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ctlikon0712 · 09-16-2012, 04:05 PM

Ca. kid, that is my experience as well! Well put ! lol

Napa Skip · 09-16-2012, 08:34 PM

And that's just DC, which Thomas Edison had a preference for. Then "along came" AC, promoted by George Circle-Bar-W, in which the electrons (or holes, or mice, or meeces, or little men, or whatever) "run" back and forth, apparently in utter confusion. [We will not delve into what's actually generated in a generator, the finer points of the commutator, nor the net migration of 'trons in a circuit.]

Sometimes, much like heavier than air flight, I'm convinced it's all smoke and mirrors.

Sigh...once an engineer, always an engineer. [My long-suffering wife's version of this is "God save us from engineers," or maybe "God, save us from engineers," but then, she's never taken an engineering course...]

BILL WILLIAMSON · 09-17-2012, 12:48 AM

Well, Steve,
Chief was not an electrical engineer, but he made learning FUN with his humorous examples! Thanks for straightening me out, as I thought all those "little men" were comin' out of the + post, flooding out to the body, frame, and any metal part & desperately searchin' out for any electrical component, so's they could go through it & return to the battery through the -wire! (Loooong sentence!) The dog is No help on this one. Bill W.

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ctlikon0712 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Cocoa, Florida Posts: 1,609	Re: Positive Ground Ca. kid, that is my experience as well! Well put ! lol __________________ Wanted: Simmons Super Power Head Craig Likon 1931 150B

09-16-2012, 08:34 PM	#22
Napa Skip Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Napa CA Posts: 412	Re: Positive Ground And that's just DC, which Thomas Edison had a preference for. Then "along came" AC, promoted by George Circle-Bar-W, in which the electrons (or holes, or mice, or meeces, or little men, or whatever) "run" back and forth, apparently in utter confusion. [We will not delve into what's actually generated in a generator, the finer points of the commutator, nor the net migration of 'trons in a circuit.] Sometimes, much like heavier than air flight, I'm convinced it's all smoke and mirrors. Sigh...once an engineer, always an engineer. [My long-suffering wife's version of this is "God save us from engineers," or maybe "God, save us from engineers," but then, she's never taken an engineering course...] __________________ Skip Keyser Napa Valley A's Olympic Vintage Auto Club (1980-1982) MARC of San Diego (1977-1978) MAFCA (since 1978) MARC (since 1977) ---------- Model A owners belong in their Model A’s; Model A’s belong on the road.

09-17-2012, 12:48 AM	#23
BILL WILLIAMSON Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: FRESNO, CA Posts: 12,560	Re: Positive Ground Well, Steve, Chief was not an electrical engineer, but he made learning FUN with his humorous examples! Thanks for straightening me out, as I thought all those "little men" were comin' out of the + post, flooding out to the body, frame, and any metal part & desperately searchin' out for any electrical component, so's they could go through it & return to the battery through the -wire! (Loooong sentence!) The dog is No help on this one. Bill W. __________________ "THE ASSISTANT GURU OF STUFF"