On Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:14, Mike Millet wrote:
> I've had 2 friends of mine who are electricians say that the electricians
> codes for the local and state levels are changing from AWG (American wire
> guages) to the same measures in mm. They said that the national and
> international building c
As one who is involved in IEEE standards, I am interested in hearing more on
this, Mike. Do you have any more information? What state or local area are
you referring to here?
Jim
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:14, Mike Millet wrote:
> I've had 2 friends of mine who are electricians say that the el
This would explain why I started seeing wire strippers with labeling in mm. It would be great news. This to a degree is the case in computer networking. IEEE defined cable length limitations in meters, so everyone is familiar with the maximum 100 m length of an ethernet wire. Network engineers
I don't have any more info on this and I wish I did. As far as the networking cables go I learned the 100m limit and on jobs where I've had separate cable pullers I've run up into that 328ft limit as well, although most of the younger cable pullers I've dealt with are perfectly comfortable using me
Mike Millet wrote:
As an interesting side not I've had a lot of angry construction workers
coming to me lately complaining that their belt sanders are in mm and
all sorts of other tools they're buying have metric only labels forcing
them to convert. My are they unhappy ;). Especially when they
The architects design almost solely in metric already from what I've heard it's the guys that draw up the floor plans who convert it back to USC and then the builders work off those plans.I talked to a drafter the other day and asked him if he had switched to using metric as most of the architects
Mike Millet wrote:
I talked to a drafter the other day and asked him if he had switched to
using metric as most of the architects have. His reply was "No, you're
forgetting what country you're in. Those damned architects are always
making my life miserable by designing in metric and forcing me
There was a program on the Science Channel a few days ago dealing with
the possibility (or impossibility) of terraforming Mars. The
commentator said that one effect being discussed could raise the
temperature on Mars by as much as 20°C or 68°F.
Dual unit confusion once more.
Vigen, Gary w
