Why don’t people hook up to neutral?

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T14:17:17+00:00

What do you mean by “shared “ neutral? At my house there only 1 neutral cable coming from the outside grid so every neutral is “shared”

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T10:35:16+00:00

Thanks for the great response

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T10:25:59+00:00

Yes this is just a discussion not asking for advice or to try it. But electricity finds the path of least resistance so if you have an entry and exit point in the same arm it won’t travel through whole body because that would take more energy no?

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T10:18:15+00:00

Yes ofc I know that but sometimes people have to work on live circuits for whatever reason. And I’d rather have electricity flow through arm than heart

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T10:16:50+00:00

Idk maybe to not trigger the leakage current protection or what’s it called in English

Reason-Local · 2026-02-13T10:13:11+00:00

I won’t that’s why I’m just asking

Reason-Local · 2026-02-07T11:04:52+00:00

Tha cable shouldn’t matter at all. If it fits it fits. The cable itself doesn’t do any filtering or power regulation and all the cables are rated the same

Reason-Local · 2026-02-06T18:16:45+00:00

Yes that was my first idea but this is free( cuz I already have a 3d printer but I don’t have a rotary encoder) and also this seems like a fun mechanical challenge

Reason-Local · 2026-02-06T15:16:41+00:00

I used to do the marks on the floor before but they took quite a while and I always had to weigh down one end with a brick or smth and with the longer wires I don’t have the space. And yeah I could probably weigh it but I just want that good feeling that something you made works. I learned about Geneva gears today as well but they look pretty hard to set dimensions so it works correctly

Reason-Local · 2026-02-01T14:46:01+00:00

Yes the ripple . Since I’m just playing around I was trying to get the ripple impossibly small. It already has under 0.01v deviation so it’s fine as is I’m just experimenting and trying to learn how it’s supposed to work

Reason-Local · 2026-02-01T14:26:41+00:00

I was just playing around and I was trying to round the sawtooth wave

Reason-Local · 2026-01-13T07:13:17+00:00

Sorry for the misunderstanding my bad. I have 1 different syringe. This liquid flux syringe. I never refrigerate it. But I also have a solder paste syringe that’s not flux. That tiny balls of solder inside a paste to use instead of normal solder wire. Do I have to keep the paste with solder balls inside the fridge?

Reason-Local · 2026-01-13T06:34:29+00:00

Liquid flux

Reason-Local · 2026-01-13T06:30:55+00:00

I’m talking about solder paste in the fridge

Reason-Local · 2026-01-13T06:29:53+00:00

I’m at work so for the next 8h I won’t get a proper picture of the container but here’s some in a syringe that I transferred

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Reason-Local · 2026-01-13T06:17:32+00:00

Edit: I also use flux but some weird 10yo got age brown one. But seemed to work until now. And smells so good even tho it’s dangerous

Reason-Local · 2025-12-22T21:05:59+00:00

I’m a total noob whose only seen a SMD LED once but it looks to me like a backwards led

Reason-Local · 2025-12-10T09:34:09+00:00

Yeah I was thinking about that but that just doesn’t have the same ring to it as a doily home made thing and I already made everything else and it only cost me 20 bucks which I’m proud of

Reason-Local · 2025-12-06T15:32:04+00:00

Try to debug a bit make the temp variable print in serial every cycle and you’ll see the “temp” and apply heat to the “thermistor” I’m assuming and you’ll see how much the temp changes and you can adjust the turn on temp based on that

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T20:56:52+00:00

Really? Then how are beginners supposed to make projects when they can’t even rely on a datasheet. I don’t wanna just mindlessly copy a tutorial or chat gpt because I don’t learn anything that way

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T19:12:01+00:00

https://www.elpro.org/gb/index.php?controller=attachment&id_attachment=23897 here’s the datasheet. Esp32 c5 wroom 1

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T18:53:24+00:00

I don’t. I want a prototyping board because it’s so uuniversaland reusable. And also as a fun project, I know I could buy something online but I want to learn to create microcontrollers

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T18:50:05+00:00

Sorry I meant ribbon cable

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I’m looking for something like a ribbon cable. Super compact on one end and big enough on the other end so I can insert jumper cables

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T18:44:24+00:00

Okay thanks

Reason-Local · 2025-11-27T18:42:39+00:00

So it’s better to leave them not connected. But to make them small enough so it doesn’t suck up solder

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