| ??? 02/22/10 14:25 Read: times |
#173417 - Idiom Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Neil said:
Sounds like a bad idea to me! Sandip Basu said:
Why do you call this an 'idea'? I'm sorry, it is a very common British idiom; if one says, "I think that's a bad idea" it just means, "I don't think that is a good thing to do" or "I don't think that is a good approach" or "I don't think that is a good way to proceed", etc. Sorry if it doesn't translate well. Please see: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/40171a.pdf
and http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/gmt_rit/zero.pdf before you comment. If you wanted specific comments on specific documents, you should have cited them in the first place. As it stands, I still say that directly connecting anything to the live mains sounds like a bad thing to do! Connecting anything directly to the live mains is potentially very dangerous indeed! The problem is not so much with "normal" operation - but in ensuring that the system remains safe under all fault and misuse conditions. Blowing up the microcontroller is not the big issue - killing people is!  |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Zero crossing detector - technique adoption | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sounds like a bad idea to me! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| relying on parasitic diodes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Confusing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I mean | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Designing to typical values | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what blather | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| " IDEA ? " - RIDICULOUS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| at least for this one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh dear: | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| tough, but true | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| just caught this one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Idiom | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It really is a *very* bad idea! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't blindly follow app note | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's not so much the parasitic diodes... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| two reasons | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What should I do ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That won't help at all! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| two wrongs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Most app-notes don't work ... because they're wrong! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| This is typical ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I hate to tell this,... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
App engineers not always the sharpest tools in the shed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Unbelievable!! | 01/01/70 00:00 |