Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

thorny's pressure comment is a common one, so much so there is a image to illustrate the concept

His explanation is right, it just kinda defeats the point of keeping it short and simple. A live conductor isn't actively pushing against anything, it's just waiting to touch something with a lower potential to equalize. But, when visualizing how a tool works or how a battery discharges at the layman level, it's not meaningfully different from hydraulic pressure.

Fun but useless item you learn in physics:

Electricity is not only particles and waves, its also a fluid.

Sorry electrical engineer here, my chances to put my knowledge in any general conversation is close to zero, need to jump when I can! People's response to finding out that information is generally to talk to someone else, rather than ask follow up questions. >.>

My first thought of pressure was like air or water which is basically intrinsic to the surrounding. Whereas potential requires an external force to activate (for voltage this "completing the circuit" (i.e. plug it in, turn it on)). Didn't really think about hydraulics. Like i said nitpicky anyways.

:) or the voltage is high enough.

if you put someone on a higher cliff you do not increase the likely hood they suddenly fall off of it. but if you increase the voltage the chance it will jump the gap increases until it arcs over and all the magic smoke is let out.

indeed a strong force that is hard to resist.

It's a walk-behind variant, two 3Ah and two 5Ah batteries. Typically need both sets to finish the yard and if the grass is higher both sets aren't enough.

The yard the mower was purchased for has a lot of stuff in it to maneuver around so a riding mower wouldn't work well for the job.

Since every brand has to have their own battery system, the batteries being a large chunk of the price and everyone most likely already has a certain brands power tools + batteries in their household there isn't much of a choice.

It doesn't matter if I mow the lawn or cut wood with the chainsaw. I often have the impression there is not enough power both in force and duration for the yard work I'm doing, in particular if I'm doing tasks that I've used gas powered tools for in the past.
And it's not just power, the chainsaw for instance frequently seems to shut down cause it's overheating (independent of oil status) so you have to wait a bit before you can continue. What really pisses me off is when the tool shuts down to save power cause you had ~15 seconds of downtime.

Imho electric is nice and convenient for easy to medium yard work but to be honest I often find it's not quite there yet.

Yea, I haven't been impressed with electric chainsaws. As much as I hate mixing gas, they fall short even for light homeowner work. Killed two Dewalt ones in a month just clearing some ~10yr growth when I bought my property.

I don't feel the same about my mower, I use it for towing a lawn cart and mowing and it's fine. Very responsive and zippy, no gas smell, easy to maintain. Don't really like that there aren't replacement parts for the motors, but I'll probably figure out a way to do an upgrade when it comes time to replace them.

This is why I <3 this forum.

You should visit more often.

IDK

I will first take a look at his resume before allowing him to visit us more often.

Fixed

You've been kind of absent lately. I thought you were in jail.

For offending some minority out there

Fine, I'll bite.

WTF is up with Needohs?

I've been looking in multiple stores in multiple states (my teenager asks about them...nonstop), so finally I need to stop by Learning Express to pick up a gift for a party tomorrow (for a different kid) and my teenager is like they got Needohs there get me one. The store is busier than normal I find a whole wall full of squishy things and no Needohs, she texts me I think they're behind the register, sure enough, huge stack of them there, explains why there's 10 people in line with nothing in their hands, apparently you can only buy so many.

Like even if you think the product is cool, not sure anything is worth the aggravation, and why do you need 50 of them?

I'm sure this is just another toy fad that supply can't keep up with (cough cough Cabbage Patch Kids, Furbies, Beanie Babies etc... c. 2026)

I clearly didn't get that gene that makes me want things because others have them now leave me alone while I listen to my obscure metal and play my 24 year old game and get off my lawn.

Had training last week for work
Went out of town over the weekend for debauchery
Then spent all of this week trying to do data recovery on our SAN without sufficient replacement drives

No time for shitposting, ive been gym slacking too cuz of it