Foone🏳️‍⚧️

sorry everyone, my third wish from the genie was to make the world's electrical standards weirder.

south america is now using 70hz 40v AC, france & belgium are strictly DC outlets (no AC), and apple products are all on 3.3v USB. AA batteries are now 9v, and 9v batteries are still called that but they provide 6v.

Jul 20 at 11:08pmWeb
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
US outlets now have 4 slots in a row. -120v, gnd, 120v, 240v, unless it's mounted upside down, in which case it's 240v, 120v, gnd, -120v
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
they don't use molded plugs anymore. just 2 or 3 wires coming from the device and you have three separate ends which you put into the appropriate slots
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
hotels all have CEE 17 sockets for some reason. bring an adapter
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
rs232 is exactly the same. I asked the genie about that and he said he couldn't make it any worse
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
ATX power supplies also provide -48V now for compatibility with old phone systems
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
car batteries are now 52v 1/30hz. you gotta start the car at the right point in the cycle
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
be careful if it's an electric car, if you start it at the wrong point in the cycle the controls will be reversed
Show threadFoone🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
speaking of which, all electric car chargers are now inductive. it's really annoying to park in exactly the right place to start the charging
Show threadRudi (ryjelsum)5d ago
@foone my immediate thought is "what if you parked between spots" because people do that shit all the time where i live because the parking lots are too big
Show threadCarey5d ago
@rudi @foone they just have to be careful not to touch any metal in the car while getting in and out
Show threadPeter Burka5d ago
@rudi @foone The permanent magnets mounted around the charger will nudge your car into alignment. Or into another car.
Show threadR5d ago
@foone don't stand in a parking spot if you use hearing aids with telecoils, because of course the techies designing these systems forgor about that
Show threadStephen Mather5d ago
@foone We don't deserve you, Foone. And yet somehow, we probably deserve all this.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5d ago
@foone What happens if you put something like a microwave or a CRT on top of the induction?
Show threadCory Carson5d ago
@foone inductive charging would turn loose ferrous road debris into road shrapnel
Show threadsu_liam4d ago
@corycarson @foone Sounds deeply American.
Show threadHenning Paul DC4HP4d ago
@corycarson @foone Inductive charging using static fields? I want to see that!
Show threadCory Carson4d ago

@hennichodernich @foone This is cursed electric standards game.

J1772.1 Gen 2 2x2 spec pushes the car upwards in 0.25Hz pulses. Parking garages save on concurrent power draw by bouncing the vehicles on the lot in waves.

Unless you have an apple car, which gets pulled downwards and then springs back up.

Show threadLudwig Vielfrass2d ago
@corycarson @foone FERROUS FREAKIN’ ROADWAYS!
Show threadCory Carson5d ago
@foone USB-C PD is now approved for 660W over the same PHY
Show threadJen Fizzbuzz4d ago
@foone is this why japan now has twenty different grids all at different frequencies and voltages?
Show threadjoël4d ago
@foone I don't know what any of this means but I feel very anxious
Show threadWurzelmann4d ago

@jollysea @foone

it means: throw away your electronics, build a cabin in the woods and never touch something powered by electricity again, because we cannot do it right after this. 😭

Show threadQuinn Norton4d ago
@foone Oh sure but everyone jumps on *our* asses for not using metric.
Show threadA cool crab wearing shades4d ago
@foone Watch out in parking lots, sometimes the cars lose connection and wiggle around like a roomba trying to pick it up again.
Show threadsodiboo 2h ago
@foone can we instead make every charging parking spot just lock your car in place and spin your wheels really fast like a treadmill, and the only way to charge your car is with regenerative braking?
Show threadcerement5d ago

@foone

(that’s just a normal Tesla software update)

Show threadJosh 5d ago
@foone cars use AC power for their starters now? Isn’t that the kind that kills elephants?
Show threadPhoenix Gee5d ago
@foone I was wondering why that landline dial-disc phone started working again completely unprovoked...
Show threadlp0 on fire 5d ago
@phoenixgee @foone, assuming that by “dial-disc” you mean rotary dial… not sure if the likes of the original GPO 746 still work on BT/Openreach. They'd certainly still be powered via the phone network, dial tone should still be heard etc., but whether pulse dialling still works…
Show threadPhoenix Gee4d ago

@lp0_on_fire
Well i didn't try to dial, because there were already voices talking to me...

@foone

Show threadPetabites5d ago
@foone

I liked AT power supplies for compatibility with internal CD-ROM for its on/off load.

(used to be $4 for the PS, $5 for tunes drive, and three bucks for Labtec speakers at garage sales ... a $12 boom box that stacked!)

* these parts are now sixty bucks on eBay 🙄
Show threadDatenegassie4d ago
@foone those ATX power supply 8-pin connectors that connect to the CPU and those 8-pin connectors that connect to PCIe expansion cards are now mechanically compatible with each other
Show threadsu_liam4d ago
@Datenegassie @foone But not electrically compatible.
Show threadOzzelot4d ago
@foone Okay, but could they provide +-15V for the eurorack enthusiast in your life
Show threadBrian Campbell5d ago

@foone Sounds like the Japanese electrical system would be exactly the same too.

https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/110851776375985257

Karl Baron (@kalleboo@bitbang.social)

Attached: 1 image Bouns Round: This power strip, made by a reputable Japanese company, sold at brick and mortar electronics stores, and with PSE (product safety electrical) marking

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Show threadsu_liam4d ago
@unlambda @foone Good lord, that is beautiful.
Show threadDarth Osler4d ago

@foone this is troof

Damn

Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦4d ago
@foone 9 pin or 25?
Show threadAndrew2d ago
@fencepost @foone we should compromise and use 17-pin
Show threadTim W RESISTS5d ago
@foone this explains why all of my electronics have suddenly been exploding.
Show threadlohikäärmekettu Saphira 5d ago
@foone upside down of course means the ground hole is at the bottom
Show threadLady Harbinger5d ago
@foone so it's all a dryer plug?
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧5d ago
@foone you monster
Show threadR5d ago
@foone the german 16.7 Hz network gets slowed down by a factor of 1001/1000
Show threadErin 💽✨5d ago
@foone in Germany the electrification standards have been swapped between trains and houses, so trains now get 50Hz (which actually makes it easier for them to run into France) but houses get 16.7 Hz (which made the wall warts huge before we invented switch mode power supplies)
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5d ago
@foone DC outlets… isn't the reason we got AC everywhere to have higher voltages?
Show threadErin 💽✨5d ago
@lanodan @foone its mostly that transformers are one of the electrical technologies of all time
Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial5d ago

@lanodan @foone it's cos switching between voltages was easier with ye olde tech because of transformers.

these days we've got DC-DC.

Show threadTim Panton4d ago

@gsuberland @lanodan @foone In the really, really early days (1936?) The BBC had a basement full of motor generator sets to convert DC voltages to power the valve (tube) amplifiers.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec12/iw-radio1.html has photos.

A Passion for Radio.

A BBC transmitter engineer shares experiences of running the high powered analogue transmitters of the 1970s - 90s.

Show threadartemist5d ago
@lanodan @foone transformers make it easier to change between voltages with AC than DC, but there's fundamentally nothing stopping 800kV DC power lines or 48V DC servers. Many undersea power cables are DC and telecom loves DC racks.
Show threadSimon newslttrs.com5d ago
@foone US outlets are randomly 110 or 230 volts, changing every time you plug something in.
Show threadR5d ago
@spzb @foone unless they're painted orange, in which case they stay at 208 V