Major Clanger (Chartered Electrical Engineer) strikes again

[major_clanger]

Today I discovered that the shaving light in my bathroom has two microswitches set up so that if the translucent cover is not perfectly in place the power to the light tube is isolated.

This of course took me two days, a new light tube and increasingly confused investigation with a multimeter to work out.

Oh well, at least I now have a spare 12" strip light should the current one actually blow.

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

No, physicists use orders of magnitude; the fuse is in the order of 10^-2m in length and 10^-3m in diameter.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Well that explains a lot about the Large Hadron Collider's teething troubles.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Physicists do occasionally find even orders of magnitude to be too .... restrictive.

(I refer to the case where there appears to be a discrepancy of 120 orders of magnitude.)