[Milsurplus] DC vs AC for power distribution

[Ryan Gill]

At 4:01 PM -0700 5/1/12, J. Forster wrote:
>In my view, real engineering is based on understanding the fundamentals of
>physics and applying them. There is a difference between engineering and
>'cut and try' tinkering.

I suspect it could be argued that tinkerers can often have a better intuitive understanding of something and how it works under unusual conditions or outside of spec than an engineer might have.
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