No, I Will Not Just Not Use the Safety

On By JohnIn electrics/electronics, safety, travelLeave a comment

The SurgeGuard defends against dangerous under- and over-voltage. This is a good thing: electrical fires caused by bad power in an RV are pretty scary. It also protects against a few other types of problems plaguing RV parks and campgrounds: miswired, missing grounds, reverse polarity on single-leg applications…

So this week, our SurgeGuard has steadfastly refused to switch power on when the pedestal voltage is over 129v on either leg. Overnight the voltage here reaches 133VAC. Legs are out of phase–and drifting! And the park hosts say, “yeah, we know–we just tell people not to use their SurgeGuards.”

Do you really now?

Couple things:

– ours is hard-wired, and
– no

Unethical

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Can’t help but wonder how many of the new, now ‘ethical’ psychology experiments any of us have been involved in.

Oh, wait – if we call it “public education” then it’s not a psychology experiment. Right?

iOS 10 and T-Mobile

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So, I just received this text message from T-mobile:

Important message: If you updated to iOS 10 your iPhone may experience intermittent connectivity issues. You can temporarily resolve this by restarting your device. We will notify you immediately when an update is available.

No shit?

Had to reboot my iPhone and my iPad twice today.

Can’t help but wonder if this is a T-mobile issue… or if it’s an iOS 10 issue.