On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:58 PM, Jeff Green wrote:
Another snake oil sale pitch is special purpose power cables. The AC mains passes through so many miles of transmission line, transformers, etc, that magical thinking a 6 foot special power cord will be of any help is silly.
Love it. I remember going into a consumer electronics store needing a power strip and sales person insisting some almost $100 dollar power strip was what I absolutely needed. Based on the amazing power cord technology.?
I bough an inexpensive power strip a while back with $50,000 damage insurance. For the insurance to be valid, you could not plug the equipment and power strip into a wall plug farther than 10 feet from the power panel. Could not have any other extension cords or power strips plugged into the same wall plug or the power strip. And on and on.
The truly sad thing is these marketing/"business" people that pull this magical thinking out of their behinds, also find their way into decision making positions in companies that produce things that really do need to conform to the laws of physics and nature.?
Sad when they are fleecing consumers but otherwise causing no harm. But, horrible when they find their way into fields such as medicine, aeronautics, and computer fields like artificial intelligence.?
Tom, wb6b
