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Question (almost) without answer

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Ofelix, Apr 21, 2003.

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  1. Iago Gems: 24/31
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    Wait, Wait. The Irish and Scottish can not be compared, because they had a whole different history.

    The Scots always profited from the Union and the Empire and queen mom was a scottish too. Except that incidient form 1798 (or so, not sure), all those cruel stories involving Scots and English date back to the middle-ages. The Scots were first in line, when there was a chance to conquer colonies. (Like Clive of India)

    Ireland is a total different case. They were brutaly oppressed by the Britisch (English and Scots) throughout the 19th century. Than the British quelled the easter rising through bombing Dublin and tried to end the Irish war of independence with sending death squadrons. And Irish-British tensions still remain in Northern Ireland.

    Nothing like this happened between the Scots and the English nor exist similar tensions between them like they can be found in the province of Northern-Ireland.

    [ April 22, 2003, 19:25: Message edited by: Yago ]
     
    Iago, Apr 22, 2003
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    In terms of predictability, then the easiest (for english speaking people) language to learn would be German. Or French. They share similar roots and have the same script. German is nice and easy, as it follows many of the English grammar patterns, but is so much more sensible, in that it has less irregularities.

    @ Mana
    Spanish may have easily identifiable gender distinction, but so does french. La and le identify whether the next noun will be male or female. Unfortunately, these are the words for 'the', so every noun has to be either male or female.

    @C'Jakob
    Chinese it easy to learn, but you will need to learn a new script and you will HAVE to live in China for a period of time. There is no way otherwise that you will learn how to pronounce any of the words. This is generally the standard for many different countries, but Asian languages in particular.
     
    Baezlebub, Apr 25, 2003
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    YARRRRRRRRRRRR!

    All you other forumers tackled the easy ones, but NO ONE even bothered to touch the tough one!

    Shame on you all!!!

    So, anyways. Wow.

    This question is tough. I'm thinking voltages and currents and Ohm's law, and series/parallel circuits. I'm not sure what the question was, and I'm even trying to do an inverse 3:2 pulldown on it from French or German.

    I think you should take two batteries on a machine, but make sure you are not overloading the current. You'll get longer battery-life from hooking them in parallel, but if it's a motor or another type of machine that relies on current more than voltage, you can melt the wires from having too much "available power". Just keep the batteries the same size as the original, and don't hook up more than 2 or 3, and I bet you'll be ok.
     
    ejsmith, Apr 25, 2003
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  4. Blackthorne TA

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    Tehehe. All batteries in any electronic device are always hooked up in series to provide the correct voltage required by the devices inside. If more capacity is needed, larger batteries are used; smaller batteries are not placed in parallel to provide more capacity.

    The typical disposable battery cells (Carbon-Zinc or Alkaline) you find in the sizes AAA through D have 1.5 volts per cell. NiCD batteries only supplied 1.2 volts per cell. So that's one reason you don't want to mix battery types; you need to match voltages in a battery bank (electrons flow from high to low voltage, so you'd end up overcharging and probably destroying the NiCD if you mixed it with Alkaline or Carbon-Zinc)

    Also, different chemistries have different properties and capacities, so you run into the same kind of problem when you mix different battery cell types even if they're of the same voltage, just to a lesser extent.

    You can certainly mix batteries of a differing brand together; you just have to make sure they're of the same chemistry.
     
    Blackthorne TA, Apr 25, 2003
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    You know, that's something that's always bothered me.

    When you go down and pickup a package of Energizer AA batteries, they'll test out at 1.630 volts or so. Now, alkaline AA are usually rated at around 2500 mAh. That is, they can put out 1 milliamp of current for 2500 hours, or 2.5amps of current for 1 hour.

    But not really.

    They drop down below 1.2volts by the time they reach 50%. And some manufacturers of products use poor IC's and SMD's, which cannot handle the 1.6volts, so they undershort by one battery. This happens most frequently on items that require 4 AA's to operate; they are setup to use 6volts (and will operate down to about 5.5volts), instead of 4.8volts.

    This is why a digital camera will last so much longer on NiCads or even metal hydrides, than it will alkalines. The camera has to have 1.2volts (per battery) to operate; anything less than that, and the camera just will not function.

    The Nicads usually charge to 1.32volts. And metal hydrides charge to around 1.43volts. But, if a metal hydride is rated for 1800mAh (most charge to 1900 or 2000mAh), it will deliver 90% at or above 1.2volts. Whereas that 2500mAh alkaline won't even put out 1300mah at or above 1.2volts.

    But the alkalines keep their charge better. Charge up a metal hydride, and just let it sit down in the wine cellar for a year, and it will lose 75% of it's charge. The same alkaline would lose about 5% of it's charge.
     
    ejsmith, Apr 25, 2003
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    4 times?! Just come to where I live and try to catch up the language! :shake:

    [ April 25, 2003, 23:12: Message edited by: chevalier ]
     
    chevalier, Apr 25, 2003
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    2 weeks cracow. I learned nie, oswiszm, tac, bol, swissarski, eb... and that's all. :D ;)

    And no spelling.

    And I never got that right with the circle and the delta.
     
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