My new kitchen

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martin griffith

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New house, new kitchen.

Bleeding nightmare sorting out where to put everything, just like
sorting out a new workshop, is it not?

The first Spag Bol was OK, but I must put a LCD monitor in so I can
see the recipies

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?

martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
<martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote (in
<7q9o51damqlk6us5u0bq0d9fvao6oretmb@4ax.com>) about 'My new kitchen', on
Tue, 12 Apr 2005:

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?
Did you know that's a traditional physics 'stumper'? Simple gas taps,
with a rectangular port that opens progressively as you turn the knob,
have a horribly non-linear volume/angle characteristic (viscosity,
turbulence, inherent perversity etc.) and it's exceedingly difficult to
overcome it.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
There are two sides to every question, except
'What is a Moebius strip?'
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:46:58 +0100, in sci.electronics.design John
Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote (in
7q9o51damqlk6us5u0bq0d9fvao6oretmb@4ax.com>) about 'My new kitchen', on
Tue, 12 Apr 2005:

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?

Did you know that's a traditional physics 'stumper'? Simple gas taps,
with a rectangular port that opens progressively as you turn the knob,
have a horribly non-linear volume/angle characteristic (viscosity,
turbulence, inherent perversity etc.) and it's exceedingly difficult to
overcome it.
Hi John,
Nope, didnt know that.
Probably have to use semi-log spaghetii from now.

But I did meet the lady ( at The Barbican inventors conf, couple of
years ago) who invented the non drip TeaPot, who announced the design
the day after a Famous University Profeesor announced, on analogue
radio, that it was impossible to design a non drip Tea Pot

Never say Impossible


martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:21:24 +0100, in sci.electronics.design John
Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:
Never say Impossible

Arthur C Clarke wrote (something like): If an elderly scientist says
something is possible, he/she is almost certainly right. If he/she says
it isn't possible, he or she is almost certainly wrong.

This doesn't necessarily apply to mathematicians, of course.
I think thats where I got it from.... Just downloaded the 2001film,
should be fun, Dune was better tho IMHO


martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:46:58 +0100, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote (in
7q9o51damqlk6us5u0bq0d9fvao6oretmb@4ax.com>) about 'My new kitchen', on
Tue, 12 Apr 2005:

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?

Did you know that's a traditional physics 'stumper'? Simple gas taps, with
a rectangular port that opens progressively as you turn the knob, have a
horribly non-linear volume/angle characteristic (viscosity, turbulence,
inherent perversity etc.) and it's exceedingly difficult to overcome it.
Well, if you want to learn about overcoming inherent perversity etc,
you've "come" to the "Right Place. ;-)"
--
Cheers!
Rich
------
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling
their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the
other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to
the other side a consistency, forsight and coherence that its own
experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage
to each other, not to speak of the room. -- Henry Kissinger
 
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:45:55 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich The
Newsgropup Wacko <wacko@example.com> wrote:

Well, if you want to learn about overcoming inherent perversity etc,
shit, missed that Variable Const...

martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
"martin griffith" <martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7q9o51damqlk6us5u0bq0d9fvao6oretmb@4ax.com...
New house, new kitchen.

Bleeding nightmare sorting out where to put everything, just like
sorting out a new workshop, is it not?

The first Spag Bol was OK, but I must put a LCD monitor in so I can
see the recipies

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?

martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
I have always found that visual monitoring of the flame and its effects on
the food with appropriate adjustment works quite well.

DNA
 
Genome wrote:
Genome wrote:

"martin griffith" <martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7q9o51damqlk6us5u0bq0d9fvao6oretmb@4ax.com...

New house, new kitchen.

Bleeding nightmare sorting out where to put everything, just like
sorting out a new workshop, is it not?

The first Spag Bol was OK, but I must put a LCD monitor in so I can
see the recipies

Should the gas controls for the hobs be log or lin?

martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"


I have always found that visual monitoring of the flame and its effects on
the food with appropriate adjustment works quite well.

DNA



Right. An excellent way to test this with a man-in-the-loop simulation
is to light a fire under your ass with the control in your hand. It's
amazing how rapidly the brain can adapt to linear, log or even reversed
controls.


Bob
 

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