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Hello from the desk at home- writing lessons

Zs
hello,

Well, I suppose one of the good things about being stuck at home without a virus is that I can at last log on to this forum during the day again.


My company asked us, some time ago, to prepare personal resilience plans so I've plenty to do here. They have now asked as many of us as possible to work from home and whilst I do have to go in to fix broken electrical things, have skype meetings and access stuff on the company computer, I'm not doing too badly - Day 2 in the small Zs House. I have the rotring pens out and am drawing a switch cabinet in the old fashioned way. 


Anyway,  I'm going to be preparing really basic electrical lessons for some of our younger engineers and the generally curious.  I already have about 15 students and various managers keep phoning to say can you put Joe on the list please.  It seems to be something they've been needing for a while.


So, I have no doubt that I am going to be asking you to check my basic understanding of things and not least to check my maths for me.  To this day that is still not very good.


But I have a question for you about copyright.  If you were to be emailing colleagues with information (which might not even be correct but I hope it will be), and in effect producing a basic introduction to electrical theory.  Would you do anything to protect it?  In my opinion it will belong to the company because I am being paid by them while I sit at home.  Our department who deals with that are, as you can imagine rather busy and on skeleton staff.  My other concern is that loads of the examples will be utter plagiarism.  So ought I to give citations?


I remember JP producing some really helpful information which he shared with his I&T team.  Eventually I started to see it on the web as the work of others.  Even one post of it on here from a claimed author.  I smiled only yesterday when looking for a copy of table I1 from the on site guide and up came JPs document in the images.


I would appreciate any advice or experiences on that.  


in the mean time, seeing as it is on the company public web site you might like to see what on earth Zs has been up to for all this time. I was a touch reluctant to do this article for them because as many of you know, I don't subscribe to Women's networks.  It was the news of protests and arrests elsewhere in the world that made me sit up and think how lucky we are in the UK so I agreed.  this should be a link to a recent  thingumy. I did also wonder whether to chuckle or sob  when I realised I am now officially, the token oldie ?.


 https://awe.co.uk/case-study/salli/


Good to be back,

Zs

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    Aah, I tell you what, it's like coming home. Thank you all so much for those and greetings from a non-working Friday.


    Because this working from home is being done in such a hurry due to the virus, all these wheels, which normally turn so slowly, are somewhat challenged.  Andy M thank you for  your reply which resonates with me.  Nice to meet you. I'm not going to cut and paste whole pages for the simple reason that I was rather well qualified before I admitted to myself that I didn't really understand how an electrical circuit works. I'd like to avoid that for others if possible.   I now know that my issue was the thing called the neutral - so the live goes out to the fan heater but it can't work unless a different part of the circuit carries it back to the DB? and yet that one is connected to the same piece of brass as all the other circuits?, kind of thing. I must have been born wired in series and a light on an old Christmas tree but it really did take me a while to get that. Once at a certain level I was scared to admit that deficiency, if you get my drift? It held me back.


    Uncle Ebee,  I'm fine and I promise you that as much as I'd like to I don't glow in the dark. Well unless I fill my pockets with that stuff they use on the faces of wristwatches which BOD told me about once.  I now completely understand why some people don't ever want to leave university because research is so much fun.  Why would you want to have a proper job? 


    Ancient, I am plagiarising your entire post in case I ever need it for my defence.  Cool and I will crack on with multiples.


    Chris 'Just how many ways are there of stating Ohm's law? ?'  

    You have knocked me into touch beautifully and you are right.  I suppose my concern is getting something wrong and it being out there on the web.  We used to have a fella on here  called  D W Cockburn   tag line of 911 or similar? who wrote and self published a book advising on equipotential bonding, hang on.... yes, still on the web.  Well. quite a lot of what he said in that book wasn't right and I don't wish to become him.  Oh, I am now in memory lane and invite you to join me...wasn't there a post he made about the requirement for bonding the copper coins in your pocket?  to the radiator?  And and and...hadn't he carried out some monumentally dangerous experiment in his home?  I remember sitting here learning from the replies.


    Anyway.  I think I can go into the office early each morning and post my lessons from there instead of from the home computer. I'm the one who is terrified of contact because I am of the generation who have at-risk parents.  In that way I can add our usual footer.  That might work but in the event of it going out to the mates of colleagues, well under the current Covid 19 circumstances your posts make me rather hope that it is small fry and I agree with you. 


    I am about to order myself a scanner though and if I can get one I will use it to insert my own scribbles instead of dear Brian Scaddan's pictures of taps and hoses.  He will be cited though, I love Brian Scaddan books to this day and probably have them ingrained. 


    Thank you and stay well eh?  I gather that I have had a close call and am counting the days but still well.


    Zs

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    Aah, I tell you what, it's like coming home. Thank you all so much for those and greetings from a non-working Friday.


    Because this working from home is being done in such a hurry due to the virus, all these wheels, which normally turn so slowly, are somewhat challenged.  Andy M thank you for  your reply which resonates with me.  Nice to meet you. I'm not going to cut and paste whole pages for the simple reason that I was rather well qualified before I admitted to myself that I didn't really understand how an electrical circuit works. I'd like to avoid that for others if possible.   I now know that my issue was the thing called the neutral - so the live goes out to the fan heater but it can't work unless a different part of the circuit carries it back to the DB? and yet that one is connected to the same piece of brass as all the other circuits?, kind of thing. I must have been born wired in series and a light on an old Christmas tree but it really did take me a while to get that. Once at a certain level I was scared to admit that deficiency, if you get my drift? It held me back.


    Uncle Ebee,  I'm fine and I promise you that as much as I'd like to I don't glow in the dark. Well unless I fill my pockets with that stuff they use on the faces of wristwatches which BOD told me about once.  I now completely understand why some people don't ever want to leave university because research is so much fun.  Why would you want to have a proper job? 


    Ancient, I am plagiarising your entire post in case I ever need it for my defence.  Cool and I will crack on with multiples.


    Chris 'Just how many ways are there of stating Ohm's law? ?'  

    You have knocked me into touch beautifully and you are right.  I suppose my concern is getting something wrong and it being out there on the web.  We used to have a fella on here  called  D W Cockburn   tag line of 911 or similar? who wrote and self published a book advising on equipotential bonding, hang on.... yes, still on the web.  Well. quite a lot of what he said in that book wasn't right and I don't wish to become him.  Oh, I am now in memory lane and invite you to join me...wasn't there a post he made about the requirement for bonding the copper coins in your pocket?  to the radiator?  And and and...hadn't he carried out some monumentally dangerous experiment in his home?  I remember sitting here learning from the replies.


    Anyway.  I think I can go into the office early each morning and post my lessons from there instead of from the home computer. I'm the one who is terrified of contact because I am of the generation who have at-risk parents.  In that way I can add our usual footer.  That might work but in the event of it going out to the mates of colleagues, well under the current Covid 19 circumstances your posts make me rather hope that it is small fry and I agree with you. 


    I am about to order myself a scanner though and if I can get one I will use it to insert my own scribbles instead of dear Brian Scaddan's pictures of taps and hoses.  He will be cited though, I love Brian Scaddan books to this day and probably have them ingrained. 


    Thank you and stay well eh?  I gather that I have had a close call and am counting the days but still well.


    Zs

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