Hedges
I See Electromagnetic Fields!
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Thanks again. I'm now more confident my setup has a lower risk of electrocuting my family while burning the house down.
Always more to learn. I'd love to get some sort of official training in systems like this, but the only way seems to be a four year apprenticeship. Not really practical while working full time. Maybe it's time to look at online engineering degrees.
There are for-profit schools offering one or two year programs in various technician and nursing fields, for about $30,000.
Similar programs in junior colleges, for a lot less money (but popular programs are sometimes full.)
Universities like Cal State have more advanced programs at higher cost than a J.C. but cheaper than (officially) for-profit schools. Easy enough to qualify to be admitted. The big universities are more selective. But both kinds will let people take some classes without being admitted, space available. (Even Stanford, but you have to pay for a full load even if only taking one class.) Berkeley, I noticed undergrad quantum physics was always full, but graduate level had space available. (If I'd had the initiative to self-study and master the undergrad I might have considered attending. The units could have counted toward a degree I got elsewhere.)
But if you just want to learn, not get a sheepskin, check out "MIT Open Courseware", video of lectures and copies of assignments. Based on prior year texts, which you can find on Amazon much cheaper than this years texts.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
ocw.mit.edu
Or if you want a degree, maybe your employer will pay?
I went full-time to SJSU during my year of unemployment, then took one or two classes at a time, often skipping a semester, until I finished. (Tuition covers 2 courses, more costs extra. Can skip a semester without being dropped.)
Some big employers even pay the university to teach a tailored program on-site (about triple the tuition cost.)