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To: Clappy who wrote (15553)	4/20/2000 7:13:00 PM
From: crdesign	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

<Leviton is the industry leader in most switches and receptacles. > Just don't ever buy the crappy ones they sell @ Home Depot. Always purchase those things from genuine Electrical suppliers. Same labels but different quality. Right Clappy? BTW: All my switches and cans are Lightolier. "Preset slide dimmers." Very nice design. Even a knucklehead like me can install 'em. Good thing I bought em all before the crash. Now I cant's afford 'em. <ggg> Tim

To: Clappy who wrote (15553)	4/21/2000 1:08:00 AM
From: she_x	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

thanks clappy, i thought they might have something to do with JDSU but i guess not. you are right about it being a device that can plug into your PC, but it looks more like an electrical box that hangs on the wall. it's an X-10 controller that can be programmed and will run off electrical wiring and run by voice (phone) IR intercom, point and click or time. contols phones, lights, heat/ac, stereo/TV, PC, security, watering systems, etc. has to have an IBM compatible PC to program it . $999.99 JDS is a private company and i could find out if they own the rights to X-10. they sent a huge color catalogue with tons of stuff in it, which tells me there's beginning to be retail market for this type of thing. she

To: Clappy who wrote (15553)	4/21/2000 3:26:00 AM
From: she_x	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 35685

clappy, i will be giving a talk on "electrical engineering in the new millennium" at the atlanta porch party. so any electricians or electrical engineers that want to attend can write the trip off as a business expense. i hope you will be able to attend. thanks, she a sample of the information we will be covering: The Sex Life of an Electron: One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek out a cute little coil to help him discharge. He picked up Milli-Amp and took her for a ride in his Megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge and stopped by a Magnetic field with flowing currents and frolicked in the sine waves. Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amp's characterisic curves soon had her fully charged and proceeded to excite her resistance to a minimum. He gently laid her at ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance. With a quick arc, he pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket, connecting them in parallel. He slowly began short circuiting her resistance shunt while quickly raising her thermal conductance level to mil-spec. Fully excited, Milli- Amp mumbled "MHO...MHO...MHO" With his tube operating well into class C, and her field vibrating with his current flow, a corona formed which instantly caused her shunt to overheat just at the point when Micro-Farad rapidly discharged and drained off every electron into her grid. They fluxed all night trying various connectors and sockets untill his magnet had a soft core and lost all of its field strength. Afterwards, Milli-Amp tried self-induction and damaged her solenoids and with his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his field. Not ready to be quiescent, they spent the rest of the evening reversing polarity and blowing each others fuses.