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In New Zealand its kilometers if your refer to the distance the car has traveled... for fuel consumption its kilometers per litre...
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In India, it is, What's an "Average" of that car.
No pun intended, but almost every Indian checks for this aspect whenever they go to purchase a car, Milage/Average is the first priority, safety and features are secondary.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Gandalf_TheWhite wrote: ...safety and features are secondary.
Given the way I've seen them drive, I can believe it.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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In India or Indian origin drivers here?
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True, the more interesting stuff is, when the Government is emphasizing Safety by imposing 10x fine for not wearing seat belts and helmets there are people who were opposing it. It's like they do not want to wear seat belts whenever they can and the increase in fine is not acceptable at all by compromising their own safety. Wondering, is there any law for wearing a seatbelt over there or any such safety measure?
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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In South Africa we just still use "mileage".
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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European approach: I've got a task to do - driving 500 km. How much fuel will I consume on that ride? How many liters per 100 km?
US approach: I've got ten gallons of fuel that I want to burn, to get somewhere. Where will I end up? How many miles per gallon?
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Apparently, he had too many unpaid barking tickets! 
Ba-Tish!
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Normal procedure. Did you ever have the exterminator knocking at the door because he thought that thermites are the same as fire ants? (Yes, I had to do that)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is that all?
They also didn't charge your dog for tagging trees, poles, corners of buildings ...
are you sure it's working properly?
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lopatir wrote: poles
A racist dog? What does it have against the people from Poland?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That must have been ruff on him. Howl he plead? Or is that beg...?
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Can't be any worse than the guy who showed up at my door and handed me a porcupine. I guess he was a quillanthropist.
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I need to buy a few tantalum capacitors for a serial port (together with a MAX232 RS232 driver). When reading up on ceramic or Tantalum capacitors, I stumbled over this:
Quote: With a reverse voltage applied, a reverse leakage current flows in very small areas of microcracks or other defects across the dielectric layer to the anode of the electrolytic capacitor. Although the current may only be a few microamps, it represents a very high localized current density which can cause a tiny hot-spot. This can cause some conversion of amorphous tantalum pentoxide to the more conductive crystalline form. When a high current is available, this effect can avalanche and the capacitor may become a total short.
This tempts me to experiment with Tantalum capacitors a little. As far as I know, they don't explode when they short out. They go up in flames. How long does this take? Is reverse polarity of the standard voltage enough or does it take a little more?
The Huey might get firing rockets after all. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: The Huey might get firing rockets after all.
Yes, but can the tantalum capacitors short on command? Or will the Huey fire the rockets at undetermined times?
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I think the they will randomly fire as detailed below!  though...
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Yes, of course. If the few volts from a microcontroller I/O pin are sufficient and the capacitor does not need to fry for an hour to finally short out.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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They short out when you apply a voltage with reverse polarity. The question is how long it takes for this to happen after you apply the voltage.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My experience Tant's don't like getting hot (found this out by coming across one of our bits of kit that died when a Tant got cooked by being too close to a heat sink). The thing is they catch fire like you say but I have found it a little random... But cool idea for the Huey... I think it's down to the actual chemistry in the them the electrolyte can be spread in different concentrations in certain area's. While it is possible to get matched sets they are pricey.
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I have heard that the dielectric in the capacitor chemically has a resemblance to thermite[^]. It does not burn as hot (which probably is good), but also takes far less energy to ignite. The spark when the capacitor shorts out should be sufficient.
Edit: Thermite / termite, sounds like a pun waiting to happen. Talk about fire ants 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 30-Oct-19 9:55am.
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Well a quick look at the Wiki page and it sounds not a million miles away from electrolytic. Controlling the when & how big a bang is the issue...if memory serves you can get a bigger bang from a low voltage cap when over volted, or you get a fizzle. One of my first designs was for a 'gun' that fired caps across the school lab! Also the name Termite-Thermite name was used for a USB packet reader I worked on... (based on the Termite comms program)
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I can get 11.1 out of the flight battery, but lithium polymer does not react kindly to shorts.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Oh, The Evil Soul!
I never thought to apply a reverse voltage to poor tantalum capacitors.
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Electric starters for model rockets would do too, but they are kind of expensive: Estes Modell Rakete Starters (6) Es2302 | eBay[^]
I would need 14 of them for every flight. And there also still is the tiny matter of getting sufficiently tiny rockets and preventing the 3D printed launchers from melting away.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It depends on the voltage. When I was quite a bit younger we would hook them up to an AC line and they would explode instantly. We had a lot of fun with those little bombs. At least, we thought it was fun at the time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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