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I’ve seen pressure plate clamps, which would seem to be as reliable as a pigtail around a screw.

It really depends. I’ve seen the charge level drop while connected to power but not actively charging. A Model 3 shows that it’s...

Some companies have policies that have a preference for corporate rentals of battery EVs. Probably not enough. I think it was the deal...

Yeah - looking at my parents place and using a ground tester, most of the original portion of their house is not grounded. I think it...

I’m just hinting that MEMS gyros are ubiquitous and relatively cheap. And likely to replace some more expensive technologies...

Don’t know the details, but I was thinking more like micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) gyros. These are found in most smartphones...

That’s typically where the neutral wire is hooked up to the ground terminal? This house is almost all 2-prong outlets, but I haven’t...

So I picked up the 12-pack of GFCI outlets ordered from Amazon and delivered to a locker (darn you to heck porch pirates). They’re a...

Didn’t have to go to work today so I’m day drinking at Almanac Brewing in Alameda, California. Interesting spot here at the former NAS...

I’ve sort of had it. It was at the Kempinski Xiamen in China where we were staying. It was made at the onsite brewpub, so it wasn’t...

GPS reprogramming was the plot of a Bond movie. Stealing a GPS encoder was part of the plot, but I don't understand why it would be so...

I believe most navigation systems still have inertial navigation using gyroscopes. My wife was insistent that spoofing, jamming, or...

A lot of electronics repair shops have a bucket of sand for lithium battery fires. It doesn’t necessarily smother and starve the...

Calling a rechargeable lithium ion battery a lithium battery isn’t technically wrong. There are lithium-manganese batteries, which are...

It happens. Can get really bad if it’s in a device where the battery is more or less sealed in. Had a Mac notebook computer where the...