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3-phase installations like industrial facilities and some apartments are fed with 208V 3-phase, which provide three phases of 120V to neutral, or 208V phase-to-phase.

Handheld Twilight is a scene mode on the Sony A33 and A55, so it doesn’t offer you much control: The camera picks the ISO setting, shutter speed, etc, that it thinks is best, and takes the picture. About all you can control is whether to enable face detection AF or not. For those wanting the multi-shot advantages but with more creative control, Sony offers Multi-Frame Noise Reduction mode. This mode lets you select the ISO you want to use, but the camera micro-aligns and averages together six shots, significantly reducing ISO noise. You get the same basic capability as in Handheld Twilight mode, but retain full control over other exposure parameters.

The back-EMF voltage generated across the start winding causes a small current to flow in the start winding and potential relay coil, because they are in the same circuit. When the back-EMF has built up to a high enough value (referred to as pick-up voltage), the contacts between terminals 1 and 2 will be picked up (“opened”). This will take the start capacitor out of the circuit.

Let us never forget this Darwinian hero. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfyyii_man-electrocuted-on-the-train-india_news

Translucent mirror (redux). As noted previously, adopting a translucent mirror design has allowed Sony important benefits in terms of autofocus, burst shooting, and body size, and conceivably the removal of one more mechanical component could improve camera reliability, as well. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, though, and the translucent mirror design does have some clear disadvantages as compared to existing SLR and SLD designs. Perhaps most significantly, light entering the lens is shared between the autofocus and image sensors at a fixed ratio. In the Sony A33, about 70% of the light makes it to the imaging sensor, while 30% is reflected to the autofocus module. With a traditional SLR, all the incoming light arrives at the image sensor once the mirror is raised, and the same is true of an SLD camera whenever its shutter is open. With less light arriving at the sensor for an equivalent aperture, a translucent mirror camera must either lower its shutter speed, raise its sensitivity (and along with this, the levels of noise, or the amount processing to mitigate it), or some combination of both. An increase in sensor gain to compensate for the loss may explain why we see slightly higher noise levels from the A33 versus the A560, which share the same sensor.

Most PSUs are not designed to receive DC even if you calculate it correctly. The 4 rectifier diodes on the primary side are evenly used with AC but with DC only two get hot, the other two do nothing. It can and will most likely work but you may decrease the lifespan of the PSU.

The number on this photo is a little misleading. 337 mpg! I think I shot it after having the car for about ten minutes, nearly all of it without using the petrol engine. Still, it’s a nice little tease for any friends riding along.

Yes, I get that there are societal differences between Eastern ideals and Western ideals. Please understand that Americans also build cheap crap, too- but being across an ocean makes buying and selling a little different, especially with a language barrier and different societal norms. I’ve been bitten by a couple of misrepresented products before on AliExpress, (RGB mechanical switches that were actually just RGB LED’s), but that was my fault- I didn’t look very carefully, and didn’t do my due diligence.

Full-time autofocus. There are several advantages to the use of a translucent mirror in place of a traditional single-lens reflex mirror mechanism. The Sony Alpha A33 uses the design to allow it to simultaneously provide a live view feed with full-time phase detection autofocus. Most of the light is transmitted to the image sensor, while a smaller portion is delivered to the phase detection AF sensor, where it can be used to perform focus adjustments — even during live view, high-speed shooting, and movie recording.

If you had the choice between two identical-looking boards, with the same pictures, and review ratings, would you spend an extra 20¢ on the more expensive one? That twenty cents really adds up, you know- if I was buying 1,000 ESP-12 boards, for example, that would be two hundred dollars saved, and you would be pretty happy with yourself. That is, if it works. Otherwise, you feel really dumb.

Might be safer your way, since you’re transforming down, then back up again. Using a microwave oven transformer means horribly high voltages in the middle of the thing, and should, by chance, some insulation fail, or a bit of an arc, or whatever…

And this AC vs DC case when it comes to skin effect, is a reason for why some Data centers use DC distribution, as most server products uses switch mode power supplies and therefor has an internal bridge rectifier.