Friday, February 04, 2005
I Want to be an Electrician
Conversation today at work:
GN: “All we would need is a source of water downstairs and we could start making our own coffee.”
JN: “ Hey, we've got an industrial coffee maker at home, it's got multiple heating plates so you can make more than one pot at a time... Oh, but it runs on 220 Volts, and you can probably only get 110 downstairs.”
GN: “Oh, 220's no problem, you just hook up two 110s in series and hope you get the phase right. You know, so you don't melt the transformer and get arrested. Simple”
