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Feet Inches and Volts is the name given to a new range of electrical cabling that has feet and inches calibration markings printed along its length. (or their metric equivalent whatever that is)
This is to enable more accurate cutting to length, as cables can tend to coil up and be unruly, making
them hard to measure using a tape.
https://www.faceboo...t=a.134349950745561
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 29 2020]
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[-] for suggesting the use of archaic units as a primary option. |
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Isn't that a glaring contradiction when you take a particular pleasure in the measurement of everything in rat's testicle diameters? |
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We understand that the current S.I. standard for the millimetre is "Twice the width of M. Macron's brain". |
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This is baked for Ethernet cables.
I just finished pulling several thousand feet of Cat6 tech cable to bring this place into the modern age and was very glad that the amount left on each spool is marked on every foot of the cable. |
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// several thousand feet ... bring this place into the modern age... marked on every foot // |
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Bit of a perceptual disconnect there, shirley ? |
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We do metric and imperial here, |
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...we're bilingual.
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//[-] for suggesting the use of archaic units as a primary
option.// |
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[+] for suggesting the use of sensible units. I was wondering
why this isn't done. The obvious reason is cost. Electrical
cabling is one of those low margin/high volume products
where every penny counts. As long as it's in compliance, the
minimum cost option wins. |
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The only other reason I can think of is the
aesthetics/pragmatic visuals. If there is exposed cable,
most would appreciate that it is as plain and inconspicuous
as possible. Secondly, in complex wiring, there is often
color/pattern coding. It would be difficult and confusing to
write over a 2 color spiral or stripe, particularly if small. |
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A clever workaround might be to print markings in UV
fluorescent ink. UV LEDs are now easily available and could
be incorporated into a head light for easy use on site. You
could even do multi color, green for imperial, orange for
metric etc. It would be machine readable too. Ooh, this
gives me an idea. |
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What, you don't like to measure things in decimeters? |
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Even a planck length knows to be approximately a nice
decimation of feet. Universal practicality, right there. |
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So not a milli-Ohm count? which would infer gauge. Any linear count, once use to it, would do. |
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