Re: Which to plug in first?

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:35:54 -0000, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article <mq2dnZDzTeL-zK7UnZ2dnUVZ_o7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
Some power supplies need a minimum load to regulate the output
voltage properly.

Good point.

And this leads into a story about the weirdest power supply I've ever
seen. I recently bought a replacement power supply for one of my
laptops, from an online dealer. It was advertised as a "universal"
power supply, with a series of plugs that would fit any popular type of
laptop (with various voltages). It was also cheap ($28). Short story
is: it ended up not working and I returned it. But the instructions
that came with it read something like this (written in barely-comprehensible
pidgen English):

1) Do not "just plug in and go" (like a normal power supply).
2) Plug the power supply into the wall for 10 minutes.
3) Unplug it, then find the right adapter plug for your laptop.
Connect that into the power supply.
4) Plug the power supply into the wall for 5 minutes.
5) If everything looks good [???], unplug it from the wall.
Plug the adapter plug into your laptop, then plug the power supply
into the wall.

Strange. What's going on with the 10 minute and 5 minute delays?

Smoke detector response time.

My smoke detectors can detect steam from my steam cleaner in about 0.2 seconds. I wish they'd develop clever ones that could distinguish....

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