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What if someone is WRONG on this forum?
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 29, 2023, 11:33:25 am ---I hadn't spotted this thread, but I like seeing that the mods have locked it
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/isolation-of-the-oscilloscope-from-the-mains-with-two-transformers/msg5244183/#msg5244183
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I was annoyed with the OP and done with the thread after his response to my query about fuses, but I really don't see why the thread needed locking. Thread locks and bans are certainly necessary at times when they drift off course, but this one had merely drifted into a conversation regarding the details of his control circuit. Perhaps there is more to the story.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on December 29, 2023, 03:10:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 29, 2023, 11:33:25 am ---I hadn't spotted this thread, but I like seeing that the mods have locked it
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/isolation-of-the-oscilloscope-from-the-mains-with-two-transformers/msg5244183/#msg5244183
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I was annoyed with the OP and done with the thread after his response to my query about fuses, but I really don't see why the thread needed locking. Thread locks and bans are certainly necessary at times when they drift off course, but this one had merely drifted into a conversation regarding the details of his control circuit. Perhaps there is more to the story.
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Agreed; his response was noteworthy, and could be regarded as damning evidence.
My eyebrows went up slightly earlier, when the OP wrote
--- Quote ---Knowledge of physics at university level is sufficient to avoid making such stupid mistakes.
I don't have time to watch such stupid videos, made by donkeys who want to become famous on the Internet by posting such bullshit. :phew:
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That exemplifies my point in this thread, viz "... They never add the necessary pre-conditions, and - disgracefully IMHO - often belittle or deny them."
Given the danger in his proposals and his attitude to people that attempt to warn him, I think it is worth "officially warning" people who come along later that the whole thread is highly suspect and should be ignored.
Should the OP be banned for that? Not for that alone, IMHO, but if he persisted with the attitude and dangerous incompetence it might just be worth considering.
We all make mistakes. What matters is how we respond when that is pointed out.
Neomys Sapiens:
When discussing this, one should keep in mind a sequence of events predating the existence of this forum by many years. A certain Mr. Ivor Catt did use crude rhetorics in order to put established facts into question. This did not only poison the exchange on ideas and comment in the former publication 'Electronics & Wireless World' to a degree, where sane people would simply disregard the pertaining section, but it might also bring calamities to someone being at the start of his career and getting the erroneous notion that you can argue about basic physics with nothing more than mere sophistries.
IanB:
--- Quote ---Knowledge of physics at university level is sufficient to avoid making such stupid mistakes.
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Reminds me of one of my university lecturers who used to complain about the PhD students in the lab, and the dangerous things they would manage to do.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on December 29, 2023, 08:28:00 am ---
--- Quote from: spork on December 29, 2023, 08:16:39 am ---
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on December 29, 2023, 07:51:26 am ---...Chronic illness sucks. :(
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Imagine how electrodacus feels!
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Depends on his awareness of it.
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Without going into details, are we dealing with a difficult personality here? I'm asking because he is a frequent contributor, and it might have went way over my head.
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