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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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How does this forum protect itself against one lunatic with six different email addresses coming on and simply agreeing with himself all of the time?


One politician suffering with 'dissociative identity disorder' can theoretically vote for himself over and over again and really screw up a democratic system!


In old money; how do we guard against someone on here using "dead-men"?
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    The 'Mental Health Profession' was not born out of the 'Medical Profession', it was born out of the 'Penal System'!

    Therefore the study of 'Mental Health' is in truth, the study of the 'Criminal Mind'!


    If a person believing that it is acceptable to use 'dead-men' within an ordered society and therefore suffering with 'dissociative identity disorder' was for example, to come onto these forums using a number of different identities all agreeing with him/her no matter the risks involved or the deaths would inevitably occur, 'bullying' everyone else into accepting the inevitability of up coming changes to our Regulations that for example, would again and again increase the volume of current flow through all of the electric meters across the UK (having already done a deal to personally recoup at least a part of the increased finance generated), he/she would be described in 'Mental Health' terms as "criminally insane"!



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    "Perpetual motion"?

    "It's conductive but it's not a conductor"?

    "Efficiency is the use of more current than is required"?


    There's a lunatic around here somewhere!
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    This is a forum, not a democratic system.  Nothing of any importance gets decided here.  It's just people yakking, often to no effect.


    If you really want to, you can "Like" a post, but don't assume that makes any difference to the people who are actually writing British or international standards.
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    " How does this forum protect itself against one lunatic with six different email addresses coming on and simply agreeing with himself all of the time?"


    First of all you'll need a Prognosis : I've established that it isn't Friday. So  name these fellows.

    Secondly,  each personality will need a diagnosis

    "Summary. Dissociation is a mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. The dissociative disorders that need professional treatment include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation disorder and dissociative identity disorder."


    I suspect that these people are in need of an occupation.

    Legh

     

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    Explain acceptable voltage drop?
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    This thread is a bit weird.
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    Coby:

    Explain acceptable voltage drop?


    It is about to get weirder, Rob.


    I can't explain acceptable voltage drop other than to explain that "voltage drop" is not an acceptable expression for an analytical engineer. My physics teacher, long ago  in school days, would mark our homework down if we used that expression. The correct expression is "potential difference". He would rig up glass accumulator cells, connected in various bizarre ways, and then check across various pairs of terminals with a voltmeter, to ram home the point. (Which he did very effectively - I remember those classes as though they were yesterday.)


    Even the term "voltage" was not acceptable. We don' say "ohmage" for resistance, or "amperage" for current. (Well maybe we do for some specific commercial purposes, but not for formal engineering.)  "Voltage drop" is about as logical as "position displacement" for distance.


    I'll leave others to come up with even sillier expressions.


    I assure everyone that I use only one e-mail address in conjunction with this forum. I do admit to using "dead men". My physics teacher has probably passed on by now - RIP.


    Meanwhile may I wish everyone a merry Jesus Birth Anniversary and a Happy Annual Time Increment!   ?  

     


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    In response to the OP, I'm not sure it needs to "protect itself", is there any evidence that this is happening, and if   there is, is there any indication that it is causing a problem to anyone ?

    I think there is a different problem, actually, of frightening off genuine posters by making the forum hard to use, and difficult to search. 

    Treat what goes on here with the seriousness of a conversation in the pub, and you wont go far wrong.

    regards

    Mike.
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    (i) A 'Volt' is a unit of 'potential difference'.


    (ii) Either there are a number of people using these forums who all have a complete lack of respect for the sanctity of human life (which is very unlikely among genuine electricians/electrical engineers as we all have the same basic fear of hurting someone given the 'power' that we control), or there is just one lunatic dogging these forums with a complete lack of respect for the sanctity of human life but a number of different email addresses.


    (iii) The affect of a single lunatic dogging these forums and speaking up for himself all of the time and shouting others down, has been to disgrace our industry with the eventual publication of the 18th Edition!

    Acceptable voltage drop

    As an electrical engineer I'm just looking for two words "reasonable practicable", it would be nice if they were presented within a coherent sentence of some sort. So for example:

    Acceptable voltage drop would be described as "a 'reasonable practicable' figure that would be acceptable as the solution to the inevitable problem of voltage drop within the hard wiring of an electrical circuit".


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    (i) Yes

    (ii) Uh?

    (iii) Uh?


    Volt drop - volt drop limits, for installations, are defined in 7671, other than that it depends upon the equipment itself and its tolerance to voltage fluctuations, switch-mode power supplies, for example, generally work anywhere in between 90 - 260V so fairly tolerant to volt drop at 230V, other things may not be so, i.e. lamps.

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