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01/27/2012
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Reading Between Earth and Neutral 120V

01/27/2012
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Hi Could any body help, the reading between earth and neutral in the incomer supplying power to the house is 120V while live and neutral reads normal...
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Power from Thermal Energy in Air at Room Temperature

01/27/2012
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Nature regularly demonstrates that thermal energy at ambient temperature can be converted to thermodynamic energy -as cyclones/hurricanes. Why can we...
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How to Manufacture Rolled Water Filter Cartridges?

01/27/2012
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01/27/2012
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Dear members. What do you consider used computers as waste. Is that hazardous waste? How do you discard that? Send to waste treatment provider?
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Invertor Current Monitoring Relay

01/27/2012
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Plate Bending Machine

01/27/2012
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Current Limiting to 80 Amp

01/27/2012
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by solarworld
I have a transformer, with a bridge, input is 220 VAC, and output is 36 VDC... It is getting very hot, i am using it to charge batteries for occasiona...
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Which Type of Mass Flow Meter Should I Buy?

01/27/2012
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I am in need of measuring mass flow rate of my application with following details: Pressure range: 6 bar to 25 bar (Pressure varies in cycle during o...
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Hot Water In-floor Heating

01/26/2012
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I got an estimate to install in-floor heating tubing in my home. The sub floor is 34" OSB over TGI joists. !.5 " x 4" "sleepers are installed on 24" c...
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What Is It?

01/26/2012
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The small hole is .25"
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Data Cable Running Adjacent to Lightning Conductor

01/26/2012
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hi, I have recently undertaken a job involving installing a sensor on the roof of a building with a 4 core data/power cable (0.75mm sq 2 x twisted pa...
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Simple Photo Slide Tipping Mechanism

01/26/2012
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So I'm a software engineer that is trying to do something mechanical as well. Mechanical is not my thing so I am asking for some guidance. I have 2...
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Hot Water Heater Issues

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What Happened at the Sandy Creek Power Plant?

01/25/2012
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Field Dosimetry In Mixed Radiation Field Environments

01/25/2012
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A friend of mine has a Beryl mine in Colorado, The area is also high in uranium and radium deposits. Beryllium when exposed to the Alpha radiation fro...
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Grounding the Body for Health

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What Was It??

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Programable Linear Actuator? Something Simple?

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Google is more of a curse than a blessing when it comes to searching for something as simple as a low cost stepper motor setup for the novice. Doe...
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