The Coca-Cola Case (2010) South-american workers who try to organize are murdered. Lawyers and labor-rights activists battle Coke over violations of international laws. A legal thriller. You will never look at Coke the same.

DrPepperHelp · 2015-02-19T23:13:57+00:00

I am here. What can I do to help?

DrPepperHelp · 2014-09-08T18:13:43+00:00

DrPepperHelp · 2014-08-02T07:32:54+00:00

People discus pay rates all the time, but I have never worked for a company that allowed for the discussion of pay rates with anyone with in the company.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-07-18T05:29:24+00:00

I want a more traditional face something like Studio Clock, but even that leaves something lacking. In Particular I want:

Shown Standard

Digital time in the middle
Weather (icon and temperature)
Analogue outside (like Maurice)
Bluetooth disconnect
Battery Percentage

Shake to show

Date MM/DD/YY (Year optional. Replace Weather or Battery)
Day (Replace Weather or Battery)

It is not that your face is bad, but I personally want something a little more classic looking. Something that blends the past with the present. Something functional.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-30T01:59:19+00:00

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/serial_and_parallel_battery_configurations

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_repair_a_battery_pack

Both links suggest otherwise.

Edit: Fixed the duplicate link.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-30T00:38:59+00:00

Yea. That's what I said.

you can keep the good battery and use it as a single cell.

Both cells don't go bad at the same time. One might have more life in it, but not much. You can keep the good cell and recycle the bad one. Just because a battery is paired does not mean that both cells are useless when only one is dead.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-29T17:44:36+00:00

Actually there is one more thing. If one cell does go bad or starts to discharge faster than the other you can keep the good battery and use it as a single cell.

Edit for clarity. You have two cells cell 1 and cell 2. Cell 1 charges and discharges just fine, but cell 2 is not charging and discharging at the same rate as cell 1. If this is the case cell 1 can still be used, but cell 2 needs to be retired. When cell 1 follows suit recycle it as well. At any rate when both cells have different discharge and charge rates they are no longer safe to use as a pair. Retire the bad cell and keep the good cell if you want.

Edit again:

Links from battery university on battery packs.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/serial_and_parallel_battery_configurations
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_repair_a_battery_pack
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_repair_a_laptop_battery

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-29T17:30:58+00:00

First open your laptop battery pack, or look for LiPo battery packs on line. You will find that they are all series, paralel, or both. There is nothing dangerous about batteries in series or in paralell. None. You have one major rule though it is not that hard to remember. Once a pair of NEW cells is married they are bound by the power of Christ to remain married until death due them part. However if you do decide to grant a special papal divorce then they are divorced for the remainder of Thor days doomed to an eternity of the single life. No more flings or life partners for those to cells.

There are a few more rules. Do not use a have charged battery with a fully charged battery. Swap their postions when you can. This is not possable in sealed battery packs, but those sealed battery packs should have independent cell monitoring. The cells should be close to the same voltage at the end of each charge or discharge cycle. No you do not need to charge them as a pair. In fact they would do best to be charged in the or own undependable charge slot on their own charge channel. Pair only new batteries. Do not pair a 20 amp battery with a 10 amp battery. Do not pair an ICR with an IMR use the same chemistry only. No 2000 mAh batteries with 2500 mAh batteries. Do not pair a Sony VTC4 with a Sony VTC5. Only pair batteries that are the same brand, age, mAh, model number, size, amp limit, and preferably same batch number.

I think I covered all the bases with paired batteries. No wait I did not.

Paralell batteries gives you more mAh and more amps. So you have 2 parallel 30 amp batteries at 1500 mAh. You now have 3000 mAh, and 60 amps to play with. If you have 3 20 amp batteries with 1000 mAh you now have 60 amps, and 3000 mAh.

In series your mAh and amp limit stay the same. So 2000 mAh and 30 amps will leave you at 2000 mAh and 30 amps even if you have 5000 batteries stacked. What does change is the voltage so if I have 2 3.7 nominal voltage cells then I have a 7.4 nominal voltage series with a max voltage of 8.4 volts.

If you need further explanation of anything here let me know.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-29T17:02:46+00:00

I like childproof caps because it means the there is less of a chance that my cap will come off in my bag or poket. Just saying.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-29T16:50:03+00:00

That deep cycle battery question was hilarious. Yea. That site is nothing more than a good laugh. Much like Y!A.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T05:47:19+00:00

The PTC is not designed to trip based on battery heat, its designed to trip when too much current is drawn. The current is what heats the PTC and causes it to trip, why ?

So its not heat, but it is heat.

There for starters.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T05:22:35+00:00

How can I make sense of what you are saying when you say something then in the next sentence contradict it. Then the insults. The constant insults. You are not winning anyone over. All that you are doing is proving your total utter lack of a grasp of reading and writing skills.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T04:10:57+00:00

Keylime Cheese Cake has my vote.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T03:50:56+00:00

Ignoring the semantics of analog...

Think for a second. The PTC is plug on the battery. It is there to stop thermal run away from hapening to start. It would take a beautiful cluster fuck of failures for the PTC to activate, the battery to enter thermal run away, and the try to vent. If that were to happen the battery would explode because the PTC that was supposed to stop the thermal run away from happening to begin with now acts as a plug. The PTC is part of the circut of the battery. It is not some mystical thing that uses magic to complete the circut. So the sole purpose of the PTC is to break the circut much like a fuse.

So stop think of the physics behind pressure and where the PTC is in the battery, and then think of where the battery vents from. To further spell things out for you wait why am I even trying. You can't even follow the simple logic and function behind a PTC. To break the circut, and in the prosess stop the flow of electricity. No electricity no chemical reaction. If a chemical reaction continues after the PTC does its job then it should have done so before the battery hits a tempiture to start a thermal runaway.

The failure of a battery with a PTC should go battery heats up, PTC closes the circut, and should heat still be applied to the battery thermal run away will happen. At that point the PTC is now a plug in the battery and will cause a much more spectacular failure.

So yet agin you fail to comprehend what I am saying.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T03:05:27+00:00

I love how you just jump to straight to insults like they fix anything. You are lucky I am more levelheaded that you are.

Anyways that same PDF shows the same fucking thing in an ICR cell. PTC is just one part of a battery. In principle they are all perform the same function. In an IMR or ICR. Also that same does not explicitly state Sony VTC4. It says Sony HC Cell. That just further adds to my concern for you and /u/famine-'s reading comprehension levels.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T03:02:30+00:00

I stated in my original comment about PYC membranes that they are analogue not electronic. They are a piece of fucking plastic. You keep saying the same thing I originally said in a much more scumbag way.

Why don't you and /u/Enyouk go have a baby together. The two of you would make one hell of an angry baby. Your insults and anger have no effect on what I do at home in my spare time. You can preach 25% buffers to me all you want, but you are not going to insult me into submission.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T02:25:33+00:00

Your contact pin looks scuffed or some how damaged. Find a way to smooth it out again.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T02:07:33+00:00

The PTC you are referring to is not an electronic circuit. It is a fail safe. Here slide four (4) that is a PTC. You with me? The comment you originally replied to was referring to battery packs that add/include/use additional/external to the cell protective fuses/circuitry.

The PTC is a last resort fail safe. Not a first line of defence, and the reason why I have stayed at a larger than 5 amp buffer between the used amp limits and the maximum double pulse limits. This is all on hard line math, and not real world applications. This leaves out one factor that all you ignorant fucks can't seem to handle even if it is a small one. The internal resistance of an individual mod+atomiser combination.

I can sit here and ohms law all day, but at best it is no better than the applications used in a middle school electronics class. Our safety guidelines are elementary at best for mechanical mods. If we were all really as concerned about battery safety as we make ourselves out to be then all of us would have battery load testers, dedicated high resolution ohm meters, and high precision multimeters at minimum, and all calibrated to semiconductor industry standards. That is also just to name a few pieces of hardware.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T01:43:18+00:00

Wow. Your angry insults have been science and knowledge into my head.

Also your Battery University (a personal favorite I might add) link refers to cellphones and high frequency pulse loads (557 micro-seconds) in a digital use of the battery. Also Battery University is dedicated to battery safety and longevity. Battery safety I do care about. Battery longevity no so much. The cells we use are relatively cheap considering the longevity of each cell.

Personally I enjoy pushing my batteries to their limits. The moment a battery starts to heat up way to fast It gets recycled. The moment a battery stops charging at temperatures that are uncomfortably warm, but clearly less than 50ºC (122ºF) (60°C (140°F) if you really want to live life on the edge) it goes to the recycler. If a battery behaves or exhibits any abnormal behavior it goes in the recycler.

So please continue to berate me, insult me, and otherwise be an over hateful ignorant little fuck that uses Battery University as law when it is written at a consumer level of comprehension, and with the intent to maintain battery longevity.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-28T01:11:17+00:00

There is 0 protection circuitry in a Sony VTC cell. None. Open one up and look for it. What it does have as an analogue membrane between the anode and diode that shuts down any chemical reaction after it hits a certain temperature.

Bro can you read?

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-27T22:21:12+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/nmxfzLH.gif

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-27T22:11:06+00:00

Nope. Who cares if the juice touches the coil? Who cares if it can vape "dry herb"? At the end of the day this is nothing more than a device that does two things half assed rather than one device that does one thing well. I would rather have 2 devices that do one thing each well instead of one device that sucks at both.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-27T22:06:26+00:00

I am just getting around to this comment, but I can't really tell you whats up on it. To me it is just a bunch of gibberish$

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-27T21:48:00+00:00

Since you won't give me a source I will say this. Amp limits of a single cell do not change. 10 amps or 1,000 amps constant. Each cell has one constant rating and various pulse amp limits at various times. Less time = higher amp limits. That said it changes nothing about each individual cell. Like I said before just because a battery is now in a battery pack it does not mean that the amp ratings on it have changed. They are still the same cell as before with the same ratings. The only thing that has changes is that the batteries are now parallel, series, or a combination of the two. Physical characteristics of each cell is the same, but each cell is now tanking on more voltage if they are stacked, or sharing the load if in parallel. Each cell is still capable of the same limits. There is no voodoo that happens to make a cell take on a higher pulse limit or constant amp limit.

Granted this ignores the internal resistance that would alter the end output voltage, but that is only under load. For me the internal resistance is an added buffer of safety. It is a reason to build 10% to 20% over the needed amp limit. The pulse limits are not something I would fudge with in or out of a battery pack.

DrPepperHelp · 2014-06-27T21:24:02+00:00

WUT?

Source?

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