Castor
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Elsewhere upon this very forum......
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Littelwill
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That was very smooth Castor! 
ukadamwest
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Traitor !
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At least he can then go on the series section when he gets stuck and stop bothering us.
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Castor
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That was very smooth Castor!
Castor
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I stand proud and unrepentant!
Question is, does anyone want me P38 *and* have a 109 just lying around?
Castor
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At least he can then go on the series section when he gets stuck and stop bothering us.
I shall not be needing the deep electronic knowledge nor continuous psychotherapy which is the hallmark of the P38 owner.
I shall be entering the world of hammer and cudgel.....
stuu
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You can still use a hammer on a p38 and i know not much about electronics but managed to fix a few things
and i know not much about electronics but managed to fix a few things
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This is the man who claims to design nuclear control systems and he can't manage P38 electronics, the mind boggles.
and he can't manage P38 electronics, the mind boggles.
ukadamwest
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A cause of the proliferation of windfarms ??
ukadamwest
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i had assumed you got the Landy only to tow the the L322 around..
Castor
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This is the man who claims to design nuclear control systems
I seek the gentle solace of simple contacts and flux collapse - therein lies a certainty that cannot be provided by an amnesiac control module.
This is the foundation of de-risking control systems, and increasing the certainty of their operation in a crisis. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The P38 is smartass. For its time.
Being too smartass results in Three Mile Islands, & Fukushimas* - we assessed The Risk and thought it would never happen. It did.
The million to one chance turns up nine times out of ten.
And when it happened we had no low-tech ways of fixing it, so it got worse.
I need simplicity, reliability and low tech - and as the P38 systems get older they become less reliable. It really is as simple as that.
I've toyed with the idea of using a MegaSquirt on a P38 as a way of engineering out the maintainability complications; a simple PLC should be fine to run the EAS and the body systems, but the other half wants something that doesn't occupy my entire time....
So I don't want to be smartass - I just want a low-tech shed on wheels.
*(Chernobyl doesn't count because that was caused by a deliberate act of wanton stupidity and once it started, nothing could have stopped it).
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Although in the most part that is accurate, it was also a flawed reactor design due to a poorly understood control rod material!.....
*(Chernobyl doesn't count because that was caused by a deliberate act of wanton stupidity and once it started, nothing could have stopped it).
Castor
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ukadamwest
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How about a DeLorean ?
Grrrrrr
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This is the man who claims to design nuclear control systems
Yeah but the nukes were never supposed to be used. One assumes the P38 was.
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Even that which is not used can go out of control
I wonder how long it will be before one of these self parking cars throws a wobbly and takes control of the steering at 70mph
I seek the gentle solace of simple contacts and flux collapse - therein lies a certainty that cannot be provided by an amnesiac control module.
This is the foundation of de-risking control systems, and increasing the certainty of their operation in a crisis. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The P38 is smartass. For its time.
Being too smartass results in Three Mile Islands, & Fukushimas* - we assessed The Risk and thought it would never happen. It did.
The million to one chance turns up nine times out of ten.
And when it happened we had no low-tech ways of fixing it, so it got worse.
I need simplicity, reliability and low tech - and as the P38 systems get older they become less reliable. It really is as simple as that.
I've toyed with the idea of using a MegaSquirt on a P38 as a way of engineering out the maintainability complications; a simple PLC should be fine to run the EAS and the body systems, but the other half wants something that doesn't occupy my entire time....
So I don't want to be smartass - I just want a low-tech shed on wheels.
*(Chernobyl doesn't count because that was caused by a deliberate act of wanton stupidity and once it started, nothing could have stopped it).
"Low tech shed on wheels"
Not the bees knees, then.
Anyway, I feel it's story time.
Quite a few years ago a BMW panel and body engineer got together for a chat with his counterpart from Landrover and over strudel and Victoria sponge discussed their work criteria.
Strudel says "when we build the protoype body for our new designs, we put an alsatian inside overnight, and if it has died from asphyxiation in the morning we are satisfied."
To which Victoria sponge says "yes, we do the same to check our panel gaps but we put a bulldog in the car and if it hasn't escaped by the morning we are likewise."
When you visit your bees, even if you have the doors shut and the windows wound up, they'll still be able come inside to say hello.
