Newbie that don't understand

[Steve Holden]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote ...
> Jim wrote:
> >
> > Peter Hansen wrote:
> > > Just a dude wrote:
> >
> > >>My son is an electronics
> > >>design engineer, and I still can't get my head around negative
> > >>voltages, how the hell do you get a -12 V supply... to him it's basic
> > >>but to me..............
> >
> [snip my own reply which rather missed the mark this time,
> because it's too embarrassing to leave in :-)]
>
> > While this is way off topic and way pedantic, electrons
> > always leave and enter the same terminals (think electro-
> > chemistry, like a battery).
>
> D'oh!  What was I thinking?  And they call me an engineer. :(
>
> Jim is quite right of course.  Grumble grumble.
>

And here's me, thinking what an excellent joke we were having at the expense
of all the reader who didn't understand you were pulling their legs. I'm
really disappointed in you, Peter :-)

regards
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