OTOH, when I'm selecting a heat sink for a power transistor, I do the sums in Celsius because things like maximum junction temperature and the thermal resistances involved are all specified in SI units. And there's just nothing quite so heartwarming as laying out a control panel in millimeters because all of the components to be mounted on it are dimensioned in mm, e-mailing the drawing file to the metal shop and getting back an approval drawing in which all of my nice, round-numbered metric dimensions have been converted to inches. Oh, the joys of getting out the calculator to check if they've got the conversions right and still knowing that I'm probably going to have to resort to a file to make things fit once I receive the finished product. Working with, and thinking in, a single system of units would be so much more efficient than coping with competeing systems. To the measurement jingoes: The units of science and engineering are SI. Science and engineering are what keep the modern world going round. Deal with it.His argument is similar to one I've made several times (and others are also making ). If you're doing something like this on a daily basis, please keep a log book of the amount of time you have to waste doing things like this and the number of errors made. A little solid data collection will help a lot..... Thinking more about it, it wouldn't be hard to add an application to the wiki for doing this logging. Anyone want to help me write one?
Weather Science And Manufacturing
Reading through this saddening tale, I came across the following post:
on 2007-10-15 at 06:00
