yanks)- for some weird reason, they are often still found in feet
Most Aussies under the age of thirty literally have no idea of how the imperial system works (or doesn't as the case may be) and when confronted with the imperial system, are 'why the &$% would anyone make or use a system like THAT for????'

10mm =1cm, 100cm=1m, 1000m= 1km, a cube of water 1cmx1cmx1cm = 1 gram (1mL), 10cm x10cmx10cm = 1kg (and is 1litre), 1mx1mx1m = 1 tonne (1000L), water freezes at 0C, and boils at 100C

12"=1ft, 3ft=1yard, 36"=1 yard, 5280 feet in a mile or 1760 yards=1 mile, 1 US gallon= 231cubic inches, but a Canadian/UK gallon is 274 (and a bit) cubic inches- but both are 4 quarts (also different), a US gallon of water weighs 8.33 lbs, while a Imperial gallon weighs 10.02 lbs, water freezes at 32F and boils at 212F
Yeah- makes 'perfect sense'
(I grew up with it- and it still makes no sense to me lol)

 

[OffGridForGood]

And once ounce of anything is 28 grams, unless you are weighing gold and then an ounce is 31 grams...
yeah, it is a bit of a mess, with strange customary units and history mixed together.
If Charlemage had trouble moderating the use of units, you can be sure we have little chance of doing better!