[Milsurplus] DC vs AC for power distribution

[mac]

Not if you're talking about "real" engineers.  Then again, there are  
engineers and there are engineers....

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA



On May 1, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Ryan Gill wrote:

> 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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