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philp · #1696 Post by **philp** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:28 am

palmboy5 wrote:if you would read a little further back

palmboy5 wrote:isnt AC like.. positive and negative switching back and for like 60 times a second or something? why would direction matter??
last time i checked, positive and negative were the "poles" and it wouldnt matter which way you plug it in.

Apparently you know nothing about electricity or polarity (did you look it up?). Or the questions you post. You wanted to know why the slots were different sizes and I told you. The same reason car batteries have different size posts for the positive and negative cable terminals. Polarity. Look it up.

#1697 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:39 am

but the polarities switch back and forth for AC!

car batteries are DC, why are you mentioning it? here:
"...As the name implies, the current alternates in direction as opposed to the direct current (DC) electricity that you get from batteries."

"Direct current flows continuously in one direction; alternating current changes direction 50 or 60 times per second..."

'Apparently you know nothing about electricity or polarity' so lemme help you: DC = Direct Current, and AC = Alternating Current.

each pin carries both poles (aka directions) at different times. so the wider slot can be both positive or negative at a given time, are you trying to tell me the timing has to be right too? i have to plug it in right when the wider one is what.. in positive?

*WHACK!!!*

Now answer my initial question, oh great adult.

philp · #1698 Post by **philp** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:33 am

Oh dear Lord, why do I even bother?

Let me confuse your simple mind some more. A car battery supplies DC voltage to the vehicle. A car's alternator generates AC voltage. But it somehow manages to recharge the battery, doesn't it? And there are systems on cars that don't function properly unless they get more voltage than the battery alone can provide, but they only run on DC voltage. How can that be???????

neuralmop · #1699 Post by **neuralmop** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:34 am

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

#1700 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:45 am

wow converters, i've never heard of those before -_- so your saying AC goes single direction too? i dont know why youre talking about cars now, why dont you go touch a pin for a house outlet plug while its still plugged in enough. you can feel it change. dont touch both though, but maybe you should ^^

"AC

(Alternating Current) The common form of electricity from power plant to home/office. Its direction is reversed 60 times per second in the U.S.; 50 times in Europe."

"alternating current

An electric current that rises to a maximum in one direction, falls back to zero and then rises to a maximum in the opposite direction and then repeats."
BOTH sides/pins can get w/e they want, positive or negative, 30 times a second. whats the point of not being able to flip the plug over then? both pins get the same shit.

and restin, yeah i got all the quotes from sites i googled up. cant find shit answering my question

neuralmop · #1701 Post by **neuralmop** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:34 am

Sorry. I've suddenly lost a lot of faith in google. There should be a justfuckingwikipediait.com.

philp · #1702 Post by **philp** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:51 am

palmboy5 wrote:

why is one wider.

So did you ever figure out why that's called a "polarized" plug, if it's not because of polarity?

#1703 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:59 am

philp · #1704 Post by **philp** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:19 pm

How dense can you be?

#1705 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:43 am

how would it matter if the poles switch?

philp · #1706 Post by **philp** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:27 pm

Perhaps this will help: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question110.htm

#1707 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:05 pm

... ohhh XD

philp · #1708 Post by **philp** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:33 pm

What have you learned, Dorothy?

Q12321 · #1709 Post by **Q12321** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:19 pm

His head from his ass.

Owned.

#1710 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:40 pm

umm.. i learned that both pins are not actually powered, just one. for a molex connector in a PC, it would be a black and a yellow wire. except the yellow wire's polarity switches 60 times a second.