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I've used the Wikipedia often - this week I've decided to write some contributions. It seems that filling in articles for red links is a good place to start. --Wtshymanski 02:42, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)


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[edit] Thanks

Bill,

Thanks for the help. It's really a boost to have someone else edit articles I'm working on -- in a positive direction.

I'm fascinated by the electric power industry. One thing I'd like to see, and don't know enough to write, is an explanation of how grids are controlled, how they go unstable, how they are made stable, and so on. Could you do that, or can you point me at good reading material that would make it possible for me to do that?

Iain McClatchie 22:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion of Electrical engineering

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[edit] Winnipeg Folk Festival

I notice you did an edit on the above. I hope someone takes this article on and expands it as my memories of the Festival are so much more. (I worked security there on a volunteer basis for a few years), Know anyone with some in depth insight? Just hoping... (Stormbay 18:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Edits to Transformer- pleas get your facts right before attempting to edit this page

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[edit] Oakbank

Just thought I'd let you know that there is a special template for adding coordinates to articles. I changed your coords to the template in this change. Qutezuce 01:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overloads

Bill, I saw where you put "crude temperature compensation for electric motors" in the relay article. Could you supply an example? I've seen klixons (a bi-metal domed disk) mounted in with the windings of the motor. Should the temperature of the windings climb above a pre-set limit, the klixon snaps to open a set of NC contacts in series to the overloads and removes power to the motor starter coil. A klixon wouldn't compensate for ambiant temperature. Almost all klixons are automatic. They reset when the motor temperature drops below the pre-set level. I have seen manual reset ones. Wm Seán Glen in Tacoma Seán 00:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

An overload relay is different - a Klixon or thermistor directly measures stator temperature, an overload relay approximates the heating effect on the stator by heating the relay internal mechanism (solder pot or bimetal strip). Overload heater tables such as those published by Allen Bradley state that if the motor is known to be in a higher ambient than the starter, a different overload heater is chosen. --Wtshymanski 18:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vga needs more wires than 9?!

and what would those wires be? i thought it just had h sync v sync red green blue and ground. that only makes 6! Plugwash 17:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh my, yes - many more wires. R,G,B each have their own grounds. There's a separate ground for synch. There's three or four bits of monitor ID, but later monitors have an SCI-type serial communication interface. If there was ever a VGA monitor and card built with only 9 pins, I'd like to see a reference for it. Google "VGA pinout" and you'll come up with lots of pinout diagrams, none of which show VGA associated with a 9-pin connector. --Wtshymanski 17:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Talk:Springfield, Manitoba

Hi! I noticed that you have edited recently on this article. Would you mind taking a look at the talk page listed above. i posted there early today. I'd like your opinion on what I wrote. (I think maybe I've lost perspective on the subject). Thanks in advance and "Cheers". Stormbay 20:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MI Cable

You restored fireproof and explosion proof. On what do you base that? I have seen MI cables fail at a fire test at ULC in Scarborough, ON. Even furnace insulation in blast furnaces is routinely replaced because it wears out. Just what makes you think anything is fireproof, as in immune to fire of sufficient duration and intensity? Also, apart from working in fire protevction, I was also R & D manager for a company that made blast resistant walls and doors. There are no tests in existence that would designate anything whatsoever as explosion proof. Even bunkers are not "~proof". Explosionproof would also mean that any size and shape and speed of projectile would have no effect on any size and shape of MI cable. On what do you base the immunity to fire and explosions of MI cable? Tyco/Pyrotenax would NEVER EVER make such a claim. On what do you base the use of your terms?--Achim 23:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trip to Flin Flon

Hi, just wondering how your trip to Flin Flon was? I saw you noted that you were going to be posting some pictures of the place. I might have to take a digital video with me next time I go back home, hit the high-ground on the east and west sides, and just pan the whole city. I find that the pic on the top of the article just doesn't do it justice. Weaponofmassinstruction 17:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, I got your note (I just don't get in here as often as I'd like anymore). I'm going to try to get back home for Christmas, grab some pics overlooking each side of town, then make it back there this summer to get the same shots from the same angles in the contrasting seasons. Cheers


[edit] Two-way radio

Thanks for adding the Two-way radio article to your to-do list.

I'm going to go back through the list of stuff on my user page and use your "What I want to see in a technology article" list along with the "Writing better articles" guidelines for opening paragraphs. Over the coming months, I will go back through the articles on my user page and try to them clean up. The original Two-way radio article had only frequency information and nothing on how they work or what they do. It may have had Amateur radio stuff too. I usually don't delete things unless they're factually wrong so I left the stuff. Editing would be a good thing. There is some history information in the Mobile radio article that may be relevant. There may be other stuff in articles appearing in the navigation template Template:Two-way radio too. User:David Jordan 11/29/2006.


[edit] Picture caption in MI cable

I have seen your removal of text that indicates that an electrical circuit that must remain operable during accidental fires is required to be equipped with fireproofing along its whole length. That is very very very basic doctrine in Nuclear Power and any lapses in the past have led to reportable events, for obvious reasons. If you leave a junction box completely unprotected and this is exposed to ETK fires or worse, then you have an obvious weak spot. It is for this reason that all testing to Supplement 1 as per USNRC encompasses both raceways and boxes. If you think you know better than the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The National Building Code of Canada and every operating nuclear power plant on the planet that has to answer to a federal regulator or local building authority, or both, as is the case in Germany for instance, then I would invite you to state your reasons before simply removing such text. I would further invite you to state your personal experience in fire test design and execution to support such a claim.--Achim 04:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The application depicted has nothing to do with fire protection, the USNRC, nuclear reactors, Germany, etc., as I've tried to explain repeatedly. A long and peripheral discussion of fire protection methods is not appropriate in a photo caption. I make NO claims about fire test experience - but it's not relevant to the picture! The installation in the picture uses MI cable for purposes entirely unrelated to fire protection. --Wtshymanski 16:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I beg to differ. The whole purpose of MI Cable is circuit integrity. There is no way on God's green earth that anyone would put up with the extra labour and expense of using MI cables, comparted to ordinary cables, if the goal weren't circuit integrity. If you think that fire protection is peripheral to circuit integrity cables, then just what do you consider to be pertinent? That's like saying that smoking is peripheral to ashtrays. So, for what purpose other than circuit integrity, which is a function of fire protection, do you suppose anyone anywhere installs MI cables then?Achim

See above. It turns out not to be the case that MI cable is installed only for circuit integrity during a fire. MI cable is used for purposes entirely unrelated to circuit integrity. The photo shows a 120 V panelboard at a spillway control structure - the circuits involved are ordinary lights and plugs, nothing to do with fire resistance at all. Not a nuclear reactor, not for a fire pump or fire alarm - just a rugged cable system where the extra labor cost is traded off for long cable life. Apparently in the UK they like to install MI cable because it is inconspicuous against stone work - not anything to do with fire protection. --Wtshymanski 00:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

If you weren't already aware: 1 and 2. — BillC talk 01:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to get rid of "ideal transformers don't have flux" while you're at it. — BillC talk 02:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Rogers

Hi Wtshymanski,

Thanks for double checking me on Battery eliminator. The Edward S. Rogers, Sr. article says he started Rogers Communications. That was why I linked it. Perhaps the Edward article is in error? —EncMstr 19:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Galvanic merge

Why did you do the merge after opposing it? I undid it, and requested a page move to fix the spelling. Dicklyon 23:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Energy portal & future selected articles

Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the Energy portal, and intend asking for a portal peer review within the next day or so.

The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!

Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page, my talk page, or on Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate. Gralo 15:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decibel

If the article decibel isn't about acoustics, why is Section 5.1 entitled "Acoustics"? Thunderbird2 19:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Seems reasonable to me. I'll take a look at acoustics. Thunderbird2 15:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Binary Prefixes

Please stop reverting binary prefixes when they are relevant. If you want to discuss the MoS, you can do it here. Sarenne 15:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Please, do not revert these changes until you manage to change the MoS. Wikipedia doesn't need to be consistent with the original references if they are wrong or inacurrate. Sarenne 19:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Once again, DO NOT revert changes when they are correct and agree with the MoS. In TRS-80 Model 100 line, there was 32*1024 B RAM, not 32,000 bytes. Sarenne 20:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

For the last time, if you want to change the MoS, an edit war is not the solution. Please take a look at this guideline. You know where to go if you want to change the MoS. Sarenne 18:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3-phase color codes

Hi, Bill. Did you see m reply over in Talk:Three-phase electric power#Color Codes? Thanks. jhawkinson 23:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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